Okidele Conrad

Project Implementation:

• Technical Leadership: Lead the integration of gender, youth, and social inclusion strategies into all program activities, ensuring they align with USAID's Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy, USAID’s Youth in Development Policy, and other relevant guidelines.
• Initiated and managed social media handles and enusred activity implementation activity updates are shared with management in a timely manner.
• Organize logistical arrangement for youth community engagement activities and engagement meetings with stakeholders.
• Strategy Development: Develop and implement the program’s Gender Strategy, Youth Strategy, and Social Inclusion Strategy, ensuring that these strategies are aligned with the broader RFSA objectives.
• Supported the procurement and store management for the youth advocacy materials.
• Capacity Building: Provide ongoing technical assistance and capacity building to program staff, partners, and stakeholders, ensuring they are well-equipped to implement GYSI activities effectively.
• Program Implementation: Ensure that gender, youth, and social inclusion considerations are integrated into all phases of the project lifecycle, from design to monitoring and evaluation.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team to develop and track GYSI-related indicators, ensuring that data is collected, analyzed, and used to inform program adaptations.
• Community Engagement: Work with community leaders and local stakeholders to promote gender equity, youth empowerment, and social inclusion in program interventions.
• Prevention and Response: Lead efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) within the program, including the creation and mapping of GBV referral pathways
• Knowledge Management: Document and share best practices and lessons learned in GYSI, contributing to the program’s overall learning agenda.
• Compliance: Ensure that all program activities comply with USAID’s gender equality and social inclusion standards.
• Cross-Sector Integration with Protection Mainstreaming: Collaborate with project teams to ensure the integration of social protection strategies and the Graduation Approach across all program activities.

Core Responsibilities

• Assumed primary responsibility for project management and implementation, and ensure compliance with the donor agreement and youth advocacy poliecies.
• With support from the Multi CC Project Manager participated in project planning, and oversee program implementation and budget expenditures to ensure effective use of resources against planned activities and expected outputs.
• Ensured adequate project monitoring and evaluation systems are in place to collect information and consolidate data on a regular basis to demonstrate impact and inform ongoing program design.
• Assisted in the program development and design process through assessments, assisting in proposal writing and budget development.
• With support from the supervisor, led the development of the program tools and keep them updated i.e work plan, procurement and spending plans. Communication and reporting
• Promoted digital financing, Financial literacy, credit plus activities, Food security entrepreneurship and commercial village concepts in all the LEI programs.
• Ensured that all the LEI interventions are based on the Community Based Approach principles.
• Prepared LEI related programme reports and documentations on the intervention as per the requirement of the area office country office, donors, head office and other stakeholders
• Compiled and prepared quality periodic project progress reports, as well as final reports, and feed in other information as required by donors, the Regional Office and the Technical Unit.
• Prepared quality weekly updates and monthly reports that meet standards and timelines
• Ensured proper program and donor visibility in the project sites Work closely with M&E to carry out data analysis and interpretation exercises with the project team to inform programming and advocacy.
• Ensured project team understand, maintain and follow ethical practices in data sharing and communication with external audiences in accordance with the existing Information Sharing Protocol Human resource development and management.
• Provided supervision, mentoring, training and technical support and guidance to LFS staff, and ensure all adhere to best-practice principles in all aspects of program implementation.
• Ensured Performance Management System documentation for all staff is in place and followed up regularly.
• Build staff capacity in work plan development and reporting to ensure accurate monitoring and documentation of activities.
• Developed comprehensive communication plans to effectively disseminate information about programs to relevant parties.
• Assisted in the recruitment, selection, orientation, evaluation, coaching or mentoring process of staff members involved in the implementation or management process.

Core Responsibilities

Development of strategies and plans which correspond with WTU's mission & vision:

• Facilitated schools’ management project planning and designing in line with emerging youth and children's needs.
• Encouraged long Range of Strategic Planning and program visioning
• Responsible for Program Regional annual plans, program implementations and reports:
• Supported in the development and implementation of country Operation, logistics and procurement Plans.
• Facilitated in preparation of implementation plans and donor reports (monthly, quarterly, mid-year and annual)
• Responsible for the development and management of Programme budget: Developed and manage the programme budgets • Facilitated in preparation of budget monitoring tools. • In charge of the assessment of the use of financial and nonfinancial resources & cost benefit of program projects. Strengthening sectoral capacity building and synergy:
• Provided professional support to staff • Promote networking amongst WTU departments and schools for maximum utilization of resources. • Encouraged Innovation & Research for Development Manage and maintain institution’s reputation:
• Monitoring and Evaluation:• Ensured that the project Monitoring & Evaluation system and tools are appropriate and effective in accordance with project design and objectives. • Continued to re-examine the specific outputs of the main project components to be monitored and evaluated. • Monitored and tracked project progress as per goals and objectives.
• Facilitated conflict resolution sessions within the community to maintain harmony and cooperation.
• Presented clients with alternative approaches to resolving identified problems using positive coping skills and methods.
• Ensure youth and children's protection mechanisms are in place and safety and general protection.

Core responsibilities

• Overall management, coordination, and Implementation of Primary and Secondary education program
• Provided overall management support, vision and strategic direction of primary and secondary education
• Led the delivery of primary and secondary education curriculum
• Promoting high-quality primary and secondary Education
• Worked with head teachers to make performance and good results a hallmark of education in the settlements
• Facilitated improvement of pupil's and students' self-study
• Promoting Girls' Performance in school
• Ensured special coaching for girls to increase the school attainment of retention levels
• Facilitated motivational talks by female partner agency staff, female refugee leaders and external speakers where possible
• Educational Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Ensured students are registered for national examinations and strictly observe examination rules and regulations
• Developed sustainable and effective educational monitoring and evaluation tools
• Procurement of Education materials and resources plus management of Education Stores
• Ensured maintenance of an efficient system of records, storage and retrieval of documents for all purchases and issues of education facilities
• Facilitated development of a databank of all education assets
• Community Self-management - By increasing community participation in secondary education
• Coordinated establishment of school management committees and parent's teachers Associations
• Integrate Goals of education in every day lessons
• Fostered Patriotism and promoting unity among students and communities
• Encouraged individual development and self -fulfillment through education
• Guidance and counselling
• Facilitated provision of psycho -social support to students
• Ensured that schools provide career guidance to secondary students
• Writing donor, quarterly and annual reports for the Programme manager Networking
• Established linkages, Liaisons and professional working relationships with the ministry of Education and other related agencies
• Created a culture of achievement in every pupil and student
• Work with head teachers to make performance and good results hall mark of Education in the settlement.