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Development Manager

Location:
Salt Lake City, UT
Posted:
December 20, 2013

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Resume:

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Godfrey Muyomba

385-***-****

**** ***** ******* **** #** 16, West Jordan, UT 84088

***********@*****.***

Objectives

Excellency, passion and commitment is what you can expect of me. With over six years of

experience working with vulnerable communities, designing projects, conducting trainings

and documenting results. With this immense experience, I will certainly add value to any

organization I work with. I have practical experience in different thematic areas such as

childcare and protection, sustainable livelihood interventions, early childhood care and

education programming especially early childhood care and development and girl child

education. I am a trainer, a coach and a mentor with excellent people and leadership skills.

I am a person of integrity as I strive to transform communities realize their development

potentials. I am passionate about results based management. I strive to create and identify

innovative means of reaching the disadvantaged and ensuring that programs result into

sustainable positive outcomes. I have experience with various donors and organizations

such as KOICA, USAID, NORAD and Finnish Aid. I have also worked with and for various

organizations like Plan International, Cornerstone Development Africa, Raising Voices,

Straight Talk Uganda, Community Vision and Child Destiny of Hope.

Education

Bachelors of Development Studies

Makerere University Kampala Uganda

(2002 – 2005)

High School Diploma

Cornerstone Leadership Academy

(1999 2001)

Experience

Warehouse Associate (Temporary) Easton Bell Sports through Kelly Services.

December 2013 Present: (USA)

Job Summary

Pick, sort and consolidate orders.

Check the items against the Packing List or Bill of Material.

Final quality control.

Pre wrap items.

Pack, void fill, and close the cartons.

Address and affixing appropriate labels on cartons.

Manifest the shipment.

Count inventory and placing it into shipping containers.

Community Development Coordinator– Plan International/Plan Uganda

June 2009 June 2013 :( East Africa Uganda)

Plan is a Child Centered Community Development Organization that works with and for

the children, their families, communities, organization’s and local governments to bring

about positive change using child centered community development approach which is

Plan’s rights based approach to programming, ensuring that root causes of poverty are

addressed. Its foundation is in the UN Convention on the Rights of the child (CRC).

Job summary

Supervised, coordinated, offered technical advice and team leadership to frontline

staff in Plan’s program areas.

Prepared and managed projects’ budget.

Created synergy with the Ministry Of Education programs (Universal Primary

Education, Universal Secondary Education and The National Orphans and

Vulnerable Children Policy) and other ECD implementing Organizations

Developed concept notes and proposals for funding to the program area.

Guided communities to collectively act on issues that affect child care and

development.

Supported the development and implementation of a Community Based

Monitoring and Evaluations System (CBM&E)

Prepared period project progress reports.

Worked with poor and vulnerable groups, and local governments to achieve the

right to education by reviving the traditional child rearing and parenting practices

through the strategic enablers like CCCD (child centered community Development)

ECCD (Early childhood care and development). Responsible for the effective

facilitation of Child Centered Community Development and building meaningful

relationships among the multiple stakeholders in the community development

process

Used Participatory Rural Appraisal/Participatory Learning and Action techniques, to

facilitate children, women and Communities to identify their own problems, needs

and development priorities

Facilitated children communities to implement projects as per approved project

outlines (POs)

Became core TOT to communities and other staff including supporting training

modules for training communities and program staff.

Store’s Branch Manager-

Nsejjere Holdings Limited-

Uganda

(November 2008-May

2009)

Job summary:

• Maintained optimum stocks, with maximum stock holding costs.

• Ensured timely and efficient service delivery to all business clients.

• Supervised storage to maintain quality of all store’s stock.

• Ensured correct and accurate data entry into store’s databases.

• Carried out material analysis selection, inventory processes and turn over.

•Supervised monthly stock take and stock reconciliation through validation

process to maintain accurate stock records.

• Handled all financial transactions between the store and the store’s bank.

Program Coordinator – Youth Corps Program (Cornerstone Development Africa.)

August 2003 October 2006 :( East Africa Uganda)

This is a program that provides foster care, protection and caring homes to homeless

youths from all backgrounds. There are 12 foster homes and each home has 10 12 youths.

The homes cater for homeless youths that are tired of street life and are willing to change.

The youths get a place to stay, a ‘family’ to belong to and are taught a better way to live.

Most are enrolled into school. They also do community service work in their neighborhood

on weekends. There are homes in Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and Tanzania.

Job Summary

Built meaningful relationships for advocacy at local, national and international

levels in the development process of ensuring that homeless youths are taken care

of by government.

Maintained relationships with local and overseas donors by coordinating project

activities in line with needs specifications and donor requirements.

Offered support in the recruitment process and training of project staff/mentors

and later become both their coach and mentor.

Managed a trickle up fund by working with some families where the youths come

from to identify their development needs and develop grant proposals to acquire

funds.

Supervised, coordinated and offered technical support to program staff/mentors on

how to effectively worked with the homeless youths they now lived with the foster

homes.

Ecclesiastical Service

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints

October 2006 – October 2008 (West Africa Ghana)

Job summary

Increased volunteers’ effectiveness by providing training in individual

communication, problem solving, and work strategy skills.

Tailored the training to cater for both the new and experienced volunteers

Provided community service for families in the Ghana cape coast area.

Assisted at a soup kitchen and also served at the Red Cross, setting up for

disaster preparation workshops.

Averaged 70+ hours work a week preparing for and teaching family and

religious concepts in small group settings.

Skills

1. Institutional capacity building and organizational development of local

governments, the private sector, client communities and volunteer groups in legal

rights.

2. Resource mobilization.

3. Involvement in the country policy and strategy formulation for Plan Uganda in the

fields of Legal rights for OVCs, Child Centered Community Development (CCCD)

and local government participation.

4. Designing and implementing of training at grassroots projects and skills

development for organized parish development initiatives.

5. Developing programs that support Private sector, CBOs and Civil society to

participate in and benefit and exploring new areas for support that are in line with

the Plan Country Strategic Plan

6. Result oriented management, participatory monitoring and evaluation of

community based projects.

7. Overseeing and ensuring effective performance of projects including Trainer of

Trainees and innovations.

8. Preparation and submission of timely periodic narrative and financial reports.

References

Patrick Emmukule,

Program Area Manager,

Plan Uganda/Kamuli Program Area

+256.43.435.3236

Jackson Ivan Isiiko

Network Engineer

Brigham Young University

801-***-****

Tim Goodman

Teacher at Saratoga Elementary School

801-***-****



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