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ABOUT JOSEPH

I am a passionate anthropologist with curiosity in social-development, consumer behaviour, market research and environmental conservation. My skillsets have been acquired through 14 years career in Market and social research as well as academic and professional trainings. I am currently enrolled as a PHD student in Anthropology at the University of Nairobi. PERSONAL INFORMATION

NATIONALITY: KENYAN

GENDER: MALE

DATE OF BIRTH: 3RD AUGUST, 1986

MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED

ID NUMBER: 24741298

LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, KISWAHILI AND LUBUKUSU

CONTACT ADDRESS: 65515-0607 KAMITI.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

COLLEGE EDUCATION

INSTITUTION UNIVERSTY OF NAIROBI

YEAR 2013-2017

DEGREE MASTER OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT ANTHROPOLOGY

THESIS TITLE Factors influencing soda consumption trends in a modern beverage market of Trans Nzoia County, North Rift Valley, Kenya.

JOSEPH WATILA WANYONYI

Cell: +254-***-***-***

Email: ************@*****.***/**************@*****.*** INSTITUTION UNIVERSTY OF NAIROBI

YEAR 2006-2010

DEGREE BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

ACHIEVEMENT Second class honors upper division

SECONDARY EDUCATION

SCHOOL KOLANYA BOYS HIGH SCHOOL

YEAR 2001-2004

CERTIFICATE KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE ACHIEVEMENT Mean Grade B+ (68 points OUT OF 84)

PRIMARY EDUCATION

SCHOOL LIYAVO PRIMARY SCHOOL

YEAR 1992-1999

CERTIFICATE KENYA CERTIFICATE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION (KCPE) ACHIEVEMENT Mean Grade B- (454 marks out of 700)

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

INSTITUTION MARKETING AND SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION YEAR 2012-2013

AWARD ADVANCED RESEARCH TRAINING COURSE

ACQUIRED SKILLS Project management, Marketing and client servicing, Multivariate analysis, Qualitative research, Semiotics, Media research, online research and Customer Service Research.

INSTITUTION MARKETING AND SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION YEAR 2012

AWARD BASIC RESEARCH TRAINING COURSE

ACQUIRED SKILLS Introduction to research, Proposal writing, Sampling, Introduction to qualitative research, Mystery shopping, Quantitative research and Research ethics

FURTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

I was awarded as the best student during the basic research training course. Received a honorary certificate by the Marketing and Social Research Association on September 2012 LIFE TRAINING SKILLS

INSTITUTION I CHOOSE LIFE AFRICA

YEAR 2007

AWARD ABC PEER TRAINING COURSE

ACQUIRED SKILLS communication, peer education, counseling, and leadership WORKING EXPERIENCE

OPERATIONS MANAGER

COMPANY FRONTIER CONSULTING

DURATION AUGUST 2017- DECEMBER 2020 (3 years 4 months) As an operations manager, I was responsible for all quantitative and qualitative project executions as well as day to day office operationalization DUTIES: Project Executions: Vendor management, Field Budgeting, Questionnaire scripting, Team assembling, team training, quality control initiation, wage preparations and payments, project tracking, data analysis and client reporting.

Office operationalization: Stationary planning, human resource management, ensuring a proper professional office environment and initiating team building activities.

SENIOR RESEARCH EXECUTIVE

EMPLOYER RESEARCH SOLUTIONS AFRICA (DALBERG RESEARCH) DURATION AUGUST 2015- MARCH 2017 (1 year 6 months) I was a member of the client service team responsible for the development of retail related projects and the execution of complex social and market research studies both at the interface and development stages.

SPECIFIC ROLES Proposal writing to retail clients, Retail clients’ advisor specifically on consumer behaviours and retail measurements, developing internal and external project budgets across market and social research projects, leading won projects from the inception to report presentation and sourcing project execution vendors from different Countries in Africa where RSA does not have offices. DATA ACQUISITION RMS EXECUTIVE

EMPLOYER NIELSEN KENYA

DURATION AUGUST 2011- JUNE 2015 (2 years)

I was a member of the retail measurement team responsible for designing and leading data collection activities for retail clients in Kenya and Zambia. My specific role was to lead the Retail establishment survey function in the two Countries. SPECIFIC ROLES Designing data collection budgets, questionnaire design, questionnaire programming and testing, sampling and sample designs, cartography designs, field team recruitment, field team training, field team supervisions, designing quality control systems and ensuring quality data management standards. DATA ACQUISITION RMS SUPERVISOR

EMPLOYER NIELSEN KENYA

DURATION APRIL 2008- JULY 2011 (2 years 3 months)

I was a member of the retail measurement team responsible for supervising and conducting quality checks for the retail audit process within Nairobi Region. SPECIFIC ROLES Conducting field controls in Nairobi, managing special audit projects within Nairobi such as brand counterfeit surveys, training auditors and other regional supervisors during a product launch or introduction of new audit methodologies and managing mobile retail establishment survey within my region.

DATA ACQUISITION RMS AUDITOR

EMPLOYER NIELSEN KENYA

DURATION OCTOBER 2007- MARCH 2008 (5 months)

I worked as a data acquisition auditor in Nairobi Region. SPECIFIC ROLES Doing retail audits in assigned outlet panel, replacing outlier outlets in my panel, recruiting assigned outlets by my manager and ensuring proper check out procedures on my panel outlets. RESEARCH ASSISTANT

EMPLOYER NIELSEN KENYA

DURATION AUGUST 2007- SEPTEMBER 2010 (3 YEARS)

I worked as a part time (project based) data acquisition personnel. SPECIFIC ROLES Interviewing, back checking, office editor, field supervision, FGD moderation and FGD Transcription.

SPECIAL SKILLS POSSESSED

The following are my competencies based on my previous job experience, life skills, academic and professional qualifications: Anthropology skills (ethnography, ethnology and cross community comparisons), Office management, Vendor control and management, training skills, team mobilization and management, Questionnaire scripting, Auditing skills, Field control skills, communication skills, negotiation skills, team building skills, report writing and data analysis skills, client interaction and presentation skills, proposal writing skills, training skills, budgeting skills and cartography interpretation skills. Additionally, I am competent in technical abilities related to my skills such as basic computer applications competency (MS word, MS excel, MS access and MS power point), Statistical computer functions (STATA and SPSS), cartography computer functions (GIS) and qualitative data analysis software (NVIVO).

HOBBIES AND EXTRA-CURRICULA ACTIVITIES

Reading newspaper (business daily for business and sports news).

Watching and playing soccer

Watching comedy movies

Participation in voluntary community based activities like visiting childrens homes.

Acting

Travelling

Swimming

REFEREES

1. DR. Khamati Shilabukha

LECTURER (MY PHD SUPERVISOR), UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI Email: ********@*****.***

Tel: +254-***-***-***