Station Manager Relations Specialist
Resume:
Atok Kiir
Rochester, MN ***** • 785-***-**** • **********@*****.***, *****@***.***
Professional Summary
Industrious communication, public relations, and monitoring and evaluation expert with over ten years of experience in monitoring, evaluation of programs, news reporting, data analysis and content management besides being detail-oriented individual skillful in delegating and prioritizing tasks to maintain effectiveness in running organization.
Skills
Effective communication
Knowledgeable in Microsoft Office Applications
Risk Assessments and Stakeholder analysis
Strategy development
Implementation planning
Decision-Making
Staff Scheduling
Fleet Management
Work History
Radio Station Manager, 08/2020 to 05/2021
Internews – Juba, South Sudan
Previewed and evaluated local, unsolicited independent, regional, and national radio programs to determine appropriateness for station usage. Updated weekly and monthly program schedules by establishing program availability and determining best time to air.
Delivered outstanding service to customers to maintain and extend relationships for future program opportunities, coordinated meetings and program initiatives with community leaders to create interesting, compelling, and informative humanitarian interest pieces.
Developed budgets for programming and broadcasting activities and monitored expenditures to remain within budgetary limits approved by the donor. Implemented safety program and delivered training to employees, realizing 80% decrease in materials and studio equipment damage. Relayed instructions from control room to studio floor using talk-back system.
Conceptualized complex and innovative marketing and branding solutions to help improve community involvement, boosting involvement to 90%. Monitored and reviewed programming to guarantee schedules, guidelines, and quality performances met. Prepared daily schedules for personnel and equipment to foster smooth functioning of broadcast.
Analyzed project-related information and made recommendations based on findings, provided ongoing training and development for media staff and collaborated with leadership to determine appropriate interventions.
Communication Officer, 03/2020 to 07/2020
Humanitarian & Development Consortium (HDC) – Juba, State, South Sudan
Managed media relations and campaigns to address public communications in crisis situations, managed communications with external and internal stakeholders across line units, represented HDC at multiple public forums and donor meetings, and provided in-depth information to first responders enroute to address diverse emergencies.
Contributed to significant policy and organization culture updates by writing internal manuals and communication memos, developed, and implemented short- and long-term communications strategies, acted as point of contact for inbound media related calls, and social media platforms.
Drafted press releases detailing relevant newsworthy information and supporting brand image and worked with news media to spread positions, analyze objectives, promotional policies or needs of organizations to develop public relations strategies influencing public opinion or promoting program ideas.
Prepared for public relations presentations and plans by gathering information on organizational objectives, vision, brand strategy, competition, and industry trends. Engaged in professional networking to maintain strong relationships with communications and media professionals to drive partnerships and effective dissemination of mass communications.
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, 09/2014 to 04/2019
AECOM International Development – Rumbek, Lakes State, South Sudan
Produced detailed and relevant reports for making program decisions, conducted thorough reviews of operations to devise and deploy improvement of monitoring techniques, conducted research and investigations into projects related risks, stakeholders’ analysis, and program related results.
Created and optimized records management strategies to coordinate program information, evaluated program impacts to develop improved plans, collected, organized, and modeled data using Kobo, gathered, documented, and data to assess program trends, developed data collection metrics derived from raw donor baseline to track implementation in program efficiency, leveraged on-site observation and personal interviews to identify program implementation strengths.
Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting on findings and recommended optimizations, evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication, and resource utilization issues. Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
Strategic Communication Specialist, 11/2010 to 07/2014
Deloitte LLP – Juba, Central Equatoria, South Sudan
Communicated organizational policy and services to stakeholders to increase program/brand awareness, built strong relationships with media outlets and communications professionals to expand personal network, and forged strong media relationships to further public relations goals.
Wrote, gathered media digest, and distributed press releases for routine use and crisis management, social media contents analysis for organization, assisted with marketing strategy development to increase public awareness and engagement, met with media and press personnel to schedule interviews and issue company statements.
Took photographs during events for promotional materials and social media pages, managed internal company correspondence by delivering documents, and memos to appropriate institutions, and created social media content across multiple platforms according to content calendars and promotion schedules.
Senior Reporter, 06/2007 to 10/2010
South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) – Juba, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan
Managed all aspects of content production for broadcast, assigned topics and events to junior reporters and managed schedules, and delivered both live and recorded reports from site or on studio event.
Disseminated news content through social media for better engagement with audiences and faster reporting, collected data from various sources to determine facts and opinions and fashioned into cohesive story for television and radio broadcast.
Education
Master of Arts: Monitoring and Evaluation (Development Studies)
Mount Kenya University - Nairobi, Kenya, 2016/2018
Humphrey Fellowship Nondegree Program: Communication and Leadership, 04/2022
Arizona State University – Downtown, AZ, US
Fulbright Humphrey Fellowship, Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs.
Bachelor of Arts: Public Relations and Media Management, 12/2014
Cavendish University - Kampala, Uganda
Associate of Arts: Journalism and Communication, 08/2007
Universal Groups of Colleges - Nairobi, Kenya
Some College (Nondegree): International Short Program, English Language
University of Kansas - Lawrence, KS
Some College (Nondegree): Climate Change
University of California - Davis - Davis, CA
Some College (Nondegree): Diplomatic Studies
Institute of Diplomatic Studies - Cairo, Egypt
Accomplishments
Accomplished COVID-19 campaign awareness by implementing over 50 different messaging with accuracy and efficiency.
Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets for programming.
Supervised team of 11 staff professional members besides 12 nonprofessional others.
Evaluated conflict mitigation programs which led to DT Global winning another USAID five-year Program
Collaborated with team of 8 in the development of effective communication for the Office of President, South Sudan.
Vincent Valdmanis
Senior Policy Advisor - IOM - UN Migration
Brooklyn, New York, United States
**********@*****.***
Timothy Collins, MPH, MS, MA
Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Alaska Native Epidemiology Center
*********@**.***/********@***.***
+1 -907-***-****, Anchorage, Alaska
Jason Matus
Senior Conflict and Peacebuilding Advisor at DT Global
Arlington, Virginia
*****.*****@**-******.***
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