Technical Consultant Executive Director

EKIMWERE, Zadok

P. O. Box ****, Kampala

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

+256*********/750585794

A. Areas of key competencies:

oWriting

oEditing

oProofreading

oDesign and layout

oDocument organization and enhancement

oMedia production – newspapers, magazines, bulletins etc

oResearch and report writing

oAnalysis and synthesis

oFluent written and spoken English

B. Relevant Consultancies Undertaken

Date

Location

Organisation

Position

Description

2020

Soroti, Eastern Uganda

Acila Enterprises Ltd

Lead Consultant

Manual enhancement: Proofread 8 drafts correcting spellings, punctuations, English language usage. Passed the documents for production

2019

Kampala

Panos Eastern Africa

Consultant

Simplified scientific findings into easy to read materials for the benefit of ordinary farmers

2018

Kampala

National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

Syntax Editor

Proofread all the sectoral reports and standardize the language to suit NEMA

2017

Lusaka, Zambia

UNICEF

Technical Consultant

Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into teaching syllabus

2016

Harare, Zimbabwe

UNICEF

Technical Consultant

In-building reproductive health into media curriculum

C. Professional experience

oCurrently a Media Consultant and Executive Director of Multi-Step Novel Initiatives for Sustained Health Communication (MNISHCO), a not-for profit NGO specializing in diagnostic research before prescribing interventions.

o1996-2006: Head, School of Journalism and Media Management, Uganda Management Institute

- In addition to administrative and managerial roles and duties, he taught

- media writing

- editing

- layout and design

- headline writing

- newspaper and magazine production

o1986-2006: Worked as a journalist at The New Vision and held senior editorial positions such as:

- managing editor

- chief sub-editor

- features editor

- chief reporter

The work entailed writing stories, features and commentaries; in addition to: editing, design and layout and conducting in-house training

D. Academic qualifications:

oPhD, Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, USA.

oMA, Social Sciences, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands.

oAdvanced postgraduate diploma in print media International Institute for Journalism, Berlin, Germany.

oBA (Hons), Literature and Linguistics, Makerere University, Kampala.

E. Columnist:

I am also a columnist for the New Vision and Daily Monitor where I write on specialized topics and opinions.

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