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I have Masters’ degree in project management with over 16 years in portfolio, programme and project management. I have implemented both predictive (waterfall, PRINCE 2, Business-as-usual) and adaptive (Agile, scrum) project methodologies. I have served in different management lead capacities such as Portfolio manager, programme manager, project manager, Change Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Programme Review Assurance (PRA) Coordinator, Project Sponsor,  program implementation and management. Apart from being Agile_PM certified from APMG International and Project Management Professional Certification from PMI in view, I have successfully implemented, coordinated and manage 4 different 5-year EU-UNICEF supported international programmes with each of them having over 100 projects embedded. I have also supported different organizations and MDAs to established program/project management office (PMO) and business management office (BMO). As a hybrid program manager, I am vast in both waterfall and agile (WAGILE) projects management as well as having functional capacity in business analysis. These have boosted my competence in driven many transformation programme agendas and delivered their expected theory of change. My competence covers programme expenditure tracking/ management and real time reporting. My in-depth knowledge in both project and business environment has facilitated my achievements in programmes and portfolio management. I have quite numbers of comparative advantage in terms of professional qualifications, skills and experience.  

During my work experience, I have successfully delivered 4 programme life cycles with the delivery of their respective programme mandates. I was able to deliver the above-mentioned programmes on time and to budget with value for money and yet still delivered all outputs/features as well as programme outcome far above baseline expectation with about 85% of the projected projects impacts/benefits achieved within the first three years of post-implementation phase. I have special competence and proficiency in programme post-implementation evaluation, measuring programme impacts, value for money (VfM), return of investment (RoI), impact benefits, gap analysis and lesson learnt for iteration, incremental and change management purposes which are key ingredient of a given transformation agenda. In addition to the above, I have provided technical supports to governments in formulation of policies, laws and strategies as well as harmonized guidelines for contract management and procurements.  

A programme manager with downstream activities experience is an asset for any organization and that is a gap my hybrid experience will either fill or consolidate. My hybrid capacity covers development of project mandates, projects plans, requirement gathering, project elicitation capturing, stakeholder’s analysis, risk analysis, work breakdown schedule (WBS), business case development, process map framework (AS-IS) development, gap analysis, development of To-Do, benefit review plan, creation of epic and user story/journey, development of acceptance criteria, creation of business requirement documents creation of wire frame, keyscrenes, navigation maps, feature map, coordination of developers’ task and the use of project life-cycle report templates for real-time reporting.    

In terms of analytical skills, I am proficient in MoSCoW analysis, PESTLE, SWOT, RACI matrix development (stakeholder analysis), RAID log development (risks analysis), Gantt chart analysis, business analysis using statistical tools & artificial intelligent. In general sense, I am skillful in program implementation, emotional intelligent, attention to details, stakeholder analysis, risk analysis, benefits identification, among other transferable skills. In the area of project and business tools, I have competently used Microsoft project, Microsoft Visio (including BPMN), Jira & Confluence, Project.com, Miro, LMS, Spreadsheets (Excel, SPSS, Google Sheets), google analytics, KPI development tools (Monkey survey, google form, typeform etc), virtual meeting tools (Zoom, google meet, Team, Skype, WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook among other tools).  

One of the my programme deliverables was the development and pilot implementation of Medical Emergency and Risk Information Management System (MERIMS) for the primary health care management board (PHCMB) where I served both as PMO Analyst and Business Analyst (BA) for this particular deliverable component of the Risks Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) programme in addition to being the programme coordinator during COVID-19 outbreak as we do not have enough time to start recruiting before responding to the emergency. Other programme deliverables include, development of 5 policy documents which were eventually passed into law in 5 states, development and implementation of WASH disaster risk reduction and resilience building (DRRRB) emergency plan, completion of 25 phases of procurement of 1,500 water and sanitation facilities in about 2000 communities including 300 institutions (Schools and Health Centers) and 55 public places (Markets and Motor Parks) that are now serving over 10,000,000 population, establishment of over 2000 community-based WASH Committee to operate and manage community facilities for sustainability purpose, mass administration of medicine (MAM) for about 3,600,000 people to manage and control neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) embedded with health education and hygiene promotion, delivery of two local governments (LGAs) and 1200 communities as open defecation free (ODF) certified communities through multiple projects’ implementation, weekly publishing of newsletter featuring programme’s activities/collaborations during COVID-19 pandemic among others.   

I have all it takes to kick the ground running in any given portfolio, programme and project due to the following reasons. Firstly, I already have the necessary experiences that are required for the job description to deliver the designed theory of change. Secondly, I have the necessary skills, qualities, attributes and technical know-how to commit to the role and the position quickly with little or no supervision moving forward.  Also, I have remarkable and impressive track records of achievements in my previous roles and I always achieved my deliverables and milestones timely both for myself and my wider teams. In addition to the points I mentioned already, I am proficient in embracing change and innovations easily because I understand that for an organization to succeed, it needs to continue evolving iteratively, incrementally and progressively to meet the expectations of the beneficiaries, donors, stakeholders, shareholders and to continue delivering organization’s benefits and visions. Experience has taught me that to achieve programme’s milestones in an accelerated manner, one needs to be innovative, creative, embrace and promote change to encourage transformation. Besides, I have track records of taken responsibilities for my own professional developments as I believe I should not be the same person I was yesterday in terms of my roles, technical knowledge, updates and international best practices which has made me come this far as I continue to iterate in acquiring professional certifications

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