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Work History
Education
Skills
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Technicalcompetence
References
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Hope Idorenyin Nwagbara

Ago Palace,LA
Hope Idorenyin Nwagbara

Summary

Certified Project Manager and Administrative Specialist with over 17 years in Operations, Grant Administration and Human Resources Management.

Overview

18
years of professional experience

Work History

NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)

Administrative Specialist

Job overview

  • Provide a range of administrative and support services to meet the operational needs of the organization
  • Respond to and resolve complex enquiries and issues to ensure the provision of accurate information and timely and effective resolution of issues
  • Coordinate and manage records and databases, complying with administrative systems, processes and policies, to ensure that all information is accurate, stored correctly and accessible.

NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)

Project Management Professional

Job overview

  • Project Process management
  • Agile and Waterfall project life cycle
  • Kanban Board on day to day project implementation
  • Change Management
  • Organizational Structure and management
  • Team Management
  • Stakeholder Management.

NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)

Grant Administrator

Job overview

  • Process Improvement
  • Administrative Systems & Control
  • Operations and Logistics Management
  • Vendor management
  • Non-programmatic coordination
  • Team management.

NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)

Global Fund Administrative Officer
2021.06 - Current (3 years & 3 months)

Job overview

  • Coordinates and manages Global Fund Grants overhead worth $400,000.00 on RSSH/C19RM Grants
  • Coordinates and support the non-programmatic activities to ensure optimized adherence of Human Resource (HR) policy manual, recruitment and grant performance.

HEALTH REFORM FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA (HERFON)

Administrative Officer
2018.06 - 2021.05 (2 years & 11 months)

Job overview

  • Coordinated the development of terms of reference for consultants and vendors and ensure timely follow up for payments
  • Provided day to day administrative support for the program unit
  • Maintained effective internal controls for inventory and store while ensuring availability of required office supplies
  • Provided visiting consultants, staff and visitors with an up-to-date information packet and workspace within the office when required
  • Organized learning and development opportunities for staff to achieve program goals
  • Coordinated the development of project activities aligning with costed budgets
  • Coordinated and prepare travel documents and accommodation logistics
  • Developed and managed effective administrative systems and procedure to ensure the smooth running of the Foundation
  • Developed and widely disseminate update on covid-19 through bi-monthly newsletter
  • Led in coordination of engagements like meetings, peer review meetings, virtual work shop
  • Coordinated retrospective meeting to share best practices, lessons learnt, knowledge building and partnership development.

HEALTH REFORM FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA (HERFON)

Administrative Officer
2014.03 - 2018.05 (4 years & 2 months)

Job overview

  • As an Administrative lead in FCDO Principal Recipient project, I ensured project staff receive project support in order to achieve their optimized goal in project implementation
  • Coordinated all travel, hotel, vendor, logistics related areas for the project to enable efficient use of resources and timely implementation of project deliverables accommodation logistics
  • Provided administrative and logistics support to project teams at the national and state level across the 14 state offices
  • Provided day-to-day administrative and logistics support to the respective project unit for trainings, workshops, meetings, and monitoring visits to the field
  • Led media negotiation, buying, airing and monitoring for Primary Health Care Reforms Project at the community level
  • Coordinated and managed short-term consultants, from the engagement process, to the development of terms of reference and processing of payments
  • Managed project budget for all travel-related activity ensuring that all requests were charged to the right code and funds were available for the activity before approval by the lead program manager.

CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL CENTRE (CDC)

Executive and Administrative Assistant
2008.08 - 2013.06 (4 years & 10 months)

Job overview

  • Provided support for program activities by ensuring children with disabilities received quality education and work placement for young adolescent under the USAID minimum package for children with disabilities
  • Supported programs unit in planning for workshop to train health workers to care for children with disabilities at the community level
  • Supported the M&E unit in preparation for their quarterly verification exercise by making available the questionnaires and ensuring that all documentation for this activity were available
  • Reached a total number of 5000 children with disabilities in 12 states within the country on educational, psychosocial and socio-economic services under the USAID minimum package for children with disabilities
  • Provided technical support to advocate for work placement of children with disability in a normal working environment
  • Coordinated routine weekly, monthly and quarterly meeting for project team within the unit, developed agenda, articulated minutes of meetings and archived meeting reports for easy access to project unit
  • Coordinated a quarterly campaign on the purchase of services for children with disabilities
  • Supervised Government homes for children with disabilities to ensure the children received quality education and therapeutic exercise
  • Supported in all logistics arrangement for a successful field trip for monitoring and evaluating quality of interventions and value for money.

ACCENTURE

Administrative Officer
2006.06 - 2007.10 (1 year & 4 months)

Job overview

  • Coordinated the travel logistics and flight reservations of international partners as well as management of vendors' invoice for timely payment
  • Coordinated travelling logistics arrangement of international partners
  • Coordinated the arrangement of flight and hotel reservation for international partners
  • Provided logistics arrangement of car hire for expatriates
  • Processed cash advance expenses for project teams
  • Prepared of vendor invoice for payment
  • Maintained accurate filling system to ensure easy documents retrieval
  • Maintained all accruals records at the end of each month.

Education

University of Washington United States Of America

Leadership and Management in Health
06.2024

University Overview

Project Management Institute, USA

Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)
07.2023

University Overview

Project Management Institute, USA

Project Management Professional (PMP)
10.2022

University Overview

University of Washington, USA

Certificate in Project Management for Global Health
09.2022

University Overview

University of Abuja, Nigeria Abuja, FCT

Master of Science from Financial Economics
09.2019

University Overview

WHO

Certificate in Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage
02.2019

University Overview

Cameroon

Certificate in Data analysis and processing in Health
07.2016

University Overview

Lagos State University, Nigeria Lagos

Bachelor of Science from Banking And Finance
05.2011

University Overview

Skills

  • Customer Relations
  • Proofreading
  • Verbal Communication
  • Spreadsheet Creation
  • Multitasking
  • Interpersonal
  • Office Management
  • Scheduling and calendar management
  • Human Resources Support
  • Contract Negotiations
  • Presentation Design
  • Policy and procedure modification
  • Computer Skills
  • Excel spreadsheets

Technicalcompetence

Technicalcompetence
Administrative Systems & Control; Operations and Logistics Management, Strong Understanding, interpretation and Implementation of GF, DFID, BMGF Policies and Guidelines; Application of Business Dynamics Business Central (NAVISION) on Human Resource Management; Project Management (using Agile, Waterfall & Scrum); Grant management; Analytical & Strategic Thinking; Process Improvement.

References

References
  • Dr. Daniel Onwuh, Senior Technical Specialists, Global Fund C19RM Grant, 07067157714, donwuh@naca.gov.ng
  • Honesty Lukeson, Safety Manager, Promacidor Ghana, 08033553939, h.lukeson@gmail.com

Timeline

Global Fund Administrative Officer
NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)
2021.06 - Current (3 years & 3 months)
Administrative Officer
HEALTH REFORM FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA (HERFON)
2018.06 - 2021.05 (2 years & 11 months)
Administrative Officer
HEALTH REFORM FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA (HERFON)
2014.03 - 2018.05 (4 years & 2 months)
Executive and Administrative Assistant
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL CENTRE (CDC)
2008.08 - 2013.06 (4 years & 10 months)
Administrative Officer
ACCENTURE
2006.06 - 2007.10 (1 year & 4 months)
Administrative Specialist
NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)
Project Management Professional
NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)
Grant Administrator
NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE CONTROL OF AIDS (NACA)
University of Washington
Leadership and Management in Health
Project Management Institute, USA
Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)
Project Management Institute, USA
Project Management Professional (PMP)
University of Washington, USA
Certificate in Project Management for Global Health
University of Abuja, Nigeria
Master of Science from Financial Economics
WHO
Certificate in Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage
Cameroon
Certificate in Data analysis and processing in Health
Lagos State University, Nigeria
Bachelor of Science from Banking And Finance
Hope Idorenyin Nwagbara