Gregory Omondi

Gregory Omondi Program monitoring and evaluation specialist -/-Date of birth: 8/8/1988. Twitter: @gregoryamugune Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/gtunya Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-omondi-490b824a/ Blog: https://bringingbookstolife-.wordpress.com/ Personal Profile A highly skilled, motivated and results-driven human being with broad knowledge in monitoring & evaluation and marketing management. Possess three year experience in designing education projects and programs to enhance access to books and promote reading among children from disadvantaged communities, developing tools for data collection and analysis and writing proposals and reports for internal and external stakeholders. WORK EXPERIENCE Untrained Teacher January 2008- June 2009 Viyalo Secondary School Achievement: Before joining university I volunteered as an untrained teacher handling over 200 students in form 1, 2 and 3 in English and literature, agriculture, physics and mathematics and worked with the head of departments in setting and marking exams for the students. Freelance Writer August 2013- February 2016 Online Writing Sites and Websites Achievement: After my undergraduate degree I worked as a freelance writer for 3 years and wrote over 2,500 academic articles, research papers, book reports, projects and dissertations for online writing websites across various subjects. Marketing and Communication Officer 2016 Storymoja Publishers Achievement: February 2016- May  Developed copy for marketing and worked with designers to develop brochures for our latest career product increasing brand awareness by 30% and resulting to successful launch of the product in the market.  Trained over 200 career masters on how to mentor students and trained over 500 high school students on discovering themselves, making informed subject and career choices.  Led a team of 5 people in conducting an audit of our corporate website and creating new and fresh content allowing for an update of the company website within two months. Start a Library Liaison Officer June 2016 – December 2017 Storymoja Publishers Achievement:  Spearheaded development of project concept notes, writing proposals and presenting them to potential donors and clients in meetings and through emails, attracting new customers and converting 50% and established18 school libraries impacting over 18000 children.  Managed a team of 5 employees allowing for establishment of 50 school libraries, collecting baseline data prior to the library intervention and periodic gathering of data every term following the library establishment, analyzing the data, and developing over 50 reports for dissemination to internal and external stakeholders.  Designed teacher and student training programs and facilitated training for over 500 teachers and 1000 students equipping them with skills on library management that enabled them to run vibrant school libraries.  Spearheaded the design, review and improvement of data collection tools and participated in developing briefs to our data collection teams leading to collection of quality data  Developed over 10 stories from the launch of school libraries and the impact of books on children lives based on data collected from the field that led to creation of content for our websites and providing feedback to our external partners.  Led weekly staff/ traffic meetings of 10 employees for review of member performance and spearheaded a system of documenting tasks and progress leading to clear and actionable tasks that improved performance of the team.  Instrumental in developing new offerings/ programs including mobile book shelves to address lack of extra spaces to serve as a library room in schools, and designing ‘Wildlife Themed Libraries’ to use libraries and books to promote conservation of wildlife and environment. Marketing Outreach Manager January 2018 to date Storymoja Publishers Achievement:  Worked with the CEO to develop marketing plan for Storymoja for 2018 enabling the company to focus resources on the most integral aspects of the business.  Spearheaded a team of 5 employees allowing for generation of brandsheets for over 300 books in our catalogue within three months.  Part of a team of 6 employees that developed a new corporate website and e-commerce site creating a new channel for selling and distributing books online, thus increasing sales by 1% within 3 months.  Managed a consultant in developing a bulk SMS system which I implemented enabling the company to send marketing messages to over 100,000 active clients improving sales by 10%  Managed a team of 5 people in developing digital and social media content for marketing increasing reach by over 500 followers within two month.  Part of team that developed the Wildlife Warrior program that seeks to raise a generation of wildlife conservationists, designed and delivered a training program that equipped over 64 teachers from 32 schools across the country on wildlife conservation in the effort to protect endangered species. EDUCATION BACKGROUND Bachelor of Business Management (Marketing) May 2013 University of Kabianga Certified Public Accountant (Part I) June 2012 KASNEB Masters of Science in Monitoring and Evaluation Completed coursework Aug. 2018 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology HOBBIES AND INTERESTS  Wrote two manuscripts for storybooks for teenagers currently under review for publishing  Volunteered on the Precious Sisters Mentorship program where I mentored six girls  Wrote 6 blog articles, published 3 on my blog and the other 3 on the company website.  Reading storybooks, mainly African inspired stories and books on community development  Travelling across Kenya, interacting with different people and new cultures  Enjoy storytelling for children and adults for fun and education purposes  Research interests in using digital tools for data collection and management and the extent to which organizations are applying mobile phone technology in their monitoring and evaluation system and what are the factors inhibiting or facilitating the innovation REFEREES Available on request.