Susan Mukei

• Highly qualified and result-driven professional with more than 10 years of experience in project implementation and management and exposure to wide and reliable experiences in livelihood Project management, Grants acquisition, Partnership, and NGO Capacity Development, Donor Contract Management, supervision and management of direct reports
• Currently I am a global Technical advisor at BRAC International in the Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative and my key roles include leading technical assistance engagements to partners, ensuring satisfactory service delivery to technical assistance partners and clients, contributing to business development, and mentoring junior technical staff as well as supporting the Head with strategy development and strengthening the technical capacity of a globally dispersed team 
• Strong ability to lead a team of professionals in completing projects by a set deadline to uphold business initiatives by setting or adjusting project schedules to adhere to deadlines.
• My track record in different and well-established international NGOs of leading a team of staff and associates has consistently resulted in the increased realization of revenue and improved socioeconomic impact to the beneficiaries of social economic interventions. My ambition is to transfer these broad-based skill sets, and years of experience to a more challenging position and opportunity that will leverage my management and supervisory skills in project management as I become a responsible team player and change agent.

Technical Advisor, Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative- BRAC International -Lead and supporting technical engagements with partners including governments, multilateral institutions, and BRAC entities to ensure satisfactory service delivery to partners and clients, Supporting the recruitment and onboarding process, training and mentoring of Technical Officers and Senior Associates while managing direct reports and contracts and ensuring safeguarding standards and policies, and reporting are maintained in the workplace, Providing central expertise to Global Country Engagement Teams on graduation program design, adaptation, operations implementation, and government capacity building to ensure countries’ graduation program design and implementation align with UPGI’s overarching strategy and goals 

Economic Inclusion ,  Danish refugee council-Provided day-to-day leadership to the economic inclusion assistants throughout project implementation, capacity strengthening, and Refugee economic empowerment cycle, Worked closely with the project manager/officers/ other partners to ensure alignment of the project with the strategic plan and relevant theories of change of the plan, Trained staff on financial inclusion, market development, and linkage between different market players and continuously supported them to meet the project deliverables including training, managing household income generation activities, and relevant technical skill development.

Project Officer,  Financial Graduation Project- CARE INTERNATIONAL - Budgeted and supervised of implementation of the Financial Graduation Project through training, reporting, data collection, and group follow-ups. Selected beneficiaries using Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and wealth ranking criteria, prepared procurement plans for the project and the beneficiaries, maintained a database for stakeholders, service delivery partners, and beneficiaries, facilitated training of households on Graduation project,  conducted ToTs to CBTs on enterprise development, VLS, FED, and market Linkages, Facilitated institutional development of community institutions to enhance collective action and negotiation, linkage HSNP beneficiaries to savings groups

Master’s in Project Planning and Management, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI2017–2019

Bachelor of Science in Community Development, CHUKA UNIVERSITY 2011 – 2015  Diploma in Community Development, EAST AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES2008 – 2009

Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation, Kenya Institute of Management-2013