Charles Mkude
Dar Es Salaam
Summary
Results-driven Programm Management professional adept at working with organizations to improve operational efficiency, team productivity and employee motivation. Hands-on leader with exceptional organizational, critical thinking and prioritization skills. Possessing 18 years of related experience and passion for contributing to organization success.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Migration Management Consultant
08.2023
- Available for engagement based on vast knowledge and experience in conducting migration management training, review of curriculum, facilitating workshops and meetings
- Carrying out researches and presenting findings.
Deputy Regional Programme Manager
01.2021 - 07.2023
- Provision of technical and programmatic support to IOM missions on BMM activities including in the Migrants’ Protection, Migration Policies and Border Management fields
- Working with programme consultants as a technical supervisor
- Deputizing the role of programme management in the absence of the senior Programme Manager
- Support in training, review of agenda and development of concept notes
- Monitoring the budget while tracking the spending
- Liaising with BMM donor and implementing partners by: responding to information needed by donor from regional office and all BMM missions
- Writing reports and submitting to donor
- Attending donor and BMM IPs’ meetings
- Follow up on missions’ requests eg
- On procurement, visibility, replanning of activities
- Providing backstopping to missions without designated BMM- PM such as Djibouti, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda
- Providing backstopping cover to the MPA (Protection)-RTS on the needs basis
- Directly supervising 5 staff members and indirectly supporting more than 20 staff members in the BMM countries.
Regional Project Support Officer
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
06.2017 - 01.2021
- Providing programme tactical and strategic support to 7 IOM missions in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda in areas of migration governance, migrant protection and assistance, Immigration and Border Management as well as Labour Mobility and Human Development in accordance with IOM institutional guidelines, standards, and best practices
- Supporting with coordination and communication of activities in the 7 implementing missions to ensure smooth delivery of results under the BMM project
- Overseeing programme report writing in collaboration with the implementing missions for over 3 years
- Liaising with donors, national partners in 7 countries and other 4 implementing partners as well as external stakeholders on IOM related BMM activities
- Engaging in discussions with the donor and other implementing partners and developed project proposal for the BMM second phase of the programme
- Overall and directly coaching more than 5 staff in the regional office and indirectly more than 15 staff in the country missions on both day-to-day programme management issues
- Developed a tool to track the programme budget for all the 7 missions including the Regional office
- Attending donor and high-level programme meetings representing IOM.
National Programme Officer
International organization for Migration (IOM)
09.2012 - 06.2017
- Supported the mixed migration unit through provision of: capacity building to law enforcement agencies on migration management issues, raising awareness on contributions of migrants in the society; providing technical advice on system strengthening for better management of migration issues
- Supported migration and development, migration and health as well as emergency and resettlement program's of IOM
- Acted as a liaison personnel between the government, the United Nations Country Team and IOM in managing migration in Tanzania
- Supervised an AVRR project that facilitated the voluntary return of more than 1000 Ethiopian stranded migrants from Tanzania to Ethiopia
- Involved in the capacity building sessions which have benefited more than 500 government and non-government actors on migration management issues
- Supervised the electronic registration of more than 22,000 irregular migrants in Tanzania and facilitated issuance of protection card to them
- Deployed in the emergency response in Western Tanzania and assisted with onward transportation of more than 50,000 Burundi asylum seekers to designated camps
- Coached more than 5 staff in the team on various areas of programme management.
Programme Manager
National Organization for Legal Assistance-nola
05.2005 - 09.2012
- Main duties included; supervision of 8 legal aid centres across the country and providing advice on clients' cases before lodging them to court
- Responsible for project progress and expenditures; responsible for supervising legal representation in courts of law as well as liaising with the Ministry of Justice and Local Government Authorities in following up on violated human rights of clients
- Carried out researches and published legal documents for the use of both policy makers and other legal stakeholders
- Coached more than 25 staff on programme management and more than 15 on legal practices.
Education
LL.M - International Development Law and Human Rights
University of Warwick
01.2011
LL.B - Bachelors of Law
University of Dar Es Salaam - School of Law
11.2004
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Legal
- Migration
- Strategic
- Team player
- Performance monitoring
- Team leadership and direction
- Budget coordination
- Project Management
- Strategy Development
- Negotiation
- Consulting
- Staff Management
- Resource Utilization
- Strategic Planning
Accomplishments
- Successful implemented BMM phase one and two and consequently developing a proposal for phase three to be implemented in seven countries.
- Successful managed programmes ranging from provision of legal aid to marginalized members of the communities, conducting various researches with particular interest to human rights, translating legal documents into simple language for the use of the common citizens.
- Track records of supporting country, regional and cross regional migration management programmes including policy formulation, capacity building, provision of direct assistance to migrants as well as being deployed into emergency response.
- Certified Programme Management trainer-IOM.
- Cross-cultural communication certified trainer-IOM.
- Good understanding of the East, Horn and Southern Africa migration dynamics for over 10 years.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills backed up with practical negotiation skills.
- Strategic thinker, visionary and a fair leader based on both theoretical and practical experiences.
Affiliations
- Advocate, Commissioner for Oaths and Notaries Public in Tanzania
- Member of the Tanganyika and East Africa Law Societies
- Member of the Tanzania Ford Foundation Alumni Association
- Former Chairperson of the IOM's National Staff Association Committee-Tanzania
- Former Chairperson-Tanzania Ford Foundation Alumni Association
Personal Information
Title: Human Rights Lawyer & Programme Management Practitioner
References
- Mr Ali Abdi, Former Supervisor, International Organization for Migration, aabdi@iom.int, +254719723131
- Ms Tusa Njwaba, Former Colleague, tusa12@yahoo.com, +255686640647
- Mr Marcellino Ramkishun, Former Line Manager, International Organization for Migration, ramkishunm@iom.int, +254797480505
Extracurricular Activities
Once a National Staff Association Chairperson with IOM Tanzania Recipient of the Ford Foundation Scholarship Once a chair of the Ford Foundation Alumni Association in Tanzania
Hobbies and Interests
- Reading
- Meeting new people
- Cycling
- Bike riding
- Swimming
- Mountain Trekking
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Swahili
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Migration Management Consultant
08.2023
Deputy Regional Programme Manager
01.2021 - 07.2023
Regional Project Support Officer
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
06.2017 - 01.2021
National Programme Officer
International organization for Migration (IOM)
09.2012 - 06.2017
Programme Manager
National Organization for Legal Assistance-nola
05.2005 - 09.2012
LL.M - International Development Law and Human Rights
University of Warwick
LL.B - Bachelors of Law
University of Dar Es Salaam - School of Law
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