Hi, I’m
FRANK GASPAR
Mwanza,TANZANIA
Summary
A highly motivated Economist with a strong focus on fostering the development and welfare of communities. Proficient at spearheading projects and programs within diverse sectors including Government, Business Agencies, and Development Agencies. Having a proven track record of implementing initiatives aimed at improving livelihoods and promoting sustainable development. Skilled in collaborative teamwork and employing meticulous organizational strategies to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. Possess excellent interpersonal skills and a passion for leveraging economic concepts to drive positive change. Quicker to grasp and master new technologies and methodologies. Dedicated to making a meaningful impact through dedicated, organized, and efficient measures. Community-oriented Officer comfortable working in high-stress situations and coordinating emergency responses. Seasoned team leader with unrelenting dedication to keeping community safe and secure. Proactive about using proper protocols while on duty and interacting with community contacts.
Overview
12
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
VSO-TANZANIA (VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS)
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP OFFICER
03.2021 - 12.2023
Job overview
- Providing technical support on strategic, programmatic, and operational issues to support efforts of VSO and Government in facilitating and scaling up of resilience programs
- Ensuring project outcomes meet quality standards set by Programme, adhering to schedules, budgets, and scope
- This includes taking on key coordination and implementation role, ensuring adherence to project management standards and meeting deadlines
- Managing project financial budgets and targets meticulously, providing accurate and timely information on expenditure to facilitate effective resource allocation
- Monitoring project activity, progress of outcomes, identifying issues, risks, and preparing exception reports as necessary, ensuring transparency and accountability to stakeholders and management teams
- Conducting research into Business Development Services Providers and performing comprehensive value chain analysis to assess policy and operational issues affecting resilience and livelihoods of Youth, Women, and People with Disabilities (PWD)
- Developing training tools and methodologies tailored to specific needs of Youth, Women, and PWD, ensuring are equipped with necessary skills for successful business operations
- Conducting training, coaching, and advisory sessions for Youth, Women, and PWD on Business and Entrepreneurship, facilitating their identification and pursuit of economic opportunities
- Documenting best practices and learnings to support economic empowerment and development.
VSO TANZANIA (VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS)
BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADVISER
03.2019 - 02.2021
Job overview
- Conducting Training, Mentoring and Coaching youth including young mothers and PWDs in TVET short courses
- Developing guides and manuals, such as Youth Employability guidelines in Vocational Trainings, to facilitate skill development and employment readiness
- Preparing project progress report in Monthly/Quarterly/Annually basis, enhancing quality and timely inputs
- Designing, managing, and implementing Business Development Services Training tools and methodologies tailored to support Youth, Women, and PWDs in suitable business operations
- Conducting research into Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) and Master Crafts on apprenticeships, trainings, and evaluating vocational education value chain to address policy and operational issues affecting Youth, Women, and People with Disabilities (PWDs) and their impact on resilience and livelihood
- Delivering Business sessions to Youth Saving & Loans Association (YSLA) groups and Income Generating Groups (IGAs) to enhance financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills
- Monitoring Youth Saving & Loans Association (YSLA) groups and Income-generating Activity groups (IGAs) to ensure active performance and sustainability of youth-led initiatives
- Coordinating LZYE Project activities and providing support to partners such as VETA and other stakeholders, ensuring proper funds management and utilization of resources
- Supporting improvement of teachers' learning and developing manuals for vocational trainees to enhance implementation of Youth Employability guidelines in Vocational Trainings.
PACT-USAID KIZAZI KIPYA PROJECT MWANZA, TANZANIA
ECONOMIC STRENGTHENING AND LIVELIHOOD OFFICER (ESLO)
06.2018 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Recruit and train Economic Workers (EWs) in Village Savings and Loan Groups (VSLG) model
- Oversee establishment and support of new groups, as well as support of inherited VSLGs
- Conduct needs assessments for ES (Economic Strengthening) training for sub-grantees
- Manage training of trainers' function for sub-grantees and Local Government Authority (LGA) representatives
- Ensure that EWs provide facilitation support for VSLGs, enabling destitute household members to join VSLGs by addressing lower savings levels and interest rates
- Recommend and support refinement of training materials, ES assessments, and processes to measure progress along economic strengthening pathway, aligned with Graduation benchmarks
- Train and coach VSLGs on Business and Entrepreneurship to establish and sustain Income Generating Activities (IGAs)
- Ensure that VSLGs establish community resource mobilization committees to map community resources for social protection
- Lead creation of trade networks and learning and sharing cohorts within industry types
- Train EWs to implement self-assessment tools with mature groups and establish relationships with pro-poor financial institutions
- Provide continuous supportive supervision to EWs to ensure quality economic strengthening programming, and to Non-Profit Entities (NPEs) to ensure quality youth programming
- Facilitate linkages of older Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) with different service providers to diversify livelihood options and enhance employability and life skills
- Regularly monitor implementation of project activities, using findings to improve project quality and proactively identify risks related to contract compliance, proposing solutions as necessary
- Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to ensure quality and timely collection and entry of Economic Strengthening data into M&E Database
- Maintain good relations with relevant government ministries and technical partners at regional level involved in economic strengthening.
NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC
ZONAL MARKETING AND RESEARCH EXECUTIVE
08.2017 - 05.2018
Job overview
- Management of Client relationship at all stages and overseeing execution of Market Plans
- Managing delivery of retail intelligence data and insights for Coca-Cola Tanzania
- Driving Clients satisfaction by providing insights and actionable recommendations during business reviews
- Providing value-added analysis that answers critical Business questions that impact strategic decision making
- Conducting Market Competitor Research and Evaluate Sales and Market Effectiveness and Trends
- Working with Client Service Teams from stage of clients to identify business opportunities
- Manage daily activities with PR, press, and marketing communications agencies
- Design, implement, facilitate an effective local and national marketing strategy
- Ensuring campaigns adhere to deadlines and remain within budget constraints
- Manage daily activities with PR, press, and marketing communications agencies.
UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM VILLAGES PROJECT PEMBA, TANZANIA
ASSISTANT MONITORING AND EVALUATION SPECIALIST
09.2011 - 10.2014
Job overview
- Ensure proper filing and storage of M&E documents, including questionnaires, monitoring reports, datasets, among others
- Perform statistical analysis of both biophysical and socioeconomic data using software such as STATA and SPSS, and other appropriate tools
- Contribute to analysis and reporting impact of project interventions on welfare/socioeconomics and agriculture for reports and publications
- Produce summarized monitoring and evaluation data/reports as required
- Provide training and capacity building to team in Monitoring and evaluation activities
- Facilitate annual reviews and reflections as well as supporting review and production of periodical performance reports, tracking and analysis of long-term data trends
- Provide support to other MVP sites in their data collection/analysis activities, as may be requested
- Maintain confidentiality and observe data protection and other associated guidelines.
- Enhanced program effectiveness by designing and implementing robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
- Streamlined data collection processes for accurate analysis and informed decision making.
- Improved overall project efficiency with development of user-friendly databases for tracking progress against key indicators.
- Developed tailored training materials and conducted workshops to build capacity among project staff in monitoring and evaluation techniques.
- Assisted in refining program strategies through periodic reviews of collected data insights against set objectives.
Education
ST. AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIATANZANIA
Bachelor of Arts from ECONOMICS
07.2017
Skills
- Data Base management
- Research and Data Analyst
- Business Development
- Stakeholder and Team Management
- Special Groups Engagements
- IT: MS words, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, Salesforce, Agile-CRM
- Project Monitoring and Evaluation
- Facilitation Skills
- SEO&PPC Campaigns
- Branding and Marketing, B2C and B2B
- Market Research
- Statistical Packages: SPSS, EPI Info, Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) and STATA, ODK, Google Form, Excel spreadsheets, DHIS, Kobo collection and Power BI
Certification
- MEAL DPro - Humanitarian Leadership Academy-2020
- Safeguarding Essentials - Humanitarian Leadership Academy -2020
- Becoming an Entrepreneur - Humanitarian Leadership Academy -2020
- B2B and B2C Sales Foundations-NIELSENIQ Nairobi-2021
- Entrepreneurship's and Soft Skills-Niajiri Platform 2021
Accomplishments
- Able to secure a Livelihood Projects (Enhancing Youth Entrepreneurship and Employability (EYEE)
- Participated on Featured Team on developing of a Project proposal worth USD 168,027 on Enterprise development (Standard Charter Foundation - Future Maker Project), Enhancing Youth Entrepreneurship and Employability (EYEE) project in partnership with SIDO and TWCC.
- Able to support over 200 SME'S and over 300 Youth and women empowerment Groups on Value Chain Potential, Market Potential, Market Opportunities, Management Capacity, Business Plan, Financial management etc.
- Impacted 3,000 (910female) youth 8% PWDs with technical vocation skills, business and entrepreneurship creating jobs for 87%;Strengthen Youth Saving and Loan Association (YSLA) values T-Shillings 51 million combined; facilitated Childcare for 281 young mothers during trainings for babysitters.
- Facilitated short courses training to 300+ youth, trained 828 (f288) on soft skills, Contributed to the Tanzania youth skills and enhancement employability by 74.7%;
- Managed to Influence Nyanza Bottling Sales team and able to Increase Sales by 35%
- Able to Identify and Build partnership with Key Industry players and able to increase brand awareness and availability by 20%.
- Able to Lead the Team on Marketing and Marketing Campaigns during the Introduction of NON SUGAR Products from Coca-Cola and Become the Best Seller of the Campaign in Tanzania.
References
- Mr. Alfei Daniel Maseke, Senior Project Manager, CARE Tanzania, +255 784 547 052, alfei.maseke@care.org
- Ms. Shella Sarota, Recruitment Specialist, VSO Tanzania, +255 747 122 166, Shella.sarota@vsoint.org
- Mr. Elvis Severin Chuwa, Senior Regional Manager, Global Communities, +255 756 045 766, aseverin@globalcommunities.org
Hobbies and Interests
- Sports and Games: Endurance Sports, Team sports
- Social and Entertainment: Community group involvement, Reading, Museums and Libraries Strategic mind games
Languages
Swahili
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
Timeline
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP OFFICER
VSO-TANZANIA (VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS)
03.2021 - 12.2023
BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADVISER
VSO TANZANIA (VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS)
03.2019 - 02.2021
ECONOMIC STRENGTHENING AND LIVELIHOOD OFFICER (ESLO)
PACT-USAID KIZAZI KIPYA PROJECT MWANZA, TANZANIA
06.2018 - 02.2019
ZONAL MARKETING AND RESEARCH EXECUTIVE
NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC
08.2017 - 05.2018
ASSISTANT MONITORING AND EVALUATION SPECIALIST
UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM VILLAGES PROJECT PEMBA, TANZANIA
09.2011 - 10.2014
ST. AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA
Bachelor of Arts from ECONOMICS
- MEAL DPro - Humanitarian Leadership Academy-2020
- Safeguarding Essentials - Humanitarian Leadership Academy -2020
- Becoming an Entrepreneur - Humanitarian Leadership Academy -2020
- B2B and B2C Sales Foundations-NIELSENIQ Nairobi-2021
- Entrepreneurship's and Soft Skills-Niajiri Platform 2021
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