Sabrina Majikata
Dar es Salaam,Tanzania
Summary
High skilled and committed manager with exceptional leadership, organizational skills and communication abilities leads high-performing cross-functional teams, seeks solutions to problems and applies extensive analytical knowledge to findings.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
Investing in Children and their Societies (ICS)
Dar es salaam, Tanzania
01.2015 - Current
- Strategic planning
- Defining the program governance (controls)
- Ensure efficient work deliver results and achieve goals by strategic planning and looking for risks and opportunities
- Solving and developing the strategy for the risks
- Program documentation
- Stakeholders engagement
- Communication with project coordinators
- Managing budget, resources and interdependent project
- Providing strategic guidance to the project coordinators
- Daily program management throughout the program life cycle
- Facilitate the communication between research team, community and organizational partners
Social Welfare Officer
Ministry of Home Affairs
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
04.2010 - 06.2014
- Coordinating and supporting the Probation Officers on the Implementing Community Service Program
- Support the Department Director on fundraising
- Internal and external stakeholders engagement
- Planning, organizing, and coordinating community service activities, organizing magistrates trainings, liaising with other institutions/departments such as Prison, Judiciary, Immigration and Social Welfare, assisting in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs, maintaining program statistics for evaluation and research, helping clients towards a deeper understanding of their concerns.
Family Strengthening Programme Coordinator
SOS Children's village Dar es Salaam Tanzania
10.2007 - 03.2010
- Implementing child protection program in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Zanzibar, and Mwanza
- Leading the planning of the family strengthening program
- Coordinating the implementation of program activities
- Building positive relations with the community and/or local authorities
- Building a strong network of partner organizations
- Financial management and administration of the program
- Ensuring ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the program
- Building and managing a strong program team
- Conducting counseling/interviews with family members
- Building the capacity of community volunteers, parents and caregivers
Education
Master of Social Work - Social Work
The Open University of Tanzania
Tanzania 10.2010 - 07.2013
Skills
- Microsoft Teams
- Effective communication
- Fluency in English and Swahili languages
- Leadership
- Problem solving
- Risk Management
- Conflict resolution
- Time management
- Stakeholders management
- Negotiation
- Project Management
- Budgeting
- Proposal writing
- organizational skills
- Team management
Languages
English
Advanced
Swahili
Proficient (C2)
Custom
- Kudely Sokoine, Country Director, ICS, Shinyanga, 1195, +255 786624092, kudely.sokoine@icsafrica.org
- Shogo Mlozi Sedoyeka, PhD, Member of Parliament, East African Legislative Assembly, Arusha, 1096, +255 715000066, eala@eachq.org
- Dr. Alex Lengeju, Executive Director, Canaan Children's Centre, Arusha, 3044, +255 754 033776, a_lengeju@yahoo.com
Personal Information
Nationality: Tanzanian
Affiliations
- Do it yourself projects
- Cooking
- Listening music
- Reading stories
Accomplishments
Exceptional performer at organizational level
My work contributed to won of Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize (Put into practice innovative solutions in the field of child development)
Research Co-author - https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/5/e055231 and
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15989-x
Certification
Gender and Early Childhood Development Course by the Aga Khan University - March 7 - 9, 2024 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Science of Early Childhood Development Course by the Aga Khan University - June 26 - July 1, 2023, Dodoma Tanzania
Gender Transformative Parenting TOT workshop by UNICEF - June 21 - 24, 2022 Budapest, Hungary
Information Sharing and Capacity Building Workshop for Law Enforcement and the Aid and Humanitarian Sector Project Soteria by INTERPOL - July 19 - 21, 2022 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Leadership Course on Personal, Organizational and Social Transformation by CBLI Centre - June 2019 - June 2020 Dar es Salaam
The Global Leadership Seminar on Child Protection by Beijing Children's Legal Aid and Research Center - July 1 - 13, 2019
A digital storytelling training by Silence Speak Story Centre - February 26 - 2 March, 2018 Nairobi Kenya
Social and Behavior Change Communication by DREAMS - August 29 - 31, 2017 Pretoria, South Africa
Skillful Parenting Master Trainer Training by Investing in Children and their Societies - January - December, 2015, Shinyanga Tanzania
Timeline
Program Manager
Investing in Children and their Societies (ICS)
01.2015 - Current
Master of Social Work - Social Work
The Open University of Tanzania
10.2010 - 07.2013
Social Welfare Officer
Ministry of Home Affairs
04.2010 - 06.2014
Family Strengthening Programme Coordinator
SOS Children's village Dar es Salaam Tanzania
10.2007 - 03.2010
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