About

Resourceful, hardworking, keen, motivated and experienced strategist with more than 7 years of progressive accomplishments in both private and public sectors. Am keen on emphasizing cost effective process improvement, performance management, strategic planning and organizational efficiency and very knowledgeable in using statistical tools and methodologies. Passionate about the power of data, am able to ensure the validity, completeness and usefulness of the collected data by carefully analysing numerical patterns and behaviour using my expertise in statistical concepts and principles. A self-starter, with exceptional leadership, teamwork, problem solving, communication and relationship building skills.

Skills

  • Management
  • Microsoft Office
  • Excel
  • Python
  • Finance
  • MS Sql Server
  • MySQL
  • HR
  • Data Analysis
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  • research and analysis
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  • English
    10
  • Kiswahili
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Recommendations

Aliciah vivian

5/3/2022
10

"Smart, dedicated and hardworking statistician"

Experience

Carlos Makhandia

Work experience
  • Purpose - responsible for undertaking research and review of KMRC’s Strategic Business Plans in order to support effective product improvement and development. This position is also responsible for coordination of project implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the organization’s Strategic Plan and annual corporate work plans.
  •  Co-ordinate implementation of the company’s business strategies, policies, programs and projects, leading to effective research and innovation, capacity building, policy formulation and service delivery.
  •  Coordinate programs/projects forecasts, estimates and budgets in liaison with departmental heads for effective planning and implementation.
  •  Monitor and report on markets and customers from a strategic standpoint and report on short, medium and long-term trends and directions;
  •  Participate in periodic reviews of the strategy in line with external and internal, political, economic, social, environmental change drivers and report on the implications of these factors on the strategic implementation;
  •  Facilitate the alignment of corporate reporting systems and the identification of key performance indicators and high-level targets;
  •  Carry out research on the financial mortgage market to determine changing trends and identify the impact on the Company;
  •  Collect and collate macro-economic, socio-economic and fiscal data and prepare reports as necessary;
  •  Monitor, measure and report on organisational development plans and achievements within agreed formats and timescales;
  •  Coordinate the preparation and implementation of departmental work plans;
  •  Guide the development, implementation and application of modern techniques in Monitoring and Evaluation systems for Home loans’ research and capacity building programs; and
  •  Coordinate operations research and conduct surveys for additional strategic information for decision making.
  •  Undertake such other project/strategy management responsibilities as may be required from time to time

Carlos Makhandia

Work experience
  • September, 2021 - February, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Collecting, collating and analyzing data in the relevant sectors;
  • Compiling sector-specific draft reports;
  • Providing support in the preparation of policy briefs and reports on the relevant sectors;
  • Capturing data on budgetary requirements at the department; and
  • Uploading information in the National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (NIMES)
  • tracking and reporting progress of Vision 2030 flagship projects at the County Level.
  • Generating and analyzing reports on projects and programmes from the electronic National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (e-NIMES).
  • Preparing annual and quarterly progress reports on the implementation of national government programmes/projects at the county level.
  • Coordinating intergovernmental and National Government economic planning functions.
  • Organizing public participation and stakeholder consultation forums.
  • Coordinating dissemination of national development plans, policies, and strategies at the county level.
  • Conducting capacity building of National Government Agencies at the county as well as County Government, Civil Society Organizations, and the Private Sector on economic policy and planning.
  • Facilitating research on topical and emerging socio-economic issues at the county.
  • Facilitating identification and documentation of crosscutting and emerging economic issues.
  • Promoting Knowledge Management.
  • Developing donor proposals.
  • Preparing briefs and reports on economic trends at the county level

Carlos Makhandia

Work experience
  • Tracking Requests for Applications (RFAs) and proposal opportunities from government agencies, large foundations and corporations, assessing ARC’s competitiveness and strategic positioning in light of these opportunities, and producing completive proposals for submission to potential donor agencies, foundations, NGOs and corporations.
  • Proposal submission opportunities for both ARC’s core competency areas and the countries and geographic areas in which ARC has a presence
  • Data management and modeling, project/program management and impact analysis. Build relationships with different stakeholders and serving as the primary point of contact for all ARC projects, sole research team lead in developing strategic mix of research and reporting.
  • Monitoring and strengthening of compliance with donor requirements, in line with the broader grants management work plan. Grants management support, through coordination and partnerships with country teams, to ensure all donor reports and deliverables are submitted; Managing the regional pipeline (process, communication, and deliverables).

Carlos Makhandia

Work experience
  • Provided overall leadership and Coordination in designing and implementing sound monitoring, evaluation & reporting process & practices for the value chain projects.
  • Prepare and evaluate performance reports with UCRC executives to help track progress towards the organisations goals.
  • Utilized several different query languages, including Excel and SQL, to create logic to pull the data used to populate reports sent out through automated portal.
  • Took the lead in developing a systematic M&E framework and documentation of lessons learned/ evidence as per UCRC and donor requirements through participatory processes.
  • Development of Mobile Data collection system
  • Took the lead in planning for projects M&E activities such as baselines, periodic assessments, Evaluations among others including research
  • Used information seen in reports and practices witnessed personally to develop performance metrics used in annual organisations activities evaluations.

Carlos Makhandia

Work experience
  • Provided technical leadership for the implementation and improvement of SAIPEH’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy within the SAIPEH Safeguarding Unit and across the SAIPEH Partnership in alignment with the SAIPEH Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy.
  • Ensured on time, on-policy safeguarding incident response that is survivor-centered and support SO/RO/FO staff to ensure strong safeguarding incident management that mitigates organizational risk in the area of Child and Adult Safeguarding.
  • Coordinated responses to high profile or high-risk child protection incidents, and adult safeguarding incidents.
  • Represented SAIPEH on child safeguarding issues internally and externally.
  • Advising investigators/volunteers on adherence to/compliance with mandated Kenyan laws, regulations, policies and procedures related to human research participants’ protection
  • Reviewing human research applications, safety reports, donor reports and advises on matters requiring their attention and creates a safety report database and generates monthly technical reports; Monitoring and Evaluation of the value chain child dev. Projects.
  • Contributed to and lead all aspects of proposal development including: Analyzing funding opportunity streams and mapping proposal calendar; Assisting in ensuring compliance and responsiveness with technical and financial donor requirements and ensuring timely submission of quality and competitive proposals.
  • Represented the organisation at various internal and/or external institutional fora.

Carlos Makhandia

Education
  • MBA - Finance

Carlos Makhandia

Work experience
  • Participated in survey and data collection and analyzed data from different reports mined from MSC field activities and services (Extensions)
  • Designed the methods of forms entry to the MSC agriculture Management system (AMS). This made it easier for data entry operators to work efficiently and quickly. The previous form lacked the existence of some critical data, including: loss and damage of cane from farm to factory, whereas the new form I designed had a separate entry screen and a different methodology and calculation methods for the recent data.
  • Ensured that the collected data by field extension officers will be beneficial to the operations of MSC and successful research projects
  • Trained agricultural field extension officers on how to gather and analyze relevant information in a timely manner and consistent manner in a format which supports effective and efficient decision making
  • Utilized visual and practical skills in explaining statistical concepts to non-statisticians during capacity building sessions in MSC.

Carlos Makhandia

Education
  • Applied Statistics

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Aliciah vivian

5/3/2022
10

"Smart, dedicated and hardworking statistician"