About

I am a self-driven, honest, hardworking, diligent and responsible individual who works productively in a team. Goal oriented with ability to prioritize and meet tight deadlines without compromising quality. I am exceptional and pay attention to details that have enabled excel in reporting, project documentation, work planning and budgeting with allocated resources.

Skills

  • Communication
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  • Teamwork
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  • Problem-Solving
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  • Leadership
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  • Management · Negotiation · Project management
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  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills
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  • Effective Communication Skills
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  • Quality control and quality assurance
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  • Data Analysis
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  • English
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  • Hausa
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  • Yoruba
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Recommendations

doreen kinoti

 9/23/2025
Provided a score of  
9
  for Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Experience

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • Responsibilities:
  • Oversees and coordinates different related projects to ensure they benefit our stakeholders and meet our business goals
  • Planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of project activities. Manage project operations to identify needs to improve management or farm operations.
  • Hold daily, weekly, and monthly project briefings, meetings and brainstorming, sessions with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Write and coordinate compiling technical reports narratives – monthly, quarterly, annual and final progress reports.
  • Communicate with funding agencies and partners to determine funding budgets and proposals. Review expenditure reports, budget realignments and financial
  • reports.
  • Ensure that project plans meet deadlines and coordinate with engineers,
  • agronomists and field teams working along with the projects.
  • Develop programmatic tools including budget plans, work plans (with quarterly detailed implementation plans - DIPs) and procurement schedules.
  • Managed Zowasel 2024 Mercy Corps USSD/IVR Development Project:
  • Managed Zowasel 2023 Agroserve Project funded by GIZ: "Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Startups (SAIS) Project by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH".
  • Managed Agroserve training across 5 regional operations in Nigeria (North-West, North-Central, North East, South-West and South-South) in 13 states namely Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau, Taraba, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Oyo, Cross River and Akwa Ibom, reaching out to over 10,000 smallholder farmers.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • Lead Sustainable Sourcing Northwest at   Zowasel.com
  • February, 2022 - January, 2024
  • Fulltime
  • Managed Zowasel - Mercy Corps USSD/IVR Development Project:
  • Managed Zowasel 2023 Agroserve Project funded by GIZ: "Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Startups (SAIS) Project by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH".
  • Managed Agroserve training across 5 regional operations in Nigeria (North-West, North-Central, North East, South-West and South-South) in 13 states namely Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau, Taraba, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Oyo, Cross River and Akwa Ibom, reaching out to over 10,000 smallholder farmers.
  • Overseeing, monitoring and supervising the pre-season, In-season and Post-season training with regional team leads and 24 GAP facilitators as well as data capturing.
  • Facilitating recruitment of facilitators and Organize for Training of GAP facilitators.
  • Monthly progress, Quarterly project status and Impact reporting and partnership engagements. About 100 farmer cooperatives onboarded and registered.
  • Field visit/activities: Rural grain market scouting and profiling identifying trustees at market level, onboarding merchants’/crop sellers, management of Crop Test Centers across Northern states and partners Farmers’ Hubs, Grain booths establishment and management, activating financial inclusion, pushing for sales (farm inputs – agro-chemicals, fertilizers, seeds, farm machinery services), crop sourcing, training of trustees.
  • Onboarding: Identifying and onboarding new trustees.
  • Market Development: Identification & profiling of markets onboarding merchants’/crop sellers, market information collection (Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Kebbi, Taraba, Jos)
  • Manage Merchant team and oversee sales operation
  • Research and Agri-data: Identify salesmen for field price data collection on Kobo collect app.
  • Analysis, verification and documentation on production, baseline data, maintenance of databases for crop sellers/merchants.
  • Reporting: Documentation and daily/weekly reporting of field activities.
  • Support CTC Development for North
  • Support Sales reps field staffs for North
  • Support Partnership development for North
  • Achievements:
  • Trained over 11,367 Smallholder farmers within three production phases (pre-season, In-season and post-harvest season phases in 2023).
  • Abut 100 farmer cooperatives were onboarded and registered.
  • Onboarded over 100 Merchants/crop sellers across identified rural grain markets within the North-Western, North Eastern and North Central parts of Nigeria.
  • Activated Zowasel Agent Network, Trustees at Crop Test Centers and Zowasel Franchise for financial inclusion.
  • Data collection, documentation and reporting of field activities.
  • Management of Zowasel Franchise Trustees, Crop test centers and onboarded merchants.
  • Made sales through Zowasel Certified Crop via trustees sourcing of over 600 MT.
  • Made sales on farm inputs (Improved seeds, sorghim, soyabeans, vegetable), farm machinery services.
  • Made sales through Zowasel Marketplace via onboarded Merchants/cropsellers across markets within the North-Western and Central Nigeria about 2000 MT and above

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • January, 2021 - February, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Field visit/activities: Rural grain market scouting and profiling identifying trustees at market level, onboarding merchants’/crop sellers, management of Crop Test Centers across Northern states and partners Farmers’ Hubs, Grain booths establishment and management, activating financial inclusion, pushing for sales (farm inputs – agro-chemicals, fertilizers, seeds, farm machinery services), crop sourcing, training of trustees.
  • Onboarding: Identifying and onboarding new trustees.
  • Market Development: Identification & profiling of markets onboarding merchants’/crop sellers, market information collection (Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Kebbi, Taraba, Jos).
  • Research and Agri-data: Field price data collection and analysis, verification and documentation on production, baseline data, maintenance of databases for crop sellers/merchants
  • Reporting: Documentation and daily/weekly reporting of field activities.
  • Achievements:
  • Onboarded about 100 Merchants/crop sellers across identified rural grain markets within the North-Western, North Eastern and North Central parts of Nigeria.
  • Activated trustees at Crop Test Centers and Zowasel Franchise for financial inclusion
  • Data collection, documentation and reporting of field activities.
  • Management of Zowasel Franchise Trustees, Crop test centers and onboarded merchants.
  • Made sales through Zowasel Certified Crop via trustees sourcing of 15o MT and still counting.
  • Made sales on farm inputs, farm machinery services.
  • Made sales through Zowasel Marketplace via onboarded Merchants/cropsellers across markets within the North-Western and Central Nigeria about 300 MT and still counting.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • November, 2020 - December, 2020
  • Parttime
  • Data collection function: Data capturing and registration of Vitamin A pro-maize Value Chain Actors (VCAs) farmers, retailers, aggregators, agro-dealers, processors in Kano state using ODK data collection tool.
  • Field visit: To conduct Focused Group Discussion (FGDs) with VCAs (farmers, aggregators, retailers, processors, agro-dealers).
  • Achievements:
  • Conducted rapid monitoring survey and registered Value Chain Actors for vitamin A pro-maize in Kano state (Kura, Bunkure, Dawakin Tofa LGA) using ODK data collection tool.
  • Conducted FGDs with farmers of Vitamin A pro-maize at Kura, Bunkure, Dawakin Tofa LGA.
  • Conducted FGD with Aggregators at Dawanau International Grain Market.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • Training: To support training of 500 Lead Farmers and carry out/support lead farmers in stepdown training of 5,000 farmers on Good Agronomic Practices (GAP) and Group Dynamics at Minjibir LGA.
  • Field visit: To conduct field visits to various farm locations of trained 5,000 farmers at Minjibir LGA.
  • Data collection function: Data capturing of 5,000 farmers using Udongo data collection tool.
  • Monitoring function: To monitor and capture the activities of sales and Fertilizer distribution to 5,000 farmers at OCP outlet, Minjibir and Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, Kano State. To monitor farming activities of farmers throughout the season, conduct farmers field day.
  • Reporting: Documentation and daily/weekly reporting of field activities. Achievements:
  • Trained 5,000 lead farmers and supported lead farmers in step-down training of 5,000 farmers on Good Agronomic Practices (GAP), record keeping and Group Dynamics at Minjibir and Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, Kano State.
  • Field visits to farm locations.
  • Captured 5,000 farmers data using Udongo data collection tool.
  • Monitored and captured activities of sales and fertilizer distribution of 5,000 farmers.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • Aggregation Centres Establishment: Facilitate identification, capacity development of the frontline team aggregation centres and profiling. Coordination of exchange visits and recruitment of centre staff.
  • Market Development: Identification & profiling of markets & buyers, facilitating market business forums, linkages and market information collection, dissemination and sales data consolidation.
  • Research and Agri-data: Data collection and analysis, verification and documentation on production, sales, savings, investments, partnerships, and baseline data, maintenance of databases for buyers traders, partners and stakeholders.
  • Planning &reporting function: Documentation, development of weekly, monthly and quarterly work plans, project technical reports and case studies.
  • Staff supervision: experience in supervision of aggregation centre staff, frontline staff and project officers in Kano, Kaduna and Giwa locations.
  • Achievements:
  • Assessment of Farmer Organizations.
  • Establishment of Agri-Market Service Centres; Minjibir, Bunkure, Garun Mallam, Garun Babba, Rano, Karaye, Kura (Kano state), Katsina (Katsina state), Giwa (Kaduna State).
  • Weekly and monthly analysis of Market data (prices and volumes) of prioritized commodities.
  • Capacity building of over 3000 farmer structured in farmer organizations.
  • Market profiling in Kano and Katsina States in Nigeria with 459 Buyers registration.
  • Organized input fair within the community, linking input suppliers to farmers.
  • Facilitating, establishment and setting up business enterprises using cost share model.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • Aggregation centre assessments in Kano, Katsina, Jigawa states of Nigeria.
  • Data collection for 6 key markets.
  • Market monitoring of 6 local government markets and analysis of prices and volume trends.
  • Project planning and reporting.
  • Achievements:
  • Establishment of three (3) Agri-Market Service Centers.
  • Weekly and monthly analysis of market data (prices and volumes) of prioritized commodities.
  • Capacity building: leadership strengthening, record keeping, financial management, conflict resolution, customer relation management.
  • Profiling of 7 Markets in Kano State Nigeria; Yankaba, Kura Rice Market, Kura Main Market, Bunkure Market, Gundutse Onion Market, Kwanar Gafan Tomato.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • August, 2017 - December, 2017
  • Fulltime
  • To train, counsel and educate adolescents at primary place of assignment.
  • To promote and support Peer Education Programme amongst adolescents and young people at community level.
  • To organize and conduct sensitization/awareness programme within the community of primary assignment that could bring behavioural change to young persons.
  • To assist in counseling peers on Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health (ASRH) issues and HIV preventives.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • August, 2017 - December, 2017
  • Fulltime
  • Data collection training for enumerators
  • Supervision of 21 enumerators in seven local governments in Kaduna State Nigeria.
  • Team leader for rice crop cuts team 5-selected LGAs of Nassarawa state, Nigeria.
  • Supervised ten (10) enumerators within (5) selected LGAs of Nassarawa state.
  • Weekly reporting and technical documentation.
  • Field visits to ensure correct processes and procedures for box placement and harvest processes. Achievements:
  • 315 farmers across the seven (7) LGAs in Kaduna state assessed for the crop cut exercise using 21 enumerators who I supervised.
  • 130 farmers across the 5 local governments in Nassarawa state assessed for the crop cut exercise using 10 enumerators.
  • Reporting and field documentation

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Education
  • February, 2017 - December, 2019
  • Fulltime

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • November, 2016 - October, 2017
  • Fulltime
  • Taught in primary class four
  • Prepared common entrance examination in junior secondary
  • Facilitated tuition.
  • Secretary to the school board.
  • Class teacher primary four
  • Appointment to school board.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • September, 2016 - November, 2016
  • Fulltime
  • Household data collection Ikara LGA, Kaduna State.
  • Sampling selected farmer’s maize farms via box placement.
  • Data collection (for Wet harvest and Dry harvest) using Comm. care application.
  • Weekly reporting
  • Data collection in Ikara LGA Kaduna state
  • Box placement technical report development

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • Teaching Agricultural Science
  • Achievement:
  • Guiding students to select agriculture as a career.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Work experience
  • Development of ratios of macro and micro ingredients.
  • Delivery of processed livestock feeds.
  • Achievements:
  • Milling and ratio mixtures of 5 tons of livestock feeds per day.

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Education
  • February, 2012 - February, 2016
  • Fulltime

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Education
  • September, 2008 - December, 2011
  • Fulltime

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Education
  • West African Senior School Certificate at   WASSCE

Oluwapelumi Akanbi

Education
  • September, 1992 - September, 1999
  • Fulltime

Related persons

doreen kinotiMs at Micro Enterprise Support Programme Trust (MESPT)

doreen kinoti

 9/23/2025
Provided a score of  
9
  for Oluwapelumi Akanbi