About

An accomplished, innovative, passionate, and highly committed strategic manager with extensive and progressive experience administrations and management. Initiating and managing development programs, engaged in stakeholder management, strategic roadmaps and work plan development. Supporting project implementations, and integrations, within the financial, banking and Learning and Development industries. I am passionate about organizational management and sustainability, and holds a firm conviction that given the right circumstances, technical know-how and commitment of all stakeholders, we can ensure career and business growth and sustainability. Currently with Microfinance Agricultural Learning and Development Center (MLDC) as a Senior Project Training Manager, Managing the Agricultural Training Centre, and a Product Owner responsible for the AFOS INGO Agriculture Capacity Development Projects for Senior Management Training (SMT), Middle Management Training (MMT), Talent pool raining for microfinance Institutions, Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Small Holder Farmers {SHF) training and successful implementation of all strategic plans of MLDC

Skills

  • • Project Management (Agile
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  • waterfall)
    8
  • • Organizational Capacity Development
    8
  • • Stakeholder Engagement and Management
    8
  • • Project Finance Forecasting
    7
  • • Strategy and Implementation
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  • English and Yoruba
    10

Experience

Sanmi Ajisola

Work experience
  • I am fully involved in the ideation, concept design, implementation, and establishment of the Agricultural Training Centre, an initiative envisioned to plug the capacity development deficiency in the agricultural sector.
  • Drafted the ATC MOU with international development institutions and Agricultural Sector Stakeholders and facilitated the onboarding of new partners.
  • Drive stakeholders' workshops and meetings to secure support for the Agricultural Training Centre and foster collaborations with development partners for project/program implementation.
  • Development of strategy document, and work plan for the takeoff of the Agricultural Training Centre and working with a highly dynamic team to implement a digital transformation project that entails process improvement and automation of different capacity development projects into online training and E-learning modules as a strategic Covid 19 intervention for stakeholders in line with business requirements.
  • Map out annual training plans for management, as well as develop training calendar in line with the strategic direction of the ATC.
  • Design and develop training programs tailored towards relevant value chains across the Nigerian agricultural sector Design and prepare educational aids, resources, and materials adaptable for the Nigerian agricultural sector.
  • Determine market strategy and best platform to create awareness about ATC training offerings.
  • Manage the expectations of all internal and external stakeholders and allocate resources to areas of best use.
  • Maintain training records (e.g. trainee lists٫ schedules٫ attendance sheets) and ensure they are all up to date. Book and prepare training venues and ensure they’re properly set up. Prepare reports on training activities and learning outcomes. Act as point of contact in engaging with vendors for improved learning experience.
  • Draft training evaluation form, report template and conduct training impact assessment.
  • Conduct PEST and SWOT analysis of the centre and benchmark the activities with that of existing and potential competitions, and global practices.
  • Assess instructional effectiveness and determine the impact (ROI) of training on audience skills leveraging set metrics and KPIs. Gather feedback from trainers and participants after each training session. Provide a report on each training session based on the agreed format set by the management.
  • Partner with internal stakeholders and liaise with experts regarding instructional design. Maintain updated curriculum database and training records.
  • prepare RFP, Develop evaluation format, Recruit training service providers review training material and methods and coordinate activities for excellent delivery.
  • Keep the database and inventory of equipment and facility.
  • Research and seek collaboration and partnership with local and international institutions. Develop training programs, workshops, and conferences that are internationally competitive
  • A product owner for the development of the LMS system that administered the different learning modules in agriculture and microfinance. Elicitate requirements and communicate to the developers the features of the LMS platform, the ATC website, and the revamping of the MLDC website.
  • Defined project vision, strategy, and roadmap and ensured processes were followed therefore, delivered training that satisfied stakeholder requirements within the project timeline.
  • Draft the market needs document and define the challenges to solve; articulate the market problem along with priorities and justification for each part of the solution.

Sanmi Ajisola

Work experience
  • I work on projects in the conception and initiation up until the delivery phase and coordinate the project team and stakeholders to design, develop, and deploy capacity development initiatives for new intakes, middle management, and senior management levels. I led the team to initiate the implementation of a multi-stakeholder digital platform that seeks to optimise agricultural productivity and provide linkages within different players of various value chains. Timely delivery of projects; performed analysis relevant to projects and conducted periodic reviews of progress reports and identified risks and challenges.
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Senior Management Training, Middle Management Training for Agric. And Microfinance Sectors
  • Coordinate pre-training activities and an interface between AFOS INGO training Coordinators, partner institutions and service providers.
  • Coordinate venue assessment and setting up of training hall.
  • Ensure training materials, audiovisual and other materials needed for the training are in place.
  • Coordinate the class activities in collaboration with the training facilitators.
  • Interact with stakeholders and respond to all inquiries about the training activities.
  • Coordinate the activities of all service providers during the training.
  • Monitors training activities, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation and report presentation to stakeholders of partner institutions.
  • Present training report at the end of every training session
  • Technical and Vocational Training Project
  • In addition to the above
  • I participated in the conceptualization of the AFOS TVET program Phase I and II
  • Set up and coordinate virtual classes running concurrently in 4 different locations.
  • Participated in the development of the National Occupational Standard for the Poultry Industry in Nigeria
  • Assess learner's competency to perform their assigned tasks based on the requirements of the National Occupational Standards
  • Verify the activities of TVET Assessors handling the learners to quality assure their output.
  • Ensure such output meets the requirements of the awarding body and the regulators.
  • Small Holder Farmers Training Project
  • Participated in concept development for SHF training phase II
  • Coordinated effective and efficient implementation of the AFOS agricultural training projects for 30,000 food crops and animal husbandry smallholder farmers in 12 northern and southern states in Nigeria.
  • Coordinates the activities of over 300 lead farmers (trainers) to deliver the smallholder farmers' training.
  • Visit and coordinate physical supervision of the training in more than 250 locations across Nigeria.
  • Interface with all stakeholders involved service providers and supervisors across different locations.
  • I recruited ad-hoc staff to supervise the step-down training across thirteen states in Nigeria.
  • Ensuring the success of each training session
  • Monitor and evaluate training data and present recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Present training report at the end of every training session.

Sanmi Ajisola

Work experience
  • Managed NMP-MLDC Southwest regional office in Ibadan
  • Drafted the MLDC company profile for the Chattered Institute of Bankers Nigeria endorsement of MLDC as a certificate awarding institution.
  • Developed course synopsis for various levels of training programs offered to the institution's clientele.
  • Develop a schedule and harmonize all MLDC training activities.
  • Develop evaluation and reporting templates for the MLDC and partner organizations' training programs.
  • Act as a liaison officer between MLDC and industry stakeholders such as NAMB, MFIs and development partners for a successful capacity development program
  • Organize and coordinate MLDC Microfinance Institutions’ capacity development training programs. This includes:
  • o Liaison with vendors for the design of publicity materials
  • o Drafting of promotional content for training, workshops, Conference and more
  • o Coordinates the activities of MLDC coordinators and ad hoc supervisors.
  • o Mobilization of participants via email, SMS, cold call, and others
  • o Monitoring and evaluation of training and project-end report writing.
  • o Managing colleague roles, service provider activities and clients’ expectations
  • o Generate new sales leads and follow through to business contract establishment.
  • o Generated and managed the database of all trained institutions and participants, microfinance institutions and other stakeholders.
  • Engaged in project conceptualization and strategy sessions with development partners.
  • Develop a budget for training project coordination in collaboration with the accounting department and partner organizations.
  • Supported the e-learning team to research and determine the appropriate LMS and content required to onboard the AFOS, MLDC and Frankfurt School e-learning partnership project.

Sanmi Ajisola

Work experience
  • I developed, implemented, and maintained business development strategies which contributed to the financial growth of the bank.
  • I ranked as one of the top sales personnel by creating a good loan portfolio and efficient recovery.
  • Identified market prospects and took advantage of such to boost our customer base within the first three months of joining the bank.
  • I ensured the retention of existing customers by maintaining a cordial relationship and unwavering commitment to satisfying customer needs.
  • Gave advice and suggestions to the management on new loan products based on customer feedback, market trends, and competitors' activities.
  • I influenced a new approach to doing business/marketing that led to efficiency in productivity and an increase in profitability.

Sanmi Ajisola

Education

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