Candidate Profile

Experience

• AgriProFocus Network (under SNV)
   25 months :  Communications & Marketing Facilitator
   Yearly Salary : UGX: 36,000,000
   Job Duties : 
  Keeping track of trends and developments within the Agricultural sector, opportunities and share relevant information in the right period with members of the network. Through this I helped the organization facilitate and debate on key sector issues, moderating the Soil Management workshop, the National Youth Symposium and the Gender Trajectory within Agriculture workshop. • Innovating ideas to inventively promote and pull attention towards the network; such innovations included re-designing the branding concept of the network, designing the network business card to speak to members during events, collaborating activities for the network day where members came together to share achievements • Networking: Having a strong network with agribusiness companies and NGOs, media; I crafted a database for media contacts within the sector who helped publish the networks’ active role in agriculture; building relations with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Uganda through monthly communications with their relevant partners as well as building a database for organization donors and partners with whom the network stayed in close contact with. • Technical PME competencies: Through daily monitoring of social media trends on Hootsuite, I grew the network online platform member numbers from 4000-6500 members, increased twitter analytics to 3600 followers as well as generating more than 500 facebook likes for the network facebook page through daily updates. • Designing and sending out quarterly newsletters with updates on the network achievements and opportunities. Four newsletters were sent out during the 1-year consultancy increasing the network member database to over 6,000 members in mailchimp. • Developed a Marketing & Communications Strategy to guide the network.

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