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EMMANUEL K.W. PAWOO
Monrovia,Liberia
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Summary
I am Emmanuel K. W. Pawoo, a graduate from the United Methodist University (UMU), with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. I have over 10 years of work experience in both the private and public sectors. I have used my skills and experiences over the last eight years in reputable private and public organizations. I have had several years of working experience in community engagement, worked with youth, children, and school authority (s) as the first point of contact and representative for Right To Play-Liberia, a trained water and sanitation specialist, Institute for Water Education, Delft, Europe, and manager of water supply and distribution, including data management. I served in many capacities, including Assistant Manager, Acting Operations Manager, and Acting Operations Director at the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC), respectively. I also worked as a Project Assistant and Field Facilitator at the Right To Play International-Liberia Office and Training Facilitator at U-Movement for collective action.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Manager/Project & Planning
Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation-LWSC
Monrovia
01.2022 - Current
- Performs administrative tasks as required, including preparing estimates and invoices and keeping track of the project progress
- Provide-day-day support to project thematic activities
- Report to the project director/Manager on the project progress through all the stages and highlight challenges if any
- Manage the organization of events, workshops including the preparation and dissemination of information, and fellow-up on communications
- Contributes to the planning and development of projects
- Update and report on the project schedule, progress, budget and spending
- Draft routine official correspondence/documents as per project thematic activities needs
- Assist in the preparation, data collection and analysis
- Assist in the preparation of periodic reports by acquiring the necessary information from the field and other project staff
- Undertakes any other duties as directed by management
Assistant County Coordinator
Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation
Zwedru
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Assist the county coordinator in supervising field work on a regular basis and ensures that the distribution system is properly maintained
- Make frequent visit to all fieldwork locations and determine the scope of work and recommend remedy for problems
- Supervises the performance of administrative and commercial staff and reviews revenue collection on a monthly to determine revenue growth and remedy to increase collection and customers base
- Collaborate with other staff to ensure that all outstation equipment and materials are properly stored and maintain
- Maintained daily work sheets for field work and prepares monthly reports which set progress in both technical and commercial activities and submits report to coordinator
- Assist in recruiting customers in the usage of Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation-LWSC services
- Track the usages of fuel/gas for all vehicle and motorbikes respectively
- Assist in designing and implementing strategies gear towards increasing customer’s base.
- Assist the coordinator to develop and implement effective field activities plans
- Supervise the day-to-today operations and regular tracking of the warehouse
- Undertake any other duties as desired by management
Training facilitator
U-Movement for Collective Action
Congo Town
06.2017 - 12.2019
- Work closely with various county training officers, organize result based training frame work for project targeted audience to guide the three years training package
- Together with the head of program and develop need assessment plans for up-coming training
- Conduct refresher training for trainers from the five project counties to confidently facilitate community-based trainings and conduct capacity building training for stakeholders and Parents Teachers Association (PTA) leaderships, student health clubs leaderships and members including SGBV social groups
- Write and distribute training invitation to teachers, PTAs and school administrations, and monitor closely to ensure that all participants are in full attendance
- Play lead role in all planning, training materials mobilization, facilitation and the writing of comprehensive after action report (AAR) for timely submission as agreeable in the quarterly training plan
- Develop strategies that will guide participants regular attendance and participation and fairly administer pre and post-test, analyze and figure out knowledge capacity and recommend next step
- Engage participants on U-Movement programs procedures
- Conduct coaching and mentoring of field staffs, teachers, PTAs and school administrators
Field Facilitator
Right To Play International
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Activities planning and implementation
- Ensures participation of partners, children/young people and stakeholders in the process of project planning and implementation of the proposed activities
- Supports coaches and coach trainers in developing their activity plans and schedules, encourages their initiatives while enduring alignment with project proposal facilities their activities and reports to the PC.
- Organize and conducts special events activities, play days and sport tournament
- In coordination with partners, coaches and coach trainers, evaluate events, provides updates of lesson learned and best practices and reports on progress and challenges as they arise
- Manage the logistical arrangement for training workshops and events
- Organize and facilitate training workshops conducted by other program staff and participate in the training as required
- Facilitate the training sessions conducted by coach trainers, evaluate them and reports to the PC
- Handles equipment management and distribution in the assigned community
- Handles advance payments and manages cash money used for the activity implementation
- Follows up on how partners are spending budget received for project implementation in the location verifies the accuracy of their financial reports and receipts and reports to the PC
- Assess needs for facility repairs and upgrades in the community, facilitates the authorized work and ensures that overall work has been completed in accordance with the approved standards
- Conduct regular field visits with partners, coach trainers and coaches to follow up and provide support as needed
- Participates in workshops/training to partners, coaches and coach trainers, in the quantitative data collection tools and qualitative monitoring tools and ensures accurate and timely submission of quantitative and qualitative data to RTP team
- Provides narrative, qualitative and quantitative monitoring information/data to support monthly, quarterly and annual reports to update country and regional office on project progress
Project Assistant
Right To Play International
Zwedru
01.2010 - 01.2014
- Conduct regular field visits concerning project implementation including activity and event visits
- Assist the project officer in collecting and reviewing project weekly, monthly and quarterly reports, representation and other materials as needed
- Ensure that the project related memos in a timely manner
- Support the project officer in organizing and conducting special events activities, play days and tournaments
- Support the PO in developing memorandum of understanding and agreements with local government and partner organizations and ensuring that the agreements are in accordance with Right To Play’s principles and values
- Support the project officer in organizing workshops and events through coordinating with key stakeholders to ensure their participation, ensuring formal invitation letters are sent out leading on logistical arrangements to take forward the objectives of the project
- Coordinate with respective project coordinators to collect updates of lessons learned and best practices to be share with the project officer and report on progress and challenges as they arise
- Participate in meetings and conference calls with RTP staff including progress review meetings, and specially with project team representatives to be apprised of updates to ensure required support from the project assistant is in line with needs of the project team
- Support the project officer in collecting contextual information to help develop project proposals
- Support the project officer in planning and budgeting of the project activities through coordination with field staff for required inputs
- Assist in developing appropriate training curriculum and supporting resources
- Assist the M&E officer in collecting data for baseline studies, research studies and evaluation of projects
- Maintain a database of trained coaches, teachers and all other partners that are fully implementing RTP programs
- Support the communications officer in compiling and designing information, education and communication material related to the project publicize and share success stories, newsletters and project results
Education
Certificate - Climate Resilient Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation in Liberia
Institute for Water Education
Holland, Netherlands09.2022
Certificate - Sustainable Water Management and Development
Institute for Water Education
Holland, Netherlands09.2022
Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc.) -
United Methodist University
Monrovia, Liberia01.2019
Associate of Art Degree -
LICOSESS College of Education
PAYNESVILLE01.2015
Skills
- Community engagement
- Water supplies and data management
- Research
- Monitoring and evaluation skills
- Program planning and implementation
- Project result management and communication
- Coaching and mentorship
- Trainer
- Team leadership
- Problem-solving skills
- Approachable leader
- Donor evidence-based report writing
Certification
• Certificate, Child Rights, Participation, and Protection (TOT), Right To Play Uganda, Monrovia, Montserrado, 01/01/11
• Certificate, Microsoft Word Suite, STARZ Institute of Technology, Air Field, Sinkor, Montserrado, 01/01/12
• Certificate, Gender Equality and Girls' Rights (TOT), Right To Play Rwanda, Monrovia, Montserrado, 01/01/12
•Certificate, Results-Based Management Training (TOT), Accra, Ghana, 01/01/12
• Certificate, Advocacy and Policy Change (TOT), Right To Play, Liberia, Ghana, China, 01/01/12
• Certificate, Safety and Security, Right To Play Canada, Monrovia, Montserrado, 01/01/13
• Certificate, Financial Management (TOT), The Khana Group, Liberia, 01/01/14
• Certificate, Trainer (TOT), Kigali, Rwanda, East Africa, 01/01/15
• Certificate, Social Entrepreneurship (TOT), Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, 01/01/15
•Certificate, Competency-Based Curriculum Review Training (TOT), Right To Play Sport and Play Education Resources, Accra, Ghana, 01/01/15
•Certificate, Conflict Management, Right To Play China, Right To Play International, 01/01/15
• Certificate, Eight (8) Years End of Service, Vice President/Right To Play Africa Programs, 01/01/17
• Certificate, Microsoft Word Suite, STARZ Institute of Technology, Air Field, Sinkor, Montserrado, 01/01/12
• Certificate, Gender Equality and Girls' Rights (TOT), Right To Play Rwanda, Monrovia, Montserrado, 01/01/12
•Certificate, Results-Based Management Training (TOT), Accra, Ghana, 01/01/12
• Certificate, Advocacy and Policy Change (TOT), Right To Play, Liberia, Ghana, China, 01/01/12
• Certificate, Safety and Security, Right To Play Canada, Monrovia, Montserrado, 01/01/13
• Certificate, Financial Management (TOT), The Khana Group, Liberia, 01/01/14
• Certificate, Trainer (TOT), Kigali, Rwanda, East Africa, 01/01/15
• Certificate, Social Entrepreneurship (TOT), Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, 01/01/15
•Certificate, Competency-Based Curriculum Review Training (TOT), Right To Play Sport and Play Education Resources, Accra, Ghana, 01/01/15
•Certificate, Conflict Management, Right To Play China, Right To Play International, 01/01/15
• Certificate, Eight (8) Years End of Service, Vice President/Right To Play Africa Programs, 01/01/17
Languages
English
Personal Information
- Nationality: Liberian
- Married with family
Languages
English
Native
Native
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Assistant Manager/Project & Planning
Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation-LWSC
01.2022 - Current
Assistant County Coordinator
Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation
01.2019 - 01.2022
Training facilitator
U-Movement for Collective Action
06.2017 - 12.2019
Field Facilitator
Right To Play International
01.2014 - 01.2017
Project Assistant
Right To Play International
01.2010 - 01.2014
Certificate - Climate Resilient Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation in Liberia
Institute for Water Education
Certificate - Sustainable Water Management and Development
Institute for Water Education
Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc.) -
United Methodist University
Associate of Art Degree -
LICOSESS College of Education