Jennifer Okusia
Country Programme Manager
Legal Representative of NGS Uganda, and responsible for Strategy, Policy, and Compliance Management of all Programmes and Projects.
Jennifer is a development Worker with over 18 years of work experience. She provides exemplary strategic leadership to ensure the growth, development, and sustainability of NGS’s mission-oriented agenda.
CORE COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
o Proposal Development & Writting
o Grants management
o Training & Facilitation
o Group/Workshop facilitation
o Research/Baseline Studies
o Partnership Management o Organisation Development/Coaching
o Report writing
o Financial management
o Systematisation Trainer
o Human Resource Management
o Integrity / Anti-corruption / Accountability
Jennifer worked with BOSCO Uganda as the Executive Director from February 2020 to May 2022. Before that, she worked with HORIZONT3000 for over 13 years in various capacities, most recently as Senior Programme Officer for Finance Project in East Africa overseeing projects in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Before that, she worked as Senior Programme Officer for Technical Assistance Programme, in Uganda. She supported the development and Implementation of over 50 successful projects financed through various donors. She also worked with AGEH and John Paul II Justice and Peace Centre as a Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation officer, supporting various partners and peace workers in Kenya, Uganda, and South Sudan in PME and organizational capacity development. She has also worked with various other donors and Development Partners, among which are ADA, DKA Austria, BSIN, Caritas Slovakia, AGEH, University of Notre Dame, Accenture, JICA, APC Locnet, EWB, Pathfinder, Archdiocese of Gulu.
Qualifications
Masters of Arts in Development Studies – Uganda Martyrs University
Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration and Management
Bachelor of Development Studies -Makerere University-2004
Certificates
1. Training of trainers in physical security – DefendDefenders
2. Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
3. PME Trainer and group facilitator – MDF Netherlands and Agridea, Switzerland
4. Outcome Mapping in Project design and Management- Agridea –Switzerland
5. Group Facilitation -MDF Training & Consultancy, established in collaboration with Provenium, Elst, The Netherlands
6. Do No Harm- Dr. Rolf Grafe Consultant for Conflict sensitive Programming Germany
7. Training in Effective Communication- International Perspectives
8. Training on Facilitation Skills- International Perspectives
9. Proposal writing and resource mobilisation training- IFRDN
