Christian Nkini
Dar es salaam
Summary
Strategic leader with a proven track record of driving organizational success through operational excellence and innovative solutions. Expertise in project management, team collaboration, and process optimization, consistently achieving results by navigating complex challenges and fostering a culture of accountability. Highly adaptable to evolving business needs, recognized for strong decision-making skills and effective communication that inspire and build high-performing teams. Committed to delivering value by aligning strategic initiatives with organizational goals and enhancing overall performance.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager Grants and Contracts
Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation (EGPAF)
12.2014 - Current
- Play an advisory role and technical support to management
- Provide technical support to management on country specific contract and grants management issues.
- Point of contact for all Country subcontractors
- Provide policy guidance and interpretation for program staff and sub recipients on applicable rules and regulations
- Provide training and orientation to staff & Grantee and subcontractors on donor rules and
- Develop and maintain tracking systems on identified sub recipients’ compliance issues.
- Provide team leadership for post award management and processes
- Communicate with colleagues in the country office to understand funder objectives, requirements and related program activities and to ensure fulfillment of commitments.
- Oversee the review and evaluation of partner’s applications and proposals.
- Oversees Pre-Award assessment process and ensures organizations have the capacity to appropriately manage a Sub Award.
- Coordinates the review and evaluation of sub recipient applications and proposals.
- Ensures Sub Partner documents are accurate and complete.
- Oversees the negotiation of sub agreement terms and conditions and prepares final sub agreement award documents as well as modifications.
- Monitors sub recipient performance to ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of award.
- Oversee the conducting of targeted in-depth risk assessments of partners programs producing reports which will include recommendations for corrective action and the level of assistance, if any, required
- Provide on-going assistance to sub recipients to administer their sub agreements compliant with all terms and conditions.
- Manages the sub agreement close out process.
- Capacity facilitation of implementing partner staff and organizational capacity
- Train and build capacity of other technical staff for relevant rules, regulations and procedures.
- Partner’s Cash flow management by ensuring liquidity of cash to Partners and timely submission of financial reports
- Monitors sub recipients’ expenditures against approved budget and program objectives, by reviewing and analyzing the budget to actual spending.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve operational efficiency and service delivery.
- Implemented best practices in grant management to optimize funding utilization.
Compliance Officer
Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation (EGPAF)
03.2008 - 12.2014
- To ensure full compliance of rules and regulations of both URT and Donors
- To review, analyze and submit the sub recipient financial reports on timely bases.
- To facilitate and conduct regular monitoring visit to our implementing partners for compliance review
- To facilitate and conduct the Assessment of capacity, risk, and needs of implementing partners
- Facilitate monitoring of partner’s cash flows
- To facilitate the review documents of the submitted proposals from the implementing partners
- To facilitate and conduct the cost analysis for the proposed budget
- To facilitate the development of contracts for the awarded partners.
- To facilitate and participate in the capacity building activities to sub recipient on administrative, finance, and grants management.
- To facilitate the proper filling and documentation of all award documents
- To facilitate routine monitoring of sub grantees performance through BVA reviews, reporting and visits and etc.
- International Nonprofit organization for Pediatric HIV- Aids.
- Job Role: Sub Awards Management and Compliance of rules and regulation
Fixed Assets Management Assistant.
NPK Technologies
07.2007 - 02.2008
- Assist in management and co-ordination of project.
- Scrutinizing source documents for accuracy and validity.
- Fixed assets register reconciliation.
- Filling and archiving of important documents as a backup in case of any queries.
- Consolidation of data into financial statements
- Tagging of fixed assets
- ICT Industry
- Job Role: Consultation on the Fixed Assets Management.
Education
Master’s Degree - Business Administration
ESAMI
01.2017
Advance Diploma - Accounting
Institute of Accountancy Arusha
06.2007
Advance Certificate - Secondary Education
Tambaza High School
05.2003
Skills
- Grants management
- Compliance monitoring
- Financial reporting
- Risk assessment
- Project management
- Leadership
Certification
Project management for development professionals (PMD Pro) level 1
References
- Martin, Mfikwa, Director of operation, mmfikwa@pedaids.org, EGPAF Tanzania, Dar es salaam, Tanzania, Mobile #
- Christa, Moore, Senior Director Award, Compliance and Operation Excellency, christamoore719@gmail.com, Elizabeth Pediatric Aids Foundation, Washington DC, USA
- Adam, Silver, Director of Management and operations, adam.charles.silver@gmail.com, Peace Coup, Windhoek, Namibia
Carrier Development
- Training 1 FranklinCovey Leadership
- Training 2 Last Mile Learning PMD-Pro level 1
- Training 3 Center for Public Management (CPM). Compliance requirement and Financial regulation in USAID/CDC awards
- Training 4 FranklinCovey 7 Habits for effective people
- Training 4 Mekonsult Co Ltd Auditing - Evidence and documentation
- Training 5 BrainCapital Excellency Ltd Auditing techniques
- Training 6 Institution: Institute of Accountancy Arusha Quick Book.
OTHER ASSIGNMENT
- Assignment 1 May 2024. ELCT Review of time keeping policy and development of a tool to be used for all projects across the organization for the purpose of documenting level of efforts.
- June 2018 Development of financial manual that best suit the CSO working environment and will give confidence to donors on its reliability.
- Assignment 2 May 2012 Kibosho Hospital. Development of inventory tracking system at Hospital to management movement of assets and supplies and reduce wastage.
- Assignment 3 August 2010. Endulen Hospital Development of approval and authorization controls that would provide a predictable output in the Hospital and other stakeholders
- Assignment 4 November 2021, Successful completed a five years project close out of 61 partners and average annual budget of $5,500,000
Timeline
Senior Manager Grants and Contracts
Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation (EGPAF)
12.2014 - Current
Compliance Officer
Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation (EGPAF)
03.2008 - 12.2014
Fixed Assets Management Assistant.
NPK Technologies
07.2007 - 02.2008
Advance Diploma - Accounting
Institute of Accountancy Arusha
Advance Certificate - Secondary Education
Tambaza High School
Master’s Degree - Business Administration
ESAMI