Altayeb Abdallah
Nairobi
Summary
Dynamic Grants Manager and Implementation Specialist, excelling in budget management and stakeholder engagement. Adept at driving successful project outcomes through effective communication and meticulous expense tracking. Recognized for enhancing grant processes and fostering partnerships, ensuring compliance and maximizing resource utilization.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Implementation Specialist
DT-Global
07.2024 - 05.2025
- Support national and regional activities through:
- Contributions to budget development, including conducting market surveys, identifying items required for successful implementation, and liaising with the procurement and logistics team to identify all costs.
- Support activity implementation, by reviewing expenses against budgets to ensure that all costs are being tracked properly and all items are being purchased as planned; check expenses against activity budgets prior to activity close to ensure that all expenses are properly accounted for.
- Aide the Implementation Director in ensuring that all activity documentation is completed, including grant agreements, transfers of title, and activity close out forms.
- Contribute to the development of weekly activity notes, and any reports required.
- Ensure all items are properly documented and stored in the corresponding activity files.
- Regularly update the OTI WBDB with activity status and disbursements.
- Document lessons learned to improve the grants management process.
- Other tasks as assigned by supervisor.
Grants Manager
Chemonics International
09.2021 - 03.2024
- Develop and execute comprehensive grant acquisition strategies aligned with organizational goals.
- Write compelling grant proposals and collaborate with teams to gather necessary information.
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with donors, ensuring ongoing support and engagement.
- Manage the full lifecycle of grants, including applications, reporting, and compliance.
- Monitor grant budgets, prepare financial reports, and ensure proper fund utilization.
- Ensure compliance with donor guidelines, legal regulations, and reporting requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide training, and assess grant strategy effectiveness.
Project Coordinator
British Council Sudan
05.2021 - 08.2021
- Build and maintain professional relationships with coalition partners and other key players.
- To identify, assess, report and monitor progress in addressing risks to the achievement of project objectives.
- Support the management of financial resources to implement project activity accurately allocated, forecasted, monitored, and reported.
- Ensure that relevant business processes (procurement, sales, travel, and expenses, etc.) carried out in line with corporate standards using SAP where appropriate.
- Ensure that procurement is managed in the highest standards suppliers selected and managed to maximum value for money.
- Liaise with GIZ communication team, responsible for the effective communication and dissemination of the programme.
- Support the delivery of the monitoring and evaluation plan for Sudan, using the BMM programme's monitoring and evaluation framework.
Senior Sales and customer service officer
British Council Sudan
03.2017 - 04.2021
- Handling and supervision of all enquiries related to British Council activity in Sudan and Ensuring.
- Managing all aspects of transactions between customers and the British Council.
- Matching income and reconciliation. Administrative tasks Collecting, analyzing & reporting on feedback received from customers according to agreed standards.
- Effective management of the British Council website and the social media pages according to agreed standards.
- Registration of candidates wishing to enroll for UK examinations and English language Training programs.
Sales Agent
Teleperformance Egypt
03.2016 - 11.2016
- Helping clients plan, choose and arrange their holiday.
- Offering advice and opinions on where to go and local tourist attractions, events, and customs.
- Promoting and marketing the business, selling holidays and insurance.
- Managing budgets and preparing promotional materials and displays.
Billing and Technical support agent
Vodafone UK
01.2015 - 03.2016
- Resolving service problems by clarifying the customers complaint, determining the cause of the problem selecting and explaining the best solution to solve the problem then following up to ensure resolution.
- Monitoring agent's behavior and Leakage.
- Assessing team performance and scoring KPI's.
- Assisting Senior Management in managing the regulatory compliance risks to the business.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma - Development
University of Medical Sciences And Technology
Khartoum 01.2022
Bachelor's Degree -
Sudan University of Science And Technology
Khartoum01.2014
Skills
- Administrative
- MS Office
- Procurement
- Budgeting
- Program Management
- Leadership
- Analytic
- Effective communication
- Partnerships
- Budget management
- Data analysis
- Project coordination
- Grant management
- Activity documentation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk assessment
- Team collaboration
- Expense tracking
- Financial reporting
- Implementation management
Certification
Prince2 , PeopleCert, Axelos July 2019
Project Management for development professionals, APMG International September 2019
Marketing and Communication, Charted Institute of Marketing (CIM) (Merit) September 2020
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Arabic
Native/ Bilingual
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Implementation Specialist
DT-Global
07.2024 - 05.2025
Grants Manager
Chemonics International
09.2021 - 03.2024
Project Coordinator
British Council Sudan
05.2021 - 08.2021
Senior Sales and customer service officer
British Council Sudan
03.2017 - 04.2021
Sales Agent
Teleperformance Egypt
03.2016 - 11.2016
Billing and Technical support agent
Vodafone UK
01.2015 - 03.2016
Postgraduate Diploma - Development
University of Medical Sciences And Technology
Bachelor's Degree -
Sudan University of Science And Technology
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