Celestina Agyekum

Provided program and monitoring support to the International Technology Solutions team responsible for the Data use and exchange under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program. Created products and artifacts within International Health and Development to support line of business.

Key accomplishments:

• Created documentations to support PEPFAR inter-agency collaboration
• Coordinated regular technical meetings and program briefings for with high level executives within USG and globally
• Organized and managed online projects resource repositories using tools such as SharePoint, GoogleDocs, Slack, Click Up, Office365
• Liaised with globally dispersed teams to facilitate progress on project milestones and client deliverables
• Updated and maintained confidential project documentation in correct location
• Prepared presentation using data visualization software for high level meetings with stakeholders and inter-agency staff

Provided problem-solving strategies to cope with multifaceted problems that affected executive leaders and office morale. Monitored timelines, budgets, objectives, and deliverables. Managed a $45,000 yearly budget plan for the program. Supervised 70+ employees’ company while onboarding newcomers to company processes.

Key accomplishments:

• Founded and operated Let’s Just Chat, Diversity and Inclusion space where domestic and international co-workers engage each other in race conversations.
• Participated in improving new hire on-boarding through establishing partnership with recruiting team.
• Planned international and domestic travel logistics for c-level executives.
• Initiated and organized international cultural celebrations in office.
• Spearheaded two office closures and relocations to new location.
• Increased team productivity and office efficiency by reforming protocols that fit local branch needs.
• Maintained and supervised c-level executive calendars, appointments, travel and expense reports.

Held full planning, operating, marketing, financial, and administrative responsibility for a Senegal in-country program to improve literacy rates and break the poverty cycle in 13 remote villages in rural Fatick, Kaffine and Thies regions. Supervised 6 direct reports in addition to international donors group capacity from 6-30 people per group.

Key accomplishments:

• Spearheaded in-country logistics procurement while also controlling community budgets (up to $8,000 per group) to ensure that staff and donors had safe and culturally appropriate field experiences.
• Recruited and educated key stakeholders in selected villages on homestay hospitality, cultural norms, and gender appropriation.
• Implemented tactful execution of tactful implementation of ethnic, cultural, and religiously influenced training to align community members, Western donors' and local staff on company methodology.
• Advocated and achieved salary increases for contractors to adequate standard.
• Rebranded in-country program and donor experience by consolidating inventory, recruiting new talent, and retraining current contractors.
• Reduced donor health challenges overall travel experience by revising all domestic logistics.
• Unified inventory, hired new talents, and retrained current contractors to rebrand in-country program and donor experience to ensure project goals were achieved.
• Prepared direct reports on hospitality within diverse cultural differences, productivity strategies, protocol updates and performance improvement.
• Pitched and built new programming strategies to boost audience interests and diversify offerings

Served as supplementary educator while supporting Immigrants and Refugees through cross-cultural and education adaptation. Created and adapted lesson plans and activities to fill comprehension and cultural gaps to enable smoother transition and foster growth.

• Key accomplishments:
• Mentored African refugee and immigrant students on multicultural balance through tailored activity-based lessons.
• Established unconventional learning and development opportunities while addressing cultural challenges and situations.
• Stimulated creativity and self-confidence by using traditional and unconventional educational methods and technique.
• Promoted open-mindedness and interaction with diverse cultures, religion, and gender roles.

Co-created and cooperated with the department director on the seven-week course that targeted diverse learning modalities and was about Praxis and Practice of Social Change. Collaborated on curricula, research topics and conceptualized course formats, topics and presentations.

Key accomplishments:

• Recruited in-house faculty and guest speakers to teach marketing and advertising to each class in person.
• Ensured timeline goals were met in student satisfaction, safety, education quality, and team member performance.
• Developed evaluation method to assess course effectiveness, altering content and delivery to achieve student learning goals.
• Produced accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.

Key accomplishments:

• Achieved insight in intersection of culture, gender and skin tones through local home care program.
• Created central storage system and process for storing organization's decade-long work.
• Supported youth mobilization founders and programs for local SDGs.
• Established digital marketing materials for local initiatives related to international growth.

Managed sanitation project, which helped to resolve health challenges in three villages through construction of 60 in-home latrines. Developed and launched project in collaboration with community and teachers to provide electricity to school for evening studies

Key accomplishments:

• Awarded two grants: $2,528 to implement sanitation and education projects in three villages.
• Organized and delivered educational consultation to preteens, teenagers and adults on life skills, teen pregnancy, child marriage and importance of education.
• Provided professional training on how to teach lesson plan at local preschools.
• Developed and implemented monitoring and evaluation tools to measure student's development using local and discarded materials.

Key accomplishments:

• Introduced and led variety of resources early childhood development
• Implemented guidelines for behavior expectations for children and staff
• Facilitated and supported routine processes to maintain consistency and growth