- Enjoy hobbies that combine physical activity with outdoor exploration
- Dance
- Running
- Playing Sports
Erik Ndayishimiye
Program Manager
Emeryville,CA
Summary
Accomplished Program Manager offering experience implementing innovative and impactful initiatives that help people and the planet. Highly skilled at building lasting relationships with stakeholders and clients, managing programmatic processes, grantmaking, monitoring and evaluation and reporting.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Programs Coordinator
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK (WCN)
04.2023 - Current
- Leads operations for wildlife funds and early career programs
- Manages grants for the Rhino Recovery Fund
- Lead grantmaking, budget management, internal communication, grantees and fiscal sponsors relationship management, and granting meetings coordination.
- Compiles annual reports to donors and publicized projects on the fund’s website
- Facilitated the strategy development and led the streamlining of the grantmaking process
- Administers WCN’s Rising Wildlife Leaders Strategy
- Coordinates the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders training. Facilitates candidates’ selection, agreements, maintains the website and resource library, serves as the program’s contact person.
- Oversees all logistics of the training events, including travel, accommodation, venues, etc.
- Oversees the operations for WCN’s Conservation Programs’ Team
- Prepares the team’s bi-monthly programs’ meetings, including developing the agenda and scheduling.
- Serves as the contact person, responds to and redirects inquiries as appropriate.
- Establishes and maintains internal protocols for managing interactions with partners and grantees.
Program Officer (interim)
LOW-INCOME INVESTMENT FUND
07.2022 - 04.2023
- Led grantmaking, budget management, compliance, and reporting for the SPARCC Initiative
- Interfaced with grantees and contractors to elaborate grant agreements and contracts
- Managed budgets, administered and tracked payments to partners, grantees, and contractors
- Coordinated budget management processes between program partners and accounting teams
- Compiled quarterly and annual financial and narrative donor reports
Project Assistant (Part-time)
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP AND TRAINING INITIATIVE (ELTI)
09.2016 - 12.2016
- Effected monitoring and evaluation for an international environmental training program.
- Assisted in developing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan for ELTI training activities.
- Created a M&E survey, compiled reports and other performance indicators from trainee organizations.
Research Assistant
ReDirect Rwanda
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Led the field implementation of a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme in Nyungwe National Park.
- Lead a team of 6 people that conducted surveys on livelihoods, resources rights and threats to biodiversity.
- Conducted and compiled reports of surveys and interviews on local livelihoods, led community meetings.
- Served as a liaison and translator between the project’s foreign staff and the local authorities and community.
Education
Master of Arts - Environmental Management
YALE UNIVERSITY – School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
New Haven, CT 05.2001 -
Bachelor of Arts - Biology
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA
Huye, Rwanda01.2010
Skills
- Languages: Full professional fluency: Kinyarwanda, French and English
- Technical: Salesforce, Fluxx, Concur, Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Zoom
- Interests: Dancing, Volleyball, Hiking, Camping (Acadia National Park, Death Valley National Park)
Websites
Publications
- “Sports and urban biodiversity: A framework for achieving mutual benefits for nature and sports in cities”, IUCN, Geneva, Switzerland. (November 2020)
- “Public Trees for Public Good: An assessment of Urban Forestry Management and Practices in Los Angeles County,” TreePeople, Los Angeles, CA. (November 2017)
- “Conservation and Development Planning in the Samburu, Kenya.” ESRI conference, San Diego, CA. (July 2017)
Interests
Timeline
Programs Coordinator
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK (WCN)
04.2023 - Current
Program Officer (interim)
LOW-INCOME INVESTMENT FUND
07.2022 - 04.2023
Project Assistant (Part-time)
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP AND TRAINING INITIATIVE (ELTI)
09.2016 - 12.2016
Research Assistant
ReDirect Rwanda
01.2009 - 01.2011
Master of Arts - Environmental Management
YALE UNIVERSITY – School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
05.2001 -
Bachelor of Arts - Biology
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA
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