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Milton Nyakundi Oriku

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Permanency Specialist

EmberHope Connections
09.2024 - Current
  • Successfully applied trauma-informed focus skills to help create a safe and supportive environment for staff and those served through knowledge, sensitivity, respect and focus on resilience and recovery
  • Successfully worked as part of a team to access resources, plan and advocate to improve the quality of people's lives directly impacting more than 50 families in Sedgwick County
  • Successfully taught and motivated more than 50 families on skills such as emotion regulation to bolster healthy relationships, conflict resolution and healthy communications
  • Facilitated timely permanency through engagement with the family consistent with the practice framework and successfully reunifying six families within the first three months of deployment as a Case Manager
  • Engaging more than 50 families in a meaningful relationship and utilizing assessment and case planning to guide services to help the family navigate the difficult terrain of the child welfare system, while ensuring safety needs are assessed and addressed, utilizing assessments to build the family case planning and placement referrals
  • Attended more than 30 court hearings and submitted timely court reports on cases involving more than 44 children so far and filing court appearance logs to keep an accurate schedule of subsequent hearing dates
  • Achieved 100% monthly visits with 44 children in my caseload for one-on-one meetings to assess progress and documenting all work and submitting 100% of required documentation per company policy and state regulations; working collaboratively with the case management team members, stakeholders and the Department of Children and Families (DCF)

Managing Editor

Kurunzi News
01.2017 - Current
  • Company Overview: Kurunzi News is one of the fastest growing digital media outlets targeting Africa, specifically, the East African region with a fast growing African diaspora following in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Japan
  • Successfully grown Kurunzi News from a one-man entity to one of the fastest growing digital media outlets targeting Africa, specifically, the East African region with a fast growing African diaspora following in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Japan, among others
  • Oversaw a team of 15 journalists responsible for publication of digital products, aligning content strategies to maintain consistent brand identity by ensuring compliance with style guide and editorial standards
  • Identified, trained and mentored the journalists as part of the content production teams to generate multimedia content that is accurate, verified and consistent with the dynamics of the audiences in the digital age
  • Established a management leadership structure for editorial teams to coordinate correspondents and freelancers to achieve prescribed deliverables, including maintenance of social media presence to promote brand visibility
  • Through my vision and strategic guidance, editorial teams have been successful in content planning and budgeting of financial and other proprietary resources to obtain value through fiscal discipline and responsibility to ensure sustainability of the brand and maintaining a sound economic positioning for the media outlet
  • Kurunzi News is now one of the most identifiable sources of investigative and citizen-centric content that seeks accountability on management of public resources by focusing on weak (or absent) governance systems to protect public interest
  • It has a combined online following of over 100,000 and still growing
  • Kurunzi News is one of the fastest growing digital media outlets targeting Africa, specifically, the East African region with a fast growing African diaspora following in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Japan

Communications & Engagement Manager

AfriThrive Inc.
02.2023 - 09.2023
  • Successfully co-created and implemented a strategic communication and marketing plan working directly with the CEO
  • Assisted with researching, writing, and editing content for blogs, proposals, newsletters, technical briefs, and optimizing content that is consistent with organization's vision and mission to successfully grow huge social media following among the African diaspora in the United States and beyond, creating an opportunity for brand positioning and leveraging which helped to improve donor engagement and promotion of online campaigns
  • Successfully established guidelines on the use of logos and other marketing assets to guarantee the corporate identity's consistency throughout all programs and services by designing materials for special events, showcases, and new program launches to guarantee consistent brand identity, positioning and association
  • From an editorial perspective, deployed tools to moderate user-generated content in line with platform policies for online communities by ensuring compliance with copyright laws and ethical guidelines to stay current on best practices
  • Successfully introduced and developed organizational capacity for the use of analytical tools such as Google Analytics, Buffer, and others to monitor and evaluate the company's social media presence and performance through tracking and analyzing data on viewership, downloads, and using that data to come up with ideas for new targets for engagement
  • Designed the Community Ambassadors program and developed its training handbook as a reference tool to engage with elected officials, partners, stakeholders, volunteers and agencies to increase community engagement

Communications Advisor

Cabinet Secretary of The Republic of Kenya
01.2016 - 12.2022
  • Advised the Sports Cabinet Secretary on various issues that are critical to their work as government policymakers through open engagement with the public and other actors, including the press, to ensure the policy initiatives are wholly understood
  • My role was hinged to public communications policy on government information around national teams' participation in international competitions for athletics, soccer, rugby and volleyball, among others with a view to extracting positive publicity for Kenya's sporting culture and successful outcomes as participants and hosts of international sporting events, including the Magical Kenya Open (golf) and the Safari Rally

Sports PR Consultant

StarTimes Kenya
01.2015 - 12.2021
  • Increased brand awareness through creation of innovative news media content
  • Implemented streamlined media engagement processes and workflow to increase visibility of the brand as reliable for sports content production and broadcasting of major global sporting events and competitions
  • Implemented best practices to support targeted customer satisfaction initiatives
  • Advised on strategic professional networking ideas to maintain strong relationships with communications/media professionals to drive partnerships and effective dissemination of content through news and other forms of media
  • Prepared for public relations presentations and plans by gathering information on business objectives, vision, brand strategy, competition and industry trends
  • Implemented, as part of a team, social media messaging ideas, follower engagement, social listening, trend analysis and leveraging competitor research
  • Drafted press releases detailing relevant newsworthy information to support brand image, and worked with news media to spread company positions

Copy Editor

MediaMax Network
04.2013 - 02.2015
  • Created headlines and photo captions to reflect a clear, concise and accurate content tone for news delivery
  • Contributed at editorial meetings to review and validate proposed content ideas
  • Review and edit content for publication on newsprint and online
  • Design a daily newspaper and sign it off to press and distribute
  • Conceptualized, assigned and monitored stories for publication and broadcast
  • Interviewed sources and maintained relationships with informants to obtain vital information for stories
  • Sought stories and then assigned or packaged them according to strict timelines
  • Monitored breaking news to quickly assign reporters
  • Guided creative teams to design audio-visual assets to support content delivery
  • Plan for coverage of large events by assigning reporters and technical crew

Communications/Media Advisor

Football Kenya Federation
01.2014 - 12.2016

Assistant News Editor

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
06.2006 - 02.2012

Timeline

Permanency Specialist

EmberHope Connections
09.2024 - Current

Communications & Engagement Manager

AfriThrive Inc.
02.2023 - 09.2023

Managing Editor

Kurunzi News
01.2017 - Current

Communications Advisor

Cabinet Secretary of The Republic of Kenya
01.2016 - 12.2022

Sports PR Consultant

StarTimes Kenya
01.2015 - 12.2021

Communications/Media Advisor

Football Kenya Federation
01.2014 - 12.2016

Copy Editor

MediaMax Network
04.2013 - 02.2015

Assistant News Editor

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
06.2006 - 02.2012

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