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Education
Skills
Affiliations
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Ogochukwu Nzewi

Academic
Orlando,Florida
Ogochukwu Nzewi

Summary

Passionate Associate Professor with more than 10 years of experience administering education and classroom procedures both autonomously and in collaboration with department faculty and leaders. With experience delivering service to students and administrative excellence. Adept at developing probing questions, designing experiments and generating meaningful results. Experienced at identifying and using new technologies and resources. Works effectively and collaboratively with teams and individuals.

Overview

12
years of professional experience
12
years of post-secondary education
1
Certificate

Work History

SCORE
Orlando, Florida

Volunteer Administrative Associate
11.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Edit documents resulting in increased accuracy of language, flow, and readability.
  • Conduct pre-placement screening for over 20 potential entrepreneur mentees per month to support mentorship business objectives and growth.

University Of Fort Hare
East London , Eastern Cape, South Africa

Affiliate Professor
06.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Develop and published articles with post graduate research students leading to more than 50% increase in their research output for 2023 year.
  • Support 2 multidisciplinary research teams focused on scholarly publications, leading to international exchanges between South African and French Scholars.
  • Supervision and mentoring of Doctoral and Masters Research Mentor/Supervisor, resulting in more than 30 Masters and Doctoral graduations.

AOSIS Publishing
Cape Town , Western Cape, South Africa

Editor In Chief (Volunteer)
01.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Improved spotting and corrections of procedural problems and publication errors by 90% with stringent fact checking.
  • Sustain and enhance publication performance resulting in accreditation of Journal and indexing in globally reputable indexing services
  • Oversaw, trained and developed writers and associates, assistants and junior editors to optimize production and quality of work.

University Of Fort Hare
East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Associate Professor
02.2012 - 06.2023

Job overview

  • Taught and mentored over 1,000 undergraduate and post graduate students in academic writing skills to improve student's writing and presentation skills
  • Developed curricula and lesson plans for 3 new programs and updated curricular for other primary instructors, researching developments in relevant fields.
  • Helped students to develop and demonstrate broad, integrative and specialized knowledge, essential habits of mind, communicative fluency and effective problem-solving skills.
  • Research grant proposer and recipient of 2 national and 1 institutional research grant awards over 5 years.
  • Attended and presented at more than 20 national and international conferences globally, resulting in more than 40 peer reviewed articles and book chapters
  • Enhanced effectiveness of curriculum and lectures using computer-assisted instruction programs and audio-visual equipment
  • Kept abreast of advances in pedagogy and work to continuously improve teaching methods and introduce new approaches to instruction

University Of Fort Hare
East London , Eastern Cape, South Africa

Head of the Department
03.2019 - 12.2021

Job overview

  • Kept employee workloads fair and balanced to achieve objectives while maintaining high job satisfaction.
  • Prepared detailed reports for management to clarify existing trends, review operations and academic throughput data and support management University wide academic enterprise reforms
  • Developed and managed department budget to monitor financial performance and minimize expenses leading to more than 400% increase in revenue through debt and cost recovery strategies.

Center For Policy Studies
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Senior Policy Researcher

Job overview

  • Demonstrated leadership skills in managing over 5 projects from concept to completion.
  • Presented findings and demonstrated concepts at conferences and events.
  • Managed DKK 1,500,000 for Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and $29,000 for National Endowment for Democracy, Washington DC delivering over 15 public policy research reports, policy briefs and synopsis and 8 seminars and workshops in one year
  • Obtained funding and worked with backers to assess research goals and implement relevant plans.
  • Developed data collection strategies and monitored data quality for optimal research results.
  • Organized and detail-oriented with strong work ethic

Federal Housing Authority
Abuja , Abuja, Nigeria

Public Relations Officer

Job overview

  • Developed estate launching campaigns in 3 states for the building of more than 3,000 houses to engage customers.
  • Assisted with marketing strategy development to increase public awareness and customer engagement.
  • Produced and distributed internal and external communications, resulting in increase in brand engagement for FHA.
  • Coordinated press releases and handled press inquiries for FHA

Education

University of Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa

Ph.D. from Public Affairs
02.2004 - 04.2009

University Overview

University of Pretoria
Pretoria South Africa

Masters In Public Administration from Public Management
02.2002 - 02.2004

University Overview

  • Awarded Dean's Best Graduation Student in Public Policy
  • Rank: Cum Laude
  • Dissertation: Public Private Partnerships in accelerating government service delivery
  • Capstone Project: Africa America Institute Claude Ake Scholarship award for innovative research in Africa

University of Nigeria
Nsukka, Enugu State

Bachelor of Arts from Mass Communications
02.1988 - 07.1992

University Overview

Skills

Excel

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Affiliations

Affiliations

African American Chamber of Commerce

National Association of Public Administration

SCORE


Software

Microsoft Office Suites, Excel, Word, Power point, outlook

Constant Contact

Google workspace

SPSS

Nivivo

Atlasti

Certification

Professional Scrum Master 1

Timeline

Volunteer Administrative Associate
SCORE
11.2023 - Current
Affiliate Professor
University Of Fort Hare
06.2023 - Current
Editor In Chief (Volunteer)
AOSIS Publishing
01.2021 - Current
Head of the Department
University Of Fort Hare
03.2019 - 12.2021
Associate Professor
University Of Fort Hare
02.2012 - 06.2023
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ph.D. from Public Affairs
02.2004 - 04.2009
University of Pretoria
Masters In Public Administration from Public Management
02.2002 - 02.2004
University of Nigeria
Bachelor of Arts from Mass Communications
02.1988 - 07.1992
Senior Policy Researcher
Center For Policy Studies
Public Relations Officer
Federal Housing Authority

Accomplishments

Accomplishments


Used budget management skills to managed budget and recover debt from clients leaving the department increasing budget from 600,000 to 3.4 million

Achieved rationalization of post graduate student admission and throughput numbers using project management and planning skills.

Managed and trained more than 400 government officials through capacity building programmes

Others:

Collaborated with team of stakeholders from 3 institutiions in the establishment of the Institute of Development Assistance Management (IDAM)

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