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Food, travel, dancing, meeting new people, volunteer work
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Ogochukwu Nzewi

Ogochukwu Nzewi

Academic
Orlando,Florida

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
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Affiliate Professor

University Of Fort Hare
East London , Eastern Cape, South Africa
06.2023 - Current
  • 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.

Volunteer Administrative Associate

SCORE
Orlando, Florida
11.2023 - Current
  • 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.

Editor In Chief

AOSIS Publishing
Cape Town , Western Cape, South Africa
01.2021 - Current
  • 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.

Associate Professor

University Of Fort Hare
East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
02.2012 - 06.2023
  • 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

Head of the Department

University Of Fort Hare
East London , Eastern Cape, South Africa
03.2019 - 12.2021
  • 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.

Senior Policy Researcher

Center For Policy Studies
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • 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

Public Relations Officer

Federal Housing Authority
Abuja , Abuja, Nigeria
  • 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

Ph.D. - Public Affairs

University of Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
04-2009

Masters In Public Administration - Public Management

University of Pretoria
Pretoria South Africa
02-2004

Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communications

University of Nigeria
Nsukka, Enugu State
07-1992

Skills

  • Excel
  • Project management
  • Curriculum design
  • Grant writing
  • Keen eye for detail
  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Google Workspace
  • Problem-Solving
  • Administrative expertise
  • Academic research
  • Data analytics

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

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)

Work Preference

Work Type

Part TimeContract WorkFull Time

Work Location

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceHealthcare benefitsWork from home optionCompany CulturePaid time offTeam Building / Company RetreatsPersonal development programsFlexible work hours

Quote

The mere fact that there are things we lack makes us appreciate the things we have - Dad

Work Availability

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Food, travel, dancing, meeting new people, volunteer work

I have traveled the world for work and leisure, always love discovering the place for its people and finding exciting dives for aperitifs or a little of the local taste. Travel healed me and dispelled some of my misconceptions and cynicism I had about the world. I also volunteer my time and other resources to great causes. From initiatives I see around me by local hero and heroines, to international life saving organizations such as doctors without borders, My ideal work place has always been where I can also give back. That is why I chose teaching.

Timeline

Volunteer Administrative Associate

SCORE
11.2023 - Current

Affiliate Professor

University Of Fort Hare
06.2023 - Current

Editor In Chief

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

Ph.D. - Public Affairs

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Masters In Public Administration - Public Management

University of Pretoria

Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communications

University of Nigeria

Senior Policy Researcher

Center For Policy Studies

Public Relations Officer

Federal Housing Authority
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