Bio Data
Address: P.O. Box 37690- 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
personal email: geoffrey.kerosi@gmail.com
Mobile Phone Number: +254713639776
Date of Birth: 20th May 1986
Sex: Male
Nationality: Kenyan
Languages: English (Fluent)
Kiswahili (Fluent)
To apply my skills, educational training, and six (6) years of practical experience as a public policy analyst, finance management, research and resource mobilization and support in promoting international development.
Excellent decision making skills, excellent planning and problem solving skills, ability to work under pressure, analytical, attention to details, high level of integrity, honesty & confidentiality, result oriented, enthusiastic, interpersonal and communication skills.
Key Competencies
I am a budget, economic and public policy analyst with a bias in Public Financial Management; Budgeting; Revenue and Expenditure Research and Analysis; Resource Forecasting; Taxation Policies and Administration; and Advocacy Campaigns; Fiscal Policy; Planning; Strategy Formulation.
Relevant Work Experience
Nov 2019 – to date: Minority Rights Group International
East Africa Health Education Projects Coordinator
Key Tasks and responsibilities
- Support partners to design and run capacity building training events for activists and community members to enable them to carry out participatory research, budget monitoring, and advocacy.
- Support partners to carry out participatory research processes, analyse and present the results of such processes.
- Support partners to carry out advocacy locally, nationally and internationally on the findings of the research and the pilot projects.
- Support partners to work with journalists to explain the findings and achieve media coverage of project lessons
- Liaise with international organisations, donors, practitioners, government officials and politicians to share lessons from the project and encourage replication or application of extracted principles.
- Personally, represent the projects and MRG more widely at relevant meetings and events
- Manage elements of the project budget, monitor expenditure, manage any variations to planned budgets, work carefully within donor budget constraints.
- Work with the fundraising team and at time, grantees, to put together bids for funding including drafting budgets, log-frame and programme descriptions. Draft project reports to donors.
- Working with partners to ensure information is gathered on all activities run to support monitoring and evaluation. Give partners feedback on activities, suggest changes to the programme based on learning.
- Identify barriers to the success of project activities and work out ways to overcome or avoid these
June 2015- to Nov 2019: Economic and Social Rights Centre
Program officer, Policy Research and Budgeting
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Analyzing national and county government budgets and policies; building and maintaining knowledge of current Economic and Social rights through budgeting; influencing policy formulation and implementation through targeted research and advocacy; providing a strong voice on economic and social rights.
- Designed and carried out policy research on the constitutionality of CDF and taxation broadening to reduce the tax burden on the poor.
- Participated in the capacity building sessions in various counties in Kenya to familiarize citizens on government spending, revenue collection and citizen participation.
- Analysis of budgetary/fiscal policy decisions and administrative initiatives to aid in decision making.
June 2015- May 2016: Sentao Kenya
Policy Analyst and Researcher
Key Accomplishments
- Analysis of National and County budgets for a host of clients
- Policy formulation, development and analysis.
- Undertake project management, monitoring and evaluation.
- Develop monitoring and evaluation tools for measuring implementation of Projects.
- Respond to Expressions of Interest (EoI) and Request for Proposals (RFP) on assignments relevant to Sentao’s scope of work.
- Represent the organization in meetings and conferences that are of significance to Sentao’s work.
- Prepare and make presentations in workshops
List of publications
April 2018. Memorandum on National Budgets Estimates submitted to Kenya National Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee
May 2017. Status of Gender Responsive Budgeting in Nairobi City County; Review of Kwale County Fiscal Strategy Paper FY 2017/2018
April 2016. Review of Nairobi County Urban Renewal Program 2016
October 2015. Financing Lands and Housing Policy in Kenya, Expenditure and Comparative Analysis
Professional Workshops and Seminars attended
- April 2018: Participated in a Training on Local Content in Dar es Salaam,, Tanzania
- February 2018: Participated in a training on Social Assessment, Community Involvement and Stakeholder Engagement in Oil and Gas Sector held in Naivasha, Kenya.. The training was funded by World Bank and organized by Ministry of Energy and Petroleum..
- November 2017: Participated in organizing a learning Workshop on Development Finance in Pretoria, South Africa.
- May 2016: Learning Exchange Visit to Social Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- May 2016: Actively Participated on the Online Course on Writing For Water CAP-Net Campus and UNDP.
- September 2016: Participated in a training on Monitoring and Evaluation at AMREF International Training Center, Nairobi.
- February 2016: Participated in a Conference on Social Accountability on Water Security organized by Water Witness International in Morogoro, Tanzania.
- July 2015: Training on Oil and Gas Economics and Contract Analysis, Oxfam – Kenya.
- September– Nov 2012: Participated in an Entrepreneurial Training organized by Kenyatta University, UNESCO and Leuphana University, Germany.
Computer Proficiency
- Ms Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS)
Education
Kenyatta University, Nairobi, 2018-2020
- Masters in Public Policy and Administration
Kenyatta University, Nairobi, 2009-2014
- Bachelor of Economics and Statistics
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Referees
Available on request. Thank you for your interest.
