CONSULTANCY POSITION

ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER

Name:

NICHOLAS OYOO

Employer:

ASCENT Consulting

KEY QUALIFICATIONS
Nick is an accomplished development change manager and a communications professional who
has spent the better part of his career managing change and formulating policies to ensure
effective project management policies.
Passionate about human development, Nick has used skills as a communications professional to
added skills as a project manager and a researcher all incorporated into a well rounded research
for development
As a research consultant with special expertise in Monitoring and Evaluation, Nick has initiated
and undertaken several projects in East Africa including opinion surveys, needs assessments,
impact assessments, as well as monitoring and evaluation assignments. The uniqueness of the
assignments has necessitated designing peculiar research methodologies and analytical systems.
Besides research, Nick has a wide knowledge and has consulted in the following project
management & oversight, regional integration, EA business entry strategies, political parties
dialogue, mobilization & outreach, international relations and governance, SME capacity building
and resource mobilization.

Diploma in Mass Communication (KIMC) 1990, MA in Project Management Open University of

Tanzania 2009
EXPERIENCE RECORD
RCOUNTRY
East Africa Business Council: Resource Mobilization & Production of East Africa
Business Council documentary that seeks to focus on the region as an investment
TANZANIA
destination. This project is on-going.
Ascent
Azam Media Co. Ltd: In 2013 have conducted research to establish its opportunities
CONSULTANT
for market entry with a new Pay TV. I designed the scope of the study to include
mapping of the competition, business development opportunity and knowledge,
attitudes & practices of the prospective viewers.
Education:

TANZANIA
Ascent CONSULTANT
TANZATT
TANZANIA
Ascent CONSULTANT
TANNIA
UGANDA
WBS GENERAL
MANAGER

Associate Consultant-Traidlinks, Value addition project to assist Tanzanian SME

penetrate the East African market
Lead Consultant- Pharmacy Council of Tanzania Drug authentication survey through
mystery shopping-designed baseline for conducting a baseline survey to establish the
degree to which pharmacies practice malpractice-sell unauthorised drugs over the
counter
Oversaw and designed an election coverage protocol that enabled trouble free
coverage of the National Elections in Uganda. The elections were hotly contested but
got protocol signed by opposition and Government and that lowered the temperatures
with both parties taking part in live debates. I also got my teams to produce
programmes on the plight of children in especially difficult circumstances in Northern
Uganda and earned UNICEF awards for innovation for children 2009-2010. Started

Wavah FM radio targeting the marginalised Northern Uganda and parts of South Sudan.
TANZANIA
USAID
2005-2008

Change manager in the role of General Manager, Abood Media Co. Ltd, where my
proposal for mitigating deaths of mothers and children under five due to easy to
manage health challenges were approved by Ms Management Sciences for Health. In an
area where health facilities are more than 50km apart, we got a grant through which I
designed an outreach project to teach mothers the danger signs and what options they
have to rescue their children from death where facilities are scarce and literacy level are
low. This project received overwhelming community support and is now being scaled up
countrywide due to its success when we piloted.
USAID STRADCOM Developed Outreach strategies for 3 radio stations, Radio Abood, Radio Imani and
PROJECT
Kings international with funds provided by USAID through Strategic Radio
2005=2008
Communications in Dar es Salaam. The project aimed at ensuring behaviour change in
the fight against new infections of HIV ,through what turned out to be popular Fataki
series of radio documentaries. Key to our success was the interactive sessions with
listeners and the established listener groups whom we provided Radios as incentives. I
was team leader for the project.
Tanzania
Team evaluator MEDIA MONITORING Programme TANZANIA ELECTIONS. Working as
EU
PROJECT MANAGER of East Africa Radio, I was incorporated in the EU monitoring team.
2000
My responsibility was to listen to Radios and watch TV news coverage in the preelection, during the elections and post elections coverage . I would report on the
quantitative and qualitative aspects of the coverage of the elections which saw people
flee Pemba to refugee status in Kenya and some to Somalia, a testament to the tenuous
situation during those elections.

1997 UNHCR

Training of UNCHR staff on Media Management skills. I drew up a short-term training

curriculum for UNHCR staff and affiliate NGOs handling refuges to impart to them
necessary media management skills to enable them apply such skills to mitigate the
case of refugees.

1.Referee
Dr Suleiman Kimatta,
Chief of Party,
Management Sciences for Health
Tanzania
skimatta@msh.org
2.REFEREE
Andrew Luzze,
Executive Director,
East Africa Business Council,
+255 27 2543047
aluzze@eabc-online.com,
Arusha,
Tanzania.

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I certify that I have been informed by the firm that it is including my CV in the proposal for this assignment. I
confirm that I will be available to carry out the assignment for which my CV has been submitted, in accordance
with the implementation arrangements and schedule set out in the proposal.
I understand that any wilful misstatement described herein may lead to my disqualification or
dismissal, if engaged.NICHOLAS OYOO-KASERA
Full name / signature of expert:
Date:
24/06/2015