Sharon Wanjiku
Pamplemousses
Summary
A natural leader, differentiated thinker, and an insatiable storyteller with an interest in issues at the nexus of women empowerment, environmental preservation, education, human rights, and policy making. Highly efficient and methodical with a keen eye for detail, a proactive approach to performance, innovation, and impeccable customer service skills. A charismatic communicator in writing, reading, and speaking. Passionate about entrepreneurship, leadership, and volunteerism in line with my mission of being in service of the community. Currently pursuing Bachelor's Degree(Hons) in Social Sciences at The African Leadership College, Mauritius.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Communication's Manager
Lea Marie Lecocq Holding Ltd
07.2023 - Current
- Manage crisis communications effectively, maintaining a 95% success rate in resolving public relations issues swiftly and decisively.
- Organize and coordinate company events and webinars, resulting in a minimum of 2 successful events within a month with at least 100 attendees each.
- Develop and implement business strategies to achieve business goals and stay competitive.
- Onboard new employees with training and new hire documentation.
Student Liaison
African Leadership University
01.2023 - 04.2023
- Responsible for being a go-between the Mosaic team, the Student Life Department, and the student body ensuring a cooperative working relationship.
- Helped improve catering and service provision from Mosaic and ensured that over 250 students had a satisfactory catering experience.
- Managed Mosaic feedback form and collected feedback from students on Mosaic food services.
- Scheduled and attended meetings with Mosaic representative once a week and Student Life representative bi-weekly.
Research Personnel
Wairimu Faith for President 2022
05.2022 - 08.2022
- Coordinated and oversaw over 70 events during the campaign.
- Continuously researched and collected data to show votes predictions to my manager, thus promoting the overall campaign progress and retention of votes.
- Synthesized data on the campaign performance and compiled reports with relevant insights to key stakeholders.
- Kept track of current political events and documented the insights in real-time.
- Created briefs on opponents and local issues to keep the candidate informed and draft policy positions.
Sales Representative
Safaricom
05.2020 - 11.2020
- Designed and executed a marketing campaign to promote Bingwa Sokoni as a Safaricom product.
- Conducted customer training on Bingwa Sokoni aimed at buying customers credit and mobile internet, increasing Safaricom's profit.
- Provided clerical support through weekly reports and minutes in meetings.
- Collaborated with the product development team by conducting user research on the registered M-pesa agents for analysis purposes.
Communication's Intern
Postal Corporation of Kenya
09.2019 - 01.2020
- Documented files for delegates and officials traveling out of the country and from other countries.
- Communicated and verified international documents for the traveling delegates in the office.
- Curated programs for benchmarking missions on EMS Courier mail transit procedures.
- Coordinated Universal Postal Union's incoming and outgoing correspondence and distributed it to the relevant departments for action.
Volunteer Librarian
Kenya National Library Services
12.2018 - 03.2019
- Coordinated the orderly use of the library premises by 300 students seeking convenient study places.
- Maintained a library inventory that issued and received back over 500 books from our library users on a daily basis.
- Managed all library membership subscriptions and renewals amounting to over Ksh 500 000 annually.
- Managed all book sales carried out by the library amounting to over Ksh 20,000 per month.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Social Sciences
African Leadership University
Pamplemousses, Mauritius02.2024
Associate of Arts - International Relations And Diplomacy
Zetech University
Nairobi, Kenya12.2019
Skills
- Management consulting
- Problem-solving
- Strategic Planning
- Radical Thinking
- Leadership
- IT skills (MS Office, use of the Internet, etc)
- Project management
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- Data analysis
- Academic writing
- Conflict Resolution
Accomplishments
- Product and Project Manager/ Co-host at the 4 Thoughts Podcast.
- Personal blog- Empowering Women, Demystifying Patriarchy.
- Mastercard Scholar at ALU.
- Flywire Charitable Foundation- one of the most promising individuals to make a positive change related to the scholarship theme of Global Citizenship.
Additional Information
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Researcher, African Leadership University working on projects: March 2021- Mid May
1. Bees with Stories (Product Line Expansion)
2. MindShark Podcast (Business Process Management)
3. Yard Coffee (Marketing Strategy)
- Conducting interviews across all potential marketing hubs in Mauritius with stakeholders to explore the impacts, possibilities, and success rates with the brands.
- Transcribing data collected to make it ready for analysis
- Analysing qualitative and quantitative data to draw insights that will better guide the recommendations and inform decisions.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
PROGRAM ORGANISER, StoryFest- is a platform that brings African storytellers to the limelight.
African Leadership University: July 2021 – August 2021
- Supervised four volunteer teams; Marketing, Facilitation, Hosting and Planning, and Logistics to ensure that scheduled commitments were met.
- Constantly provided real-time feedback to the Program Head on the progress of each volunteer team.
Languages
English, Swahili, Kikuyu
Native language
Timeline
Communication's Manager
Lea Marie Lecocq Holding Ltd
07.2023 - Current
Student Liaison
African Leadership University
01.2023 - 04.2023
Research Personnel
Wairimu Faith for President 2022
05.2022 - 08.2022
Sales Representative
Safaricom
05.2020 - 11.2020
Communication's Intern
Postal Corporation of Kenya
09.2019 - 01.2020
Volunteer Librarian
Kenya National Library Services
12.2018 - 03.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Social Sciences
African Leadership University
Associate of Arts - International Relations And Diplomacy
Zetech University
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