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Mohammed Abukari

Tamale,Northern Region

Summary

PROFILE: A self-motivated young man working tirelessly to achieve a better world through advocacy, youth participation, good governance, and girl child education. A problem solver and team player towards achieving desirable goals.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agrictech

Kosmos Innovation Centre
Tamale, Ghana
06.2024 - Current
  • Team building and formation
  • Market research
  • Ideation process
  • Financial management
  • Product prototype development
  • Pitch practice
  • Zonal competition finals
  • Won 8th out of 64 teams in the classic final at KNUST.
  • Qualified for Kosmos Innovation Centre Agrictech Pro 2025.
  • Conducted comprehensive market research for informed decision-making.
  • Determined business plan, mission statement, and vision.
  • One-week military bootcamp for resilience.

Project coordinator

Rural Engagement and Empowerment Programe in Ghana
Tamale, Ghana
06.2024 - 05.2025
  • Working closely with the trained Young Peace Ambassadors (YPAs) across the 3 municipalities/districts.
  • conducting community engagement, mobilising youth, and advocating for peacebuilding in designated districts.
  • Collaborating with local governance structures, chiefs, religious leaders, and community members.
  • Organising, monitoring, and reporting on activities such as training sessions, public dialogues, voter education, and election observation.
  • Documenting project outcomes, challenges, and lessons learnt.
  • Monitor project timelines to avoid delays.
  • Coordinating of project resources and logistics for community-based initiatives.
  • Organized 3 youth forums across all the implementary districts.

Acting Director

Rural Resilience Foundation
Tamale, Ghana
01.2022 - 05.2024

• Oversee the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the organisation’s programs and services.

• Monitor the day-to-day delivery of the programs and services of the organisation to maintain or improve quality.

• Implement a performance management process for all staff, which includes monitoring the performance of staff on an ongoing basis and conducting an annual performance review.

• Preparing, organising, and storing information in paper and digital form.

• Dealing with queries on the phone and by email.

• Oversee funds and budgets.

• Scheduling meetings.

• Taking minutes at meetings.

• Typing up letters and reports.

Student intern

NORSAAC.
Tamale, Ghana
09.2023 - 12.2023
  • Updated current projects at Norsaac.
  • Research and gather data on five interest areas in Norsaac.
  • Analyse and visualise data.
  • Create dashboards.
  • Report writing.
  • Participated in stakeholders' engagement on the GPAA project in the Upper East and North East Region.
  • Create a data base for civil society organisations under the GPAA project.
  • Monitoring visit to Zapellgu and Garu.
  • reviewed literature using Google Scholar.

Volunteer coordinator

Gold Coast Literacy Program.
Tamale/Accra, Ghana
11.2022 - 12.2023

• Coordinating the activities of the organisation in the five northern regions of Ghana.

• Member of the speaker management committee.

• Planning committee member for the Kasoa outreach.

• Draughted a police escort letter for Tumu-Du outreach.

• Team lead and coordinator for the Tumu-Du community educational outreach.

• Speaker for importance of formal education and rural urban migration in programs.

President

Development Education Students Association (DESA-U
Tamale, Ghana
08.2022 - 08.2023

• Organised a freshmen’s orientation, personal development, and curriculum vitae seminar.

• Collaborated with PPAG and organised aerobics training with sexual reproductive health rights education and screening.

• Organised emotional intelligence and leadership training  Raised awareness about breast cancer and sickle cell education.

• Initiate the DESA Opportunity Hub.

• Collaborated with CEDEPA and organised stakeholders’ meetings on girl child marriage and celebrated International Day for Street Children.

• Organised DESA 10th anniversary/week celebration since after COVID-19.

Student Fellow

Lagim Tehi Tuma (Thinking Together) fellowship pro
Tamale
05.2023 - 07.2023

• Inter-Cultural exchange.

• Internships.

• Engaging black study.

• Pan-Africanism and Ubuntu philosophy.

• Enquiry project on information communication technology.

  • Taught over 250 primary and junior high schools the basics of ICT.

• Organised Black is Beautiful workshop.

• Trips for peers learning.

Internship

The Assistance Hub
Tamale
10.2022 - 02.2023

• Assistant to Administrator and Financial Lead Officer.

• Creating questionnaires using Google Forms.

• Events planning and retirement of expenditure.

• Lead monitoring and evaluation of the intern’s project.

• Written and distributed letters.

• Communicating with participants for programs.

Student community worker

UDS - Third Trimester Field Practical Program
Berekum, Bono
08.2021 - 10.2022

• Go through the community entry process.

• Collect information and data on all aspects of the community.

• Data collection using quantitative, qualitative, and sample.

• Problem and potential analysis using tools: problem tree, SWOT, and ranking.

• Data analysis and synthesis.

• Compiled the community profile.

• Validation of findings with community members.

• Report writing.

• Review and update of community problems and potentials.

• Solicit views from the community and stakeholders on appropriate interventions.

• Developed intervention proposals on teenage pregnancy.

• Organised Sexual Reproductive Health Rights talk at Presbyterian Junior High School.

• Donated 30 reading books each to all four schools in the community.

• Final assessment.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Development Education Studies

University for Development Studies
Tamale, Ghana
01.2021 - 07.2024

Diploma of Higher Education - Diploma in Basic Education

Jackson College of Education
Kumasi, Ghana
02.2014 - 11.2016

Skills

  • Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace
  • Effective communication
  • Task prioritisation
  • Project coordination
  • Problem-solving
  • Data analysis
  • Report-writing
  • Team work
  • Research

Languages

English
Fluent
Dagbani
Native
Twi
Beginner

Affiliations

  • Football, swimming, travelling, food and reading.

Accomplishments

  • Vice President of Northern Regional Youth Network (2023/2025)
  • Student Actvist of the Year NUGs Execellence Awards at University for Development Studies (2023/2024)
  • Decent Rotract Guest of the Year (2021/2022)

Certification

  • Advanced Data Analysis Certificate
  • Teacher Lincense Certificate
  • Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Agrictech

Kosmos Innovation Centre
06.2024 - Current

Project coordinator

Rural Engagement and Empowerment Programe in Ghana
06.2024 - 05.2025

Student intern

NORSAAC.
09.2023 - 12.2023

Student Fellow

Lagim Tehi Tuma (Thinking Together) fellowship pro
05.2023 - 07.2023

Volunteer coordinator

Gold Coast Literacy Program.
11.2022 - 12.2023

Internship

The Assistance Hub
10.2022 - 02.2023

President

Development Education Students Association (DESA-U
08.2022 - 08.2023

Acting Director

Rural Resilience Foundation
01.2022 - 05.2024

Student community worker

UDS - Third Trimester Field Practical Program
08.2021 - 10.2022

Bachelor of Arts - Development Education Studies

University for Development Studies
01.2021 - 07.2024

Diploma of Higher Education - Diploma in Basic Education

Jackson College of Education
02.2014 - 11.2016
  • Advanced Data Analysis Certificate
  • Teacher Lincense Certificate
  • Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace
Mohammed Abukari