Alfred Obadiah

I am a self-driven professional with hands-on experience in project management, data analysis, stakeholder engagement/management, customer service and development programmes. I have demonstrated ability in working with multidisciplinary teams in successful project outcomes across the public sector, private sector, freelance work and international development projects. I seek to further my expertise in project management, data analysis and stakeholder engagement fields, supporting initiatives both on the local and global scale.

Construction Engineering & Project Management Assistant at United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Kenya Office (2025-06 – 2026-06)

• Coordinated day-to-day project activities in support to facilitators delivering a key learning project to project managers around Africa, including sourcing participant lists, creating email drafts to participants & trainers, communicating with different country leads, and creating & maintaining standard operating procedures
• Civil engineering related support duties in site assessment, structural design, road design and reviews for three projects in three different countries
• Knowledge building and sharing during project cycles through documentation, reporting and proper archival of best practices, course content and other relevant information for use by higher management
• Data analysis for 5 different projects involving data components, and development of corresponding dashboards in Looker Studio for use by different managerial units
• Peer review of low-risk road designs/projects

Civil & Structural Engineering Intern at United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Kenya Office (2024-11 – 2025-05)

• Support in drafting structural layouts and conducting small structural designs for two projects
• Conducting peer reviews for low-risk road infrastructure, along with associated facilities (parks, etc), located in Somalia
• Prepared design briefs for 3 projects in alignment with UNOPS design guidelines
• Conducted full data analysis (briefs, data collection, cleaning, analysis and visualisation) to support back-on-track services for various field offices and project teams, in collaboration with the Kenya Office partnerships team

Project Management Intern at United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Africa Regional Office (2024-05 – 2024-11)

• Performed data collection, analysis & reporting on financial KPIs relating to project implementation by 5 multi-country offices and country offices in the Africa region, on monthly basis
• Assisted in undertaking monitoring activities to support compliance by Africa Region business units to improve achievement of Africa Region targets per business unit as pertains procurement, project delivery, budget optimisation activities, gender, diversity & inclusion (GDI), people surveys, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEAH)
• Dashboard development and visualisation support to the partnerships and infrastructure units, including completion of one full dataset of developmental indicators fully analysed to inform the regional strategy update
• Supported completion of 2 technical evaluations and reviews of procurements by the regional office and Kenya multi-country office
• Maintained monthly performance reports to the Regional Director, data dashboards, standard operating procedures and learning material
• Offered support to the Infrastructure & Project Management (I&PM) and Health, Safety, Social & Environmental (HSSE) units in design review meetings, joint virtual site inspections and data analysis related to uptake of e-learning courses

Private Sector Engagement Intern, Ajira Digital Programme at Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) (2023-11 – 2024-05)

• Assisted in partnership development through stakeholder engagements, scouting for new partners, running partnership meetings, development of partnership pipelines and maintenance of matching databases to track program support
• Contributed to job linkages by conducting shortlisting and interview processes for different partners and stakeholders that required human resourcing through Ajira Digital on weekly basis
• Disseminated job linkage information to registered Ajira Digital users on the website through communications and surveys, under the guidance of the Advocacy lead for the team and by use of the website back-end
• Supported the PR and Communications team in the preparation of digital material (posters and mailers)
• Participated in organisation and execution of job fairs, stakeholder networking events and awareness campaigns
• Conducted research on emerging issues and trends in the digital economy

Assistant/Intern Engineer at Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) (2022-04 – 2023-04)

• Supported evaluation of 3 cost appraisals and contractual claims by contractors
• Assessed monthly contractor and consultant reports on achievement of physical, socio-economic and financial milestones under each sub-project, and prepared daily correspondences giving employer approvals to contractors and consultants
• Collated weekly and monthly reports on the financial and physical progress of 10 sub-projects for use in stakeholder engagements
• Assisted in conducting monthly site inspections for all project sections and developed action matrices

Relationship Officer, Cash at Equity Bank (Kenya) Ltd, Kapenguria Branch (2019-09 – 2020-01)

• Performed cash transactions, M-Pesa transactions and Know-Your-Customer (KYC) procedures in the Operations Department, averaging 180 transactions per day; approximately 1/3 of the daily branch transactions target
• Provided customers with requested information about the bank's savings, e-banking and credit services following weekly training on all products offered by the bank, helping to achieve minimum 95% customer service delivery and satisfaction
• Cross-sold other products related to mobile banking and loans and assisted the accounts desk in opening new accounts and activating dormant ones

Relationship Officer, Cash at Equity Bank (Kenya) Ltd, Karen Branch (2015-03 – 2015-08)

• Performed Know-Your-Customer (KYC) procedures and cash transactions; served a minimum of 120 customers per day
• Received weekly, monthly and quarterly training and testing on financial products, customer service practices, bank policy and procedures, anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud detection
• Helped the Credit, Customer Service, Accounts, E-Banking and Merchant Payments teams educate customers on bank products on a day-to-day basis thereby improving customer knowledge
• Manned the branch's ATM once a month as assigned by the Customer Service team leader, ensured seamless service delivery
• Assisted in the issuance of debit cards and PIN codes in compliance with personal security and privacy guidelines

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering – University of Nairobi, Main Campus (2015-09 – 2021-09)