ACADEMIC COMPETENCIES
- Animal ecology
- Biology & Society
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
- Project cycle management (PCM)
- Logical framework (logframe) design and review, including participatory logframe formulation
- Workplans
- Analysis and strategic planning
- Budgeting
- Small grant facilities: procedure design, criteria formulation, implementation and monitoring
- Audit management
- Coordination
- Partnership development
- Monitoring
- Administration and finance
- Personnel management
- Leadership
- Team coaching
- Asset management
- Procurement
- Tender management
- Contracting
- Workshop design and implementation
WRITING SKILLS
- Reporting
- Contracts
- Terms of Reference (ToR)
- Proposals
- Training and extension materials
- Workshop materials
- Project briefs
- Brochures and pamphlets
CAPACITY BUILDING
Team and staff
- People management
- Team coaching
- Training needs assessment
- Training design and production of training materials
Participatory approaches
- Various assessment approaches (a/o SEAGA, MARP)
- Participatory mapping (soil-based, P3DM, others)
- Value chains (Market analysis and development (MA&D))
- Participatory monitoring
COMPUTER SKILLS
Operating systems
- MS Windows (3.1 through XP, including NT)
- Apple OSX (10.3 through 10.5)
Communication and internet
- Various email packages (Eudora, Apple Mail, Outlook, Entourage)
- Various browsers (Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, Camino, Safari, Omniweb), intranet (PlunkIt, Snapmail)
- Contact / chat (Skype, Adium)
- Web sites design and production: GoldFish; cPanel based: WordPress, image galleries
Office programs
- Wordprocessing (MS Word, OpenOffice, Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro, others)
- Spreadsheets (MS Excel, Numbers)
- Presentation (PowerPoint, Key Note)
Scientific and statistics
- Databases (MS Access, MySQL)
- Familiar with GIS (ArcView, Q GIS, Cartes & Donneés, various open-source GIS packages and support programs, including for GPS data management) primarily for map-making.
- Familiar with statistics programs (SPSS, Cartes & Donneés) for basic data processing.
Graphics
- Vector drawing (CorelDraw, Omnigraffle, various open-source)
- Images (CorelPaint, various open-source)
OTHER SKILLS
- Driving license
