WILKISTER AKINYI OLANDO

• Global Program Coordination: Directed project implementation across 7 countries, aligning regional hubs with Dutch-funded global strategies.
• Quality & Compliance: Spearheaded data integrity initiatives, achieving a 100% timely submission rate and full donor transparency compliance.
• Strategic Advisory: Optimized the Power to You(th) program delivery in Kenya and Ethiopia through evidence-based adaptive management and technical guidance.
• Stakeholder Interface: Led collaboration with global consultants to successfully deliver critical End-Term Evaluation (ETE) milestones

• Consortium Lifecycle Management: Led program-wide strategic planning and Theory of Change (ToC) revisions for a multi-country SRHR consortium.
• Technical Governance: Chaired the Global PMEL Forum, unifying technical focal points across partners to align reporting strategies and data practices.
• Operational Quality & Compliance: Ensured 100% adherence to donor requirements and spearheaded the implementation of the Akvo RSR data management system.
• Evaluation Oversight: Directed the Global Learning Agenda and Mid-Term Evaluation, managing external consultants to deliver high-quality, actionable final reports.

• Departmental Leadership: Directed the MERL department and supervised 4 major baseline evaluations, ensuring 100% regulatory compliance and global data dissemination.
• Executive Reporting: Authored and presented annual reports to the Board of Management, providing the data foundation for the 2023 strategic planning cycle.
• Process Automation: Re-engineered data workflows and automated collection tools, achieving 100% adherence to reporting timelines and enhanced security standards.
• Target Optimization: Translated baseline evaluation outcomes into strategic KPIs, ensuring 100% alignment between field data and program implementation goals.
• Quality Governance: Standardized indicator tracking and led capacity-building workshops, significantly increasing staff proficiency in RMEAL processes.

Nairobi, Kenya | Jul 2013 – Apr 2022

• High-Stakes Project Oversight: Directed MERL activities for a €500M multi-donor portfolio, ensuring 100% compliance across 30+ health facilities and three regional counties.
• System Digitalization: Designed and deployed digital data collection tools (ODK/Kobo), reducing data processing time by 30% and eliminating manual entry errors across large-scale datasets.
• Data Integrity & Auditing: Conducted monthly quality audits and established standardized reporting templates, maintaining 100% accuracy for international donor submissions.
• Technical Governance: Led technical working groups with sub-grantee partners to align global indicator tracking with high-volume implementation strategies.
• Workforce Capacity Building: Mentored and trained 50+ staff and community volunteers, fostering a data-driven culture and improving field-level reporting standards.

• Research-to-Action: Spearheaded operational research and learning cycles, translating field evidence into strategic adjustments and optimized program logic for Alliance partners.
• Grant Compliance: Managed M&E for a diverse SRHR portfolio, ensuring 100% technical compliance and data integrity for international donor reporting.
• Consortium Harmonization: Unified M&E frameworks across multiple partner organizations, streamlining data flow and ensuring standardized indicator tracking.
• Technical Governance: Led routine validation audits and capacity-building workshops, increasing partner proficiency in Results-Based Management (RBM) and digital tools.

• Regional Governance: Directed MERL for a multi-country portfolio (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia), overseeing data systems for HIV Twinning and Biomedical Engineering projects.
• Compliance Leadership: Spearheaded all PEPFAR/OGAC reporting (DATIM, SIMS, MERS), maintaining a 100% on-time submission rate and full regulatory compliance.
• Systems Innovation: Replaced manual reporting with automated electronic data systems, increasing data processing speed and enabling real-time stakeholder analytics.
• Strategic Evidence: Published/presented two international abstracts (ICASA 2017, AIDS 2018) on using data to optimize DREAMS program services in Western Kenya.

• Strategic Promotion: Fast-tracked from M&E Intern to Officer, ultimately managing a portfolio of 88 health facilities across three sub-counties.
• Operational Innovation: Pioneered a "Roving Technical Team" model to stabilize clinical data quality in high-turnover private facilities, ensuring continuity of HIV care and treatment.
• Health System Strengthening: Streamlined internal program data with the National DHIS2 system, collaborating with Sub-County Health Management Teams (SCHMT) to ensure 100% reporting accuracy.
• Governance & Compliance: Managed Ministry of Health sub-grantee contracts and compliance, overseeing technical M&E functions for prevention, PMTCT, and ART programs.
• Performance Leadership: Coordinated quarterly review meetings for stakeholders to optimize Viral Load, EID, and HTS outcomes, driving measurable improvements in service delivery and access.

• Data & Operations Management: Optimized clinical operations by spearheading the tracking and analysis of 400+ monthly patient visits, utilizing visualized performance reports and an automated Excel database to reduce data discrepancies by 25% and enhance service delivery efficiency through real-time throughput monitoring.

• Integrated Data & Grant Governance: Spearheaded the synthesis of HIV clinical data and electronic medical records while auditing sub-recipient financial reports to ensure budget burn rates aligned with programmatic milestones and 100% data validity.