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Skills, experience and competencies.

  • Experience in strategic communication for health, media communications (print, electronic and social media) public relations, events management, brand management, as well as documentation and disseminationof project successes and best practices.

  • I have demonstrable expertise in all types of photography and photo editing, videography and video editing, as well as success story and report writing

  • I am very proficient in the use of photo and video editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, LightRoom, Illustrator and InDesign; WordPress and Microsoft Office applications, as well as various photo archiving and photo sharing platforms

  • Experience in providing technical and programmatic support to implement and scale up high quality HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support activities with primary focus on capacity building as well as clinical and programmatic management of all components of HIV/AIDS 

  • Experience in improving the quality of HIV/AIDS program strategies through setting up mentorship and accountability structures and conducting targeted quality-improvement drives

  • Experience in project design and proposal writing in Nigeria and outside Nigeria

  • Experience in scaling up PMTCT and ART services to primary and secondary level facilities across public and private sectors in resource constrained settings in different geo-political settings

  • Project Management skills

  • Ability to motivate, develop, supervise, train, and evaluate personnel to ensure that operational objectives are achieved; 

  • A talent for working as part of a team, and developing productive working relationships with all levels of personnel

Certifications and trainings.

  • Marketing Communications (certified Lynda.com training, from LinkedIn)         

  • Learning Video Production and Editing (certified Lynda.com training, from LinkedIn)

  • Creating Your Personal Brand (certified Lynda.com training, from LinkedIn) 

  • Customer Service: Preventing Turnover (certified Lynda.com training, from LinkedIn) 

  • Picking the Right Chart for Your Data (certified Lynda.com training, from LinkedIn) 

  • Insights on Photography: Business and Social Media (Lynda.com training, LinkedIn) 

  • Leadership and Management in Health

  • Principles of STD/HIV Research

  • Electronic Short Course on Anti-Retroviral Treatment

  • Leadership in Strategic Health Communication Course

  • GH 573: Clinical Management of HIV

  • Project management Course

  • National Training of Trainers workshop on Pediatric HIV/AIDS Management

  • Comprehensive HIV/AIDS care & ART

  • TB management/ TB-HIV co-infection

  • PMTCT

  • HIV Counseling/Testing

  • Data for Decision Making

  • Logistics Management Information Systems(LMIS)S

  • Basics of Health Economics

  • USAID Global Health e-learning center (www.globalhealthlearning.org):

    • Malaria 

    • HIV Basics 

    • Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV 

    • Maternal Survival-Programming Issues  

    • Malaria in Pregnancy  

    • HIV/AIDS Surveillance  

    • Tuberculosis Basics

Testimonials.

Shawn was and still is a very visionary and highly motivated colleague while I worked him. Shawn is astute,very attentive to details and can water through any storm he finds himself in. I highly recommend him.

Itua Obaitua

Technical Director-Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Case Management and Referrals at Catholic Relief Services

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