MEAL Specialist & Data Analyst · People Analytics · Nairobi, Kenya

MEAL Specialist & Data Analyst

Evaluation Specialist (MEAL) · People Analytics · Nairobi, Kenya

I design surveys, run evaluations and build dashboards that turn data about people into decisions for development programs, field teams and savings groups.

MEAL
Monitoring & evaluation
FIELD
Survey systems
DATA
Analysis & reporting
CREDIT
Member services

01 / Experience

Jan 2022 — Present

Unbound · Nairobi

Evaluation Specialist (MEAL)

I support monitoring, evaluation and reporting work by helping teams collect, validate and use program data.

  • Built interactive Power BI dashboards to help teams monitor program reach and outcomes.
  • Moved reporting workflows from SurveyMonkey to Python and added automated validation and statistical comparison.
  • Implemented data validation protocols to improve the accuracy of operational reporting.
  • Designed surveys and logic models, then trained project teams to use them accurately.
  • Contributed to program evaluations, including baseline and endline studies whose findings informed program learning and design.

2021 — Present

Unbound Sacco Society Ltd · Nairobi

Junior Credit Officer

Support credit assessment, portfolio monitoring and member services at the Sacco.

  • Assess borrower creditworthiness and review loan requests against Sacco credit policy, with approve, decline or adjust recommendations.
  • Monitor member savings and repayment capacity to help identify early signs of financial stress.
  • Support member onboarding and explain lending and savings products.

Jan 2021 — Dec 2024

Unbound · Kenya

Accountant

I maintained reliable financial records and made recurring reporting faster and easier to audit.

  • Maintained reliable financial records using reconciliation and data validation controls.
  • Improved financial tracking workflows with Google Sheets automation.
  • Supported beneficiary payment processing and verification controls.

02 / Selected work

01Customer SegmentationKMeans analysis of US credit survey data with an interactive Dash interface for exploring customer profiles.50,000+ records · 5 customer segments02IT Salary Survey AnalysisExploratory analysis of the EU IT Salary Survey 2020, using visualizations to examine its patterns.Data science03Animal Image PredictionA convolutional neural network that classifies 80 animal species, with a Flask interface.Data science

03 / Education

Applied Data Science Lab

WorldQuant University

BSc Statistics

Taita Taveta University · GPA 3.8/4.0

Business Analytics Nanodegree

Udacity

04 / Toolkit

People analytics here means analysis of program participants, field teams and Sacco members through survey data, validation, dashboards and segmentation. It does not refer to HR analytics.

SurveyCTO · KoboToolbox · ODK · SurveyMonkey · Excel · SQL · Power BI · Python · Pandas · Tableau