geofrey.nyaole

Research Coordinator & Project Manager | 2024 – Present
Lead implementation, project management, research coordination, and learning for the SAFE-T project under the ANeSA consortium, coordinating partners, multidisciplinary teams, government stakeholders, and community structures across Turkana West.

Project & Consortium Management
•Lead planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting for Kenya's SAFE-T implementation portfolio within a multi-country SRHR research and intervention consortium.
•Coordinate five consortium partners, including academic, government, and NGO stakeholders, ensuring alignment of technical, operational, and research activities.
•Provide leadership and coordination across multidisciplinary teams comprising Research Officers, Technical Field Leads, Community Research Implementers and Field Liaison Officers.
•Lead development and implementation of DIP, PIP and Performance Measurement Frameworks, translating strategic objectives into operational work plans, deliverables and performance indicators.
•Support program budgeting, financial forecasting, expenditure tracking and resource allocation while monitoring implementation risks and operational bottlenecks.
•Coordinate partner meetings, technical forums, governance processes and stakeholder engagements, ensuring follow-up of decisions and agreed actions.
•Support donor reporting, technical reporting and program documentation, synthesizing implementation progress, evidence and learning for decision-making.
Digital Health & Innovation — Knowledge Translation Hubs
•Led and guided the establishment from the ground up of two Digital Knowledge Translation Hubs (KTHs) at Lopiding Subcounty Hospital, Nanaam Ward, and Kakuma Subcounty Hospital, Kakuma Ward, creating a technology-enabled platform within the SAFE-T intervention model.
•Coordinated the operationalization of the KTH model, including facility engagement, space preparation, equipment and technology requirements, community access, and linkage with health-facility services.
•Developed the KTH digital Dashboard and Monitoring Tool to consolidate implementation data from both hubs as a single SAFE-T intervention arm.
•Designed the dashboard to capture and consolidate hub traffic/utilizations, activities, referrals, advocacy activities, co-created interventions, learning, user/service lists, and facility linkages.
•Established a digital mechanism for tracking referrals and strengthening the interface between community-based advocacy, KTH activities and facility-based health services.
•Used digital monitoring and learning systems to strengthen visibility of implementation progress, identify emerging issues and support adaptive program management.
•Coordinated the integration of KTH learning into SAFE-T's wider implementation and evidence-generation processes.

Digital Program Monitoring & Data Systems
•Designed and developed a digital monitoring and reporting system for the Gender Transformative Approach (GTA) intervention arm, enabling weekly reporting from Community Champions (CCs) and Community Advisory Boards (CABs) across all intervention villages.
•Structured the GTA reporting system to consolidate weekly implementation information into monthly program-level reporting, strengthening timeliness, consistency, and visibility of field implementation.
•Developed a similar digital monitoring and reporting mechanism for the poverty-reduction intervention arm, consolidating implementation information from eight CBOs operating across the SAFE-T intervention villages.
•Applied program-management and data-system innovation to create practical tools that reduce fragmented reporting and enable management teams to monitor implementation across multiple intervention components.
•Used consolidated program data to support performance review, learning, adaptive management and evidence-informed decision-making.
Implementation Research & Learning
•Lead implementation research and the learning agenda for Kenya, generating evidence to inform program adaptation, policy engagement and future scale-up.
•Coordinate mixed-methods research activities, including baseline, qualitative and implementation research components.
•Coordinate research design, field implementation, data quality assurance, ethical compliance and research governance in collaboration with academic and consortium partners.
•Analyze and synthesize quantitative and qualitative evidence to identify implementation challenges, emerging lessons and opportunities for program improvement.
•Translate research and implementation findings into technical reports, policy-oriented products, presentations and program recommendations.
•Facilitate evidence uptake among government stakeholders, development partners, researchers and community actors.

Health Systems & Stakeholder Engagement
•Work closely with county and sub-county health structures, health facilities, government agencies, community leaders and research institutions to strengthen implementation.
•Coordinate facility-community linkages and support integration of program activities within existing health and community systems.
•Engage stakeholders in participatory planning, co-creation, implementation review, and learning processes.
•Promote safeguarding, ethical research, data quality, and community-centered implementation across program activities.
Selected Achievements
•Established two Digital Knowledge Translation Hubs from scratch within public health facilities in Turkana West.
•Developed an integrated digital KTH Dashboard and monitoring system covering two KTH sites and multiple dimensions of utilization, advocacy, referrals, learning, and facility linkage.
•Developed digital monitoring systems for three SAFE-T intervention arms, including KTHs, GTA, and poverty reduction.
•Established weekly-to-monthly digital reporting for CCs and CABs across intervention villages.
•Developed digital monitoring for eight CBOs implementing the poverty-reduction component.
•Coordinated a complex consortium involving five partners and multidisciplinary implementation/research teams.
•Led implementation research and evidence-generation processes linking program learning to adaptive management and stakeholder decision-making.

Provide strategic and technical leadership for public health, research, program design, M&E, and health systems assignments for NGOs, development partners, and other organizations.

•Lead consultancy assignments involving program design, implementation planning, health systems strengthening, research, M&E and evidence translation.
•Design and operationalize logical frameworks, theories of change, results frameworks, indicators, costed work plans and monitoring systems.
•Lead applied research, program evaluations and impact assessments using quantitative and qualitative approaches.
•Support the organization to establish practical MEL systems and use performance data to improve implementation.
•Provide technical advice on program strategy, implementation models, research methodology and evidence use.
•Coordinate partnerships with researchers, consultants, development organizations and other stakeholders.
•Lead development of technical reports, policy briefs, research products and program learning outputs.
•Support grant development, donor engagement and compliance processes.

Selected achievements
•Designed and implemented MEAL systems that contributed to approximately a 25% improvement in program efficiency.
•Led applied research and program evaluations across HIV/AIDS, malaria, NCDs, and community health interventions.
•Developed evidence products used to support program and policy decision-making.
•Supported organizations to translate research and monitoring findings into practical program improvements.

GRADIENT P.H.S CONSULTANCY

Consultancy Coordinator / M&E Lead | December 2021 – December 2023 | Remote

•Designed M&E frameworks, indicators, reporting systems, and performance-monitoring tools for health and community programs.
•Led program evaluations and impact assessments using mixed quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
•Developed data collection and reporting processes to improve program visibility and accountability.
•Introduced automated data analysis approaches that reduced reporting turnaround time by approximately 30%.
•Integrated M&E findings into program planning and implementation, contributing to approximately 25% improvement in operational efficiency.
•Supported program teams in data quality assurance, analysis, interpretation, and evidence use.

•Managed facility operations and multidisciplinary teams delivering community health, NCD prevention, MNCH and wellness services.
•Supervised nurses, social workers, community health workers and other service-delivery personnel.
•Coordinated community health outreach and health-promotion activities reaching an estimated 3.4 million residents.
•Conducted operational research and used service-delivery information to improve program implementation.
•Coordinated community mobilization and facility-community engagement.
•Supported data-driven approaches to health promotion and preventive health programming.

Digital Health & Product Research

•Conducted digital health product research for the JCare platform, including user interviews, customer journey mapping, service-utilization analysis, and stakeholder consultations.
•Worked with product, technology, operations and provider-network teams to understand user needs and identify opportunities for improved digital health service delivery.
•Analyzed healthcare utilization and claims datasets to identify user behavior patterns, service gaps, and opportunities for product improvement.
•Generated evidence and performance insights that informed iterative product development and operational decision-making.
•Produced analytical reports and recommendations for improving user experience, service quality and operational efficiency.
•Conducted quality assurance of healthcare claims and identified billing, utilization, and provider-service discrepancies.

•Supported public health research on malaria epidemiology and community health interventions.
•Coordinated field data collection and supervised research officers, assistants, enumerators, and data analysts.
•Conducted quantitative data analysis and contributed to research interpretation.
•Supported research protocol development and grant applications.
•Maintained research ethics, quality assurance, and governance standards.

•Supported primary healthcare programs including immunization, TB control, MNCH, and community health strategy implementation.
•Conducted TB screening, contact follow-up, and defaulter tracing.
•Supported vaccination and child-welfare outreach services.
•Trained and supported community health volunteers in disease prevention and health promotion.
•Participated in implementation of community health strategies and facility-community activities.