Jean Eugene's Resume

Jean Eugene

Senior Manager

Male

50 y/o

Other senior management

Live in Madagascar

Nationality Madagascar

Summary

With over 18 years of professional experience in leadership, strategic communication, and content development, I have honed my ability to adapt messages across different languages and cultural contexts. I am a native French speaker, a beginner in digital marketing (even trained in Traditional marketing during my MBA study) but eager to learn as much as possible , that I am in a career shift towards digital marketing and aiming to acquire new skills in digital world and build solid experience to enable me to support remotely via coaching and free-lance consultancy work My background includes translating and localizing documents for international organizations, government institutions, and private sector stakeholders. My familiarity with diverse industries, including marketing, governance, and advocacy, has equipped me with the skills to deliver accurate and contextually appropriate translations. Key qualifications that make me a strong candidate for this role: • Native fluency in French with excellent English proficiency. • Extensive experience in written and verbal translation, ensuring clarity and accuracy. • Expertise in content creation, institutional communication, and localization. • Ability to work independently and meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality standards. • Strong familiarity with multicultural settings, enhancing my ability to convey nuanced meanings.

Work experience

Senior Officer
IFRC
2021.09-Current
(4 years)
• Ensuring high quality National Society Development support to the four Indian Ocean Islands National Societies within the Cluster (Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros). • Work with IFRC functional departments to ensure high quality support to National Societies: • Maintain, develop and share relevant learning related to National Society development: • Contribute to an effective and high-quality global NS development team: • Risk management champion • Protection Gender and Inclusion and Community Engagement Accountability focal point • Representation responsibilities:
Head of project / National Representative
Fondation Hirondelle
2019.08-2021.06
(2 years)
• Coordination of activities with implementing partners • Supervision of project administrative and financial management • Definition of work plan • Ensuring implementation of activities according to the work plan • Managing field operations and Risk management • Ensuring proper use of resources • Monitoring of progress of activities, results and indicators • Supervision of national staff • Follow-up of the administrative registration in Madagascar • Ensure monthly, quarterly and annual reports • Identification and analysis of the needs of the population, anticipation of changes in the context that may impact on the project and propose solutions • Representation of the organization with partners, donors and coordination groups
Country Focal Point
GAVI
2018.11-2019.07
(9 months)
• Activities’ joint programming with key stakeholders Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF: closure of the Health Systems Strengthening Program 1 (RSS1) and start of GAVI Alliance Health Systems Strengthening Program 2 (RSS2) • Coordination and technical monitoring of all GAVI funded immunization activities • Operationalization of activities under the Project Coordination Unit under the hybrid management agreement with WHO and UNICEF • Monitoring and Evaluation of RSS 2 GAVI activities - grant agreement for US $ 16,638,763: planning, supervision of implementation, budgetary and programmatic monitoring, risk management, monitoring and evaluation of results • Institutional communication and interaction with beneficiaries and stakeholders • Reporting
Senior Program Manager
USAID Jhpiego
2016.09-2018.11
(2 years)
• Support and leadership for establishment and expansion of Jhpiego / Madagascar technical programs • Coordination of analysis, synthesis and communication of results and project results as well as capacity building of the country team • Timely, efficient and effective implementation of program activities • Program management, Financial management and Risk management • Development and presentation of the work plan, reports, monitoring and evaluation, business development • Relations with funders and partners • Marketing and Communication and awareness raising activities • Knowledge management • Supervision of two departments : the first one in charge of Monitoring, Evaluation & Research, and the second one the Digital Health department in charge of mobile Health and NTIC
Sustainability and Management Expert
Unicef
2015.06-2016.04
(a year)
• Develop sustainable management implementation strategy for drinking water systems funded by UNICEF, • Defining business models • Establish a capacity building program for private operators and local authorities • Defining and launching an action plan aimed at strengthening the sustainability of water services. • Assist in performing the following tasks: - Critical analysis of reference texts and documents on water services management. - Technical, financial, social and economic study contract to define and validate water services management models to be used in the framework of the cooperation program with the Ministry of water - Contribute to the sustainability of national water systems study, sanitation and hygiene. - Develop or identify useful water services management tools to the project owner and water operators - Monitor the finances of water systems management implementation activities by UNICEF - Develop and implement a training program for operators (existing or interested) - Intensify the partnership of UNICEF and regional offices of the Ministry of water with private operators , - Develop a strategy and operational action plan for mobilization and participation of civil society in the sustainable management of water services. Provide technical and financial monitoring strategy, and follow on going experiences. - Define a strategy to significantly increase the recovery rates of drinking water charges , including increasing demand , communication and IEC activities, institutionalization of payment of water service . Contribute to the development of the IWRM approach , the development of actions to improve water hygiene
Acting Senior Manager / Institutional Development Manager
WaterAid
2008.09-2015.06
(7 years)
• Action for Civil society implication in decision making processes • Action for governance and accountability • Pilot project for rural water services delegation • Pilot project for objectives based budgeting and programming with the Ministry of water • Co-writer of Flagship Report • Knowledge management on Finance & Governance • Trainings on social marketing • Partners’ communication Coaching • Partners capacity building • Project planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting • Project Portfolio management • Research • Learning & knowledge transfer • Active Member of WaterAid’s Partnership group and Governance and Transparency Programme Management and Learning steering committee • Lobbying and partnership development • Risk management
Communication & Institutional Development Officer
WaterAid
2007.06-2008.08
(a year)
• Promotion of water and sanitation sector in Madagascar • Institutional marketing & communication • Advocacy & Communication Strategy formulation • Partners capacity building • Trainings on advocacy & communication • Project planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting • Project Portfolio management • Diorano WASH marketing • Public relations & networking at national and regional level • Research • Learning & knowledge management
Communication & Advocacy Officer
WaterAid
2004.09-2007.05
(3 years)
• Promotion of water and sanitation sector in Madagascar • Institutional marketing & communication • Corporate communication • Advocacy & Communication Strategy formulation • Partners capacity building • Knowledge management on advocacy & communication • Project planning and risk management, monitoring, evaluation and reporting • Diorano WASH secretariat & promotion of WASH WSSCC initiative • Public relations & networking at national and regional level
Freelance Consultant
Freelance Consultant
2004.02-2004.08
(7 months)
• Production of nutrition manual • Production Communication toolkits • Communication coaching • Business cases showcasing • Organizational assessment • Master of Business course
Access to Basic Social Services Technical Assistant
Intercoopération
2001.02-2004.02
(3 years)
• Technical assistance for activities related to health, water and sanitation, education, primary school construction, HIV-AIDS, adult literacy • Networking at national, regional and international level • Partners capacity building • Innovation project formulation and management • HIV-AIDS Mainstreaming in IC Madagascar programme • Project planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting • Project Portfolio management • Risk management • Swiss cooperation representation at health sector monthly meetings • Public relations in regions and rovinces • Lobbying and advocacy

Educational experience

Institut National des Sciences Comptables et de l’Administration d’Entreprise Antananarivo
Administration - Management - Finance - Marketing
2003.06-2006.06
(3 years)
Master of Business Administration
Etablissement d’enseignement des Sciences Sociales et de la Santé
Health
1989.06-2000.06
(11 years)
Human Health - Medecine