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Catherine Mithia

Catherine Mithia

Researcher
Nairobi,Kenya

Summary

Detail oriented researcher with 3 years of experience in the thematic areas of trade and development, development economics, illicit financial flows in the extractive industry and project management in public and private sectors. Proven ability to garner knowledge and disseminate in form of reports and briefs through research and data analysis to informs. Developed ability to build relationships and maintain partnerships with relevant stakeholders to increase overall productivity. Expands networks connections by maintaining excellent communication skills for successful project management and/or working within a research team

Overview

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2
Languages
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Certificate
8
8
years of post-secondary education
5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Court Assistant, Executive Officer

The Judiciary
Nairobi, Kenya
07.2016 - Current
  • Civil Division) Key Deliverables.
  • Supporting the Executive Officer to ensure court records are availed to the Hon. Judges on time and litigants are able to access the same.
  • Consolidate and reconcile payment of fees to matters filed for the day.
  • Represent the Executive Officer in the Court Users Committee to collect views from court users and implement recommendations of the committee.
  • Update the bar-bench on emerging case trends, practice and research on jurisprudence.
  • Organize and participate in Civil division, open days to engage with stakeholders, litigants and the general public.
  • Represent the Executive Officer in division meetings and report on monthly divisional activities and case statistics.
  • Collaborate with ICT department to deliver virtual hearings, e-filing and delivery of rulings and judgements.
  • Supervise legal interns to familiarize with judicial process and sign off their daily worksheets.
  • Contribute to the design and delivery of information, education and communication materials.
  • Maintain records of pending and concluded cases for monthly case returns.
  • Assessment of Fees, registering new cases and preparing monthly returns.
  • Cultivated and strengthened lasting client relationships using and [Skill].

Associate Consultant

PKF Kenya
01.2015 - 05.2015
  • Finance and Human Resource Key Deliverables.
  • Designing draft proposal of Kenya Deposit Insurance (KDI) organization structure.
  • Actively involved in conducting interviews of middle and senior management interviews.
  • Designing and consulting on policy research, impact of tax regime on basic commodities grant and stakeholder participation in formulation of tax policy.
  • Executing annual work-plans for various projects including organization review for KDI, Senior Management Interview for CBK among other client companies.
  • Carrying out field visits and where required, guided and supervised staff and review assignment work on field visits to ensure assignments are carried out according to the plan.
  • Helped team of two (2) lead consultants optimize efficiency of current systems by conducting training sessions.
  • Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.

Team Leader

Development Initiatives
Nairobi, Kenya
08.2014 - 10.2014
  • Development Initiatives (Reporting to Project Manager, -Data Interns Key Deliverables.
  • Leading a team of five data interns on proper data entry methods, research skills and methods, and in-depth use of excel spreadsheets in several projects including BDBABR Project, HIVOS counties budget.
  • Created trade, tax and public expenditure profiles for sub-Saharan countries.
  • Assisting the Project Manager in overseeing the team in ensuring work deliverables are attained by designing work plans for the team, providing assistance in organizing and presenting graphical data, data scrapping and populating databases.
  • Analyzing Kenya's county and national budgets and created a suitable financial database for purposes of disseminating information in an easy and transparent manner in a database.
  • Created a Public Expenditure Profile for Kenyan counties for key stakeholders.

Data Intern

Development Initaties
Nairobi, Kenya
10.2013 - 11.2013
  • Project Manager, Key Deliverables.
  • Data entry of hardcopy data of national and local government estimates of income and expenditure from budget books as instructed into excel or other data entry application.
  • Assisting in preparation and presentation of core data.
  • Managing core datasets through data gathering, coding and cleaning.
  • Actively participating in the design and maintenance of contextualized datasets for ongoing research assignments.

Education

Master of Arts - Public Policy and Administration

Kenyatta University
01.2017 - 01.2021

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Kenyatta University
01.2009 - 01.2013

Skills

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Certification

Certification in Cisco Networking Associate (CCNA I &II)

Interests

Writing

Timeline

Master of Arts - Public Policy and Administration

Kenyatta University
01.2017 - 01.2021

Court Assistant, Executive Officer

The Judiciary
07.2016 - Current

Associate Consultant

PKF Kenya
01.2015 - 05.2015

Team Leader

Development Initiatives
08.2014 - 10.2014

Data Intern

Development Initaties
10.2013 - 11.2013

Certification in Cisco Networking Associate (CCNA I &II)

06-2012

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Kenyatta University
01.2009 - 01.2013
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