JULIUS OWITI

Scope: Continental climate policy engagement, multi-country programmatic coordination, and cultural mobilization systems architectures.

• Orchestrated the Africa-wide strategy on energy transition and phase-out, aligning civil society initiatives with international climate governance frameworks across 35+ countries.
• Designed and established multi-country artist engagement frameworks across African regions, successfully integrating cultural strategies into hard climate advocacy programming in 11+ countries attracting 300+ artists.
• Represented the initiative in shaping sub-regional and regional consensus within UNFCCC, COP, and African Union (AU) working groups.
• Advised, tracked, and spearheaded institutional donor engagement and multi-stakeholder funding strategies to secure programmatic durability.

Scope: Regional program direction across 35+ countries, steering multi-stakeholder implementation for complex donor-funded portfolios.

• Directed the design and operationalization of the continental program roadmap, managing decentralized, multi-country teams in challenging communication landscapes.
• Scaled cross-sector collaboration across 500+ civil society, faith-based platforms, and development bodies to drive shared human rights and environmental justice benchmarks.
• Headed high-level technical dialogues, grant compliance tracking, and financial accountability frameworks for international donor structures.

• Provided executive governance, structural accountability, and fiduciary risk management for a high-profile 100+ member multi-country civil society coalition.
• Managed institutional budgeting, protected financial sustainability metrics (85%+ retention), and resolved strategic direction bottlenecks among board members.

• Constructed and deployed foundational continental mobilization systems across 20+ countries, delivering custom capacity building for over 2,000 regional stakeholders and 20+ chapters.

• Built a private logistics enterprise from the ground up, commanding full P&L accountability, strategic scaling, and performance systems for a workforce of 40+ staff.

• Directed field-level tracking and regional organizing campaigns across 20+ countries, advising 100+ youth coalitions on technical energy transition pathways.

• Launched and scaled a national youth-led energy transition movement, growing a massive coalition of 300+ partner organizations across Kenya.

• Pioneered the conceptualization and launch of cross-border arts-based climate mobilization campaigns in 7 East African countries , blending visual culture with intensive civic participation objectives, culminating into over 14 cultural theaters adopting the concept.

• Directed recurring multidisciplinary public engagement programs at a premier national cultural institution, orchestrating live weekly TV broadcasts, production teams, and emerging talent pipelines attracting 250+ live audience each week.