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Ekene is rounding off Social Media in Public Relations from National University of Singapore but have extensive social media marketing and communications experience and a record of excellent written and communication.
He is skilled in creating content materials for outreach, promotion, and marketing using Facebook, Instagram, and other social media venues. 

He co-owns a tech company, a business using technology as a tool for change by creating tailored technology-driven solutions for individual or business problems; He is leading the social media and strategic communications team of the company. Ekene’s company develops websites and applications to better enhance the opportunity businesses have with their clients and organizations, they also run trainings and co-working spaces. Ekene is rounding off Social Media in Public Relations certification course from National University of Singapore but have extensive social media management and communications experience and a record of excellent written and communication and also have certificates from The Universities of Edinburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Copenhagen and Awka.

skills

Film Student
Journalist
Voice Overs
Other

education

Bachelor of Arts

Linguistics

Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka

2002-2006

experience

Presenter – Radio Nigeria, Coalcity FM 92.9 – April 2011

 Responsible for conceptualizing idea, booking guests and synthesizes with co-hosts to deliver compelling public radio style content on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), women, education and environment and youths.

 Leads and monitors think tank team of 5 that contributes to the station’s website and social media platforms. consequently improving on their engagement with audience.

 Supervised the reactivation of dormant and inactive youth centered programmes to maintain audience with millennial demographics.

 Employs mediatization strategy to establish SDGs interconnectivity to Human Rights with over 917,000 Impressions weekly.

4 Produces and cast major News bulletins. T

Team Lead, Social Media and Strategic Communications – iNSPARK Enterprise – July 2018

 Develops and supervises the organization’s media strategy to advance tech solutions that appeal to young people.

 Conceptualizes objective-focused multimedia campaigns and outputs across all platforms and formats, including, but not limited to radio commentaries, jingles and hypes, advocacy videos, twitter chats, Facebook live video talks, Advocacy, music contests, instagram videos and photo shoot, infographics and article publications across national dailies and blogs both as part of intervention communications and leveraging opportunities in the news cycle to make the bold the statement that “Tech Innovation is the new culture”

 Shaping the edge of media communications and digital rights advisory while sharing best practices and new tools.

 Brainstorms and Projects digital communications strategies , often with partners, for high level tech events such as Facebook Stakeholders Roundtable Talk, Computer society of Nigeria, Digital Media chats, Hub launch and Social media Innovation Classes.

Team Lead, Digital Content and Communication Havilah & Hills Innovative Systems Limited #Startupsouth4 May 2017 – December 2018

Authored the social media strategy (Twitter, Facebook Instagram and Linkedin) to engineer startups in alliance with the Business central goals, this lead generated over 1,899,000 analytics in 2 weeks

Coordinated and charted social media content and activities that transformed the online followers into believers of #startupsouth objective.

 Elevated the online engagement by 75% and 100% response time

Collaborated Social Media executives and influencers to transform startup brands across all social media channels. 

Orchestrated beneficial relationships between different project teams giving StartupSouth a Systematized structure.

Recorded 410,021 impressions in a day with 245,882 accounts reached.

Media & Programme Development Consultant Office of the Senior Special Adviser to the Governor of Enugu State, Nigeria On Millennium Development Goals, (MDGS) August 2012 – December, 2014

 Developed, Produced and executed Radio and Television content aired on Africa’s Largest Radio and Television Network Centres for 2 years.

 Championed the social media rebranding programme thereby raising the ratings by 85%.

 Managed Project Team member’s activities related to completion of assigned tasks based on the programme schedules.

 Reviewed media and programme plan implementation to meet changing needs and requirements.

 Identified, managed and monitored media and programme dependencies and critical path.

 Maintained close professional media relations with local, state, regional and national organizations.

 Involved in internal networking and sharing initiative through participating in committee meetings and internal workgroup meetings.

 Searched and provided information required for media references, benchmarks and programmes goals.

 Provided consultation to operations in administrative duties.

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