2014-2018  MARCH  – Ghana Broadcasting Corporation-Accra  Principal – Manager and Head GBC Radio Training School- worked as a senior-level staff and saw to the training of over 100 staff, 375 non-staff on effective communication over a period of 4 years. Within my first six months of takeover, the income generated by my department quadrupled.

Research, publicize, brand and develop information dissemination for social mobilization, media advocacy for social change and community participation.

Some of the subjects taught were media law, public relations, advertising, marketing, radio writing, TV writing, feature writing just to mention a few.

Duty of writing scripts for on-air broadcast and presentation. Programme content development and appraisal. To carry out in-depth research to a broad brief, with minimal supervision across the whole range of Regional Broadcasting news and current affairs output.

To write material for programmes, bulletins and links, exercising editorial judgement, maintaining professional journalistic standards and adhering to station policy and legal and contractual guidelines.

To undertake to interview and reporting duties, under broad direction in both recorded and live situations, in-studio or on location (on the spot reporting).

To help prepare and present bulletins, including assessing incoming copy, sub-editing news copy and deploying the necessary resources.

Produced live and pre-recorded radio news and current affairs programmes and to prepared audio visual packages under supervision.

Workshops

Duty of originating and developing programme ideas; to assist in forwarding planning of material for future programmes. To provide briefings for reporters and other resources staff and contributors.

  • Feb 2012 Workshop on HIV/AIDS sponsored by UNAIDS African Broadcast Media partnership  in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Nov 2011 Workshop on Gender Agenda sponsored by Commonwealth Broadcasters Association and the British Council
  • Feb 2003 General Production Course in Radio Production Techniques, Ghana Broadcasting  Corporation Radio Training School
  • Nov 2001 Training of Trainers workshop on HIV/ AIDS and Human Rights by African Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in Kumasi
  • Oct 2001 Women's leadership/Human rights and democratic participation training course organized by the Women's law and human rights institute of the Ark foundation

RESEARCH PAPERS

  • 2006- Research on reproductive health among the youth in selected Tertiary institutions in Accra.
  • 2011- Effective pronunciation of words in the English Language case study of selected  English speaking radio stations in Accra.
  • 2019-Why some musicians in Ghana are not benefitting from their intellectual property under the copyright laws of Ghana.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

July  2002-Dec  2002 Ghana Museums and Monuments Board- Public Relations Department Jan-June 2002 Nash Advertising- Advertising and Copywrite department

Aug-Dec 2001               Business Development Division   G B C- Marketing and Commercials

June 2000 – date          Kinder   administrator – teacher

July 1996 –date            Media relations department- Living Streams International

LEADERSHIP PROFILE

2008 – March 2018     Assistant to Head, later Head of Department Radio Training School

2005-2006 Women’s Commissioner Accra City Campus, University of Ghana.

2001-2002 General Secretary and Central Committee Member of NUGS

Ghana Institute of Journalism, Accra

1996- 1997 Vice President of GBC National Service Association