Professional Experience:
Maxwell is an international development expert, public and population health, humanitarian, and development professional with experience in providing program leadership, population health management, geospatial capacity building, program management, advocacy, human rights, international humanitarian law, international development, and data analytics. He is highly experienced in health programming and applying humanitarian standards to development. He managed complex integrated health and development programs across prevention, care, support, treatment, and mitigation in diverse contexts. His experience in change management, stakeholder engagement, and facilitating organizational transitions to new processes would be pertinent in the current context. He brings expertise in leveraging mobile network data to inform humanitarian action and COVID-19 responses.
He is trained in Humanitarian Action, Public Health and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Political Science, Psychology, Bioethics and Law, Education, Training, and International Development. The training provided him with expertise in managing multifaceted integrated programs, big-picture thinking, leading matrixed interventions, designing M & E systems, monitoring frameworks, and metrics. In the NHS, his responsibilities had a significant focus on population health management, designing care coordination pathways, and using data analytics to drive population health and policy reconfiguration across multiple regions. At Thames Valley Cancer Alliance, Maxwell successfully managed 4 complex cancer work streams and the Vague Symptoms Pathways targeting a region of 4 million people.
Previous work included conducting humanitarian, nutrition, and food security assessments and designing and monitoring WATSAN interventions across 5 LMICs.
Maxwell’s key competencies include program management, strengthening health systems, resilience, systems thinking, data analysis, training, capacity building, evidence-based decision-making, risk management, problem analysis, leadership, team building, staff mentoring, priority setting, influencing, negotiation, and program reporting.
His experience and competencies make Maxwell an ideal candidate for operational, program management, and leadership positions requiring multisectoral skills, strategy setting, complex stakeholder engagement, policy advocacy, designing best-practice informed interventions, business case development, and managing complex projects and processes.
Lastly, he has extensive experience in developing and leading strategic planning processes and country-level plans, guiding the design and management of complex humanitarian programs at scale, managing change and transition, and building program teams to deliver excellence and supporting the development of evidence-based and data-informed policy making in fragile and humanitarian contexts.