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CURRICULUM VITAE OF Overview of Key Experience: Tom Darlington Balojja, PhD Dr Tom Darlington Balojja, is a lecturer at the East African School of Higher Education Studies and Development, College of Education Dip.Ed (ITEK), B.Ed (Hons) (Makerere Makerere University. He is formally an Associate Consultant at University), M.Ed (IUIU), PhD Uganda Management Institute, Kampala and a part time lecturer at (VNSGU) Uganda Martyr’s University, Nkozi Masaka Centre. He headed the education department of Lyantonde District, Uganda for over 8 eight years before embarking on a scholarship to pursue PhD studies in 2013. Prior, he had worked as a teacher, headteacher and education officer in different institutions. His experience ranges from teaching, practicing administration, and doing consultancy work in management related projects and activities.

He holds a PhD in Education (Management) obtained from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat , Gujarat ,India in February 2017. He too holds a Master of Education (management), a Bachelor of Education and Diploma in Education. He has also had several other trainings in leadership, governance and management coupled with variously building capacity of human resources in Years in Education management different organisations. Experience and Practice • >24 years He worked as a teacher and headteacher in secondary schools; an Memberships education officer in Rakai District Local Government rising through • MUASA ranks to become District Education Officer who started the newly • UMI Associates created Lyantonde District education department in 2006. He • Uganda National Teachers Union started lecturing at Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi in 2015 and • Uganda Redcross later joined Uganda Management Institute in 2016. Wherefrom, he Key skills and was appointed a lecturer at Makerere University.

Comptencies Balojja has engaged in Pre and Post PhD Research projects. He • Research published an Article on “the role of government in enhancing • Management skills Universal Primary Education in Uganda” in an International Journal • Governance and leadership on Educational Research in June 2016 and in November 2017 he • Soft skills enhancement published another article on “Funding and enhancing quality • Pedagogy and andrology Primary education in Uganda” in Ugandan Journal on Policy Analysis and Management Studies published by Uganda Management Institute.

1. PERSONAL PARTICULARS: NAME : BALOJJA TOM DARLINGTON SEX : MALE DATE OF BIRTH : 13.01.71 NATIONALITY : Ugandan MARITAL STATUS : Married with 6 children

EDUCATION : 2017 - PhD Education Management, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat India; 2006 - M.Ed Education (Management), Islamic University in Uganda; 2002 - B.Ed (Hons) Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; 1995 -Dip. Ed Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo, Uganda

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Management practices; Research; Education management (Institutional and system), Capacity building (performance improvement, strategic positioning of organisations, policy formulation)

CURRENT POSITON: Lecturer, East African School of Higher Education Studies and Development, College of Education and External Studies Makerere University.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Associate Consultant/Mentor, Uganda Management Institute between June 2015-November 2017; Lecturer/Consultant Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi, Masaka centre between May 2015 – October 2017; District Education Officer, Lyantonde District Local Government Uganda between 2006- 2013; Education Officer; Rakai District between 2003- 2006; Secretary for Education, Sports and Community Services, Rakai, between June 1998 – June 2000; Headteacher Kyotera Town School 1996 – 1998; Teacher Kyotera Central Secondary School between 1995 – 1996

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2. EMPLOYMENT RECORD

January, 2019 – to date, Lecturer, East African School of Higher Education Studies and Development, College of Education and External Studies Makerere University

Responsibilities: Facilitating and marking courses in educational leadership, administration and management; Human Resources Management; and Research methods among others; Other duties are; supervising, modulating and examining students pursuing PhDs and Masters Degrees; conducting research and publishing.

November 2017 – January 2019, Associate Consult/lecturer Department of General Management, Uganda Management Institute

Responsibilities: Facilitating and marking courses in educational leadership, administration and management; Institutional leadership and management; Higher Education Management; and Research methods among others; Other duties are; supervising students pursuing Masters Degrees; modulating and examining PhD Theses and Master Dissertations.

2015-2017, Associate Consultant/Mentor, Projects and Marketing Department, Uganda Management Institute

Responsibilities: mentoring School Management Committees, Headteachers and Deputy Headteachers on best contextual practices in leadership, governance and management; entrepreneurship and resource mobilisation; community involvement; and monitoring and evaluation of schools, under the Global Partnership on Education (GPE) Project. Others were; facilitating courses in educational leadership, administration and management; supervising ten students pursuing Masters Degrees in management studies; modulating and examining PhD Theses and Masters Dissertations.

2015, Lecturer Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi, Masaka centre,

Responsibilities: Facilitating courses in educational administration and management to students pursuing degrees of masters of education. Effectively, it involved developing lecture notes/modules, lecturing/facilitating, setting and marking examinations.

July 2006- to 2013 - District Education Officer - Lyantonde District;

Job Purpose: coordinating and providing technical and professional guidance in the management of education and sports policies, plans and programmes in the District.

Responsibilities; implementing educational laws, policies and regulations; implementing approved education and development plans, strategies, and council decisions; providing technical advice on education and sports to the district leadership; coordinating school inspection; organizing and facilitating teachers’ training and upgrading programmes; coordinating schools inspection and sports programmes; monitoring and supervising educational curricular, overseeing examinations and sports events; and maintaining updated teachers’ personnel data bank in the District.

August 2003- June 2006 - Education Officer - Rakai District;

Job Purpose: supporting the implementation of educational policies, plans and Programmes in the district.

Responsibilities; tendering guidance to Head teachers and School Management Committees on the implementation of educational policies, plans and programmes; monitoring educational institutions and producing status reports; developing education management systems and plans; and attending to Teachers’ administrative issues.

June 1998 – June 2000- Secretary for Education, Sports and Community Services, Rakai

Purpose; political head of the education sector in the district

Responsibilities; proposing educational policies and projects for consideration and approval by the District Council; monitoring the implementation of Council’s education programmes and services; and evaluating the performance of education department against the approved work plans and programmes;

February 1996 – April 1998 – Headteacher Kyotera Town School (Academy)

Responsibilities: implementation of all approved plans, decisions and policies of the Board of governors; developing and implementing strategy for achievement of the School Vision and Mission; advising the Board on the best way to improve and develop the School; controlling discipline of both the students and staff of the School; networking with the community and the School; mobilizing for resources especially funds to ensure implementation of plans; and being the Secretary to the Board of Directors.

June 1995 – January 1996, teacher Kyotera Central Secondary School

Responsibilities; preparing schemes of work and lesson plans according to the established national curriculum on secondary education; teaching diligently; and carrying out any other duty as assigned to me by my superiors.

3. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

3.1 Academic

INSTITUTION DATES QUALIFCATION

VNSGU, Surat India 2013 – 2017 PhD (Education management) IUIU, Mbale 2004 – 2006 M.Ed (Management) Makerere University 2000 – 2002 B.Ed (Hons) Nkozi NTC (ITEK) 1993- 1995 Diploma in Secondary Education

3.2 Other trainings for skills and capacity enhancement; Certificate in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat India - April 2014; Certificate in Basic Level Components of Microsoft Digital Curriculum of Faculty of Computing and Information Technology of Makerere University -2010; Certificate in level 1 training on EMIS/DEMIS-GIS from Agile Learning Company – 2013; Certificate in Enhanced Basic Principles of Decentralisation of Uganda Management Institute -May 2006, ; Certificate in Management of Local Governments of Uganda Management Institute - June 2000; Certificate in Basic Cadre Development of National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi- November 1998.

4. SPECIAL SKILLS: a) General computer knowledge and various pieces of software, including statistical packages, databases, word processors, spreadsheets, and output and programmed budgeting. b) Training and hands-on capacity building of human resources; Trained staffs of different organizations, and institutions of learning; c) Participated in various professional in-service training courses, workshops, and conferences d) Budgeting; e) Enabling management improve performance - a practical testimony;

5. SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS (Sample) • Training of the Staff of the Leader of Opposition – Parliament of Uganda, September 2018 • Training and mentoring Headteachers and Management Committees of various schools across the country under World Bank Project of Global Partnership for Education under Uganda Management Institute • Training of Headteachers and school managers in various parts of the country under UPHOLD-USAID between 2004 and 2006 • Developing the first strategic Plan for Mbuye Farm school which ultimately opened the Institution into a new status of two expanded schools (the Vocational Institute and a Secondary schools) • Designing impressive strategies that improved performance of Lyantonde District to rise from the 12 worst performing districts in 2008 to the best 15 districts by 2014 under the Quality Enhancement Initiative (QEI) of Ministry of Education and Sports; • Partner/Associate with Africa Mentoring Institute in enhancing school managers’ capacity – Kiira College Butiki and Kakoola S.S Luweero in 2018. • Instrumental in developing the Masaka Diocesan Education Policy in 2009 • Designing and facilitating various workshop for school headteachers, teachers and school Management Committees in Rakai District under the UNICEF Country Programme of 2003-2005;

6. PUBLISHED PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

Tom Darlington Balojja (2017), Funding and the Quality of Primary Education in Uganda: The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies, Vol. 13, (1) November 2017: 45 – 60 ISSN: 2078-7049

Tom Darlington Balojja and Pravinchandra Master (2016), The Role of Government Agencies in Enhancing Quality in Universal Primary Education in Uganda, International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies Vol. 3 7 June 2016: 26 – 36 ISSN: 2394-4404. Can be accessed from www.ijiras.com/2016/vol3-issue_7/paper_5.pdf

7. TEACHING ABILITY AND EXPERIENCE

7.1 PhD at Makerere University, Kampala

Supervising a PhD Candidates in Names of Nakimuli Mariam on a topic: Innovations: A Challenge to graduate Employability in Uganda –

Status: Initial stages of Conceptualisation

7.2. PhD at Uganda Management Institute, Kampala

a) Modulated two PhD Theses as internal Examiner and was a panelist to examine two PhDs in a viva voce At Uganda Management Institute

7.4 Masters Students at Uganda Management Institute, Kampala in academic year 2016/17 a) Facilitated variously on the following modules; i. Resource Mobilisation; Local governance in Uganda; Public Service Management; Project planning and management; Human Resources Management- Masters in Public Administration; ii. Leadership and Governance of Educational Institutions; Curriculum design and implementation; Special Needs Education; Human Resources Management; Leadership and Governance in Higher Education - Masters in Higher Education Management and Administration

iii. Inclusive and Special needs Education; Leadership and Governance of Education Institutions - Masters in Education Administration and Human Resources Development iv. Institutional Leadership and management; Research methods; Staff administration; Assessment and Evaluation – Masters in Institutional Management and Leadership v. Research Methods; Human Resources Management – Masters in Business Administration b) Modulated over 50 dissertations as an internal examiner – 2017-2018, 2018/2019. c) Marked students course work and examinations 2017-2018; 2018/2019

7.3 Masters Courses at Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi – Masaka Centre

a) MED 5101: Introduction to Educational Administration and Management - Year one semester one, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/2018; 4. MED: Theories and Practices of Educational Administration Year two semester one, 2016/17;

7.4 Post Graduate Diplomas: facilitated on the following modules a) Research Methods b) Management Skills Improvement c) Local Governance

7.1 Teaching in Secondary Schools

History and Luganda Kyotera central Secondary School and later in Kyotera Town School.

7. TEACHING ENHANCEMENT SKILLS (Sample)

Participation in the following workshops and conferences among others has enhanced my teaching ability/capacity;

Workshop on Qualitative approach to Research – DG conference Hall –UMI – May 2017

Workshop on Quantitative approach to Research - DG conference Hall –UMI- June 2017

Uganda’s Education and Sports Sector Annual Performance Review Conferences (ESSAPRCs) of; 2004, 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; and 2013.

Training of Trainers in management of schools by UPHOLD – USAID in 2004

Leadership and Management of Education Institutions conducted by Uganda Management Institute and sponsored by Netherlands Government between June 2013 and October 2013.

Initiation and induction workshops for Rotary leaders between 2004-2006 preparing me to become the President of the Rotary Club of Kyotera – 2005/2006.

8. SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS’ RESEARCH 8a. Completed Dissertations

12 Students pursuing Master’s Degrees completed and graduated under my supervision (1 in 2018) and (11 in 2019) at Uganda Management Institute 2018 and 2019 Graduation Congregations. These include;

i. Prossy Nakayima, Uganda Management Institute. May 2018. Dissertation Title: Stakeholder Participation and Project Sustainability in USAID Community Connector Project, Nyakiyumbu Sub County, Kasese Disitrict, Uganda. ii. Faridah Namusisi, May 2019, Leadership Styles and Performance of Public Secondary Schools in rural settings, a case of Buvuma Secondary School. iii. Jimmy Adwek, May 2019, Road Construction Projects and Rural Economic Household Improvement in Uganda: A Case of Mpigi District iv. Richard Kayiggwa, Force Account Mechanism and The Condition of Public Roads in Uganda, A Case Of Luuka District v. Joan Asiimwe, May 2019, Women Empowerment Interventions and Women Empowerment in Leadership: A Case of Pakwach Leadership Project vi. Alice Matovu Masaawa, May 2019, Internal Control Systems and Financial Risk Management in Non-Profit Making Organisations; A Case of United Nations Regional Service Center-Entebbe vii. Milton Agaba Kafuruka, May 2019, Compensation Systems and Employee Retention in MDAs in Uganda; A Case of Ministry of Foreign Affairs viii. Mariam Nanteza, May 2019, Institutional Factors and Performance of Medical Research Institutions in Uganda: A Case of Medical Research Council.

Curriculum Vitae Tom Darlington Balojja, PhD Dip. Ed (ITEK), B.Ed (Hons) (Makerere University), M.Ed (Management) (Islamic University in Uganda – Mbale, Ph.D (Management) (VNSGU, Surat, India) Lecturer of Education Management, East African School of Higher Education Studies, College of Education and External Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. ix. Josephine Akello, May 2019, x. Turyamureeba May 2019, xi. Emilly Ninsiima May 2019, xii. Serwaniko May 2019,

• 8b. On-going PhD student from Makerere University Under my supervision 1. Nakimuli Mariam • 8c. On-going Masters students from Makerere University 1. Mariam Mbatudde: Status – Proposal submitted 2. Kanaabi Hood A - Proposal submitted 3. Sarah Abwinyi Emojong - Proposal submitted 4. Sekamatte Simon – Proposal in Progress

• 8d. On-going Masters students from Uganda Management Institute under my supervision i. Mary Mpirirwe MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND MOBILE BANKING IN COMMERCIAL BANKS IN UGANDA: A CASE OF HOUSING FINANCE BANK, KAMPALA – SUBMITTED PROPOSAL ii. Otto Betty The Effect of Internal Control systems on Cash Management. A Case of Gulu District Local Government - Completed Data analysis iii. Geofrey Muzusa Fiscal Decentralization and Academic Performance of Primary Schools in Jinja Municipality – Defended proposal iv. Banet Arishaba An Analysis of E-Procurement and Organisational Performance public organisations; a Case of URA. – Defended Proposal

v. Halimah Nakawuki Information and communication technology and performance of employees in local governments of Uganda: a case study of Kiboga District – Defended Proposal

vi. Lamunu Gloria Monitoring Practices and Performance of Microfinance Institution in Oyam District; A Case of Vision fund Uganda Aber Branch. – On data analysis

Curriculum Vitae Tom Darlington Balojja, PhD Dip. Ed (ITEK), B.Ed (Hons) (Makerere University), M.Ed (Management) (Islamic University in Uganda – Mbale, Ph.D (Management) (VNSGU, Surat, India) Lecturer of Education Management, East African School of Higher Education Studies, College of Education and External Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. vii. Jensen Geoffrey Okello: The Democratic Leadership Style and Employee Performance in Local Governments of Uganda; A case of Amolatar District Local Government – Preliminary stages

9 . SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COMMUNITY

a) Advisory services to administration, academic, research staff and students

• From time to time I have participated as a member and sometimes as Chairperson of panels in proposal defense and viva voce in three schools of Uganda Management Institute namely; School of Civil Service, Public Administration and Governance; School of Management Science and School of Business and Management Studies;

• I have advised several students on how to improve on their research works as referred to me by the research staff;

• I am serving as the Vice Chairperson of the Association of Associate Consultants of Uganda Management Institute. On several occasions, acting on a call from the top Management of the Institute, I have advised management on various issues regarding Associate Consultants.

• Given my background and experience, whereas I left the department of projects where I served more as a mentor of school managers during trainings, I have been retained and have continued to serve in this capacity wherever there are trainings.

b) The Community

i. The Rotary Fraternity: Served as the President Kyotera Rotary Club in 2005/2006 ii. National Union of Municipal and District Education Officers – I served as the founder General Secretary between 2009 – 2013. I only handed over because of studies. iii. Masaka Catholic Diocese; ⁻ Served as member of the Masaka Education Board of Directors. ⁻ Serving as the Head of education on the Diocesan Laity Commission.

⁻ Member Diocesan Education Department Appointments Committee to conduct interviews and appoint new Educational Institutions Heads iv. Uganda Red cross ⁻ Served as a member of the Central Governing Board (The national top governing body) between 2009 and 2015. ⁻ Chairperson Rakai Branch as well as a national Council member (a supreme representative body of the society) v. School Governing Boards - Vice Chairperson - Mbuye Farm School between 2004 – 2014; - Board member Kyotera Town School 2014 – 2017; Chairperson Kakuuto Central School Mnagement Committee. vi. Other Church work. Head of Laity Mitukula Sub Parish Biikira Catholic Parish

10. References 1. Dr. Ronald Bisaso 2. Mr. Wilfred Bongomin Head of; Head of, ESHESD General Management, CEES, Makerere, Uganda Management Institute. P.O. BOX 7062, KAMPALA-UGANDA. EMAIL. [email protected] Telephone: +256 (0)784302948, Telephone +256 414 259 581 +256 414 691937 E-mail – [email protected],

3. Professor Gerald Kabagambirwe Karyeija 4. Rev. Fr. Joseph Sembatya Dean School of Management Sciences Director Masaka Centre Campus Uganda Management Institute Uganda Martyrs University Email. [email protected] Tel no. +256704916334

I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, these data correctly describe me, my qualifications, and my experience.

Dr. Tom Darlington Balojja (PhD) 0703589430/0784008853 Email: [email protected]