Field Operations & Compliance
Professionals with careers inside Nigeria's leading public institutions and across donor-funded programmes. Their credentials are the firm's primary asset.
We are survey directors, compliance managers, workforce professionals and field operations specialists. The names and career histories listed below are verifiable. We present them in full because we believe accountability starts with transparency about who is doing the work.
35 years as a survey professional within the National Population Commission of Nigeria, directing national household surveys including sample design, questionnaire development, enumerator training and QA at national scale. BSc Statistics. MSc Population Studies.
16 years managing donor-funded finance, grants administration and compliance reporting for programmes funded by the Gates Foundation, World Bank, UNICEF, USAID and FCDO across Northern Nigeria. BSc Accounting. Chartered Accountant (ICAN).
Career-level banking at branch management level, followed by professional human resource practice certified in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Manages recruitment protocols, payroll systems and supervisor accountability frameworks.
Over a decade of experience delivering large-scale surveys, impact evaluations, and program implementation across Nigeria and global cross-country initiatives. Managed complex field operations for the World Bank Group, UNICEF, Helen Keller International, Gates Foundation, UC Berkeley, and Princeton University across health, nutrition, WASH, education, and social protection. MSc and PGD in Project Management (Nasarawa State University, Keffi), HND in Computer Science (Kano State Polytechnic).
Finance and management professional whose career was built in commercial banking across Sterling Bank, Ecobank, and United Bank for Africa, where he served as Branch Manager. Background spans business-office financial accounting and reporting, cash-flow monitoring, budgeting, compliance, financial modelling, and strategic planning, complemented by programme management roles in the public and development sectors. PGD in Management (University of Calabar, 2011), BSc Biochemistry (Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, 1995), Fellow of the Institute of Professional Managers and Administrators of Nigeria (2013).
Beyond the principals, Zen Jem maintains an active network of trained field supervisors and enumerators across six LGAs in Kano State. These are locally recruited professionals with prior survey experience, structured reference histories and ongoing training relationships with the firm.
Active supervisor and enumerator network. Community entry established.
Active supervisor and enumerator network. Community entry established.
Active supervisor and enumerator network. Community entry established.
Active supervisor and enumerator network. Community entry established.
Active supervisor and enumerator network. Community entry established.
Active supervisor and enumerator network. Community entry established.
Recruited directly from the target LGAs to ensure cultural respect, language fluency in Hausa, and high survey completion rates.
Longstanding consultative presence ensures safe, dignified, and community-approved field data collection across all 6 LGAs.
For donor procurement teams conducting due diligence, we provide full career CVs, professional references and compliance documentation for all principals on request.
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