Management Team

KEY MEMBERS OF MANAGEMENT TEAMS

AHCH is a multi-functional institution generating revenues through a variety of projects and marshalling revenues acquired through projects, donations and grants into efficient and effective means to attain its objectives. It has a management team with key management competences such as specific core technical skills, essential management skills, labour relations skills, employee development skills, leadership skills, effective team working skills and ability to work with people of different origins and backgrounds.

Management team members are measured not only on their ability to perform in their respective fields of technical expertise, but also in other equally important areas, such as leadership and the value added to the institution. Management competences are frequently checked on by MAC and then training needs identified. Training interventions are timely and carried out at least twice per year by MAC associates.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

General Manager

Of late this position is occupied by Mr Ibrahim Mussa Waryoba who holds a Diploma in Education from Butimba Teachers Training College (2006 in Mwanza, Tanzania. He has had additional training at the Christian Social Services Commission; and has had a successful training carrier teaching mathematics in secondary schools at Samaritan Technical School and Angel Secondary School. He has an overall teaching experience for 14 years within which he has been an Academic Master and a Deputy Headmaster. Waryoba was appointed General Manager of AHCH by the Board after undergoing thorough management training sessions by MAC and proving to have appropriate management competency. Specifically, he is recognised for being hard working, sensitive to value for money in all operations, has a high standard of monitoring acumen and ability to train, coach and counsel subordinates. He was appointed General Manager with effect from 1St July 2024

Acting Education Manager

The AHCH Educational activities are currently being coordinated by Nyamchele Florence Andrew, a Bachelor of Arts with education degree holder awarded by the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 2011. She then joined AHCH working as a class teacher, Deputy Headmistress and was promoted to the position of Headmistress of Angel secondary school in January 2022. She is one of the team members currently undergoing on job training and coaching by MAC consultants on systems thinking and key performance management measures in the education sector.

Acting Income Generation Projects Manager

Income generation projects are at the moment being headed by Rhoida Jonathan Mwinuka, a Diploma in general agriculture holder from MATI- ILONGA Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania, in 2017. Prior to that, she underwent a course in general agriculture at the National Sugar Institute Morogoro, Tanzania, in 2013, obtaining a general certificate in agriculture. She has a training gap existing in her current operations that continue to be bridged so that she qualifies for a substantive appointment.

Children’s Home and Human Resource Manager

This department is managed by Nuru Anthony Auta, a Bachelor’s degree holder in Sociology from the University of Dare es Salaam, Tanzania, in 2013. From 2013 to February 2023, Auta worked as a Project Assistant with the Tanzania Youth Vision Association; Assistant Researcher with OXFAM Tanzania; a Social Welfare Officer with Temeke Municipal Council; a Community Development Officer with Tarime Town Council and a social work tutor and head of Social Work at Kilimatinde Institute of Health and Allied Sciences in Manyoni District Council, Tanzania. She then joined AHCH on 12th March 2023 and underwent an intensive on job three months practical Management Training Programme conducted by MAC. She has had training not only on thinking about complex systems and their dynamics, but also to practice human resource work on the partnership model in organisations. In addition to managing key functions of the institution’s objectives, she also manages the institution’s other human resource functions.

Acting Financial Manager

The institution’s finances are currently being manned by Ephraim Kaleb Chomola an experienced finance professional with a Master’s degree in Finance Investment from the Institute of Accountancy Arusha, Tanzania and a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Finance (BAF) from Mzumbe University, Tanzania. Formerly with the Anglican Church of Tanzania, Diocese of Tarime, Chomola has a proven track record as an accountant. With that impeccable record he joined AHCH on September 18, 2020. He is currently undergoing studies for the qualification of the Tanzania certification as an accountant viz Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Man-Audit Cycles Associates Team (MAC)

AHCH has ensured that at all times, it preserves classic big institutional advantages while eliminating classic big institutional drawbacks. To do this, it entered into a renewable two year management contract with a professional consultancy management firm known as MAC. MAC aims at enabling the institution to move beyond being as good as it has to be for the benefit of all stakeholders. Furthermore, it aims at training and coaching self-confident leaders who must produce simple plans, speak simply, propose big and clear targets for meeting the institution’s objectives. Two MAC consultants are involved, they train and check on line members of management teams.

Mr David Mushumbusi Kaijage

Kaijage is a Managing Consultant who in the yesteryears worked in the Tanzanian Civil Service as an Establishment Officer; and then the National Bank of Commerce and, lastly, Kilombero Sugar Company Ltd as a Senior Manager in both latter organisations. He was intensively and extensively trained at various Universities, Bodies and International organisations in all aspects of human resource management. After accumulating 40 years of experience in human resource management, Kaijage retired in 2011. Nevertheless, he continues to be consulted by various organisations on successful business drivers; training Board Members, Management Teams Derived Job Evaluation System with its key linkages.

Kaijage is recognised as an industrial relations and management guru who served for seven years as a Court Assessor in the High Court of Tanzania (Labour Division) and Member of the Minimum Wage Board and Executive Committee Member of the Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE). He participated in the validation of the Strengthening Labour Relations in East Africa (SLAREA) reports programme which culminated in the birth of new labour Laws in Tanzania in 2004. He held Chairmanship in various Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and credit unions, and has been instrumental in running programmes that have always been seen to be new in the eyes of many, for instance the Paterson Derived Job Evaluation System.

Before joining Man-Audit Cycles Associates, he offered several consultancy services in Human Resource Management, Organisational Design and Development, Training Management teams, Strategic Planning, Paterson Derived Job Evaluation System, Job Description Writing and Job Grading. His areas of expertise, among others, include Social Economic Approach to Management (SEAM); HR Consultancy; Management Consultancy; Advisory; Training, Mentoring and Coaching, Workstations Exercises in Organisations, Labour Laws, Conflict and Dispute Resolution; Negotiation Skills, Strategic Planning and Management of NGOs. The companies he has offered services include Kidodi Sugar Estates Limited, AHCH, Profate Company Limited, Vetah Company Limited, Kilombero Sugar Company Limited, Eco Africa Solutions Limited, and Sootex Resources Company Limited.

Apart from being a MAC Managing partner, Kaijage heads the HR Business Partnership Division.

Dr Joseph Rwegalula Kakeneno

Kakeneno is an associate consultant who is a PhD in Business and Decision Analytics obtained at the University College, Dublin, Ireland in 2013. He also has a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2004) after obtaining a B.Sc (Mechanical Engineering) degree in 1989 at the same University.

Kakeneno has had extensive professional training in Industrial Engineering, Management Services, Quality Management, Engineering Economy studies, Business Process Mapping and Developmental and Negotiation Processes. He has, over a period of time, conducted various courses such as Operations Management, Production Management, Supervisory Management Safety and Quality Management. Other similar courses include Organisational Design and Structuring, Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship and Project Planning and Management.

His working life begun in the then Ministry of National Education from 1984 to 1985 where he worked as a secondary school teacher teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics. He then worked for the National Institute of Productivity (NIP) from 1989 to 1993 as a Management Analyst, before later on joining the Tanzania Ports Authority in 1993. He has held various positions, rising from the position of Productivity and Performance Officer, Senior and Principal Management Systems Officer to the position of Director of Management Services, the position he served between 2011 and 2016. He last worked as the Principal of Bandari College in Dar es Salaam from 2016 to 2020 when he reached the compulsory age of retirement.

Kakeneno is a member of professional bodies such as the Institute of Management Services, United Kingdom, and the Institute For Operational Research and Management Sciences. He is recognized by the Motion Time Method Association, United Kingdom, and has been a founder member and first Secretary General of Operational Research Society of Eastern Africa (ORSEA). He was an Executive Chairman of the Productivity and Development Trust (PDT) and the Chairman of Operations Research Africa Working Group (AWG) of the Federation of Africa Operations Research Societies (AFROS).

Kakeneno has made diverse researches and delivered a number of publications. He also offered consultancy services to several organisations before joining the Man-Audit Cycles as a specialist in various areas of consultancy. Currently he leads the Social Economic Approach to Management division.

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

The institutional structure depicts the existence of the Board of Directors with its two main committees, namely the Finance and Operations committee and the Risk and Audit committee. Below the Board and its two committees, are an advisory committee on income generation activities, a General Manager and Man-Audit Cycles Associates (MAC) (Website: manauditassociates.co.tz). The latter is a consulting firm that checks on the General Manager and the four main departments, each headed by a manager reporting to the General Manager. The functions of each department shown in the Chart below can briefly be explained as follows:

Education Department: Pre-primary education, Primary education, Secondary School and High School.
Income Generation Projects Department: Vocational training, Animal husbandry, Farm operations and value adding activities.
Finance Department: Financial accounting, Cost accounting and Auditing.
Children’s Home and Human Resource Department: Orphans and displaced children and Administration.

BOARD MEMBERS

Kangoye is the Chairman of the Board and a Co-founder of the institution. He is a graduate of Maastricht School of Management and ESAMI programme for Master’s in Business Administration, Tanzania. Previously he served in various senior government positions, including the position of District Commissioner from 2009 to 2015. He also served as a Principal Research Officer in the Tanzania Revenue Authority from 1996 to 2008. Prior to that, he served as a Principal Collector of Customs in the Ministry of Finance from 1992 to 1996. Kangoye also served as a team member in the National Negotiating Team of Tanzania (1996 – 2008) for the establishment of the East African Community.

Kangoye has more than 23 years of leadership experience in public policy and government affairs, capable of handling critical situations at all times. His extensive experience in a wide range of roles across social economic challenges, is a tremendous asset to the institution and its vision to have a transformed environment where children live at their fullest potential.

His role in the Board as the chairman is to ensure that there is strategic direction in the management of the institution. He provides leadership and governance of the Board to enable it create conditions necessary for its effectiveness and inspires all Board members to participate fully in decision-making on all key issues, in a timely manner. He also plays the role of coordinating and networking with government departments, private organisations, national and /international organisations and collaborates with appropriate organisations to implement various fund-raising activities and related programmes.

Mr Lawrence T. Riesser is a graduate with a Master’s degree in Hospital Administration from the University of Michigan, in the United States. He retired from the health care administration in 1996. Before retirement, he served as the Chief Pharmacist & Purchasing Agent of Bucyrus Community Hospital Residency at Blodgett Memorial Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Riesser also worked as Executive Vice President Physician Hospital Administrative Services and Senior Vice President Shared Hospital and Medical Services. Further, he worked with his father in real estate in Tipp City, Ohio. Riesser is well known for his expertise in the public health sector, especially administrative services, health workers training, planning, facilitation and evaluation.

Due to his intra-personality, Riesser builds good rapport and manages conflicts as well as negotiations with stakeholders. Most importantly, he coordinates and builds networks with national and international organisations and collaborates with them for programme implementation. Admittedly, he continues to be of great value to the Board and its committees.

Mr Donn A. Hellinger holds a Master of Arts in Natural Resources Management degree obtained from Ball State University, in the United States. He has 28-years work experience in the teaching field and more than forty years work experience in the social development sector gained from different NGOs/Community Associations.

He is the President to the Board of Directors of Grass Roots - From the People, For the People, Inc. the major financial partner of AHCH. Hellinger is also a Volunteer Trial Guide, Brukner Nature Center since 2019, President of Huber Heights Education Association and a Leadership Team Chairman of New Carlisle First United Methodist Church since 1998.

Mr Hellinger has been a Board Member of AHCH from its inception. Through his invaluable leading capacity in organisational management, he provides the institution with leadership skills and proper governance of the Board to create conditions necessary for its effectiveness. Working closely with the Chairman of the Board, he ensures that the Board discusses all key and appropriate issues timely. Hellinger remains instrumental in coordinating various donors in supporting AHCH to realise its objectives.

Ms Holly Heyroth Opundo holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education obtained from Kansas State University, in the United States. She has several years of teaching experience.

She worked with Woodlawn United Methodist from June 2003 to December 2008 as Director of Youth Programming and also worked as a Director of Youth Ministries with Woodlawn United Methodist Church. She led and created the recruitment of volunteers’ programmes and provided ministry opportunities for youth from grades 6 to 12 at a large local church in the USA.

Ms Opundo is the Executive Director of Grass Roots - From the People, For the People, Inc. since 2012 steering the mission, vision, and goals of the American NGO that is the major financial partner of AHCH.

She is the Secretary to the Board of AHCH and provides the Board accurate, pragmatic, exemplary and timely administrative and secretarial support. She has been with the institution for the last fifteen years.

Masero is a former Immigration Officer, who after completing his Advanced Secondary School education in 2001 underwent an immigration training course in Tanzania. He subsequently obtained a Certificate of Immigration. He then worked with the Tanzania civil service in different levels of immigration officer’s positions between 2003 and 2015. Thereafter he established Masero tours - a Tarime based tour operations Company, as a Director.

He has been a Board member of Grass Roots - From the People, For the People, Inc. and AHCH from 2015. On several occasions he was entrusted with managerial responsibilities of the institution prior to 2022.

Nyiraha is a graduate of Morogoro Teachers College, Tanzania – Diploma in Education, in 1984. He also holds a certificate of Guidance and Counselling for Secondary School Education from Homa Bay Diocese in Kisumu, Kenya. He has teaching, guidance and counselling experience for more than 40 years. Mr Nyiraha attained the National level 3 handball coach and referee certificate and worked in Kenya in this profession for more than 20 years.

Nyiraha is a Board Member of Angel House Children’s Home. Formerly, he worked as a Country Director at Grass Roots - From the People, For the People, Inc. (Tanzania branch) from 2011 to 2015. He then served in the position of Community Relations Officer at AHCH from 2015 to 2023. He has added value to the institution through his professional guidance and counselling performance. In addition to his teaching experience and community relations capability, the AHCH’s Board will continue to capitalise on his good relationship with the community and government.