Country Experience: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad Basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, Uganda, United Kingdom.
Maxwell is a Logistics Coordinator for Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, with more than 20 years’ experience in the humanitarian and development sectors. He is passionate about improving the quality of service delivery and accountability to beneficiaries and communities, by adopting a strategic and proactive approach to complex issues.
Maxwell has spent the past 10 years in pivotal Operations and Supply Chain Management roles at Oxfam, as well as 5 years in programme support management and 5 years in corporate sectors of various aid organisations. As such, he has worked on a diverse range of interventions and participated in deployments across 4 continents and more than 20 countries; this has enabled him to develop robust coordination, leadership, capacity training and supply chain skills.
Maxwell has worked with Oxfam (Great Britain/International), Médecins Sans Frontières, ACF, SCI, and the US African Development Fund. Throughout his career, Maxwell has been fully involved with humanitarian and development projects, with specific focus on protracted crises/disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development. He has a proven record of successfully outlining project scopes, strategies, and designs, defining implementation mechanisms that are geared towards long-term sustainability, and management of humanitarian programmes.
Additionally, Maxwell has extensive logistics experience, possessing programme logistics knowledge related to food security and income generation, nutrition, WASH, epidemics and outbreaks, natural disasters, and cash and markets within the disaster and development sphere.Furthermore, he is well versed in mitigating supply chain risk and developing guidelines to optimise in-field humanitarian operations.
Maxwell has a Business Administration degree; he is currently pursuing a Certification in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management with the Fritz Institute and an MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management with the University of Salford, specialising in humanitarian logistics.