Humphrey Munai
Board Treasurer
My name is Humphreys Munai I arrived in the United States in 1992 for college. In 1997 I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration. In 2002 I earned his MBA with a concentration on Project and Operations Management. In 2014, I received an MB.Agric. Certificate from Texas A&M.
Along the way I have taken short term courses here and there on coaching and feedback, financial management, grant management, USAID Rules and Regulations, US Federal Contracts, USAID Procurement Planning and Execution, Budgeting for Results, Agriculture value chain and PMD Pro non certification Training.
I have over 18 years’ experience in Non Profit and For Profit Operations Management, Finance, Human Resource, Budgets, Projects, Organizational Setup, Strategic Planning and Management, Process Improvement, Engineering & Technology Management as well as Institutional Funding or Grant Management.
My career journey has taken me through service, transportation, retail, county government, communications and marketing industries. This also included a small stint as a business owner mainly working with small business owners in areas of bookkeeping and later in marketing through advertising in which I owned a small magazine right before the recession.
My international NGO experience began in 2007 at World Neighbors Inc. as its first International Operations Coordinator and then role was combined with finance and renamed International Finance Coordinator. In this role I was successful in transforming and migrating country offices accounting from desktop to online Quickbooks.
In 2011 I joined Heifer international as its Finance Manager for Africa area program. I was later promoted to Director of Finance & Administration (Africa) and later renamed to Director of Global Finance Operations – Africa. Key success from this role is implementation of ERP and standardization of processes and procedures across the countries while implementing major multimillion, multi country projects. In 2016, I joined 350.Org as a Chief Operations Officer, a position I still hold.
What keeps me going is a personal life goal – to help as many people as possible, ensure my family is financially secure, grow in my faith.
I am fluent in English and Swahili and is still trying to learning Spanish and French. I love dancing, playing soccer and traveling; driving is like therapy for me. Outside of Africa where I have been to I have been to Nepal, India, Jamaica, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Haiti(wherever I survived the Jan 2010 earthquake). In my downtime I would sit down and watch sports all day, but I enjoy traveling and meeting new people and embracing new experiences.