Dr. Lucy Muthoni

Role:

1. Teaching, research
2. Developing curricula for academic programs
3. Setting up and running the Mathematical Finance Research Hub
4. External Partnerships.

DISTINCT Achievements at Strathmore University:

1. In 2019-2020, I was a member of a four-person ‘Visionary Team’ tasked with coming up with strategies to see Strathmore University (SU) through to 2030. It was dubbed SU@2030. My role was to come up with strategies for alternative sources of income for the university.
2. I am in an eight-persons team that has been tasked with coming up with strategies to prepare the university for the 4th industrial revolution (4IR). My role is to come up with data collection tools for the industry, students, staff, and the administration. I am also tasked with coming up with strategies for preparing SU students for the ‘Future of Work’ (FoW).
3. I was a member of a three-person team that was tasked with starting and launching School of Finance and Applied Economics (currently Strathmore Institute of Mathematical Sciences) in 2010. The school has grown from having 4 employees in 2010 to 70+ employees in 2022.
4. In partnership with the Vice Chancellor of the University (Prof. John Odhiambo), I successfully developed curricula content for three Masters Programs: MSc. Mathematical Finance, Biomathematics and Statistical Sciences. I was also instrumental in the rolling out of our undergraduate programs.
5. I brought the global council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) to Strathmore University in 2019 and forged a strong professional partnership. This led to Strathmore University having the highest number of qualified Actuaries participating in the training of our programs.
6. I created the institute's marketing strategy and invited academics, industry experts, and government representatives to facilitate the verification and accreditation of our programs.
7. My teaching methods have led to my units producing the highest number of start-ups.

The Fulbright Program is an American scholarship program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for scholars, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Its alumni includes 43 Nobel Prize winners, 28 heads of state/government, 11 US congress personnel, 78 Pulitzer Prize winners and 1 UN secretary general.

Role:

Teaching, Research, Courses design (both executive programs and academic)

Role:

1. Operational Strategy Formulation and implementation
2. Stakeholder Mapping, Analysis, Engagement and Management
3. Business Development Strategy Formulation and Implementation
4. External Partners Engagement
5. Training of new employees on communication, content creation and presentation, branding and stakeholders engagement

Role:

1. Teaching, research, consultancy.
2. Developing curricula for academic programs.
3. Preparing financial plans and justifications.
4. Marketing and undertaking market surveys.
5. Organizing stakeholders' forums to improve our undergraduate and postgraduate programs

Role:

1. Teaching, research.
2. Preparing financial plans and justifications.
3. Marketing strategy formulation and implementation.

Role:

1. Marketing
2. Co-teaching
3. Conducting tutorials
4. Research assistance to lecturers and administrators
5. Assessment management and marking

Role:

1. Setting up the school from scratch
2. A member of Faculty Executive Committee which used to come up with strategies for the school
3. Organizing all faculty events
4. Debt collection for the university from the students
5. Oversee timetabling for students and lecturers in consultation with Director of the school
6. Staff welfare: ensuring all queries and concerns of staff members in the school are sorted out
7. Student welfare (From orientation into the university till the day they graduate; admission, examinations, class attendance, Follow-up on books available at the library for the School etc.)
8. Curriculum documents editing and compilation of resources for the undergraduate programs
9. Marketing strategy formulation and implementation

Role:

1. Liaising with clients (from within and outside the university) on behalf of the director of research
2. Organizing and dispatching of research information to the relevant clients
3. Taking minutes of university’s Research Committee monthly meetings and communicating the information agreed upon, to other members of staff

YSP and KEPAWAE are NGOs that educate children from disadvantaged families, especially from slums.

As a program coordinator, my duties included but not limited to

1. Drafting and maintaining financial records
2. I was responsible for students' welfare (offering and organizing tuition sessions to assist students who were weak in Mathematics and Sciences, mentoring of students and visiting them in schools)
3. Writing baseline reports to donors
4. Organizations' stakeholders engagement and management

Achievements

1. I am the one that introduced the tuition program for students who were weak in Mathematics and Sciences. A year after the introduction of the tuition program, the pass rate increased to 82%, increasing the number of students admitted to public universities (where tuition fee is subsidized by the government) and reducing the number of students who had to join private universities, thus reducing YSP's expenses.
2. I reduced students' application fraud by 78%, after engaging and then working in partnership with an investigative journalist to root out unsuitable and fake prospective students applicants.
3. I drew up a baseline report templates to be used in writing reports to donors after recognizing shortfalls in the previous versions which lacked comparison aspects like financial performance of the funds (which would lead to analysis of improvement index) and students' performance in national examinations (which would lead to recommendations to solve any potential pitfalls)