Joseph Ocholi

I am endowed with, advanced Administrative ability, a proven professional experience in Human Resource Management with the capacity for strengthening institutional policy, administration and governance systems and procedures that will propel the organization forward using the industry's best practice. I am capable of working under pressure with little or no supervision. I possess positive qualities that stand me out among others. I am highly committed to whatever I set my mind to do with excellent communication skills (writing, speaking and presentation). In addition to my work experience in the real economic sector, I enjoy working as part of a dynamic team to create new concepts and strategies. I am excelling at multi-tasking and also passionate for results. Ocholi has an impressive Programme Management as well as Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Capacity Strengthening knowledge. In time past, I have worked as, Classroom teacher, Communications Manager, Corporate Affairs Manager and Special Adviser to a General Manager in an Environmental Sanitation Public sector driven imitative of Benue State government. Working in these organisations imbued in me, essentials ingredients for leadership, accountability, and community service especially when combined SBCC intervention approaches. My technical skills include formative research, proven ability to use research findings to design and develop communication strategy, media messages and materials. I have extensive experience in community engagement and mobilization, demonstrated ability to cultivate and maintain strategic relationship with community people and the media, ability to exercise measured and appropriate judgment, flexibility and willingness to work simultaneously on a wide range of tasks and projects; ability to coordinate communications activities and events at individual and institutional capacity; strengthening advocacy, communication campaign development, corporate culture management, Advertising copywriting and documentation. I am a multifaceted Senior Lecturer with [Social and Behavior Change Communication] degree and proven disciplinary expertise. I have taught rigorous graduate-level communication, social marketing, health communication courses, I had been involved in media promotions campaigns development at a large university and earned high approval ratings from students during the past year. Strong subject matter knowledge and excellent communication skills enabled the achievement of optimum outcomes.

• PTECH- Certificate of Proficiency in Information Systems Management (CPISM) 2003
• Akure Business School: Professional Certificate in Human Resources Management 2014
• Nigerian Institute Public Relations (NIPR): 2010
• Completed USAID/ John Hopkins E-Learning certificate training
• Health Communication for Managers, - Nov. 2018
• Knowledge Management for Global Health Progm -Nov. 2018
• Impact Evaluation of Health Communication Programs-Dec. 2018

• Role of Social Behavior Change Communication in The Attainment of Open Defecation Free Status by United Purpose in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria, Thesis research/Field Projects: Identified a rural community and implemented a practical intervention process using the C Plan approach which included, situation analysis, formative research, and audience segmentation strategy, message design and implementation, media selection, mid-level monitoring and end-level evaluation.
• Evaluation of Field Application of Social and Behavior Change Communication in Wildlife Conservation in Cross River State Nigeria.2018.
• 25 Minutes documentary titled Highway to Hell: Developed the script and conceptual thrust of the documentary and participated in the voiced narrative.
• UNICEF /FGN PCA /UNICEF/DFID WES PROJECT April 2005-2005 Dec., Research Assistant: Worked with Professor Charity Angya, then Director, Center for Gender Studies. Assisted in data gathering, desk review of documents translated respondents' response from interview and developed part of the reports of field study. Study title: Impact Assessment of Gender Mainstreaming in WaterAid

• Theatre, Media and National Integration in a Globalizing World, Ocholi, J.A., 2022, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-52758326-0, 978-1-5275-8326-9
• Citizenship Journalism and the Coverage of 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria, Ocholi J.A., 2018, Calabar Journal of Liberal Studies, Vol. 19, No.1
• Guidance, and Counseling as Veritable Tool for Girl-Child Transformation in Post Primary Education in Nigeria, Ocholi J.A., Debora, Igbe, Ocholi, 2017, International Journal for cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education (IJCDSE), Volume 8, Issue 3
• The Communicative Metaphor in Idoma Idiomatic Expression and English Language as Panacea for Development Initiatives, Ocholi Joseph, Adakole Elijah, 2017, Journal of Linguistics Association of Nigeria (JOLAN), Vol. 20, No. 2
• Democracy, Globalization, and the News Media in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects, Ocholi, J.A, 2016, Journal of Theatre and Media Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2
• The Mass Media and Social Mobilization in Development Initiatives, Ocholi, J.A., Agbo Faith Ene, 2015, African Journal of Local Societies Initiative (LOSI), Vol. 4, No. 2 (18)
• Democracy and the Nigerian Media, Ocholi, J.A., 2015, POLAC International Journal of Humanities and Securities Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 138
• Readers Perception of the April 14th Nyanya Bomb Blast in Nigeria, Ocholi, J.A, Abu Sadiq, L., Abdullahi, A., 2014, African Journal of Local Societies Initiative (LOSI), Vol. 3, No. 9
• The Broadcast Media as Instrument for Mass Mobilization in Democratic Processes in Nigeria: a study of 2003 Presidential election in Nigeria, Ocholi, J.A, 2010, Makurdi Journal of Mass Communication Research, Vol. 1, No. 1