One on One with: Sami, NST oGCDP Impact East Africa.

As shown above, Sami was picked as the OGXer of the month in August, 2012 by the MC VP OGX…

Q1: Which role were you in, before you joined AIESEC Kenya Nation Support Team? Which LC(s)?

I was the LC VP Communications and also Alumni manager at AIESEC Egerton.

Q2: How long have you been in AIESEC?

I joined AIESEC in November 2010. So i have been an active member for about two years.

Q3: What does your role entail? Whom do you work with, report to and major responsibilities?

My roles as the NST oGCDP EA entails working hand in hand with the MC VP  OGX to ensure her plans for this term are realized.In short anything concerning Global Community Development Programme (GCDP) in East Africa that is in her Job Description can be delegated my way.

On a typical day, i can expect to receive email(s) from her with tasks she wants me to execute/assist her. I am based in Rift Valley and therefore our physical meetings are few so emails and skype meetings are our main means of communication.

We have been carrying out a massive bus campaign which is aimed at taking as many members of AIESEC Kenya to other countries especially those in East Africa.

Bus campaign poster.

Some of the routine tasks i have been doing include updating the EP list forms, keeping track of the performance of LC’s in terms of Raising, Matching and Realizing which we do by periodically filling a google spreadsheet and sharing this with all the LC VP OGX’s and hence they can see how their efforts are fairing. (The list is not exhaustive however)

Now to even more interesting tasks, I am also involved in Facilitating local conferences/Seminars and joining the MC VP when she makes coaching visits to the LC she is coaching.

Q4: Your key milestones so far in your role?

Compiling an oGCDP Booklet containing GCDP opportunities in East Africa countries has to be one of the milestones so far. Check it out here(http://www.myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10229238#)

I have also been behind the implementation efforts of the ”I am uNSToppable” campaign. The impact of this effort will be seen much later.

Q5: Random thing about you? 

I was born on March 1st. Imagine if i was born 24hrs earlier, i would have to be  celebrating my birthday after a couple of years when it was a leap year.

Q6: What are your plans after the NST role ends?

I intend to go for an internship/exchange….that way i will have gone through all the experiences that AIESEC offers apart from lifelong connection i.e. My plan is to go through Engagement with AIESEC, GIP, TMP, TLP, & GCDP …..

Q7: Parting shot to AIESEC Kenya?

”Believe, together we achieve” – AIESEC International, 12-13.

LEAVING A LEGACY IN AIESEC KENYA!

The NST Chair Kelvin Kuria (dressed in the yellow t-shirt) leading from the front, or is it ‘being the show stopper’

One chilly Friday morning I was walking down the streets of Nairobi. My normal curious self notices a group of people hurdled in front of a public notice board scribbling notes and copying contacts frantically on their phones. Out of curiosity, I walked towards the board rest I missed out on some “once in a lifetime become a millionaire opportunity”. Imagine my surprise upon realizing that they were job adverts on a colorful public board. While walking away, I couldn’t help thinking how effective the board would have been if it was online.

Two years ago, I was just a random guy walking in the busy streets of campus. This was not till I met this great organization called AIESEC and my whole life literally changed. Just like the board, the benefits of being in AIESEC are both Public and somewhat disturbing.

Somewhere down the AIESEC journey, I stumble upon a role so profoundly labeled as NST (acronym for National Support Team) and off go applying with my curiosity at the fore front again. An empowering review and an acceptance email later, I am part of the team that supports the National Board of AIESEC Kenya in operations. (I wish this was a conversation so that someone can ask me how it’s been so far but I will answer the question all the same.). Working in the NST has been an enormous challenge that brings with it a satisfaction and learning experience so great you can hardly imagine.

Imagine a seventeen person team gathered deep from the most experienced of AIESEC points, all with a deep passion for personal development but possessing a specific and developed talent skill set. Now stop imagining and try remembering the notice board story. That is the NST team for you, very visible yet with a very simple job role to it. Aid the National leadership board in implementation of strategy and overall development of the AIESEC organization.

An enthustiastic Kelvin Kuria during the NIS 2011 photo session.

As the chair of this amazing team, my role is not supervisory but supportive, not management based but direction oriented. Mine is to make sure that these prolific individuals do their jobs effectively and have fun while at it. In more diplomatic terms, my role in the team is that of a driver, the car is owned by the rest of us (but please note that I have a share in the ownership as well)

In conclusion, the NST team is one that has been thought out with the precision of a surgeon and the design of an automobile. Without the engine, the car is pretty much just an idea. Without YOU, the NST is just a cool acronym without any real impact and meaning. This, my dear friends is my little way of saying thank you for being with us this far and my great way of asking you to keep on keeping on because as some of us will tell you” the rest is still unwritten”

Yours CHAIRly,

Kimani Kelvin Kuria

NST 2012 TEAM CHAIR.

NST Small Medium Entreprises

The uNSToppable Team!

Question:  What is the NST?

Answer: No concrete definition has been put forward yet, but if one may give it a shot; ‘NST is a team of individuals most of who have had EB experience and coordinate/implement the plans that the MC comes up with’. It’s a team that is in between the MC and the LC’s. The picture below explains it further.

Question: Who do we work with?

Answer: Just like the MC, the NST works hand in hand with the Local Chapter Vice President’s(LC VP’s) and LC Team Leader (TL’s) aka Management Boards (MB’s). With each MC VP having one or more NST member working under him/her, the NST’s also serve to coach the LC that the MC VP is coaching.

Still have any more questions about AIESEC Kenya NST? don’t hesitate to drop us an email via aieseckenyanst@gmail.com and we will be more than glad to answer you.

Who are we?

We are the uNSToppables….nothing can stop us from leaving a legendary legacy in AIESEC Kenya.

Why?

AIESEC Kenya NST 2012 logo in the making….

So the big question is why did we set up this blog? Why should you as a member of AIESEC, or AIESEC Kenya in specific; spend sometime once in a while to read what we have posted?

Just why?

This are some of the question the next post will answer….. ‘the purpose of this blog?’  because without a purpose, any thing goes.

But maybe a quick foresight of what this platform will share:-

– The reason why the NST roles exist

– The people we work with

– And what are our plans, progress and experiences

Have an uNSTopable week, will you?

Regards,

NST Team 2012!