Melvin Onyia

A result-oriented professional with 10+ years in Human Resource development successfully achieved satisfactory results, team player, empathetic, good communicator, innovative and poised towards providing person centred care to achieve their full potential via incentives, engaging, motivating, stimulating activities, paying attention to critical needs.

Ministry of Justice (NOMS) — Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.                                      Jul 2023 – Till date

Probations                                                                                                                

• Supervise activities and assignments of prisoners to prevent disturbances, assault and breakouts.
• Perform security checks and search procedures on prisoners, staff and visitors with dignity.
• Coordinated regularsecurity and safety checks on facilities, accommodations and fabrics.
• Interface with stakeholders to develop and implement relevant policies and reformation.
• Ensuring proper documentation and reporting standards are maintained in line with set standards

Inshore Support — Support Worker – Dudley, United Kingdom. Mar 2023 - Sep 2023

• Supported service users with learning disabilities and challenging behavior with empathy.
• Initiate and engage in brain stimulating activities with significant improvement in general well being
• Contributed in developing and managing care plans that best suits each situation as they were dynamic in nature and complying with CQC standards
• Carried out administrative duties, reports, minutes, referrals and recommendations.
• Support service users to attain independence by allowing them make decisions and guiding them where they go wrong.
• Encourage service users adapt to their local community by maintaining relationships, promoting friendship, and personal development by initiating regular daily activities and routines.
• Support in training new staff and working as a team to achieve set objectives and monitor progress.

Demonstrate unconditional acceptance and tolerance

Industrial Training Fund     Abuja, Nigeria                                                                                               Project Officer                                                                                                                                                   May 2014 – Nov 2022

• Created and managed a team of 10 persons, dedicated to implementing, supporting and effectively managing the delivery and implementation of Million-Naira projects.
• Practiced core agile principles of teamwork, transparency and continuous delivery and process improvement.
• Collaborated with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to achieve success and framework delivery via detailed assessment, documentation, validation and teamwork.
• Managed process re-engineering projects to improve and consolidate end-to-end service flow which reshaped work process and cut down overhead by 35%
• Team work and leveraging on skills for user testing and acceptance criteria
• Proactively facilitated communication/ information exchange using modern project management tools for live reporting and transparency
• Supported leads in diverse projects ranging from logistics, information technology to human capacity development.
• Proactively managed risks by using RAIDs Log and ensuring regular and prompt reporting

VFD Group — Sales & Marketing Officer, Jan2014 - Mar 2014                                                                           

Industrial Training Fund — Graduate Project Officer, Feb 2011 - Jan 2012

EXTRA-CURRICULARS & VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE

St MONICAS CATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANIZATION                                                                                                                 Jos, Nigeria

Weekends                                                                                                                                                                          2010 - 2020 

• Provided support in reviving an ailing bookstore, restored the business and today is still running
• Applied basic principles of management and project management working with a team
• Volunteered in supporting the aged in their homes with daily living and, medication and activities 

YARAC                                                                                                                                                                                                  Jos, Nigeria       

Events                                                                                                                                                                         September, 2020

• Volunteered during the post covid era in providing succor to the less privileged and outreach programmes.

• Manual handling – May 2024
• Pamova Training - 2023
• Autism and Learning Disability - 2023
• Care certification - 2023
• First Aid – August 2023
• Tritek Consult (UK) - Project Management Training and practical work experience: August 2023 
• Health Safety Awareness| CITB 2023
• Chartered Institute of Professional Managers (CIPM) March 2022
• Google Project Management (Coursera) – November, 2022
• Principles of management, planning, organizing, controlling and directing, and real world application – Nov 2022
• Nigeria Management Institute | Graduate Fellow | May 2011
• University of Jos (BSc) Management – July 2010