Profile
Mrs Theodora Oduro is the Senior Assistant Registrar at Student Affairs and Financial Services, under the Office of the Dean of Students, since March 2019. Her current assignment includes; working with the Deputy Registrar, Student Affairs at the Office of the Dean of Students and Deputy Registrar, Academic, to plan and organise orientation and matriculation or freshly admitted students, further tasks include the issuance of letters of introduction and attestation for passports, visas etc.; explore and solicit for funds to support student scholarships and bursaries, including Food and Clothing Bank and facilitating the processing of resident permits for International Students among others.
Before being transferred to Student Affairs and Financial Services, Mrs. Oduro was the Zonal Coordinator (Midland Zone) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Institute of Distance Learning (IDL). At IDL, Theodora was among others responsible for providing academic and administrative support services to students and the study centres within the zone; monitoring of activities and support in providing strategic direction for the zone, ensuring that Facilitators are duly appointed for all courses and are present for facilitation at the right time. In addition, she was responsible for providing the needed logistics to Facilitators to undertake their duties and was the Secretary to a number of Committees, including the development and assessment of new programmes and curriculum review committees.
Prior to joining KNUST-IDL, Theodora was the Coordinator for the Centre for Leadership and Professional Development (CLPD), at the Christian Service University College, Kumasi, and the Projects Manager at KITE, an energy and climate change NGO based in Accra.
She is a Project Management Professional (PMP), who is highly motivated, results-driven, with over 14 years’ project manager/coordinator position and with over 18 years working experience in coordinating, managerial, facilitative, administrative, clerical and project management positions. She had a First Degree in Sociology and Law, in 1994, a Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Management in 1997, and an MSc in Development Planning and Management in 2002, all from KNUST. In December 2009, she also graduated with Master Certificate in Applied Project Management from Villanova University, Tampa Online Campus, Florida USA.
Specifically, she is skilled in building effective and productive working relationships with project team leading to a motivated team. She is also very strong in human capital development, facilitation, presentation and training of target groups. She possesses time management and self-organisational skills, very organized and takes leadership initiatives; she coherent and precise. Theodora is very passionate in imparting project management knowledge to her target audience and team members and desires to see the adoption and utilisation of project management tools and techniques for both effective and efficient administrative, organisational and project success.
Theodora has served as Secretary/Member to a number of Committees, some are still ongoing; they include:
- Programme Advisory Board, MPhil Intellectual Property
- Auditing of Seven (7) Affiliate Technical Universities and Private University College
- Six (6) Curriculum Review Committees
- Committee to Develop Guidelines for Disbursement of Student Association Dues
- Local Organising Committee for Pan African University Championship (2019)
- Management Committee for Student Scholarship Scheme
- Student Financial Services Board
- Committee with Oversight Responsibility for KNUST Debate Society
- ALT Foundation Leadership Conference (Being A Leader – BAL)