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Steve Odumbe

Communication to understand.Design to clarify.Technology to build.

A connected practice shaped by people, ideas, and the systems that bring them together.

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How the practice connects.

01

Understanding people

Communication begins with understanding what people need to know.

02

Shaping the message

Design gives information structure, identity, and a visual voice.

03

Building the experience

Development turns those decisions into usable digital experiences.

Experience and direction.

Communication, administration, community work and technical support all inform the practice I am building today.

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Professional experience

Sainath Education Institute

Web and Social Media Officer

September 2025 - March 2026 / Consultancy

  • Maintained institutional website information, keeping published content current and relevant to its audiences.
  • Updated website content and organised information into clearer page structures.
  • Applied web-development knowledge to website maintenance and improvements to digital user journeys.
  • Supported the presentation of the institute's services and activities through its website and digital communication channels.
  • Worked with colleagues to organise institutional information for digital use, alongside technical-support responsibilities held during the same consultancy.
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Professional experience

Sainath Education Institute

Software and Hardware Support Technician

September 2025 - March 2026 / Consultancy

  • Provided software troubleshooting to support institutional activities and address technical difficulties.
  • Provided hardware support and helped resolve equipment-related problems.
  • Documented technical requests and maintained information needed for follow-up.
  • Followed up on unresolved technical issues and communicated their status to relevant colleagues.
  • Supported digital record organisation and information-management workflows.
  • Delivered presentations on K-YAN digital learning technology to education stakeholders across Kenya, explaining its functions to audiences with different levels of technical knowledge.
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Professional experience

Mirror Arts

Volunteer Creative Communication Officer

November - December 2025

  • Supported communication activities for the Pendo Huru Festival.
  • Helped coordinate the preparation and availability of festival communication materials.
  • Coordinated communication schedules around planned festival activities.
  • Maintained communication with colleagues and stakeholders to support festival coordination.
  • Provided logistical support and helped keep communication tasks aligned with event arrangements.
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Professional experience

AMKENI Malindi

Administration and Communication Officer

September 2024 - September 2025

  • Coordinated communication between leadership, programme and support teams within an organisation of 30-40 staff, supported by 60-90 volunteers across three counties.
  • Used meetings, email, memos and Signal to support routine communication and prompt notification of issues requiring attention.
  • Prepared meeting minutes, recorded decisions and assignments, notified responsible colleagues and followed up on progress.
  • Created social media content communicating organisational information, services and activities to beneficiaries and community members.
  • Designed English and Kiswahili sexual-health pamphlets with illustrations and step-by-step instructions for community education sessions.
  • Developed a documented recruitment and onboarding process for a six-month economic empowerment programme, including expressions of interest, training information and introductory videos.
  • Presented the onboarding approach to the Executive Director, supported a pilot and refined the process. Programme teams in Mozambique and Nigeria subsequently adapted the approach.
  • Built an Excel supplier directory covering contacts, communication channels, price ranges and regional availability.
  • Worked with finance colleagues to introduce needs-based procurement and documented the agreed procedure.
  • Coordinated flights, transfers and accommodation for senior colleagues and international guests, including a Nairobi LILO convening with participants from 14 countries.
  • Worked with MEARL colleagues to organise Google Drive records and backup arrangements for programme documentation.
  • Prepared research forms and maintained collected data across local, external and cloud storage.
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Professional experience

AMKENI Malindi

Field Officer and Head of Department

August 2023 - August 2024

  • Supervised peer educators and reviewed their activity documentation.
  • Coordinated community outreach activities and communication with programme participants.
  • Coordinated referrals and maintained contact with service providers to support access to services.
  • Supported Drop-in Centre activities and coordinated resources needed for service delivery.
  • Collected and verified field data, checking records for accuracy and completeness.
  • Reviewed peer educator reports against programme reporting requirements and prepared activity documentation for monitoring and follow-up.
  • Maintained communication between participants, programme colleagues and service providers to address service-delivery needs affecting gender and sexual minority communities.
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Professional experience

International Mental Health Association

Regional Communication Coordinator

February - March 2022 / Remote

  • Created campaign content for the Black Mental Health Project's Black History Month campaign.
  • Supported communication around campaign activities and interactive sessions.
  • Maintained contact with partner organisations involved in the campaign.
  • Coordinated partner communication concerning participation and scheduled activities.
  • Helped align campaign content, partner participation and interactive sessions through remote collaboration.
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Professional experience

Q-Initiative CBO

Social Media Manager

July - August 2021

  • Managed campaign publishing across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
  • Coordinated visual materials and written messages with creative colleagues to maintain a consistent campaign presentation.
  • Supported audience engagement and moderation across campaign channels.
  • Reviewed platform performance and prepared information on campaign activity for follow-up.
  • Maintained campaign media records, including photographic and video materials.
  • Supported campaign research, information gathering and event coordination for gender and diversity communication activities.
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Professional experience

Q-Initiative CBO

Illustrator

April - June 2021

  • Developed educational illustrations addressing gender and diversity.
  • Designed posters translating campaign messages into visual communication materials.
  • Contributed comic-based content combining illustrations and campaign narratives.
  • Worked with the creative director and communications colleagues to interpret campaign messages and establish the direction of visual materials.
  • Revised artwork in response to feedback and prepared approved materials for campaign use and publication.
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Professional experience

Q-Initiative CBO

Volunteer Peer Educator

May 2018 - March 2022

  • Delivered community health education and shared information on sexual and reproductive health.
  • Supported community participants with information about available screening and health services.
  • Coordinated screening activities and referrals through the programme's service-provider links.
  • Maintained contact with participants to support referral follow-up and continuity of access to services.
  • Communicated service-access difficulties and safety concerns to relevant programme colleagues and service providers.

Selected projects.

Client and independent work where design and development meet practical needs.

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2026 / Client project - launch pending

UB Rides

Visual Identity Designer and Web System Developer

Developed a visual identity and customer website alongside administrative workflows for bookings, fleet, pricing and operations.

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2026 / Client project

GeePhotography254

Website Designer and Full Stack Developer

Designed and built a photography website with portfolio, enquiries, private client galleries and a content management dashboard.

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Ongoing / Self-initiated

Personal Portfolio

Visual Identity Designer and Web Developer

Developing a connected space for experience, services, selected work and writing with reusable Next.js components.

How I approach the work.

  1. 01

    Research

    Understand the situation before proposing a solution.

  2. 02

    Empathy

    Consider audience needs and real constraints.

  3. 03

    Clarity

    Organize information and explain decisions.

  4. 04

    Collaboration

    Make space for feedback and shared decisions.

  5. 05

    Connected thinking

    Bring communication, design and technology together.

Beyond the job title.

The interests, questions and experiences that shape the person behind the work.

I keep returning to how people understand complex ideas. That question connects the way I write, structure information, design interfaces and build digital tools. I like work that helps someone move from uncertainty to a clear next step.

What I'm exploring now.

Digital systems

A portfolio that works

Connecting content, publishing and professional opportunities.

In progress

AI interfaces

More useful conversations

Exploring guided interfaces for enquiries and discovery.

In exploration

Writing

Thinking in public

Sharing ideas across communication, design and technology.

In exploration

Let's find the right way to work together.

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Clarity through design, strategy, and code.