Ms. Linda Ofori-Nyarko

Linda Ofori-Nyarko is a Senior Administrative Assistant at the Department of Earth Science, University of Ghana. She works directly with the Head of Department and serves as a liaison officer between stakeholders and Department. She has 4 years working experience in secretarial and administrative duties. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Linguistics from the University of Ghana.

She was appointed to the position of an Administrative Assistant at the Department of Earth Science), University of Ghana, in 2015 and promoted to Senior Administrative Assistant in 2018. Since her employment as the administrative assistant in the department, and working with the Head of Department, Ms. Ofori-Nyarko has reorganized the department’s secretariat into a robust and effective unit capable of championing the department’s mission of training world class geoscience workforce. She has assisted in the administrative management and execution of externally funded projects in the department. She also assists in the development of new project proposals by providing excellent administrative backstopping to Senior Members working on such project proposals. It was on the basis of this that she was appointed as Head of Communications on the University of Ghana’s component of the Multi-Scale Flood Monitoring and Assessment Services (MiFMASS) Project which is funded by the African Union in coordination with the European Union. This project is aimed at developing flood management and monitoring services for five basins in five West African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso). In Ghana, the project is focused on the Black Volta Basin in Northern Ghana.

On account of her hardwork, she was awarded best worker for the senior staff category in the department of Earth Science during the 2017-2018 academic year.