About

Randall Kemp, professional Information Steward for over 28 years. "Info Steward" is a mindset and the practice of stewarding disparate knowledge while co-creating strategic action to achieve shared outcomes. Read more about me below, browse my CV, or explore my Vocational Philosophy brief, where I expand on the mindset of stewarding information.

Skills

  • Strategic Planning: Co-develop effective strategies based on desired outcomes.
  • Program Evaluation: Review programs and projects in light of intended outcomes.
  • Research: Desk, academic, survey, business: all types of research.
  • Information Organization: Ordering the chaos of data collection.
  • Project Management: Overseeing tasks, timelines, and people.
  • Community Development: Connecting people and purposeful causes.
  • Active Listening: Intentionally open ears.
  • Grant Writing and Administration: Author successful proposals and manage grant-making.

Attributes

  • a listener who asks probing questions and ingests the responses
  • information organizer gathering data with intentionality who can see patterns in the chaos
  • discerning, strategic, analytical, synthesizer

Roles

  • information curator, librarian, knowledge manager
  • strategy development and refinement
  • program evaluator
  • researcher, writer, teacher
  • project manager
  • grants manager
  • system admin, database admin, web developer
  • multi-day adventure trip designer and guide

I work with and for nonprofits/NGOs, foundations, academic institutions, government entities, and global networks. Learn about some of those clients and funders as well as projects.

In addition to the roles and positions listed above and on my CV/resume (LinkedIn profile), I am a husband, father of two, an outdoorsman, and a pilgrim on a trek.

As a consultant, researcher, student, and volunteer I have traveled abroad extensively for research, consultations, conferences, and meetings (often in multiple languages with translation). These locations include cities in...

  • Africa: Cape Town, Dar es-Salaam, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Tunis
  • The Americas: Bogotá, Brasilia, Mexico City, Ottawa, San José, Santiago, Toronto
  • Europe: Amsterdam, Berlin, Delft, Dublin, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Salzburg
  • Asia/Australia: Melbourne, born in Manila

Fields of Interest

  • justice and equity for those encumbered with an imbalance such as power, wealth, income, and race; includes women/girls, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and stateless
  • intersection of international relations, global networks, international organizations, spirituality, information society, technology
  • Indigenous, local knowledge
  • climate change impact and infectious disease
  • meta philosophical life questions

I also enjoy taking pictures, playing the bass guitar, reading, backpacking, hiking, biking, and watching football (soccer) and movies.