Saleef Nyambok On air Cue 00 — Opening

Nairobi, Kenya · Communications specialist · Open to consultancy

Saleef
Nyambok

I get serious research heard by the people it was written for.

Social strategy, live coverage and science storytelling for institutions working on food systems, climate and health. Strategy on Monday, camera in hand by Thursday.

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Cue 01 About

Translation is the whole job.

I run the day-to-day of the International Livestock Research Institute's global social presence — five platforms, a research centre's worth of science, and an audience that runs from donors and policymakers to farmers and journalists. Most of the work is translation: taking a livestock genetics result or a One Health milestone and turning it into something a person will actually stop scrolling for.

I got here through radio. Before ILRI I wrote and voiced campaigns at Radio Africa, pitching omnichannel work to global brands and learning that a message either lands in the first three seconds or it doesn't land at all. That still shapes how I write.

What I bring to a contract is range. I can build the strategy and then go shoot it myself — cover an event on-site, file the same day, and hand back reporting that shows what actually moved. I've worked that way at COP30, NYC Climate Week, the UN Food Systems Forum and the Africa Food Systems Forum.

I hold a BA in Journalism from USIU-Africa and I'm completing a Postgraduate Diploma with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. I also serve as Communications Chair on the Princeton in Africa alumni board.

Saleef Nyambok
Saleef NyambokNairobi

Cue 02 What I do

Four things, done properly.

S/01

Social media strategy & management

Channel strategy, content calendars and daily publishing across X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube — held to your brand guidelines, with monthly performance reporting you can take to a board.

S/02

Live event & conference coverage

On-site social, photography and same-day filing from summits, launches and field visits. Booth planning, speaker support and media liaison included.

S/03

Research storytelling

Working directly with scientists and programme leads to turn technical work into threads, short-form video, explainers and launch copy that a non-specialist audience will follow.

S/04

Campaign & creative production

Concepting, copywriting, voiceover, graphics and short-form video — from a single announcement to a multi-channel campaign with a run of show behind it.

Cue 03 Selected work

What I've run.

2026 —

Global social media operations

ILRI · CGIAR

Lead daily publishing across five channels for an international research centre. Built the content calendar and the monthly reporting loop that decides what gets made next.

2024–2026

Field coverage at global forums

ILRI · CGIAR

On-site media for COP30, NYC Climate Week, the UN Food Systems Forum, the Africa Conference on Agricultural Technologies and the Africa Food Systems Forum. Photography picked up by media partners in print and online.

2025 —

Alumni communications

Princeton in Africa

Own social, newsletter and email for the alumni community as Communications Chair, plus publicity material supporting leadership fundraising.

2023–2024

Omnichannel brand campaigns

Radio Africa Limited

Conceptualised and pitched 360 campaigns to global brands. Wrote and voiced radio spots reaching millions of Kenyans daily.

2018–2019

Brand turnaround

Club Hypnotica

Built and ran the branding and multi-channel marketing strategy. Sales grew fourfold; beverage costs fell 10% through tighter inventory and purchasing.

Film  Video production

CGIAR: Who we are — Institutional film Watch on YouTube →

Stills  Event & institutional photographyScroll →

Saleef Nyambok presenting at the ILRI exhibition booth
ILRI stand, STRI Week — Nairobi
Delegates on stage at the China–Africa Agri-Tech and Industrial Cooperation Forum
China–Africa Agri-Tech Forum — Nairobi, 2026
Panel seated on stage at GLF Africa
GLF Africa: Stewarding Our Rangelands
Two officials holding signed agreement folders
Partnership signing — ILRI and Kenya Dairy Board
Large group photograph outside the ILRI campus entrance
CGIAR delegation — ILRI Nairobi campus
Visitors in laboratory coats during a campus tour
Laboratory tour — ILRI Nairobi campus
Three officials walking and talking on the campus walkway
Leadership visit — ILRI Nairobi campus
Three colleagues holding copies of a CGIAR flagship report
CGIAR flagship report launch
Delegate seated in a conference plenary
Plenary floor — agricultural technologies conference
Delegates checking phones and notebooks between sessions
Between sessions — ILRI campus
Saleef Nyambok with colleagues at the ILRI exhibition stand
ILRI stand, GLF Africa — Nairobi
Group photograph outside the Mikoko Pamoja office on the Kenyan coast
Field visit — Mikoko Pamoja, Kenyan coast

Cue 04 In the field

Rooms I've already worked.

Events covered

  • COP30
  • NYC Climate Week
  • UN Food Systems Forum
  • Africa Food Systems Forum
  • Africa Conference on Agricultural Technologies
  • China–Africa Agricultural Science & Technology Forum, Nairobi
  • One Health initiatives, East Africa

Organisations

  • International Livestock Research Institute
  • CGIAR
  • Princeton in Africa
  • Radio Africa Limited
  • USIU-Africa
  • Chartered Institute of Marketing (member)

Cue 05 Work with me

Available for short engagements and retained work — remote, or on the ground in Nairobi and across East Africa.

What to send in a first message

What you're launching or covering, your timeline, and who you need to reach. That's enough for me to come back with an approach and a rate.