Abdulbaqi is a Field Manager at Mindset, with national coverage of the organization's field projects in Nigeria. He oversees field operations across a multi-sector portfolio spanning health and education, including large-scale household surveys such as a household mortality and zero-dose immunization survey in Sokoto State. He manages field teams across multiple states, coordinates planning, logistics and training, and works closely with data and quality assurance teams to deliver projects on time and to a high standard of data quality.
Abdulbaqi brings more than a decade of experience in project management, field coordination and capacity building across the health, education and humanitarian sectors in Nigeria, much of it in conflict-affected settings. He has worked with UNICEF, ADSUBEB and TaRL Africa as a Super Master Trainer, Master Trainer, Team Lead and Field Supervisor, and served as an Education Officer with the Adamawa State Ministry of Education and as an Assistant Lecturer at Adamawa State Polytechnic. He is adept at team leadership, project planning and delivery, and supervising field data collection, and has specialized knowledge in Monitoring and Evaluation, WASH in emergencies and disaster risk reduction.
Abdulbaqi holds a BSc in Geography from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
