Service & leadership

Serving the community.

Alongside teaching and research, I serve the AKU-IED community through programme leadership, committee work and ceremonies, and the wider East African community through outreach.

Leadership

Chair, Regional Education Learning Exchange

Reimagining Teacher Preparation: Innovation, Collaboration and Practice across East Africa. Aga Khan University and GPE, August 2026.

Leadership

Coordinator, Master of Education programme

Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development, East Africa.

Leadership

Advisor, University of South Africa (UNISA) collaboration

Critical analysis of early childhood middle leaders’ experiences in Gauteng North District: exploring professional identities and well-being. South Africa.

Committees & representation

At the Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development, East Africa.

Chair: Workers’ Union, Aga Khan University, Tanzania
Chair: Student Awards Committee, AKU-IED EA
Secretary & acting chair: Student Welfare Committee, AKU-IED EA
Member: Research Advisory Committee (RAC), AKU-IED EA
Member: F4L Scholarship Committee, AKU-IED EA
Member: Faculty Welfare Committee, AKU-IED EA
Member: Women’s Day Organising Committee

Convocation ceremonies

I have served the AKU-IED community as master of ceremonies at convocations, a task I do with pleasure as I bid farewell to my students and congratulate them on their achievements. One occasion I will never forget is serving as MC at a convocation presided over by His Highness the Aga Khan, who travelled to Dar es Salaam to attend.

I came looking for you after the ceremony to tell you that you did a great job and to thank you for your invaluable assistance. I hope that you will accept my heartfelt gratitude for your time and efforts. You really help set the proper tone for today’s ceremony.Louis Ariano, then University Registrar · 24 February 2015

Dr. Mrutu at the Aga Khan University podium — Master of ceremonies, AKU convocation

Serving the East African community

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Strengthening teaching and raising achievement in pre-primary and primary schools

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Environmental protection

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Dr. Mrutu speaking into a microphone at a Women’s Day event, wearing a purple ribbon — Women’s Day, as a member of the organising committee