Professional summary

Effective Public health individual with in-depth skills in Monitoring and evaluation with a hardworking mentality. Seeking to apply expertise and extensive experience in cross cutting projects committed to advocating for high risk and vulnerable groups  which aim to empower people and in turn better their lives by taking on a challenging new role with a growing team. Motivated individual with solid experience managing all levels of projects including community development, integrated disease and surveillance response projects.

Public Health specialist/ M and E officer committed to ensuring that aggressive monitoring and evaluation is upheld whilst working on the recommendation provided for remediation. Comfortable interfacing with stakeholders, peers, and all members of the team towards a shared goal.

Highlights

·         Effective project/program management skills.

·         Formative and summative Monitoring and Evaluation skills.

·         Public health specialist skilled in epidemiology, research, health promotion and community development etc.

·         Sound knowledge on M and E frameworks and systems

·         Extensive knowledge on HIV/AIDS, VMMC, SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH.

·         Communication and analytical thinker with the capability of multi-tasking.

·         Good data presentation skills via power point and sync’d projection.

·         Grasp knowledge of Microsoft  word, excel spread sheet and SPSS.

Work history

Public Health Project Assistant Cordinator:2020

OYDC; Programs- HIV/AIDS PREVENTION THROUGH SPORT PROJECT

Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) Working with Latkings,CIDRZ and other partners on the Project of HIV/AIDS Prevention through Sport. With support from President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), my responsibility was to plan and manage the design and implementation of functional and operational sensitization activities during the project. I provided M&E technical assistance to the project coordinator on data management and reporting procedures.

Responsibilities.

Responsible for Planning and designing the projects activities and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action.
Responding to donor requests for information on project activities such as number of children sensitized and as per age group and gender;
Prepare and participate in donor/PEPFAR site information Monitoring System (SIMS);
Consolidate and develop work plans;
Frequent communication with focal persons, community mobilization team members on performance activities and address challenges to meet performance expectations;
Analyze the Quarterly activity work plans to ensure that they encompass all activities listed in the project document;
Coordinate the supply chain of working tools;
Understand the requirement from the PEPFAR secretariat to implement the project activity within the specified budget and monitor the expenditure and;
Manage risks to the project’s successful outcome.
Represent OYDC in National programs technical working groups
Supervision and mentorship of Projects Technical officers i.e Young leaders, coaches team officials, community focal persons.
 

Research/data collection coordinator: 2019

Unza; Demography and population studies

·         Team lead for a SSTEP impact evaluation hence was responsible for logistics and planning as well as developing field work plans.

·         Ensured well-being of the team members, the completion of assigned workload and maintenance of data quality.

·         Called for chaired and documented team review meetings.

·         Communicated and liased with relevant stakeholders.

·         Developed and implemented standard operating procedures (SOPs) for field works.

·         Responsible for monitoring and evaluation of data collection and filling of reports.

·         Documented success stories from the field and shared the best practices.

Assistant preferred banker: 05/2015

Zanaco- Lusaka Zambia

·         Responsible for assigned Preferred banking portfolio balance sheet and profitability seating under the branch.

·         Tasked with the duty for revenue generation for assigned Preferred banking portfolio.

·         developing and executing of the sales strategies for preferred banking clients

·         Increasing of retention deposits through excellent customer experience with the clients

·         Analyzed departmental documents for appropriate transactions and filing

·         Monitoring the performance of client accounts to ensure account behaviour remains positive and active.

·         Consolidated financial budget reports

·         Created board room and courtroom multimedia presentation including video and text syncd for enhanced understating

·         Verified data integrity and accuracy

·         Implemented marketing strategies which resulted in 12% growth of customer base

·         Responsible for scanning the market and research on good opportunities to meet Preferred banking client’s revenue goals and provide market updates/financial news to the client.

Environmental health officer 07/2013 to 04/2014

Levy Mwanawasa general hospital- Lusaka Zambia

·         Championed and facilitated projects on integrated disease surveillance response.

·         Complied with applicable environmental health and safety laws and regulations and reported all unsafe practices.

·         Measured and controlled water pollution from commercial and industrial sources and investigated cases of serious infectious diseases.

·         Investigated allegations of food borne and inspected or audited a food business food safety practices

·         Commenced enforcement action through notices, prohibition notices penalties etc.

·         Developed safety training procedures documented into manuals for distribution to all staff

·         Provided instruction to staff during fire drills including evacuation and proper reporting techniques

Monitoring & Evaluation/Occupational health and safety officer 01/2014 to 04/2015

Makara investments and construction limited- Lusaka Zambia

·         In charge of interim projects and responsible of monitoring and evaluating the successfulness of them.

·         Reduced safety incidents by 23% through training risk management techniques hazard identification, quality checks and documentation.

·         Investigated accidents and hazardous incidents to determine the causes and made recommendations for corrective action.

·         Responded to any emergency as instructed with the utmost efficiency

·         Designed programs and schedules that were implemented to reduce and eliminate workplace injuries

·         Inspected facilities to ensure adherence to fire, hazard and safety regulations

·         Wrote, coordinated and delivered mass educational briefings focused on occupational accident trends and prevention

Education

1.      Master of Public Health: Public Health (2019)

University of Lusaka leopards hill campus – Lusaka, Lusaka province, Zambia

2.      Post Graduate diploma: Monitoring and evaluation 2019-2020

The University of Zambia-Lusaka, Lusaka province.

3.      Bachelors of Environmental Education: Environmental Education 2014

The University of Zambia- Lusaka, Lusaka Province

4.      Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitoring and Evaluation 2014

The University of Zambia- Lusaka, Lusaka province

Research Experience

2019

An assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice among Mini bus drivers on seatbelt use in city market bus station.

2014

Conducted a research titled persistent causes of sitting Boreholes near septic tanks in Chalala town ship of Lusaka.

The research was to ascertain as to why the causes have persisted despite the measures put in place to address the trend.

Awards/Recognition

ü  2013 – 2014   : Open day exhibition ;

Participated in the open day Exhibition of Levy Mwanawasa general hospital as an exhibitor of the environmental health department.

ü  2011 – 2014  Membership

Member of the University of Zambia Environmental Education Students Association.

ü  2016  Membership

Member of the Impact Assessment Association of Zambia.

REFEREES

1.      Dr Fred Chitangala

Chief Executive officer

Olympic Youth Development Centre, Lusaka

Contact: +260977616320

2.      Mrs Cathel.M. Chiboola

Enviromental Health Principle

Environmental Health Deaprtment

Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital

P.O. Box 310084

Contact Numbers: +260971747009, 0964657814

3.      Mrs Mirriam.L.Mapulanga

Course coordinator

University of Lusaka

Contact Number: +260977747889

4.      Mr. Timothy K. Phiri

University Of Zambia

P.O. Box 32379

Lusaka  Contact Number: +260977328864

5.      Mr Million Phiri

University Of Zambia

P.O. Box 32379

Lusaka  Contact Number: +260973990482