CURRICULUM VITAE
PROFILE SUMMARY
Result oriented with strong background in Sales, Accounting, Administration, Procurement and Human Resources. Recent university graduate in Bachelors of commerce Business Administration.
PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME: Rodney Isaac Kaunda
DATE OF BIRTH: 27th May, 1992
ADDRESS: C/O Nkhata Bay District Council, Private Bag 1. Nkhata Bay
CONTACTS: +265 881 960 045 / 993 392 348
EMAIL: [email protected]

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) with credit: University of Malawi, The Polytechnic (2017)
EXPERIENCE
October 2018- till today: Ministry of Labour, Skills and Innovation – Intern at Nkhata Bay district council under Procurement and Human Resources Department:
• Sourcing quotations from Suppliers
• Assisting in evaluation of suppliers based on Public Procurement Act of 2017
• Meeting with various Cost centers to ensure that there is full understanding of the need and that the proposed purchase will satisfy the true needs of those cost centers, this is done with a view to avoid wrong purchase.
• Preparation of Local Purchase Orders (LPO) for approval by the District Commissioner (DC) through the Internal Procurement and Disposal of Asset Committee (IPDAC).
• Verifying deliveries and invoices against purchase orders
• Ensuring Proper Keeping of all Procurement Records – I introduced electronic filling of all procurement related documents.
• Writing procurement and disposal asset quarterly reports to PPDA
• Negotiating contracts
• updating and processing Direct employees (Staffs) salaries
• Helping in solving and handling of direct staff grievances and disciplinary issues
• Assisting in allocation of staff houses.
• Conducting Social Cash Transfer (SCT), chiefs (Honorarium) and Public Works Program (PWP) pay parades as technical team.

August 1 – 30 September 2018: Airtel Malawi – Customer Experience Department as Graduate Trainee.
• Handling Customer /Agents complaints
• Cross and up selling of Airtel Products
• handling mobile money services: helping in payment of bill transaction , cash out and cash in and money reversal
• Updating customers profile information commonly known as Know Your Customer(KYC)

May 20 – July 2018: Volunteering with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), in Active Citizenship Service (ICS) program third cycle as a Team Leader. In Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR) project.
• Developing team planning tool
• Managing a team of 26 volunteers comprising of UK and Local volunteers on daily basis
• Handling volunteers weekly upkeep allowances
• Conducting weekly one-to-one interviews with volunteers
• Providing coaching and mentorship to volunteers on daily basis
• Writing weekly report on activities done in the week.

REFEREES
Mr Rodney K.A Simwaka, District Commissioner
Nkhata Bay District Council
Box 1 Nkhata-Bay
+265 999 064 750 / 888 870 156
[email protected]

Mr Ephron N. Nyirenda, Procurement Officer,
Nkhata Bay District Council
Box 1, Nkhata bay.
[email protected]
+265 888 563 925/ 997 695 678

Mr Daniel Chizizi, Human Resources Officer,
Nkhata Bay District Council
Box 1, Nkhata Bay
[email protected] +265 995 741 101 / 884 182 452