I am a licensed Social Worker and Development Expert with extensive experience in community development, social services, and disability advocacy. My professional journey includes roles such as a Community Development Intern with the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, a Child Care Specialist Intern with Alliance for Children Everywhere Zambia, and my current position as Assistant Provincial Disability Specialist at the Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
I possess a diverse skill set that spans Public Administration, Development Studies,Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Risk Management, and Social Work, particularly with families and children. My expertise also includes Social Protection, Project Management, Social Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Planning, Research, and Social Work Law. I am a committed and adaptable professional who embraces continuous learning and strives for improvement, enabling me to effectively navigate and contribute to new environments and initiatives. Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
•Assessing the children and administrative work under social welfare department.
• Fieldwork under family preservation empowerment program (FPEP) to empower vulnerable families as to prevent the children end up into the facility.
• Family assessment and tracing the parents of the child for reintegration and promotion of family based care.
• Providing training to prospective foster and adoptive parents.
• Attending Court session during committal and grant of adoption order to foster and adoptive parents as a probation officer
• Conducted regular assessments on individual progress of each child under my care
• Provided nurturing care and supervision to children in a safe environment.
• Developed creative activities to promote physical, mental and emotional development of children.
• Ensured compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures relating to childcare services provided by the organization.
• Observed behavior of children to detect any sign of potential abuse.
• Demonstrated patience, understanding and compassion when dealing with challenging behaviors of children.
• Organized and facilitated public forums to engage citizens on decision making process of the community development projects and influencing the community through capacity building and project management cycle
• Provided administrative support including data entry ,filing , photocopying ,scheduling meetings , preparing reports and taking minutes ,community work mobilization and research studies .
• Providing counselling to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, convicts and exconvicts
• Initiating and analyzing developmental projects that include Village Banking, Soya beans to curb teenage pregnancies in Mkushi District.
• Provision of entrepreneurial skills to youth’s self-help projects allocated.
• Community supervision and implementation of projects , social development work and use of participatory tools in community based projects
• Report writing and communication skills
• Collaborated with various stakeholders to create strategic partnership that would benefit the community served.