Grace Tembo
Lusaka
Summary
Dynamic professional with extensive experience at GIZ Zambia, specializing in strategic planning and performance monitoring. Demonstrated success in data management and stakeholder engagement, facilitating evidence-based decision-making. Skilled in promoting organizational learning and executing innovative solutions, consistently achieving high-quality results under tight deadlines.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Advisor- Resilience building
GIZ Zambia
Lusaka
04.2025 - Current
- Providing strategic and technical advisory support to the planning, coordination, and implementation of nutrition and WASH drought emergency and resilience interventions.
- Coordination of preliminary assessments, and preparation of zero-draft analytical tools (survey assessment tools, M&E fame work and theory of change) and reports to inform strategic planning processes.
- Supporting programme planning through preparation of draft work plans, budgets, operational inputs, and performance documentation aligned with RBM frameworks.
- Monitoring programme and implementing partner performance against agreed targets and prepared reports for management, government counterparts, and donors.
- Consolidating and analysing data from multiple sources to produce accurate reports, research briefs, lessons learned papers and good practices for scaling up.
- Designing and supporting data collection and stakeholder feedback tools, conducted analysis, and generated evidence-based insights for decision-making.
- Ensuring timely provision of accurate data to support reporting to donors, and internal and external communication.
- Coordinating and facilitated planning, review, and reflective meetings with government institutions, cooperating partners, and implementing partners.
- Providing secretariat support for meetings, partner engagements, and conferences, including preparation of post-event analysis and feedback reports.
- Supporting administrative and financial processes through collaboration with finance team, including budget planning, and expenditure tracking.
- Delivering assignments within stipulated timelines and quality standards, proposing process improvements and innovations.
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
GIZ Zambia
Mansa
01.2023 - 03.2025
- Communicated monitoring and research findings clearly to diverse audiences to support evidence-based decision-making and action planning.
- Organized annual reflection and learning meetings, synthesizing lessons learned to improve programme design and implementation.
- Led quarterly performance review meetings and supported development and alignment of annual work plans with project objectives.
- Designed and implemented data collection tools, conducted routine monitoring visits, and produced analytical field reports.
- Built capacity of project staff and partners in data collection, analysis, reporting, and data utilization.
- Developed and institutionalized M&E knowledge products and data quality assurance mechanisms.
- Designed and managed a comprehensive Results-Based M&E system, including annual output assessments and support to outcome evaluations.
- Implemented a digital M&E system for real-time data collection and reporting, improving data accuracy and timeliness.
Junior specialist- monitoring and Project Management
GIZ Zambia
Mansa
03.2020 - 12.2022
- Supported development and implementation of project M&E systems and work plans.
- Conducted data analysis, prepared progress reports, and supported project assessments and monitoring visits.
- Assisted in the design of data collection tools and training of enumerators and field staff.
- Supported timely preparation and submission of M&E reports to stakeholders.
- Contributed to capacity-building initiatives for project teams.
- Communicated effectively with project staff, partners, and stakeholders to ensure the smooth execution of M&E activities.
- Assisted in the preparation of regular M&E reports, ensuring timely submission to stakeholders.
Education
Msc. - Project Management
Copperbelt University
Copperbelt, Zambia04-2026
B.A. - Library and Information Science and Public Administration
University of Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia01.2018
General Certificate for Secondary Eductaion -
Newfield High School
Sheffield, United KingdomSkills
- Strategic planning support
- Performance monitoring and reporting
- Data management
- Research and analysis
- Record keeping
- Presentation skills
- Results-based management
- Logical frameworks
- Evaluation and learning
- Stakeholder engagement
- Coordination and collaboration
- Knowledge management
- Organizational learning
- Problem solving
- Innovation strategies
- Continuous improvement practices
- Computer applications expertise
Affiliations
Zambia Monitoring and Evaluation Association, Member
Certification
Certificate in SPSS, STATA, and Excel, ORO Start Consultancy, 05/01/24
Training
- Learning Exchange placement, GIZ Cambodia, Multisectoral Food and Nutrition Security (MUSEFO) Project, 01/22/25 - 02/25/25
- 2025 future forum conference, Sustaining Food Systems and Nutrition: Securing Futures, Bridging Nations, Transforming Nutrition, 2025
- Zambia Nutrition and Rural WASH Conference on Nutrition, 08/01/12
Languages
- Chinyanja
- Bemba
- English, Upper Intermediate (B2)
- Chinyanja, Intermediate (B1)
- Bemba, Elementary (A2)
References
Ms. Heike Hoeffler || Component Lead
GIZ head quarters
Mobile number: +49 163 1722089
Email: Heike.hoeffler@giz.de
Mr. Christopher Bupe Mulenga|| Regional Coordinator Luapula
Province
Food and Nutrition Security Enhanced Resilience (FANSER) Project
Mobile number: +260 972 476 068
Email : christopher.mulenga@giz.de
Mr. Abel M’nkulama || Lecturer/Head of department
University of Zambia
Department of Library and Information Science
Mobile number: +260-973 345 005
Email: abelmkulama@gmail.com
Timeline
Advisor- Resilience building
GIZ Zambia
04.2025 - Current
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
GIZ Zambia
01.2023 - 03.2025
Junior specialist- monitoring and Project Management
GIZ Zambia
03.2020 - 12.2022
Msc. - Project Management
Copperbelt University
B.A. - Library and Information Science and Public Administration
University of Zambia
General Certificate for Secondary Eductaion -
Newfield High School