Mubanga Chimumbwa
Lusaka,Zambia
Summary
Dynamic Technical Advisor with a proven track record in program development and implementation. Expertise in data-driven decision-making, team support, and community engagement aimed at achieving organizational goals in health initiatives.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Advisor
USAID Zambia Integrated Health Activity
, Zambia
01.2023 - Current
- Aiding in developing and implementing program reviews.
- Advising and sharing your expertise with Technicians.
- Defining and developing applications for technical designs.
- Coordinating technical activities.
- Supporting team members in their programming activities.
- Researching and creating strategic management, operational, and financial plans.
- Providing the strategic and overview focus of all programs USAID ZIH project.
- Communicating with, meeting and liaising with relevant partner staff, donors, USAID ZIH project staff and network beneficiaries to ensure delivery of organization goals.
- Ensuring systems are in place for the implementation of USAID ZIH project agenda outputs and outcomes. These include but are not limited to financial and operational.
- Oversee the implementation of capacity building for USAID ZIH project.
- To oversee the implementation of annual work plan and budget.
- Ensuring the financial and operational stability of USAID ZIH project to deliver on contract obligations with the donors.
- Support adolescents and youth programs in Zambia.
- Collaboration with line Ministries
Africa NGO Delegation Program Coordinating Board Member
UNAIDS
12.2021 - 12.2023
- To establish broad policies and priorities for the Joint Programme, considering the provisions of General Assembly resolution 47/199.
- To review and decide upon the planning and execution of the Joint Programme.
- To review and approve the plan of action and budget for each financial period, prepared by the Executive Director and reviewed by the CCO.
- To review proposals of the Executive Director and approve arrangements for the financing of the Joint Programme.
- To review longer term plans of action and their financial implications.
- To review audited financial report submitted by the Joint Programme.
- To make recommendations to the Cosponsoring Organizations regarding their activities in support of the Joint Programme, including those of mainstreaming.
- To review periodic reports that will evaluate the progress of the Joint Programme towards the achievement of its goals.
- Enhancing the transparency and accountability of relevant UNAIDS PCB decision-making and policy-setting.
- Helping to meet requirements for upwards accountability (towards the UNAIDS PCB and other delegations) and downwards accountability (towards the people, communities and constituencies affected by HIV).
- Create advocacy strategic and social aspect within the African context. Support policy development and analysis through providing guidance.
Client Experience Monitoring and Evaluation Associate
Family Health International - FHI360
Eastern Province, Zambia
02.2021 - 09.2021
- Backstopping sites on data management, supervision and quality control of data at community level.
- Support the building and maintenance of a database and promote facility-client contact through various communication channels, including but not limited to telephones, emails, social media platforms, etc.
- Promote good healthcare worker data systems to improve healthcare worker-client relationship to reinforce clients' trust and loyalty to the healthcare system.
- Support the coordination of community activities to meet clients' case management needs, generate reports related to partner notification services/index testing services.
- Client retention in care and viral suppression rates.
- Mentor facility teams on coordinating referrals, client tracking, and any other services required to improve access to quality services, including maximum client experience required to retain clients in care.
- Perform client verifications to help maintain updated client files/accounts for adherence to appointments: such as date of next laboratory test and nature of test, date of next drug pick-up at pharmacy, etc.
- Support facilities to maintain a database of clients in cohort groups, based on common factors such as date of enrolment, dates of appointment, etc.
- Manage and maintain up to date reports on clients' progress towards attaining medication adherence, treatment retention and viral suppression.
- Track performance results on all output indicators using the Pivot data set, Document write progress reports and disseminate program related data.
- Regularly monitor implementing partner data to ensure accuracy prior to submission.
- Analyzing all data collected and advise data management on needed program revisions for planning and decision making.
- Facilitate data review meetings at facility level.
- Work closely with sub-implementing partner structures to strengthen routine monitoring of indicators.
Country Director
Zambia Network of Young People Living with HIV
Lusaka, Zambia
06.2015 - 12.2019
- Reporting to the ZNYP Board and the Advisory Committee.
- Resource mobilizes for ZNYP to implement its agenda.
- Providing the strategic and overview focus of all programs ZNYP+.
- Communicating with, meeting and liaising with relevant partner staff, donors, ZNYP+ staff and network beneficiaries to ensure delivery of organization goals.
- Ensuring systems are in place for the implementation of ZNYP+ agenda outputs and outcomes. These include but are not limited to financial and operational.
- Oversee the implementation of capacity building for ZNYP+ country network.
- To oversee the implementation of annual work plan and budget.
- Ensuring the financial and operational stability of ZNYP+ to deliver on contract obligations with the donors.
- Support adolescents and youth programs in Zambia.
- Collaboration with line Ministries
Project Lead (Adolescents, Girls and young people)
USAID/ZAMFAM
, Zambia
01.2015 - 12.2019
- Designated to manage and provide technical support through implementation of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Kabwe, Mumbwa, Mazabuka Chibombo and Livingstone to lead, manage oversee implementation of the OVC project.
- Work closely with Grants Manager.
- Day to day program implementation and provide technical guidance for HIV OVCs serve and provide project guidance to sub granted districts in managing OVCs outreach programs/planning aligning with annual work-plan and program objectives.
- Commitment designing project and implementing of all project sites related budgets, supervised program implementation.
- Providing technical assistance and advice to key HIV/AIDs partners and district structures such as the DDC.
- Attend technical working groups for OVC programs and representing the organization.
- Sites supervision of grantees and resolving project Complex and conflict that may impede program success.
- Collaboration with the District Coordinator, district youth coordinators, mentors and ministry of health adolescent focal point person in mitigating gender equality issues.
- Data validation and verification, checking reported data from source documents against our indicators.
- Conduct routine data quality audits and develop plans to address data quality issues and data management gaps and challenges.
- Supporting and building the capacity of District Coordinators, mentors and District youth officers to engage in advocacy and community mobilization and lobbying for a gender human right-based response to OVC social welfare for pediatric and adolescent OVC and families affected by HIV.
- Ensure that pediatric and adolescent OVC receive support and community identification of crop drought resistant in improving nutrition support.
- Data analysis and development of project and execution. Lead the team of experts in developing the Teen Club manual for use in the 126 teen clubs in the five districts.
Coach
Grass Root Soccer Organization (GRS)
Lusaka, Zambia
01.2012 - 01.2015
- In charge of Conducting Adolescents and Young Living with HIV prevention programs.
- Implementation of HIV Prevention and Assisting in HIV and Counselling events, and report writing.
- Conducting Peer to peer Education curriculum intervention in the selected sites of Lusaka province (kalingalinga, Matero, chipata).
Education
B.Sc. - Developmental Studies
Cavendish University
Certificate - Data Analysis Social Science Package
University of Zambia
Certificate - M & E Result Based Management
University of Zambia
Certificate - Records Management
National Institute of Public Administration
Skills
- Excellent data analysis using SPSS
- Proficiency in Google Sheets
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word
- Proficiency in Excel
- Proficiency in PowerPoint
- Data management
- Teamwork
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Analytical skills
- Oral presentation skills
- Knowledge in managing budgets
- Collaboration with multiple project/partners
- Ability to handle competing demands
- Technical writing
- Verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated
- Proactive
- High level of empathy
- High level of integrity
- Passion to work on complex social causes
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Guiding programme in strategic processes
- Utilizing participatory methodologies
- Engaging a broad range of stakeholders
- Observing cultural practices
- Piloting and demonstrating implementation of alternatives
- Understanding of Human-Rights based approach
- Understanding of feminist values and principles
- Supporting community programmes through strategy processes
- Developing community strategy
- Partnership choices
- Programme approaches
- Experience in HIV and AIDS programming
- Providing technical assistance to Community Health Workers
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 08/17/90
- Nationality: Zambian
Languages
- English, Fluent
- Bemba, Proficient
- Nyanja, Proficient
References
- Dr. Tandwa Syakayuwa, Senior Technical Advisor, Community Services, USAID Zambia Integrated Health | Pact ZM, tsyakayuwa@pactworld.org, +260 977 520832, Piziya Office park, Plot No. 2374, Thabo Mbeki Road, Lusaka, Lusaka
- Mr. Henry Zulu, Finance & Administration Manager, Network of Zambian People living with HIV-(NZP+), henryzulu1@gmail.com, +260974046380, Kwacha House Annex, P.O. Box31048, Lusaka, Lusaka
- Morten Ussing, Director Governance and Multilateral Affairs, UNAIDS, ussingm@unaids.org, +41(0)227915091, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva, Geneva, 1211
- Mr. Gabriel Isaac Kibombwe, Deputy Chief of Party-TQLA, Family Health International- FHI360 Zambia, gkibombwe@fhi360.org, +260966771556
Country Experience
With Exposure to many developmental opportunities in the year 2021, I was a Board member for UNAIDs Programme Coordinating NGO Delegation Africa. I have further meaningfully contributed to the development of the National HIV/AIDs Strategic framework for 2017 - 2021, Global Fund Development and Writing team at Country level, PEPFAR cope process and Stigma Index Research for People living with HIV. I have also been involved in strategic formulation for the Adolescent Strategic framework 2017 - 2021 and involvement on developmental and sustainability of HIV prevention and support to care. Experience in data management lead and analyzing for Stigma index for people living with HIV in faith-based organizations with support from CAFORD when I trained the data captures personnel, supervising and developing of questionnaires both on qualitative and quantitative research.
Professional Achievements
- Certificate in Participatory Theatre for Change, 03/2018 - 04/2018
- Trainer of Trainers Peer Educator Manual, 07/2017 - 08/2017
- Training of Trainers in Skills plus HIV, 01/2013 - 11/2013
- Computer Studies, 11/2008 - 12/2008
- Trained in Client Experience Management, 07/2020 - 08/2020
Languages
English
First Language
Timeline
Technical Advisor
USAID Zambia Integrated Health Activity
01.2023 - Current
Africa NGO Delegation Program Coordinating Board Member
UNAIDS
12.2021 - 12.2023
Client Experience Monitoring and Evaluation Associate
Family Health International - FHI360
02.2021 - 09.2021
Country Director
Zambia Network of Young People Living with HIV
06.2015 - 12.2019
Project Lead (Adolescents, Girls and young people)
USAID/ZAMFAM
01.2015 - 12.2019
Coach
Grass Root Soccer Organization (GRS)
01.2012 - 01.2015
B.Sc. - Developmental Studies
Cavendish University
Certificate - Data Analysis Social Science Package
University of Zambia
Certificate - M & E Result Based Management
University of Zambia
Certificate - Records Management
National Institute of Public Administration