Mwamba Mutale
Mufulira
Summary
Accomplished professional with a strong track record in program management and innovative decision-making, successfully enhanced HIV intervention programs at CIDRZ while leading a team of 100 technical staff. Core competencies include public speaking and strategic planning, which drove significant improvements in project outcomes. Recognized with the 2024 Labor Day Award as the Most Outstanding Employee for exceptional performance. Future aspirations involve leveraging skills to further advance project initiatives on a broader scale.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Programme Coordinator
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
Mufulira District
12.2021 - 09.2024
- USAID - Controlling HIV Epidemic for Key and Underserved Population I Project
- Improve coordination with MOH staff, provincial, and district stakeholders, supervise district clinical teams, participate in joint TSS and mentorship visits, and facilitate quarterly in-charges meetings.
- Ensure all planned activities are implemented, manage budgets, submit monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, and effectively manage staff leave.
- Facilitate weekly district situation room meetings, participate in DQAs, and conduct quarterly data performance reviews.
- Support staff development through mentorship, lead QA/QI sessions, and ensure timely review of staff appraisals and feedback.
- Facilitating workshops, training sessions, and capacity-building activities for diverse audiences.
- Managed a team of 100 technical staff (site coordinators, key populations implementation officers, demand creation mobilization officers, nurses, parenting facilitators, HTS counselors, and peer educators).
- Chair the district Adolescent Technical Working Group (TWG).
- Budget tracking and financial analysis.
- 2024 Labor Day Award winner as the Most Outstanding Employee.
Site Coordinator
PACT Zambia
Mufulira District
10.2020 - 11.2021
- USAID - Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project.
- Provide technical support and mentorship to a team of community mobilization officers and volunteers to enhance the implementation of public health interventions for HIV and GBV.
- Oversee and implement all project activities and annual work planning sessions, focused on effective results and the achievement of the objectives of the project.
- Strengthen bi-directional linkage between the project and the health facility HIV/ART program by ensuring all adolescent girls and young women, including their sexual partners living with HIV, and those who are found to be HIV positive, are linked to care and treatment.
- Conduct regular field visits to provide appropriate support, monitor project activities, and enter project data into the DHIS2 database.
- Effectively manage performance assessments and quality assurance/improvement in public health.
- Oversee the development and execution of capacity-building programs that impart necessary skills and knowledge to practitioners and stakeholders in HIV and GBV.
- Implement primary and secondary prevention programs to control new infections and prevent recurrences.
- Oversee the monitoring and evaluation of HIV, GBV, mental health, economic strengthening activities, family planning, and PrEP uptake programs, and facilitate the implementation of appropriate interventions.
- Manage the development and monitoring of annual action plans and budgets, and assist in the mobilization of resources for HIV programs.
- Maintain and update the DHIS2 database, ensuring the accessibility of information, report generation, and informed decision-making.
Site Mobilization Officer - Demand Creation
Zambia Health Education and Communications Trust
Livingstone District
03.2018 - 09.2020
- USAID - Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project - ZCHPP.
- Providing high-quality services (health education, HIV testing, family planning, condom distribution) to adolescent girls and young women, as well as their male sexual partners.
- The focal point person between the project and other health facilities where adolescent girls or young women can be referred for other services that aren’t available at the center, such as ART, PEP, or PrEP, and School-Based Prevention Intervention (SBPI) for school bursary and material support, ensured that 917 in-school adolescent girls and young women received tuition fees and material support.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to identify safe-space venues.
- Entering project data into the DHIS2 database and maintaining up-to-date records of adolescent girls and young women reached.
- Supporting the site coordinator with day-to-day management of the center, such as filing documents, re-stocking supplies, and other administrative tasks.
- Supervising and supporting 10 volunteers, and ensuring that they run quality behavior change and HIV prevention safe space sessions.
- Sensitizing parents and community members on the Dreams Initiative, and referring parents of adolescent girls and young women to the Healthy Home Parenting Program.
- Facilitating anti-GBV dialogues in the selected schools, and providing technical support to the anti-GBV champions.
District Facilitator
USAID Zambia Interfaith Networking Group
Kafue District
03.2016 - 09.2017
- Conducting outreach activities in targeted communities.
- Preparing adequately for the Peer Education Groups training for both in-school and out-of-school youth in Kafue.
- Conduct trainings for the Peer Education Groups for both in-school and out-of-school youth in Kafue.
- Generating training reports.
Education
Master of Public Health -
The University of Lusaka
Lusaka, Zambia12.2024
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
Chreso University
Lusaka, Zambia07.2019
High School Diploma -
St. Johns Secondary School
Mongu, Zambia11-2010
Skills
- Efficient Time Management
- Innovative, and creative thinker
- Analytical Report Preparation
- Problem solving
- Program management
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Presenting and facilitating
- Public speaking
- Target-Driven
- Strategic thinking
- Team Management
- Service-focused
- Budget tracking and financial analysis
Accomplishments
- · 2024 labor day award winner as the Most Outstanding Employee
Languages
- English, Fluent
- Bemba, Fluent
- Lozi, Native
- Chinyanja, Fluent
Relevantshortcourses
- Leadership and Management in Health, University of Washington, 12/01/22
- Certificate Safe and Ethical Index Testing (TOT), USAID CHEKUP I – MOH Zambia, 09/01/22
- Certificate GBV LIVES (TOT), USAID CHEKUP I – MOH Zambia, 04/01/22
- ANTI GBV Dialogues and peer Education (TOT), USAID ZCHPP, 05/01/19
- Stepping Stones and Behaviour Change, USAID ZCHPP, 08/01/18
- Consolidated HIV, MOH Zambia, 07/01/18
- Certificate, Decision Making in Public Health, Heidelberg University, 03/01/17
References
- Mr Jeffrey Kawana, Priority Populations Manager, CIDRZ Head Office, Lusaka, Zambia, +260976135964, Jeffrey.kawana@gmail.com
- Ms Namute Kamata, Project Coordinator, Save the Children, Eastern Province Office, Petauke, Zambia, +260966164553, Maya.Kamata@savethechildren.org
- Misozi Charity Siwela, HIV Technical Director, Priority Populations, Coalition Health Zambia, +0976016246, misozicsiwela@gmail.com
Timeline
Programme Coordinator
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
12.2021 - 09.2024
Site Coordinator
PACT Zambia
10.2020 - 11.2021
Site Mobilization Officer - Demand Creation
Zambia Health Education and Communications Trust
03.2018 - 09.2020
District Facilitator
USAID Zambia Interfaith Networking Group
03.2016 - 09.2017
Master of Public Health -
The University of Lusaka
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
Chreso University
High School Diploma -
St. Johns Secondary School
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