Perine Nkosi Kasonde

• Provide strategic leadership and management for the region, ensuring alignment with ZEMA's overall objectives.
• Review environmental applications, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
• Respond to and review all correspondence and reports related to waste management and environmental issues in the region.
• Lead the development of strategic policies and plans for the department, ensuring continuous improvement and innovation.
• Prepare for and actively participate in senior management meetings, contributing to decision-making processes.
• Ensure the timely preparation of comprehensive reports from the region for Board meetings.
• Review and submit detailed monthly departmental reports to senior management.
• Oversee and conduct regular departmental meetings to ensure efficient operations.
• Prepare, execute, and monitor departmental work plans and budgets to meet operational goals.
• Manage the Performance Management System for the department, ensuring regional staff meet key performance indicators.

Achivements

• Created monthly reports for senior management summarizing operational performance metrics.
• Coached, mentored and trained team members in order to improve their job performance.
• Conducted regular meetings with staff to discuss progress and identify areas of improvement.
• Resolved conflicts between employees by providing guidance on institutional policies and procedures.
• Provided leadership during times of institutionall change or crisis situations in the case of migration from physical licensing to digital licensing.
• Implemented new technologies by creating tracking log sheets for KPIs in order to streamline operations
• Established and monitored KPIs to evaluate performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Conducted performance evaluations, providing feedback and coaching for team development.
• Developed and implemented strategic plans to achieve institutional objectives.
• Delegated work to staff, setting priorities and goals.
• Provided leadership, insight and mentoring to newly hired employees to supply knowledge of various institutional programs.
• Reviewed completed work to verify consistency, quality, and conformance.

• Coordinate and supervise a team of inspectors in environmental undertakings to ensure enforcement of environmental laws in Zambia through various activities
• Provide technical leadership, promote discipline, training, mentoring and motivation of staff as directed by the Manager Inspectorate while ensuring timely preparation and submission of acceptable monthly, quarterly and annual inspectorate reports and any other reports required
• Implementation of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements including country reporting, Coordinating activities of the Basel convention as a country focal point
• Chemicals and Waste Management
• Coordinate, supervise and conducting review dossiers and process the applications for chemicals and waste management licenses
• Participating in developing policy legislation, guidelines, strategies, plans and programs relating to chemicals and waste management
• Facilitate transboundary movement of hazardous waste and their disposal, coordinate domestication of guidelines developed under the Basel Convention
• Facilitating reporting on country activities in relation to the Basel convention and collaborate with other stakeholders
• Project development and implementation
• Licensing and compliance monitoring
• Draw, supervise and conduct annual programmes for licensing and compliance monitoring
• Conducting licensing, compliance monitoring for waste
• Coordinate, supervise and conduct investigations in environmental incidences, determine cause and take corrective measures
• Preparation and submission of acceptable monthly and quarterly reports
• Coordinate response to emergencies/complaints
• Data analysis and interpretation for environmental returns
• Plan, initiate and oversee annual programmes for auditing facilities
• Enforcements and Regulations
• Coordinate the collection, management and analysis of data to create information for decision making
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of acceptable monthly, quarterly and annual inspectorate reports and any other reports required
• Initiate, develop and prepare recommendations for improvements of regulations, standards and guidelines
• Environmental Assessments
• Support the review of the Environmental Assessment reports
• Participate in compliance monitoring and environmental audits

• Acted for administration purposes as a planning specialist for six months worked in the planning department
• Involved in Strategic planning for the institution and consolidating the annual work plans and budgets
• Involved in writing project proposals on behalf of ZEMA for funding
• Assisting management in tracking the implementation of the budget
• Domestication of Conventions that Zambia is a signatory and party to
• Actively participate in the domestication of the conventions that Zambia is a signatory and party to which is done by the Zambian Government through ZEMA

• Involved training and advising farmers on the best practices in land use as well as land delineation for farms
• Involved in implementing project activities in the community for Programme against Malnutrition (PAM) and PAVADia projects which were farmer input support projects
• This involved community mobilization, training of farmers, distribution of the Agriculture inputs as well as monitoring and evaluation

• Involved reviewing license application documents, management of data and records for chemicals units, attending to the clients as well as conducting inspections