Rita Mapala
Isoka
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Cluster Programme Manager
World Vision Zambia
Chongwe , Zambia
06.2020 - Current
- Partnering with community based organizations to build their capacity and linkage to Government, support them to access external funding such as constituent development fund.
- Quality and timely sponsorship management; Participation of Registered children in Area Programme activities, timely monitoring and transformed relationships with sponsors
- Collaborate with Line ministries to oversee the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Education, Maternal, New born and child health, Child protection, Livelihood, child protection and faith and development interventions in the Cluster and/or district to improve child wellbeing
- Contribute to Strategy development & realisation by working with Development facilitators to ensure that project implementation is within scope and budget and on time and providing oversight to 22 programme staff
- Build level one competency monitoring skills in staff
- Prepare and submit quality monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual narrative and financial reports, as well as support the development of the annual Child Well Being report
- Foster strategic relationships with community stakeholders, Donors, Government Line Ministries, traditional leadership and other stakeholders in the Cluster Area Programmes
- Manage Cluster Area Programme effectively by enforcing standards among the implementing staff and partners.
Area Programme Manager
World Vision Zambia
Isoka, Zambia
10.2016 - 05.2020
- Manage Area Programme effectively by enforcing standards among the 7 implementing staff and partners
- Work with sponsorship in the management of Registered children in the Area Programme
- Oversee the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Maternal, New born and child health, Child protection and faith and development interventions in the Area program
- Supervise development facilitator to ensure that activity implementation is in line with the World Vision Partnership strategy
- Build level one competency monitoring skills in staff
- Prepare and submit quality monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual narrative and financial reports, as well as support the development of the annual Child Well Being report
- Manage Area Programme budgets for efficient and timely implementation of activities
- Build strategic and key relationships with community stakeholders, Donors, Government Line Ministries, traditional leaders and other stakeholders in the Area Programme.
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
World Vision Zambia
12.2013 - 10.2016
- Coordinate planning, monitoring and evaluation of projects with a focus in Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Economic Development, Education and Water Sanitation and Hygiene
- Conduct ADP baseline, Mid-Term and end of program evaluations, so to assess impact made by the various projects being implemented by program
- Maintain ADP data base which has the ADP key documents and data on Horizon
- Annually supervise the carrying out of program surveys prior to the set programme evaluation to collect data on all indicators at outcome level
- Management of the M&E System to track progress made by different projects being implemented by the programme
- Impact assessments of interventions by projects through the tracking of output and outcome level indicators
- Coordinate generation of Impact stories, Monthly Management, mid-year and Annual Reports
- Assist the programme teams to conduct monthly reviews meetings to measure performance against targets for all activities explaining any variances, identifying and addressing implementation challenges, documenting lessons learnt, and most significant success stories and generating consensus on targets for next month.
Intern
Central Statistical Office
09.2013 - 12.2013
- Assisting the team in compiling the monthly bulletin which provides data on different economic indicators such as inflation rate, Consumer Price Index and international trade balance
- Making statistics and different reports available to the clients who are the general public.
Field Officer
ID insight
06.2013 - 09.2013
- Questionnaire design; to collect data on project indicators
- Working closely with Rural Health staff to collect data on all pregnant mothers
- Data entry, cleaning and analysis
- Conducting Focused group discussions with mothers who did deliver from the Rural Health centre to ascertain reasons as to why they delivered from their homes, so that specific interventions can be tailored to increase institutional deliveries.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Copperbelt University
Kitwe, Zambia12-2024
Certificate - Global Health
Drexel University
United States09-2021
Bachelor of Arts - Public Administration and Economics
University of Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia06.2012
GCSE -
Fatima Girls Secondary School
Ndola, Zambia06.2001
Skills
- Strategic Management skills
- Risk management processes and analysis
- Partnership management and Negotiation skills
- Process implementation
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Proposal Development
- Good networking skills
- Budgeting
- Problem solving
- Team player
- Statistical software (Stata, SPSS, Epi-Info, CSPro, Microsoft Office)
Accomplishments
- Partnering 2030; Negotiate and Manage effective partnerships 9/21
- Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) training, 06/21
- Anti-corruption and Fraud refresher training, 07/19
- Building Monitoring and Evaluation systems Training, 05/19
- Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse training, 03/19
- Situational Leadership Training, 02/19
- Management of USAID grants training, 04/17
- Professional Management Leadership training, 10/16
- Anti-corruption training, 05/14
- Lot Quality Assurance Training, 08/14
References
- Betty Mbewe, Associate Director: Operations, World Vision, National Office Lusaka, betty_mbewe@wvi.org, +260 979 953237
- Moffat Mtonga, Senior Manager: Design Monitoring and Evaluation, World Vision Zambia, moffat_mtonga@wvi.org, +260 977 628052
- Charles Matowa Phiri, Senior Operations Manager, World Vision Zambia, charles_phiri@wvi.org, +260 972252784
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 12/23/89
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Zambian
- Marital Status: Single
Timeline
Cluster Programme Manager
World Vision Zambia
06.2020 - Current
Area Programme Manager
World Vision Zambia
10.2016 - 05.2020
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
World Vision Zambia
12.2013 - 10.2016
Intern
Central Statistical Office
09.2013 - 12.2013
Field Officer
ID insight
06.2013 - 09.2013
MBA - Business Administration
Copperbelt University
Certificate - Global Health
Drexel University
Bachelor of Arts - Public Administration and Economics
University of Zambia
GCSE -
Fatima Girls Secondary School
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