Summary
Overview
Work History
Skills
Profile And Personal Attributes
Academic Professional Qualifications
Other Qualifications
Primary Assets
References
Timeline
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Roland Shanjele

Roland Shanjele

Summary

A highly organized and supportive individual gifted with an ability to work with all types of people. Able to advise new strategies and techniques to assist the people seeking peer support and is a confident and positive worker with an ability to deliver excellent results. Ability to mingle with people from varied social backgrounds and history. Detail oriented Professional Counsellor, Clinical Officer, Community Developer, Data Analyst with practical knowledge in Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Planning and Management, Occupational Health & Safety, Leadership and Management etc. Demonstrable expertise in Peer Support Adept at developing new applications and products.

Overview

8
years of professional experience

Work History

Zambia Integrated Health (ZIH)

VMMC Consultant
10.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Conducting VMMC, Pre and Post Operative care
  • Documenting and ensuring that the targeted age group are circumcised
  • Initiating clients on PrEP and other health services
  • Perform data entry duties using the Electronic Health Record System (SmartCare) for HIV-positive patients at health facilities offering ART and general clinical care services
  • In collaboration with Strategic Information Assistants and Community Based Volunteers (CBVs), conduct triangulation of registers to ensure that all clients are linked to and are receiving all services due to them
  • Provide the complete range of services to ART clients on a daily basis; Initiate new clients on to treatment using the most recent treatment guidelines from MOH
  • Offering Health talks to clients on Preventive Measures such as PrEP, VMMC, FP, Condom use.

JSI - USAID SAFE

District Professional Counsellor/ART Clinician
09.2018 - 09.2023

Job overview

  • Provide the complete range of services to ART clients on a daily basis; Initiate new clients on to treatment using the most recent treatment guidelines from MOH
  • Ensure that ART clients have their laboratory investigations and receive their results as per GRZ standards
  • Follow up with the Laboratory on outstanding results by Informing SAFE/Facility about any signs of drug resistance that you observe
  • Work with treatment adherence supporters to ensure that all patients are retained on treatment and that they get positive outcomes from treatment
  • Refer clients who are not ART adherent to treatment adherence supporters for counselling and to develop adherence plan including parents struggling with paediatric adherence
  • Work with district and SAFE Project nutritionists to provide all clients with a Nutrition Assessment and Counselling service
  • Work with the M&E unit and project Strategic Information Assistants (SIA's) to compile trends related to the UNAIDS strategy of 95-95-95
  • Provide high quality HIV Counselling and Testing Services at facilities and their catchment areas
  • Ensure that clients are continuously engagement in appropriate medical care maintaining retention rates above
  • Ensure patients starting treatment are adequately prepared for treatment
  • Provide intensive supportive supervision and Mentorship to all volunteers involved in HTS to ensure that they are implementing high yield strategies (i.e., indexing and PNS)
  • Ensure that all volunteers are well trained and possess the appropriate skills mix for their duties
  • Ensure that the rules of confidentiality are adequately enforced in all HIV Counselling and Testing Services
  • Conducting Hotspots testing in targeted communities
  • HIVST Distribution to priority populations (Men and adolescents)
  • Reaching Out to the Key Population (SW, Adolescent girls/boys) with HIVST kits and distribution of Condoms
  • Actively link all persons living with HIV (PLHIV) to services that are critical for their own health, as well as services to prevent HIV transmission to uninfected sex partner(s) and children
  • Facilitate testing for HIV exposed Infants and ensure strict adherence to testing schedule.

EQUIP ZAMBIA under RIGHT TO CARE

Professional Counsellor
04.2018 - 08.2018

Job overview

  • Creating demand for HIV services including Viral Load (VL) and ensure quality enhanced adherence counselling is provided
  • Collecting and submitting program data on priority HTS interventions through appropriate reporting channels while ensuring that all records related to their duties are always kept up to date
  • Ensure integration of HTS into other health services including FP, MCH, TB, OPD.

ZPCT IIB/FHI360

Temporal SIA in a Data Quality Assurance (DQA)
09.2017 - 12.2017

Job overview

  • Perform data entry duties using the Electronic Health Record System (SmartCare) for HIV-positive patients at health facilities offering ART and general clinical care services
  • In collaboration with Strategic Information Assistants and Community Based Volunteers (CBVs), conduct triangulation of registers to ensure that all clients are linked to and are receiving all services due to them.

ZPCT IIB

INDEX/PNS
02.2017 - 08.2017

Job overview

  • Indexing
  • Eliciting
  • Testing all the elicited clients.

CHEP

Lay Counsellor
08.2016 - 01.2017

Job overview

  • Support community awareness and perform pre-counselling, post and Adherence counselling
  • Counselling of patients in their own language
  • Assist patients in making informed decisions
  • Reassuring patients about the confidentiality when doing pre-and post-counselling
  • Upholding of the FIVE Cs of Counselling
  • Reporting all figures of key performance indicators achieved daily to the Professional Counsellor.

PACT

Counsellor for Youths and Adolescents
02.2016 - 07.2016

Job overview

  • Conducting intake interviews with clients and families
  • Developing treatment programs
  • Mediating conflicts between clients and their parents
  • Analyzing clients' individual needs and requirements
  • Assisting with crisis intervention
  • Writing progress and evaluation reports
  • Completing client paperwork
  • Monitoring clients' progress
  • Modifying treatment plans as needed.

Skills

  • Cost Analysis
  • Client Requirements Assessment
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Staff Management

Profile And Personal Attributes

Profile And Personal Attributes
  • I am an individual of professional principals and integrity with high level of interpersonal communication skills.
  • I am a team player, an initiator, a fast learner, honest and a hardworking man who strive to meet target in all areas of concerns.
  • Capable of working under minimum supervision.

Academic Professional Qualifications

Academic Professional Qualifications
  • Diploma in Clinical Medicine General, Zambian Royal medical University, 2020
  • Certificate in VMMC, Zambian Royal medical University, 2023
  • Certificate in Social and Behavior Change (SBC), USAID, 2023
  • Certificate in Data Analysis, Blish Links Technologies, 2023
  • Certificate in HIV/AIDS Legal and Policy Requirements, USAID, 2023
  • Certificate in U.S. Family Planning and Abortion Requirements, USAID, 2023
  • Certificate in Mental Health, University of Washington, 2022
  • Certificate in Leadership and Management in Global Health, University of Washington, 2021
  • Certificate in Project Planning & Management, University of Zambia, 2020
  • Certificate in Community Development, University of Zambia, 2020
  • Certificate in Occupation Health & Safety, University of Zambia, 2020
  • Certificate in ICT, University of Zambia, 2020
  • Certificate in HIV Self Testing Services and Logistic Management, USAID/PACT, 2020
  • Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation, University of Zambia, 2017
  • Certificate in Psychosocial Counseling, Bolton Health & Education institution, 2016

Other Qualifications

Other Qualifications
  • Trained in Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission (EMTCT), with the Zambia Prevention, care & Treatment II (ZPCT II/FHI360).
  • Trained in Partner Notification Services (PNS) under ZPCT II/FHI360.
  • Trained in HIV/AIDS Management
  • Trained in Nutrition in ART

Primary Assets

Primary Assets
Ability to identify and effectively channel key resources including personnel to achieve set project outcomes., Ability to perform regulatory due diligence and identify risks and opportunities for improvement., Ability to provide authoritative leadership in dealing with challenging technical or regulatory matters., Ability to lead team in establishment of technical and administrative procedures, product safety and quality requirements, and other standard guidelines and policies., Ability to initiate action despite uncertainty of outcome, and accept consequence of failure/error., Ability to take the lead in products and/or applications development., Able to develop, maintain, and abide by project timelines and resource plans and work directly with other team members to ensure deliverables meet target due dates., Ability to set priorities aimed at effective utilization of available resources., Conversant with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access), Ability to analyze data analysis- using SPSS and STATA, Ability to use data reporting software- SmartCare software etc., Ability to develop comprehensive and concise Work Instructions/Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Detailed understanding of the principles of, Ability to prepare comprehensive technical reports good understanding of change management

References

References
  • Jane Sakala, Kalulushi District Team Lead, JSI/USAID SAFE, +260 967 966265/0772 311798, janefilumba86@gmail.com
  • Dr. Joseph Musonda, Ministry of Health, +260 964 554001, josephmusonda@live.com
  • Nkonde Litana Mbumba, District HIV Care & Support Officer, Kalulushi District, +260 977 657162 / 0967 657162, nkonde78@gmail.com nkondelmbumba@yahoo.com

Timeline

VMMC Consultant
Zambia Integrated Health (ZIH)
10.2023 - Current
District Professional Counsellor/ART Clinician
JSI - USAID SAFE
09.2018 - 09.2023
Professional Counsellor
EQUIP ZAMBIA under RIGHT TO CARE
04.2018 - 08.2018
Temporal SIA in a Data Quality Assurance (DQA)
ZPCT IIB/FHI360
09.2017 - 12.2017
INDEX/PNS
ZPCT IIB
02.2017 - 08.2017
Lay Counsellor
CHEP
08.2016 - 01.2017
Counsellor for Youths and Adolescents
PACT
02.2016 - 07.2016

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