Experience

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  CARE

  • United States
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Country Director

    • May 2022 - Present

    •Providing strategic leadership•Assuring a deep and sustainable employee working culture that assures quality programming and strong country operations.•Managing and cultivating alliances with new and existing partners, private sector actors, and foundations to expand revenue streams.•Coordinating regular meetings with SLT & country office leadership teamsOverseeing CO safety and security UNIT, approving of advisories to staff, leading CO CIMT, heading the contingency planning process.•Representing and/or ensuring active participation in coordination platforms within Juba and the region, ensuring impactful CARE contributions•Ensures that significant issues affecting operation and repuation of CARE brand are resolved , or risks are mitigated.

  • Interim Country Director

    • Oct 2021 - May 2022

  • Project Director -Humanitarian Southern Africa

    • Nov 2020 - May 2022

    •Overseeing a $5 Million program portfolio Rapid Response Fund under BHA / USAID implemented in four countries. Determined appropriate implementing mechanisms to achieve projects’ strategic goals, served as the primary program liaison for donors, partners, and stakeholders.• Overseeing the planning, budgeting, reporting/evaluations, ensuring compliance with management and financial procedures. Reporting to Managing deputy regional director for Southern Africa based in Malawi.•Responsible for managing the regional and global technical experts, ensuring high-quality inputs to support the implementation of the programme.• Leadership oversight on data collection and analysis capturing key learnings and applying the learning across 4 Country CARE Offices (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar) to improve practice, as well as sharing the learning with the international humanitarian community.•Responsible for supporting, training in-country emergency response managers and their teams to build preparedness plans, implement, monitor, and evaluate activities according to accepted humanitarian quality and accountability standards.• Ensuring CO Humanitarian response actions align with CARE Vision 2030 on the partnership, gender, localization, self-recovery, and women lead in a crisis.•Responsible for early warning and early action, ensuring alert and situational reports are timely prepared and shared with BHA to activate the response mechanism.

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  CARE International in Zimbabwe

  • Consortium Team Leader - Cash Transfer Programme ( DFID/ ECHO)

    • Oct 2016 - Nov 2021

    Leading a Consortium implementing mobile Cash Transfer Programme in 4 provinces, 15 districts in Zimbabwe. CARE is the lead Partner.

  • Officer In Charge Masvingo and Midlands Province

    • Apr 2014 - Nov 2021

    1. Oversee CARE Administration operations in Masvingo and Midlands Province2. Responsible for all stakeholders Coordination and Masvingo and Midlands Province3.Coordinates Sub office Management Team and all meetings at the sub office.4. Responsible for safety and security at the Sub office and district offices5.Periodic review and development of sub-office admin systems ( NFI management system ( ad matrix), and vehicle control system etc)6.Responsible for the formulation of the Sub-office budget and budgetary control ( Approve all sub office expenses)5.Co-ordinate All staff meetings, SMT at Sub-office level and attend to HQ SMT to inform policy decisions

  • Technical Quality Coordinator ( Food Security and DRR)

    • Jul 2013 - Nov 2021

    • Coordinate all Country Office emergency operation. Trained 150 country office staff on Emergency Preparedness and planning • Designed and Managed implementation of WFP funded Seasonal Targeting Assistant programme in Masvingo Province targeting 24 000 food insecure Households• Co- designed and Managed implementation of WFP funded Food and Cash transfer Project in three Districts of Masvingo Province • Managed an USAID(US$ 2 Million) funded OFDA DRR and Livelihood project• Coordinated country Office Flood Emergency Project to targeting 18 000 people affected under Tokwe Mukorsi in Masvingo Province. CARE responded on Shelter, WASH, Camp management and Coordination, Logistic and Warehousing.• Coordinate Safety and security related matters for the Country office in liaison with the Country Director• Provide technical guidance and staff training on DRR, climate change and Food Security• Participate in UNWFP-FAO led food security working group, and other UN cluster meeting for policy advocacy, knowledge sharing and strategy development• Facilitate Knowledge Sharing and Management within through monitoring, research and training.

  • FFA and DRR Technical Advisor (PRIZE)

    • Apr 2011 - Nov 2021

    • Designed Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Framework for the program as guided by Hyogo Framework for Action• Facilitated Community mobilization and stakeholder participation in the Vulnerability and Capacity assessment process• Coordinated Feasibility Assessments of over 1300 Disaster Proof sustainable community productive assets in 8 District in Zimbabwe mainly water, cropping and livestock productive assets.• Design tools and implementation framework Livelihood community assets Construction/rehabilitation• Provide Disaster Risk Reduction Training to staff and community • Coordinate Cash/Food Transfers, logistic and Reporting for PRIZE program• Working closely with project Engineers and government agencies to complete Environmental Impact Assessments reports and develop Environment Management and Mitigation plans for PRIZE program,• Strong in liaison with stakeholders and partner organization to foster knowledge sharing and support• Initiate knowledge Sharing and Management through technical working group, documentation and organized learning events• Conduct community Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments as ongoing monitoring• Implement strategies for enhance sustainability through promotion of Market linkages, gender mainstreaming, improved agronomy practices for vulnerable farmers• Applied various and appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track progress on project implementation and utilization of project resources to meet Program objectives and meet donor deadlines.• Develop Food for Asset Manual and tools used by CARE Zimbabwe and Catholic Relief Services

  • FFA/DRR Technical Advisor

    • 2011 - Nov 2021

    • Designed Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Framework for the program as guided by Hyogo Framework for Action• Facilitated Community mobilization and stakeholder participation in the Vulnerability and Capacity assessment process• Coordinated Feasibility Assessments of over 1300 Disaster Proof sustainable community productive assets in 8 District in Zimbabwe mainly water, cropping and livestock productive assets.• Design tools and implementation framework Livelihood community assets Construction/rehabilitation• Provide Disaster Risk Reduction Training to staff and community • Coordinate Cash/Food Transfers, logistic and Reporting for PRIZE program• Working closely with project Engineers and government agencies to complete Environmental Impact Assessments reports and develop Environment Management and Mitigation plans for PRIZE program,• Strong in liaison with stakeholders and partner organization to foster knowledge sharing and support• Initiate knowledge Sharing and Management through technical working group, documentation and organized learning events• Conduct community Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments as ongoing monitoring• Implement strategies for enhance sustainability through promotion of Market linkages, gender mainstreaming, improved agronomy practices for vulnerable farmers• Applied various and appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track progress on project implementation and utilization of project resources to meet Program objectives and meet donor deadlines.• Develop Food for Asset Manual and tools used by CARE Zimbabwe and Catholic Relief Services

  • Programs Officer

    • Mar 2010 - Apr 2011

    Proposal development, Project Quality monitoring, Donor reporting, staff Recruitment, Budgeting and Budget monitoring, Stakeholder Management, Attend Donor coordinated meeting

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  CARE International

  • Zimbabwe

  • Resilience Building Team Leader

    • Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
    • Zimbabwe