Experience

Access to Health Zambia

• Zambia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Information Officer

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Engaged on the USAID Empowered Children and Adolescents Program I ( ECAP1) implemented by Access to Health Zambia, a member of the Catholic Medical Mission Board(CMMB) global family. Key Roles and Responsibilities; Provide strategic oversight in monitoring and evaluation of all project activities and interventions ensuring that all project results are tracked according to the project’s M&E plan across all four domains (i.e., healthy, stable, safe, and schooled). Conduct monthly data audit/verification in all project sites in the district. Ensure timely submission of reports by district and PMU program staff for compilation and generation of the district report. Build a robust culture of data use including data management as an integral component of the program implementation, especially on identifying and initiating children who test HIV positive. Provide technical support to district staff and health workers in VCA data management by building capacity in data use among Facility and Community Case Workers. Ensure that documentation is complete in all VCA related registers across all project sites in the district Support project sites in developing data use culture by conducting monthly data review meetings. Coordinate data compilation and transmission of weekly updates on key indicators to ECAP I Project and Sub-partner staff. Coordinate the compilation of program monthly reports for VCA services and submit monthly reports to SI Manager. Participate in data verification exercises, checking the source data records in all project sites. Perform any other VCA related data collection duties as assigned by the Supervisor. Show less



mothers2mothers

• South Africa
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• PMTCT Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

  • Apr 2019 - Nov 2022

  Duties include: • Train and build capacity health facility and community based staff in the electronic data collection and client management tools CommCare and DHIS2 Tracker and Capture Apps • Oversee the implementation of CommCare and DHIS2 Capture and Tracker. • Ongoing supportive supervision and mentorship to site staff. • Give progress updates on project implementation and provincial, and national level using data visualization tool Tableau and DHIS2. • Provide support Program Officers data needs. • Participation in key M&E activities within USAID SAFE and m2m Head Office. • Mentor facility and community staff in client linkages to PMTCT and RMNCH services. • Review/Verification Monthly Facility based reports and compilation of Monthly Provincial Reports. • Perform basic data manipulation and analysis using Excel and Stata. • Design M&E tools as assigned. • Perform QAQI activities and develop Action/Work Plans. Show less



JSI | John Snow, Inc.

• South Africa
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant PMTCT Administrative/mHealth Data Assistant

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

  Engaged as an Administrative/mHealth Data Assistant Consultant, reporting to the Provincial PMTCT Coordinator, tasked to support the implementation of the peer Mentor Mother Model at provincial level in the areas of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV & AIDs (PMTCT), Reproductive, Maternal, New – born and Child Health (RMNCH). Duties include: • Providing administrative and logistic support services. • Distribution of stationery and Monitoring & Evaluation tools to Mentor Mother sites. • Preparing Monthly Mentor Mother time sheets and claim forms for processing of payments. • Supporting the formulation and implementation of facility specific work plans using Quality Improvement Logs and Project BIO data. • Setting up phones with CommCare and ensure they function properly at all times. • Training and providing on-site supportive supervision to Mentor Mothers in the use of CommCare App 1 and App 2 for the management of client appointments and Active Client Follow Up (ACFU) of clients late for appointments. • Conducting Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Assessment at Mentor Mother Sites on the Copperbelt and Central Provinces. • Consolidating the Provincial Monthly Reports. • Extracting reports from CommCare HQ for performance assessment of Mentor Mothers. • Participation in key activities within USAID/PEPFAR SAFE as assigned. Show less

• Consultant mHealth Data Assistant

  • May 2018 - Jan 2019

  Consultancy engagement as District mHealth Data Assistant on the Mentor Mother Program to support the Monitoring and Evaluation specific activities at district level and contribute to program delivery in the areas of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and AIDs (PMTCT), Reproductive, Maternal, New – born and Child Health (RMNCH). Duties include: • Train facility and Community based staff in CommCare. • Implementation of the m2m electronic client diary, CommCare. • Install and update the digital client management system, CommCare application, and relevant software on tablets and phones. • Ensure proper functioning of the phones at all times. • Ongoing supportive supervision and mentorship to facility and community based staff. • Weekly progress updates on supervision and roll out of CommCare. • Participation in key M&E activities within m2m and USAID SAFE. • Mentor facility and community staff in client linkages to PMTCT and RMNCH services. • Review Monthly Facility based reports and compilation of Monthly District Reports. Show less



BroadReach

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant Strategic Information Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - Apr 2018

  Worked on consultancy basis as a Strategic Information Assistant on the Integrated Decision and Analytics Support (IDeAS) project in collaboration with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Duties included: • Run and Collect Transport Databases (TDBs) for health facilities. • Data extraction and manipulation from SmartCare Transport Databases (TDBs) for de-duplication using Excel and Link-Plus Software • Pressure testing Survey CTO forms to ensure perfect flow of questionnaires. • Data collection using Survey CTO for the Assessment of SmartCare Deployment and Functionality in Health Facilities in Zambia, specifically in North-Western and Copperbelt provinces. • Participate in the writing of district and/or provincial field experiences data collection report. • Transposing the Data for Accountability, Transparency Impact Monitoring (DATIM) dataset using MS-Excel. • Pressure testing CSPro android based questionnaires for the Evaluation of Integrated HIV Program, Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE) in Sinazongwe District. Show less



Dr Mataka - Consultant

• Research Assistant

  • Nov 2016 - Dec 2016

  Worked as a Research Assistant for a consultant, Dr Arthur Mataka, on a baseline survey for Action Africa Help Zambia’s (AAHZ) HIV/AIDS Community-Led Prevention Initiative (COPI) Duties Included: • Questionnaire design and coding. • Overseeing data collection and data entry. • Data cleaning Worked as a Research Assistant for a consultant, Dr Arthur Mataka, on a baseline survey for Action Africa Help Zambia’s (AAHZ) HIV/AIDS Community-Led Prevention Initiative (COPI) Duties Included: • Questionnaire design and coding. • Overseeing data collection and data entry. • Data cleaning