Experience

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  Private Enterprise/Freelance

  • Copperbelt

  • Entrepreneur

    • 2008 - Present
    • Copperbelt

    Founded and led a dynamic small-scale business providing general contracting, supplying and labour hire services.

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  Right to Care Zambia

  • Head of Operations

    • Oct 2019 - Sep 2023

    Built and led a dynamic Administrative and Operations team, aligning roles strategically to support diverse operations of all RTCZ projects including USAID Action HIV in Lusaka, Southern, Copperbelt, Muchinga, Northern and Luapula provinces.

  • Research Manager

    • Apr 2017 - Sep 2019

    Led end-to-end activation, implementation, and closeout USAID funded pioneering health demonstration projects, including Multi Month Scripting and Dispensing (MMSD) of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) for stable clients and HIV Self-Test (HIV-ST) among adolescents and young adults aged between 16 and 24 years old. These were implemented in selected sites in Kabwe, Ndola and Kitwe.

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  Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia - CIDRZ

  • Zambia
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Programme Manager - Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessment (BHOMA)

    • Jan 2015 - Nov 2016

    • Responsible for the Implementation of a Health Systems intervention, to improve population health outcomes through the introduction of clinical forms, mentoring of clinic staff, and monitoring of quality of care in rural outpatient clinics with a real-time electronic data system. • Coordinating and supervising implementation of BHOMA II to improve maternal, new-born and reproductive health outcomes.

  • Programme Manager - Programme for the Awareness and Elimination of Diarrhoea (PAED)

    • Mar 2013 - Dec 2014

    Coordinated Implementation of a comprehensive diarrhoea control pilot programme in Lusaka province targeting children under the age of 5 including the operational coordination of grant with specific accountability delivery of private and public sector campaign for Zinc and ORS in Zambia and the design and implementation of an effective and innovative behavioural change (BCC) Programme and ORS and zinc pilot study (Health Seeking Behaviours including Hand Washing with Soap, Exclusive Breast Feeding and the use of ORS and Zinc).

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  Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

  • Lusaka, Zambia

  • Operations Officer

    • Sep 2011 - Jan 2013
    • Lusaka, Zambia

    Provided comprehensive administrative and operational support for EU-funded project benefiting 20,000 small-scale farmers implementing conservation farming methods across 30 districts in Zambia. In addition, facilitated disaster risk reduction food security initiatives in Zambezi river basin (Kazungula, Seshseke and Siavonga), supported by OFDA via USAID.

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  Stanbic Bank Zambia Limited

  • Lusaka and Copperbelt

  • Branch Manager

    • Jan 1998 - Jan 2008
    • Lusaka and Copperbelt

    Progressively advanced through roles from Graduate Management Trainee, Officer in Charge Customer Service, Officer in Charge Foreign Processing Unit, Corporate Accounts Officer, Head Service Centre before being appointed Branch Manager. Strategically drove the expansion of the bank's client portfolio, thereby augmenting the balance sheet size and boosting branch profitability.

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  The Anti Corruption Commission

  • Lusaka

  • Assistant Investigations Officer

    • Feb 1996 - Jan 1998
    • Lusaka

    Investigated and prosecuted corruption cases, ensuring legal compliance for potential convictions. In addition, identified vulnerabilities in organizational processes, recommending and implementing preventive measures to mitigate corruption risks.