CV Profile No.80823

Experience in the following industries :

• Social, public and human services

Professional experience

• Project Manager
• Federation of Organisations of Disabled People in Zimbabwe
• 11.2018 - 12.2021
• Advancing the right and welfare of persons with various impairments, through Advocacy and Lobbying. Linking persons with disabilities or their organisations to vital resources (including information and material things). Capacity Building of Member Organisations of People with Disabilities OPWD’s Budget management and monitoring, and overseeing some administrative roles. Supporting Resource Mobilisation for the FODPZ (Proposal Development)

• Program Officer (Development Facilitator)
• World Vision Zimbabwe
• 11.2007 - 09.2018
• Provided technical leadership in the development of child-centered interventions (HIV&AIDS, micro enterprise development, Child Protection, Education, Health, Food Security, Water and Sanitation and humanitarian affairs; social inclusion) Child and adult at risk safeguarding. Follow up and document child abuse cases, and make necessary referrals to key stakeholder to respond to these cases. Conduct awareness raising in the communities and to various stakeholders on Child rights and Protection issue. Program and budget management. Resource mobilisation.

• Project Coordinator
• University of Zimbabwe in Collaboration with University of California San Francisco
• 03.2005 - 10.2007
• • Coordinate all field activities for the project, ensuring research ethics (such as informed consent, managing conflict of interest and confidentiality are followed and maintained). • Link participants who want counselling services to counselors • Ensure recruitment of research participants (both male and females) • Conduct individual interviews and focus group discussions • Transcribe and translate interviews • Conduct quality check and assurance of other research transcripts • Ensure encryption of transcripts (for data protection) before sending transcripts to study principle. • Develop and pre-Test research tools • Manage project budget • acting as the key link person between the research sites and the communities from which the participants are drawn • creating an environment that is conducive for the conducting of Clinical Trials through fostering partnership with communities and ensuring that all relevant stake holders are well informed and actively involved in the research process

• Assistant Project Coordinator
• Bio-Medical Research and Training Institute
• 06.2004 - 02.2005
• • Community liaison within a research setting • Carryout field activities ensuring adherence to research ethics • Develop and fine tune, research tools aimed at youth behavior change • Facilitate focus group discussions and key informant interviews • Analyse data utilizing qualitative techniques • Provide counseling and referrals to other key services and agencies as and when needed • Ensure protection of research participants (through getting informed consent from youths (from guardians if minors), promoting individual and group confidentiality

• Food Monitor Team Leader
• Goal Zimbabwe
• 08.2003 - 06.2004
• • Facilitation of Community Participatory Household Vulnerability Assessments and Beneficiary Identification, • Creation of Distribution Plans, • Monitoring Food Distribution and child feeding Points, • Conducting Post Distribution Evaluations, • Report Writing. • Monitoring the health of Children and referring under nourished children to health centres for further treatment and care.