Project Management A Team
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITAE
SIMACHENYA LUCKY
Gender : Male
Date of birth : 23rd July 1993
NRC : 315683/31/1
Marital status : Married
Nationality : Zambian
Place of Birth : Choma
Religion : Christian
Email : *****************@*****.***
Contact No. : +260********* / +260-*********.
SUMMARY STATEMENT
I Have over 9 years working experience in non-governmental organizations projects PEPFAR (USAID & CDC), EU with expertise in Project management, Social Behavioral Change Communications; Community Services & Linkage; VCA; Empowerment and Small Enterprises; Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV); Learning and Action methodologies overseeing public health projects in Zambia with a focus on Community and Health system strengthening for quality service delivery. With 9 years’ work experience in the supervisory role at community, district, provincial and national levels in the public sector (MOH) and supporting private and civil society organizations (NGOs), I have gained more experience through working as Program Officer, Social Behavioral Change Specialist, VCA, Policy-makers and a diverse of health service providers, Community (CBOs) as well as Religious/Traditional Leaders (FBOs). As a qualified Social scientist, I have worked for programs and projects that support HIV/AIDS; VCA; Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child health, Adolescent health and Nutrition (SRMNCAH &N) services; Malaria; Tuberculosis; water and sanitation as well as Community Engagement and Public Private Partnership Programs.
PROFILE/ATTRIBUTE
I’m a team player that appreciates team congruence with a bias for team effectiveness and efficiency
I’m a strategic thinker, selfless, responsible, and accountable with professional and ethical conduct.
I’m a career-oriented person that never afraid of challenges and never comfortable with being static.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
FROM
TO
QUALIFICATION.
INSTITUTION/ SCHOOL
2009
2011
Grade 12 certificate
Chuundu High School
2007
2008
Grade 9 certificate
Nahumba Basic School
2000
2006
Grade 7 certificate
Nahumba Basic School
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS
QUALIFICATION
INSTITUTION
Bachelor’s degree in Social Work awaiting graduation
African Research University
Bachelor of Science in Psychology and counseling
Robert Gideon University
Diploma in Clinical Psychology
Chainama College of Health Sciences
Certificate in Psychosocial Counseling
Chainama College of Health Sciences
1.PROJECTS, RESEARCH AND HIGHLIGHTED TRAININGSTRAININGS/ AFFILIATIONS: -
Certified Professional Counsellor – Zambia Counselling Council
Certificate TOT for training Index Case Testing: USAID SAFE, Kabwe.
Certificate TOT training for Partner Violence IPV: USAID SAFE, Kabwe
Certificate TOT training in SGBV: World Vision, Kasama.
Certificate in Facilitating Community Development:
Certificate in Project Management & Planning: University of Zambia
Trainer of Trainees in Child Safeguarding – USAID, Lusaka
Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation – African Research University
Computer Literate in Microsoft Office Package-Word and Excel.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
11th AUGUST 2024 To SEPTEMBER 30th 2024~ CONSULTANT COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION OFFICER – USAID PACT ZIH PROJECT
Roles and Responsibilities
Provide leadership at the district, facility, and community level in the Implementation of Advocacy, Social Mobilization and Communication (ASCM), Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) and Community integrated HIV services.
• Implement innovative and low-cost SBC / RCCE models and solutions that aim to increase personal agency and improve care-seeking behaviors, including implementation of effective social listening mechanisms at the community level.
• Implement innovative and low-cost effective community engagement approaches.
• Work with the religious, traditional, and all relevant key stakeholders including MOH health promotions and community health unit to plan community mobilization activities that generate demand for health services and help people adopt safer healthy behaviors.
• Work with DHO and facility teams to recruit volunteers with appropriate skill sets for the USAID Zambia Integrated Health Activity.
• Conduct capacity building, training, mentorship, and support to the volunteers and ensure the provision of high-quality, client-centered HIV, TB/HIV, MNCH, and FP/RH services, products, and information is integrated into target facilities and communities’ catchment areas.
Coordinate CBVs to ensure that clients’ treatment and adherence are sustained, and retention rates are above 90 percent.
• Day-to-day supervision of volunteers and setting of daily/weekly/monthly targets, trouble shooting and timely resolution of any gaps to ensure that targets are met.
• Facilitate the provision of logistics including tools, equipment, and materials to volunteers to carry out facility and community outreach integrated activities.
• Support in designing, implementing, and overseeing activities to create demand for integrated HIV, TB/HIV, MNCH, and FP including cervical cancer screening and referral services in the community, and ensure that key community stakeholders and structures are mapped and involved in advocacy and community engagement activities.
• Support CBVs in tracking patients and ensuring that treatment schedules and testing regimens (e.g. VL, EID) are adhered to, including linking patients to access appropriate integrated services that are critical for their own health, as well as services to prevent HIV transmission to uninfected sex partner(s) and children.
• Support CBVs to implement high-yield strategies such as index testing, Partner Notification Services (PNS), and Sexual Network Strategy (SNS).
• Support CBVs to ensure adolescent/youth-friendly, mental health and HIV services are available at the facilities and in the communities.
• Ensure that the rules of confidentiality are adequately enforced in all Services.
Work with the Strategic Information Assistant (SIA) and facility staff at facility level to conduct triangulation of client data in registers i.e. ensure clients are linked to appropriate services and are receiving services as per schedule.
• Assemble, organize, and submit data on priority interventions ensuring that all records are kept up to date.
• Work with facility staff, volunteers, and key stakeholders to implement and monitor the execution of campaigns to address low-performing indicators ensuring that HIV, TB/HIV, MNCH, and FP services are integrated where appropriate.
• Support mainstreaming of mental health and gender activities among the target program population as part of the integration health package.
• Conduct regular review meetings with the facility staff and volunteers and ensure quality improvement plans are developed with appropriate interventions identified and implemented to address any gaps identified.
• Timely facilitation of monthly CBV stipends with accurate supporting documents
• Facilitate the development of monthly plans, and budgets and ensure timely implementation.
Use community-led tools to monitor the implementation of SBC activities and all aspects of demand creation and mobilization as well as delivery of community service activities in the target communities ensuring that SBC objectives, targets, and deliverables are achieved on time.
• Contribute to the documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and human interest/success stories including project activity reports.
4th APRIL 2023 TO 30th AUGUST 2023: HTS HUB COORDINATOR – Right to Care Zambia
Roles and Responsibilities
Coordinate all HTS Hub activities in the hub.
Collaborate with MOH and other hub leaders in achieving HTS targets through well-coordinated plans, effective
communication, and proactive management of HTS indicators and Retention.
Ensure that strong monitoring systems of HTS programs are in place at all sites and maintained.
Coordinate all logistics required under the HTS Department
Conduct monthly ordering and printing of IEC materials, registers, pamphlets, posters, and other consumables utilized for advocacy and awareness activities for the purpose of demand creation.
Develop Hub HTS plans in HTS activities informed by the district classification and gaps identified.
Develop monthly and weekly support plans informed by data, successes, and challenges to offer support in the hub.
Develop, manage, monitor, and file inventory for all demand creation assets, supplies, materials, and equipment allocated to Districts in a respective hub.
Work in collaboration with MOH and Provincial Office in identifying training needs for staff in the Hub.
Ensure daily, weekly, and monthly monitoring of HTS indicators is done effectively.
Ensure all Weekly PC reports, Monthly HTS Reports and all HTS reports are compiled, analyzed, and reported according to set deadlines for submission to the Provincial HTS and Retention Coordinator.
Develop HUB level performance tracking tools for effective and efficient program performance management and be always aware of gaps.
Monitor the usage and reporting of the LYNX application and other innovations introduced.
Routine physical checks of Districts and facilities in the Hub and implementation of HTS activities in line with USAID and RTCZ SOPS and guidance.
Adequate Supervision by HTS Supervisors that should be documented, and evidence based through reports and translated into performance of teams being led.
Provide supervision, mentoring and on the job training for all HTS staff in RTCZ Supported sites, including identification of capacity gaps, and updating knowledge of counsellor testers on current HTS practice
16th DECEMBER 2019 TO 28th FEBRUARY 2023: HUB HIV CARE AND SUPPORT OFFICER FOR KABWE, MKUSHI AND LUANO DISTRICT - John Snow Inc. – USAID SAFE Project
Roles and responsibilities
•Providing high quality HIV Counseling and Testing Services at SAFE supported facilities and their catchments areas.
•Ensure that clients are continuously engaged in appropriate medical care maintaining retention rates above 90%.
•Ensure clients starting ART are adequately prepared for treatment.
•Provide intensive hands-on technical supportive supervision and Mentorship to all SAFE supported community-based volunteers, PCs, Mentor mothers and other facility staffs involved in HTS to ensure that they are implementing high yield strategies (i.e. indexing and PNS).
•Ensure that all SAFE supported 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.
•Actively link all persons living with HIV (PLHIV0 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.
•In collaboration with Strategic Information Assistants and Community Based Volunteers, conduct triangulation of registers to ensure that clients linked to and are receiving all services due to them.
•Create demand for HIV services including Viral Load (VL) and ensure quality enhanced adherence counselling is provided.
•Collect, collate and submit 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 that HTS SOPs are available and strictly adhered by all Health facility staff and volunteers.
•Ensure integration of HTS into other health services including FP, MCH, TB, OPD, Inpatients Departments, other specialized clinics.
•Work with the ART clinicians and providers to ensure that clients are linked to treatment, care and prevention services, including Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (Prep) for HIV prevention.
•In collaboration with other facility staff, both SAFE and MOH supported staff, attend and actively participate in a data review meeting to ensure that timely decisions are made based on data that is generated at facility level.
13th August 2018 to 30th September 2019 – CONSULTANT PROFESSIONAL CONSELLOR SUPERVISOR LUANO DISTRICT- John Snow Inc – USAID SAFE Project
Roles and responsibilities
Provide high quality HIV Counselling and Testing Services at SAFE supported facilities and their catchment areas
Provide intensive hands-on technical supportive supervision and Mentorship to all SAFE supported volunteers involved in HTS to ensure that they are implementing high yield strategies (i.e. indexing and PNS);
Ensure that all SAFE supported 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.
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
In collaboration with Strategic Information Assistants and Community Based Volunteers, conduct triangulation of registers to ensure that all clients are linked to and are receiving all services due to them.
Create demand for HIV services including Viral Load (VL) Analysis and ensure quality enhanced adherence counselling is provided
Collect, collate and submit 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 that HTS SOPs are available and strictly adhered to by all Health Facility staff and volunteers;
Ensure integration of HTS into other health services including FP, MCH, TB, OPD, Inpatients Departments, other specialized clinics.
Work with the ART clinicians and providers to ensure that clients are linked to treatment, care and prevention services, including Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention.
In collaboration with other facility staff, both SAFE and MoH supported staff, attend and actively participate in the daily data review meetings to ensure that timely decisions are made based on data that is generated at facility level
3rd June 2018 to 9th August 2018 – PROVENCAL COMMUNITY AND FAMILY STRENGTHENING OFFICER- Family Legacy Zambia Lusaka
Roles and responsibilities
Ensure parents/guardian engagement
Support child protection functions
Conduct pre-fostering and children recruitment into sponsorship program.
Prepare households for children reintegration.
Implement socio-economic activities for household empowerment
Support Social-Emotional Learning functions
Identify and recommend children for Tree of Life admission
Support implementation of WASH initiatives and Child Protection
Conduct parent’s/guardian meetings to collectively address issues that affect learners.
Facilitate character formation, with assigned children, in alignment with a Christian perspective
Promote holistic growth and development among assigned children and their families
Provide family counseling and support by encouraging the participation of the families to develop solutions to their problems.
Liaise with interested groups and individuals to set up new services for the children.
Develop and implement strategies.
Cultivate relationships within the community to provide new opportunities for parents and guardians.
Child Protection and special projects
Work with Child Protection Coordinators on conducting initial investigations of child abuse allegations.
Train parents/guardians on girls’ Menstrual Hygiene Management.
Ensure on-going implementation of the Child Protection Policy.
Enhance child safety by identifying risks and mitigating them through implementing child protection strategies.
Support WASH initiative through community-based activities
Pre-roistering and Recruitment of Vulnerable Children
Participate in reviewing the recruitment criteria;
Identify and conduct vulnerability assessments on potential Camp Life Children according to the set criteria.
Collect copies of birth records for pre-rostered children.
Conduct home visits on all pre-rostered children to ascertain availability.
Facilitate camp life-related activities
Conduct sponsorship notification meetings for parents/guardians/kids.
Ensure parents/guardian consent to child sponsorship by signing enrolment forms.
Ensure sponsor letters for newly sponsored children are administered in accordance with the set criteria and due dates.
Support SEL in program implementation.
Make follow-ups on Tree of Life runaway/missing children to ascertain the basis for escape and safety status.
Work with Tree of Life on children’s holiday return and follow-up on the non-return.
Identify and recommend children for possible admission at the Tree of Life Child Care facility.
Respond to queries raised by parents/guardians regarding the care facility.
Cultivate partnerships with private, non-governmental organizations, and government sectors to support reintegration.
Raise awareness on reintegration to parents and guardians.
Conduct post reintegration home visits, to ascertain children’s adaptability to the new environment.
Conduct socio-economic assessments to ascertain household preparedness.
Socio-economic empowerment for households.
Build relationships with households by providing spiritual guidance and encouragement through home visits.
Raise awareness on issues relevant to the community.
Provide household counseling to establish functional homes for the children.
Train parents and guardians on entrepreneurship and financial management basics.
Form saving schemes for parents and guardians.
Identify and develop existing programs that support household socio-economic empowerment.
Maintain ongoing, up to date, and accurate records of the pre-rostered children
Keep documented records of assessments and information of identified children throughout the rostering process.
Document meetings held with parents/guardians or groups within the community.
Keep birth records for all pre-rostered children.
Keep records of saving schemes for parents and guardians.
Track attendance of parents/guardians during termly meetings.
Keep accurate, detailed and timely records and progress reports of all Tree of Life families
13th February 2018 to 30th July 2018 –REGIONAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER KASAMA- Right to Care Zamia – USAID EQUIP
Roles and responsibilities
Provide intensive hands-on technical supportive supervision and Mentorship to all EQUIP supported volunteers involved in HTS to ensure that they are implementing high yield strategies (i.e. indexing and PNS);
Ensure that all SAFE supported 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.
Delivering quality HTC services to the key priority and vulnerable populations at District level and integrating TB screening into the HTS services.
Providing weekly hands-on mentorship to the lay counselors’/ peer mobilizes and Social
Behavior Change promoters.
Establishing and strengthening referrals/linkages between community HTS points and
ART/STI services ensuring that all clients who are tested receive care and support.
Working closely with the DHO, facilities and NHCs in facilitating the start –up activities
such as training for Lay Counselors, office start up
Providing supportive supervision to MOH facility staff and lay counselors on targeted
testing services (indexing/PNS; PITC and hot spot testing)
Conducting monthly counselor supervision to Lay Counselors to improve on the quality of
counseling in conjunction with the Counselor Supervisor from health facility and provide
weekly hands-on mentorship to the lay counselor’s/ peer mobilizes and Social Behavior
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
In collaboration with Strategic Information Assistants and Community Based Volunteers, conduct triangulation of registers to ensure that all clients are linked to and are receiving all services due to them.
Create demand for HIV services including Viral Load (VL) Analysis and ensure quality enhanced adherence counselling is provided
Collect, collate and submit 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 that HTS SOPs are available and strictly adhered to by all Health Facility staff and volunteers;
Ensure integration of HTS into other health services including FP, MCH, TB, OPD, Inpatients Departments, other specialized clinics.
Work with the ART clinicians and providers to ensure that clients are linked to treatment, care and prevention services, including Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention.
In collaboration with other facility staff, both EQUIP and MoH supported staff, attend and actively participate in the daily data review meetings to ensure that timely decisions are made based on data that is generated at facility level
9th February 2015 to 01st June 2017: Central Statistical Office: Field Enumerator Supervisor
Map reading and boundary identification of Enumeration Area (EA).
Listing of all households in allocated EA to come up with a sample frame.
Sample selection of households to be enumerated.
Ensuring Enumeration of all sample selected households using paper or electronic questionnaires by the enumerators.
Editing for completeness and consistency of all questionnaires.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Outstanding knowledge of principles of psychology and mental health and expertise in implementing many types of behavioral and counselling therapies.
Competencies in administering and interpreting psychological tests and developing intervention programs to adjust behavior.
Ability to provide individual counselling services or facilitate group therapy sessions in a positive and effective manner.
Strong sense of integrity when dealing with clients and a commitment to keeping information confidential when necessary.
Excellent oral communicator and compassionate listener when discussing details of individual cases with clients and family members.
REFEREES
1.Mr. Osward Chikwaba
Provincial Community Mobilization Officer
John Snow Inc USAID/ SAFE Project
Email: **************@*****.***
Contact No: +260*********
2.Mr. Muti Chibiya,
Clinical Care Officer,
Mkushi District Health office,
Cell No: +260*********,
Email: ***********@*****.***.
3.Mr. George Mwiinga
Chief of Party
Project Concern Zambia – ECAP II Project
Contact No. +260*********
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