CURRICULUM VITAE

Name

Steve Maxwell Chikomo

Date of Birth

11th July 1985

Marital status

Married

Nationality

Malawian

Religion

Christian

Contact Address

Nsipe Health Centre, P.O. Box 131

Ntcheu

Education

2002- 2005 JCE and MSCE, Muloza Secondary School in Mulanje.

2008 Diploma of Community Development, Obtained at Soche Technical College.

2011-2013 Advanced Diploma of Public Health Management Obtained at Share World University.

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Employment Organization and title/position. Contact info for references.

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Summary of activities performed relevant to the Assignment

May 2020 up to Date

Jhpiego Corporation

Position: Peer Educator Supervisor.

Reference:

Bonfess Msiyambiri

Cell: 088*-***-***

Email: adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

Mzimba South

Support and Coach Peer Educators to provide high quality prevention education and referral services including monitoring and evaluating the implementation of priority Population activities.

Conduct observation sessions to assess Peer Educators Competencies, ensure SOPs are followed, Client’s needs are met and provide timely feedback to enhance performance.

Identify Peer Educator Performance gaps, training needs and assist in planning, designing and delivering trainings in accordance with the identified gaps.

Mentor and supervise Peer Educators during education session through demonstration, observation and practices.

Organize and Conduct Client’s exit interviews, Client satisfaction surveys through sampling a sizeable number of clients.

Distribution of safer sex commodities (male condoms, female condoms, lubricants)

Develop supervision and mentorship schedule and implement accordingly.

Conduct regular meetings with Peer Educators to solicit their views on improving performance, addressing implementation challenges and bottleneck and promote a sense of individual responsibility and commitment for the provision of quality HIV prevention services.

Promote effective communication between HDA and Peer Educators to ensure effective provision of HTS and linkage of clients to care and treatment.

Ensure Data is collected weekly from Peer Educators and entered to DHIS2 tracker.

Ensure the availability of data collection and reporting tools and other supplies such as condoms and Lubricants at all times through tracking of stocks levels for each peers Educator.

Document successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation and other reporting requirements.

Performs other related duties as requested by supervisor.

Work closely with the District team to ensure effective utilization of the budget and coordinate with the district team leader to ensure prompt reporting on expenditure and resource gaps.

Ensure Compliance with financial, HR and administrative procedures and ensure efficient use resources.

Comply with Jhpiego policies, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

January 2018 to April 2020

Mary s Meals Malawi

Position: School feeding Officer.

Reference: Emmanuel Mabedi

Cell: 099*-***-***, 088*-***-***

Blantyre Rural

Ensure that health and safety and child protection policies are communicated and implemented at each feeding school.

To ensure active community mobilization and participation in all school feeding program activities and needs such as mainstreaming environmental conservation activities and gender equity.

Providing advice, training and encouragement to school head teachers and school feeding patrons, feeding committees, traditional leaders and the general community in order to promote effective support and sustainability of the program.

Assist MEL team and regional managers in collecting both quantitative and qualitative data to report on program performance indicators.

Taking an active role in ADC and VDC meeting so as promote support for school feeding program.

Acting as a conduit of communication between Mary’s meals, schools and community member’.Immediate community liaison officerfor MM school feeding program.

Helping the school leadership in the management of stock and maintaining stock records.

Identifying and dealing with emerging issues as they arise at each school and reporting the same to the regional managers.

Collecting program data for management and operational decisions.

Supporting the school in proper sanitation and ensuring proper hygiene practices.

Liaison with other key departments, logistics, communication, warehousing to the school.

Supporting school in tree planting and ensuring proper care of trees through formation and encouragement of clubs e.g. friends of Mary’s meals club.

March 2016– September 2017-

Population Services International (PSI) Malawi

Position: Referral and Linkage Officer

Reference: Faith Kachala

adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

+265-***-***-***

Blantyre

Responsible for weekly collection of referral slips from the service delivery teams and from the health facilities.

Ensure HTC provider have filled correctly the referral slips.

Coordinate and supervise all expert clients to ensure successful tracing of HIV+ clients.

Coordinate communication with Health facility staff and site personnel on linkage.

Conduct bio-weekly follow ups of referred clients at the referral facility.

Prepare and submit site weekly and monthly linkage update to program Coordinator.

Responsible for compiling and submitting weekly data to M & E Officer.

Facilitate provision of continued psychosocial support when requested by clients.

Ensure and monitor appropriate referral of clients to psycho-social support, care and treatment partner.

Coordinates linkage enhancement at team, facility and district level.

In liaison with the HTS and Demand Creation Coordinator develop work plan for HTC.

June 2015 to May 2016

Plan International Malawi

Post: Capacity Building Officer

Reference: George Namizinga

adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

+265-***-***-***, +265-***-***-***

Nkhotakota

PAN-African CTLS Survey project Evaluation.

Peri-Urbun Sanitation and Health (PUSH) Project.

Sanitary survey on water quality assessment on Elephant Wells.

Supports the promotion of project management committees.

Data collection and process management.

Formulation and train CLTS members and help T/A to attain ODF.

Monitoring construction of improved latrines in communities and public institutions.

Training CLTS in communities.

Disbursement of loans, loans collection and monitoring project activities.

April 2014- march 2015

Welt Hunger Hilfe International

Post: School Feeding coordinator

Reference: Mrs. Wongani Chimbali

Email:adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

+265-***-***-***,+265-***-***-***

Mangochi

Sensitization the Community to mobilize resources for kitchen and Toilets Construction.

Distribution Corn Soya Blend (CSB) to Schools and CBCCs, Check balance sheet and supervise cooking process for porridge.

Facilitation Participatory Health and Hygiene Education (PHHE)

Conduct hygiene and Nutrition education in schools and communities through public gathering and focus group discussion.

Formulation of food management committee at school, community health clubs, water point committees and school health clubs.

Sensitizing health and sanitation massages through health education andmonitoring.

Monitoring Construction of Toilets and Urinals in school.

Training stakeholders and communities on how to prepare nutritious porridge.

Monitoring Hygiene in schools and cooking porridge process and care of kitchen utensils.

Provision education on how to protect portable water through maintenance of Taps, Borehole renovation and construction of protected wells.

Data collection for project.

2012- December 2013

Pirimiti Rural Hospital,

Post: Assistant Environmental Health Officer

Reference: Sister J Gowello

Email: adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

+265-***-***-***, +265-***-***-***

Zomba

Community assessment on hygiene practices and health hazardous e.g. Sanitation inspection.

Supervise Cholera camp and ensure that Infection Prevention. (IP) technics are observed to control the spread.

Mentor counsellors on modern Counseling technics.

Conduct under five clinic.

Strengthening Growth Monitoring Promotion, MUAC screening and referrals.

Monitoring home based care patients and follow up defaulter patients.

Data collection both manually and electronically for effective monitoring.

Monitoring Vaccine Cold chain if properly followed all the times.

Capacity building to health workers on Infection Prevention.

Provision Strong support of ART/TB client and make follow up.

Supervise community health workers (HSA and Volunteers) and verifying an outbreak if reported by HSA.

Mobilize communities to address their environmental health needs and report any outbreak to DEHO.

2010-2012

World Vision International Malawi

Post: WASH Field Officer

Reference: Mr. Lyson Sakala

Email: adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

+265-***-***-***, +265

999 909 203

Neno

Capacity building on water sanitation and health to the communities.

Distribution of gravity water fed pipeline system to the catchment area.

Community water quality maintenance by constructing protected well, Borehole rehabilitation and pipeline maintenance.

Build the capacity of the community through training on water sanitation, hygiene, cross cutting and gender.

Promotion of personal hygiene and safe environmental practices among communities and school children.

Coordinate and check the work of village water and health committees hygiene promoters in the area planned.

Organize and coordinate programs for water supply at the AP level including rehabilitates water supply systems e.g. Boreholes.

Water chlorination and civic the community on how to treat water to be safe to consume.

Monitoring water kiosk by ensure that all taps are producing quality and enough water and hygiene are practiced.

Formulation of community water points committee, monitoring and supervise committee.

Provision of health education to the community.

March 2008-2010

Archdiocese of Blantyre,

Catholic Health Commission.

Post: Community Health Officer.

Reference: Miss. Mary Ganiza

Email: adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

+265-***-***-***, +265-***-***-***

Phalombe

Oversee the implementation of HIV/AIDS Project activities in schools.

Lead the process of ensuring HIV Prevention tools, packages, activities and initiatives are implemented at high quality levels.

Train VSL and disbursement of loans to underprevail aged targeted group.

Create awareness of the project among beneficiaries and partners and facilitates participation in all stagesof the projects cycle from problem identifying through implementation and management.

Provision strong linkage between HIV activities and services for priority population, Adolescents, Youth and OVC.

Develop plans and activities for building of local community actors.

Support establishing Youth Clubs in the communities and Schools.

Conduct community health visits and follow up patients on ART treatment defaulters.

Provision of HIV integrated care and treatment, family planning and social services.

Train Volunteers on Behavior Change Communication, tools and techniques.

Identifies skills gaps and provides training to partners as required.

Conduct Nutrition assessment to U/5 children and identifying malnourished children whose parents are on ART.

Provision HIV preventives technics to targeted population.

Monitoring construction ofunder-five clinics and pig’s kraals for Community Youth Clubs.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Peer Educator and Youth Friendly Health services Provider.

HTC Counsellor

Trained as HIV Self-Test Provider (Have a Certificate)

Enumerator on population and housing census Baseline survey under (NSO) IN 2008.

Experience in PHHE, PRA, STAR and PHAST methodologies.

Experience in CTO, CTLS Survey and Data collection using Tablet.

Experience in Qualitative and Quantitative data collection

I have Valid Class C1 A driving Licence.

Language skills

English

Chichewa

Contact information:

Name: Steve Maxwell Chikomo

Email: adgqjy@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: +265-***-***-***, +265-***-***-***, +265-***-***-***.

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