CHISOMO MWAMADI MVULA

• Reporting to women's ministry national coordinator, oversee church women ministries in twenty-eight church branches within Limpopo province as follows:
• Represent the main contact person for church's national office and church branches in Limpopo province
• Managing 28 church branches within Limpopo province
• Supporting operations and implementation of capacity building programs and projects in the province
• Developing strategic plan for women aiming at women activate participation in church, community, business, and society
• Responsible for drafting budgets for provincial activities and preparing financial reports for National office
• Coordination of provincial women empowerment programs which incorporates health, business, relationship topics
• Preparing quarterly provincial reports by consolidating reports from twenty-eight branches
• In charge of training programs by identifying capacity building gaps and analysis sessions
• Collaborated with national coordinator to develop strategic plans aligning with overall organizational goals objectives, fostering a unified approach toward shared goals.

• Company Overview: A nonprofit international research organization that seeks to discover and promote effective solutions to global poverty problems by creating quality evidence to build a world with more evidence and less poverty through investigations based on Malawi's key development policies and frameworks.
• IPA projects focus on health and livelihoods programs (education, agriculture, and financial inclusion)
• This project focused on social networks to further diffuse information through farmer-to-farmer learning
• Reporting to project manager my duties were:
• Executing social networks project goals by strategizing administrative structures
• Support checking work plans, program and ensure compliance with program standard operating procedures
• Managing field project budget and financial reporting
• Worked closely with project manager and HR in facilitating project staff training
• Booking field project meetings with district agriculture systems, traditional Authorities and Group Village heads or District Commissioners office where need be
• Managing field teams, organizing transport to project sites and allowances
• Training field teams on data collection tools
• Managing a team of 20 enumerators
• Data management after each day of field work
• Delivered completed projects on time by prioritizing multiple tasks.
• Communicated deadline updates, outlined action items and offered targeted solutions to team members.
• Identified and resolved project issues and mitigated risks, reducing challenges and improving project results.

Company Overview: A nonprofit international research organization that seeks to discover and promote effective solutions to global poverty problems by creating quality evidence to build a world with more evidence and less poverty through investigations

• Reporting to Country Director, planning, directing, and coordinating administrative functions of organization as follows
• Served as link between Innovations for Poverty Action and its employees
• Functioned as main contact person between USA head office and Malawi office regarding human resource related activities
• Ensure staff compliance with company's standard operating procedures
• Overseeing recruitment process of long-term local and international senior project and administration staff, short term office and field project staff (field managers, field supervisors and research assistants)
• In charge of payroll processing and management, local staff benefits and compensation
• Responsible for fresh staff orientation programs, helping in project staff training and sending relevant country information to international staff before arrival to Malawi office
• Drafting of all staff contracts and organizational human resource manuals
• Ensuring timely performance evaluation appraisal and filing of all staff files
• Identifying staff capacity building needs and finding applicable trainings
• In collaboration with Country Director, senior project and office staff, work on strategic planning for company
• Overseeing staff social welfare committee of organization
• Management of Replicon online staff register
• Managing team of 4 country office employees
• Maintained accurate HR records in compliance with applicable laws, ensuring efficient data retrieval when required.
• Conducted thorough internal investigations, addressing employee concerns with fairness and transparency.

• Reporting to the Office Manager and or Country Director, worked as a consultant for Human Resources function matters as follows
• Standardizing 3 Human Resource manuals of IPA Malawi with IPA Headquarters in USA and Malawi labour laws
• Worked hand in hand with the organizations' attorney in drafting staff contracts and employee benefits in line with Malawi labour laws
• Served as contact person between junior short term project staff and the organization
• In collaboration with project Associates and Managers, trained field project research staff on human subject protection

• With funding from Department for International Development (DFID), IFCD worked with Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) on road project which focused on food for work
• Reporting to project manager on this livelihood project my duties were:
• Booking over 30 focus group field meetings with District Commissioners office and or Group village heads across Malawi
• Managing a team of 8 enumerators
• Listing of Household members to participate in focus group discussions
• Booking focus group field meetings with District Commissioners office and or Group village heads
• Organizing field research team, transport coordination and weekly allowance management
• With help from project manager, training field research team on questionnaire administration and Human subject protection
• Checking field staff focus group reports

• With support from USAID's Development Impact Ventures, the project aimed at evaluating the impact of convincing lending institutions to provide credit to the poor using fingerprints as unique IDs to track credit historical records.
• Reporting to project manager, in charge of a team of ten enumerators
• Listing of 200 Household members to participate in the project
• Booking focus group field meetings with District Commissioners office and or Group village heads
• Identifying field project sites ahead of meetings
• Organizing field research team, transport coordination and weekly allowance management
• With help from project manager, training field research team on questionnaire administration and Human subject protection
• Confirming field staff focus group reports

Reporting to Data entry Manager, responsible for:

• Reviewing over 30 field staff focus group reports weekly
• Ensured data quality allowing company to achieve 100 % of quality data goals
• Completed data entry tasks with accuracy and efficiency.
• Followed established procedures to enter and process data correctly.
• Checked for accuracy by verifying data and records.
• Prioritized tasks effectively to ensure timely completion of all assigned projects without sacrificing attention to detail.