Trust Mhembere
Chinhoyi
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Field Officer-Diocese of Gweru
CARITAS-Diocese of Gweru
09.2021 - Current
- Helping community mobilisation for participation and community led design of the program
- Conducting community mobilisation meetings
- Providing technical support and advice to all stakeholders participating in the project
- Strengthening the existing collaborative relationship with other stakeholders
- Registration and maintaining registers of rights holders or project members
- Producing weekly and monthly reports to the Program Manager
- Assisting in drawing up project proposals for Caritas Gweru
- Producing activity plan for each community with a clear system of tracking
- Regular monitoring of projects implemented by Caritas Gweru
- Keeping inventory of equipment and materials used in projects
- Undertake any other duty as may be assigned to you by the Program Manager or any other Superior person
Contitouch Technologies (Pvt) Limited
01.2019 - Current
- Handling of all foreign exchange transactions, cash, cheques, and foreign currencies
- Matching demand and supply of foreign exchange to maintain the required foreign exchange deposits with the bank
- Carrying out accurate foreign exchange transactions settlement with all procedural formalities and documentations
- Buying and selling, ensuring to up-sell at all times
- Providing exceptional customer service and building rapport with clients
- Working with sales targets
- Handling money transfers with approved Agents
- Handling large amounts of cash
- Dealing with all foreign exchange enquiries and ordering currency
- Maintain proper records of all transactions
- Report suspicious Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism activities to superiors
- Preparing daily reports
Voluntary Projects Coordinator
Chishamiso Maguma Development Trust (CMDT)
03.2021 - 08.2021
- Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures
- Organizing, attending and participating in stakeholder meetings
- Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings
- Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings
- Ensuring project deadlines are met
- Determining project changes
- Providing administrative support as needed
- Undertaking project tasks as required
- Developing project strategies
- Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project
- Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable
- Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution
- Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members
- Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective
- Any other duties assigned by the Director
Regional Executive
AFRICABET Zimbabwe
06.2020 - 03.2021
- Sales Performance Management
- Administration and Cost Management
- Adherence to Policies and Procedures
- Compliance with Regulatory Authorities
- Brand Image
- Human Resources Management
- Asset Management
- Repairs and Maintenance
- Customer Service and Relations
- Competitor Analysis
- Business Development
Branch Manager
Untu Microfinance (PVT) Limited
01.2012 - 01.2019
- Ensured compliance with all statutory and risk control requirements
- Mentored and trained Loan Officers, Branch Administration, Championed business development in branch locations
- Ensured that Monthly marketing plans are executed in the branch locations
- Prepared monthly branch operations reports
- Maintained financial and operational budget for the branch
- Liaised with collections and managed delinquency and carried out competitor analysis
- Responsible for the overall leadership of branch personnel
- Responsible for driving Branch disbursement targets
- Achieve operation and financial goals of the branch
- Presided over clients pre-disbursement lectures
- Maintained the required portfolio quality
- Submitted monthly performance reports
- Liaised with Collections and external lawyers, attended and represented the company in all marketing functions and maintaining branch assets
Sales and Distribution Officer/Supervisor
CRS and Care International
01.2005 - 01.2010
- Ensure that milling, sales and distribution arrangements are executed to meet the objectives of the program in accordance with CRS/Care/ZW and USAID regulations and policies
- Assist in the design and management of the sales database
- Assist in the management of the Commodity accounting database
- Manage all retail relationships including retailer’s agreements
- Co-manage all distribution relationships
- Report on all weekly sales activity
- Oversee fortnightly reconciliation of sales receipts with all stocks on hand at millers’ premises
- Report on reconciliation of commodity and stock counts against receipts
- Monthly monitoring and reports on logistics and sales revenues
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Project Manager
- Act as liaison between millers, distributors, retailers, programming and finance
- Supervising Sales Clerks and Orders Clerks
- Establishing and maintaining working relations with the Bookkeeper, MAP Program Manager, APM, Logistics, Sales & Orders Clerks and CRS/Care/ZW Finance Managers
Field Officer
Care International in Zimbabwe
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Coordinating training of Community Caregivers on Community Home Based Care (CHBC)
- Training youths in various youth programs (Peer Education & Counselling, Project Planning & Management and other sustainable development initiatives through Youth Friendly Corners)
- Support development of strategies, standards and other relevant tools to support OVC, HIV and AIDS programming
- Participate in program planning and project design, including the selection of appropriate methodologies for capacity building, monitoring and evaluation such as indicator selection
- Production of J.I Program reports
- Monitoring and writing reports on Youth Friendly Corners, HIV and AIDS
- Foster organizational learning and cross pollination of best practices throughout the organization, through sharing of information electronically, via workshops, tool kits and compiled documents
- Monitoring of CHBC facilitators, peer educators and LIG facilitators' activities
- Actively participating in Child Protection Mainstreaming activities in all programming in collaborating with Save the Children (UK), Police Victim Friendly Unit, and Social Welfare Ministry of Education etc
Field Monitor
Catholic Relief Services
01.2003 - 01.2004
- Coordinating beneficiary registrations
- Spearheading health education for cholera response
- Monitoring Distributions of NFI items for cholera response
- Monitoring Food Distributions for Schools Based Feeding Program
- Training of Schools Based Feeding Program Team
- Report compilation and writing
- Carrying out post distribution surveys
- Coordinating the identification of any new projects in the districts
Provincial Economist
Department of Infrastructural Development (DID)
01.2001 - 01.2003
- Facilitating the implementation of rural development projects like dams, boreholes, community gardens, irrigation schemes and other income generating projects through PRA approach
- Project planning, monitoring and evaluation at provincial level
- Supervision of junior staff at provincial level and districts
- Analysing tender documents for projects and giving recommendations for approval
- Assessing payment claims for contractors and giving recommendations for payment
- Representing the ministry at provincial level
- Writing monthly reports on the fund’s operations
- Attending and participating in various provincial development fora
- Participating in policy formulation
- Carrying out spot checks and verification of delivery of goods and services (monitoring and evaluation)
Education
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree - Economics
University of Zimbabwe
Certified Expert in Microfinance -
CEMF-German Frankfurt School of Finance
Certificate in Non Profit Essentials -
Certificate in Project Management -
Certificate in Investigating Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse -
Certificate on How to Set Up a Response Operation -
Skills
- Negotiating
- New product/model development
- Project planning
- Project management
- Self-starter
- Quick learner
- Business development
- Compliance monitoring
- Community development
- Team player
- Research
- Non-Governmental Management
- Risk Management
- Debt recovery
- Stakeholder management
- Conflict Management
Accomplishments
- Field Officer, Caritas Diocese of Gweru, Gutu Serima
- 7 years, Branch Manager, Untu Microfinance
- Chitungwiza
- Kwekwe
- 2 years, Supervisor, Market Assistance Project (MAP)
- Catholic Relief Services
- Care International
- 2 years, Rural Development Projects Economist, Rural Development Fund (RDF), Mashonaland West Province
Trainingsattained
- Certificate in Lending and Debt Collection Strategies, KCI Microfinance, 2011
- Market Intelligence Gathering Techniques and Research, KCI Microfinance, 2011
- Beneficiary Targeting, WFP, 2003
- Participatory Rural Appraisal, UNDP, 2003
- Certificate in H.I.V and AIDS Mainstreaming, C-SAFE, 2006
- Certified Expert in Microfinance, Frankfurt School of Finance, 2016
- Project Planning and Management, ZIPAM
- Management Development 1 & 2, Zimbabwe Institute of Management, 2016
- Information Technology Course, Multi-Commercial Training Centre
- Micro loan lending tools and risks, LFS in-house training, 2014
- Group lending techniques, Costa Malai consultancy in-house training, 2014
- Customer service and Management, Zimbabwe Institute of Management, 2016
- Sales explosion program, Barry Mitchel, 2017
Timeline
Field Officer-Diocese of Gweru
CARITAS-Diocese of Gweru
09.2021 - Current
Voluntary Projects Coordinator
Chishamiso Maguma Development Trust (CMDT)
03.2021 - 08.2021
Regional Executive
AFRICABET Zimbabwe
06.2020 - 03.2021
Contitouch Technologies (Pvt) Limited
01.2019 - Current
Branch Manager
Untu Microfinance (PVT) Limited
01.2012 - 01.2019
Field Officer
Care International in Zimbabwe
01.2007 - 01.2008
Sales and Distribution Officer/Supervisor
CRS and Care International
01.2005 - 01.2010
Field Monitor
Catholic Relief Services
01.2003 - 01.2004
Provincial Economist
Department of Infrastructural Development (DID)
01.2001 - 01.2003
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree - Economics
University of Zimbabwe
Certified Expert in Microfinance -
CEMF-German Frankfurt School of Finance
Certificate in Non Profit Essentials -
Certificate in Project Management -
Certificate in Investigating Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse -
Certificate on How to Set Up a Response Operation -
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