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Panagora GroupProject Officer: Engagement
Jan. 2024Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa• Support engagement practices for TSS at Panagora Group, facilitating in-person, virtual, and hybrid events for USAID and implementing partners.
• Coordinate team retreats, internal and external meetings, and technical workshops, handling program design, resourcing, procurement, and materials preparation.
• Administered in-person, hybrid, and virtual-only collaboration platforms, liaising with providers and synthesizing knowledge to ensure seamless event execution.
FHI 360Technical Advisor OVC
Oct. 2018 - Nov. 2023Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa• Provide technical assistance, capacity building and mentoring to OVCY partners implementing USAID/PEPFAR funded programs on HIV prevention, DREAMS Family Strengthening, HTS and GBV • Support internal and partner strategic planning, annual work/operational planning and routine annual/quarterly reporting
• Participate in routine Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement activities, Data validation, Program Review and performance monitoring
• Facilitate documentation of programmatic results and outcomes through dissemination of best practices and lessons learned as well as development technical briefs • Monitor performance of 5 direct reports
FHI 360Clinical Specialist
Oct. 2016 - Sep. 2018Pretoria Area, South Africa• Contribute to developing management strategies and systems for achievement of targets for all contract/ program objectives on time
• Provide support to prepare strategies, program work plan and monitoring and evaluation plan
• Provide advocacy and technical assistance to USAID funded District Support Partners and OVCY partners as well as district DoH to integrate maternal nutrition, IYCF and NACS into work plans • Coordinate and ensure implementation of key program activities related to NACS components i.e. Site Readiness; Capacity Building; Mentoring and Coaching; Quality Assurance
• Monitor performance of NACS program Technical Officers in program implementation and reporting
• Represent NACS program at various DoH technical working groups (Breastfeeding, malnutrition, maternal and child health and food security) • In collaboration with the knowledge and communications manager ensure documentation of lessons learnt in the implementation of NACS, development of appropriate materials and key communication documents.
University Research Co., LLC (URC) & Center for Human Services (CHS)Regional Nutrition Advisor
Jan. 2016 - Oct. 2016Pretoria Area, South Africa- Provide support to HIV and nutritional programs at designated health facilities in 4 countries (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique) in the Southern African region, under the ASSIST project
- Build capacity of the service delivery organizations to improve the quality of nutritional programs - Support the development and implementations of remedial strategies to ensure improvement in the quality of nutritional programs
- Monitor the progress of remedial strategies - Strengthen a multi-sectorial approach of linkages to HIV and nutritional programs
- Support the use of data for decision making at the designated health facilities
- Design and conduct field-based research & evaluations as required
AED/FHI360Dietitian (Training Officer)
Mar. 2009 - Jan. 2016Pretoria Area, South Africa• Coordinated and facilitated all integrated Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, maternal health, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Nutrition Assessment, Counseling and Support training and capacity building activities for the program, including but not limited to the following:
- Identified training and capacity building needs of health care providers and communities in all program sites
- Coordinated all activities necessary to ensure that training and capacity building requests/needs are met
- Assumed responsibility for consulting and coordinating with relevant province/district stakeholders in the execution of all training and capacity building
- Written summary reports of all training and capacity building activities
• Assisted in monitoring program progress in relation to work plans and timelines and ensure activities are implemented within scheduled timelines and budgets ceilings
• Contributed to monthly and quarterly progress reports, detailing activities, constraints and issues and project technical assistance needs. • Supported ongoing program planning and review by providing current program data
• In collaboration with the monitoring and evaluation coordinator, ensured that all training and capacity building activities pertaining and related to the program are monitored
• In consultation with technical staff, reviewed and updated the training and capacity building materials to ensure availability of current information on related subjects
Right to CareDietitian
Mar. 2007 - Mar. 2009Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa1. Getting systems up and running and DOH policies implemented to improve service delivery.
2. Two local clinics were also covered: Beaconsfield and City clinic.
3. Training:
a. Nursing Sisters regarding the Nutrition Intervention Policy 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 of the Integrated Nutrition Programme (INP) b. Nursing Sisters regarding the PMTCT programme, Lactation Management and the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.
c. Training of Voluntary Counseling Testing (VCT) counselors and Community Home Based Care Workers.
d. Support to other Departments or Community programs for their educational needs.
e. Talks with patient groups at clinics regarding the topic on the clinic program, e.g. chronic illnesses (diabetes, hypertension, etc), child feeding, breastfeeding, PMTCT, etc. f. Continuous education to nursing staff regarding new information on feeding / diet plans for certain illnesses.
g. Involved in the planning and translation of a document “Community Home Based Care – nutritional care and support for people living with chronic diseases”.
h. Education through Nutrition Days such as International Breastfeeding Week, Nutrition Week and Diabetes Day.
4. Administrative duties:
a. Monthly record keeping of both of in- and outpatient numbers and statistics.
5. Therapeutic duties:
a. Support to clinics through counseling of patients referred for dietary treatment.
b. Assessment of new HIV positive patients for referral to ARV clinics.
c. Prescription of diets or dietary counseling to patients.
d. Regular follow-up and monitoring of patients.
Northern Cape Department of HealthDietitian
Jan. 2006 - Jan. 2007Establishing nutrition services; outreach services to 8 clinics; training of health care workers (both professional and community based) on a variety of nutrition related topics and delivering therapeutic nutrition services. Monthly report writing and record keeping of patient numbers and nutrition supplements
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