928 Retreat Waterfalls

Harare, Zimbabwe

27 April 2024

To: Human resources manager

Terre des Hommes Italia

Dear Sir\Madam

Re: APPLICATION FOR THE POST OF PROJECT COORDINATOR-CHILD

PROTECTION.

I do hereby apply for the post of at your organisation Project Coordinator-Child protection. I
came across the vacancy alert on vacancy mail job site. I am a skilled and registered social
worker with 5 years experience in child protection, economic empowerment initiatives and
GBV programming. I am also a holder of a BSc Hons Degree in social work. I have good
stakeholder engagement, data management, data capturing, data analysis and reporting skills.
I have huge knowledge in data and report compilation and I am result oriented. I have
attached my curriculum vitae for your perusal. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Regards

Heaven M

+263784212727
curriculum vitae for muchembere heaven shadreck

Contact number +263784212727: Email address [email protected]. Clean class 2

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Registered social worker with a proven track record in championing effective child advocacy
initiatives, overseeing successful fundraising and resource mobilization strategies, and
establishing impactful community-led initiatives. Skilled in fostering collaborative
partnerships, representing organizations in diverse platforms, and contributing to multilevel
engagements on community-led advocacy and change. Demonstrated success in establishing
women's empowerment groups, training community champions, and driving tangible
improvements in social service delivery.

Core Competences and Skills

• Project Management • Human Rights Advocacy • Data analysis & Reporting

• Budget Analysis & Tracking • Monitoring & Evaluation • Monitoring and Evaluation
• Program Management • Portfolio Management • Stakeholder engagement

WORK EXPERIENCE

Caritas Archdiocese of Harare-Pathways project- Social worker (27 May 2021-Aug 2022)
duties:
 Implemented child protection program to improve community resilience and
facilitating linkages as guided by the National Case Management system(NCMS).
 Facilitated household economic strengthening initiatives through Savings and Internal
Lending Communities (SILC) as well as training households on market linkage skills
and value addition.
 Enrolled, developed case plans, conducted assessments / conducted case monitoring,
updated service checklists at quarterly bases and case resolutions for PLHIV.
 Trained community cadres i.e. VHW and CCWs on child protection and safeguarding
issues. Updated client data and service reach in the POMIS online system.
  Offered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to OVCs in need. Tracking OVCs living with
HIV for service uptake.
 Linked OVCs to appropriate services as requested.
 Mobilization and facilitation of community outreach programs aimed at reducing
incidents of abuse to children. Linking/ referral of children who are in conflict with
the law to relevant stakeholders.
 Trailing implementation of case plans and updating the case files for the OVCs in
Mbare, Stoneridge and Hopely.
 Facilitated father to child dialogues as a child protection component under the
Pathways project.
 Empowered women, through parenting sessions, MUKANDO and market linkages.
Conducting family and case conference sessions against GBV.
 Trained and manage a diverse team of social work interns and locum social workers,
ensuring their safety at work and regularly conscientizing them on Preventing Sexual
Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH).
 Report writing i.e. routine documentation-statistical / narrative at quarterly basis.
Assist with budget monitoring and tracking to engender efficacious service delivery in
line with the project goals. Assist with liquidation of funds
Childline Zimbabwe- Social worker (August 2017- August 2018\ January 2019- April
2019);
Duties:

 Provided psychosocial support to Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVCs)

including those living with HIV\AIDS. Facilitated family dialogues through
positive parenting sessions (mother, father and child) to create an abuse free
environment for OVCs.
 Pioneered and implemented fundraising and resource mobilization strategies,
securing crucial support for sustained program success, including stratified
donor engagement, the use of donor intermediaries
 Mobilised and facilitated community outreach programs such as SILC groups,
Father-Child Dialogue and Sinovuyo sessions for better parenting.
 Stakeholder engagement, to enhance multi-sectoral approach to child protection
initiatives for Children Living with HIV (CLHIV).
 Provided training, mentorship, and supervision to community volunteers.
  Collaborate effectively with stakeholders such as government representatives,
local community organization funders.
 Verification of data collected by Field Agents. Prepare weekly, monthly and
quarterly report to the donor.
 Plan and develop strategies to meet planned activities on time.
 Proposal writing, transport, equipment requisitions and Liquidations.
 Train peers and parents on child protection (positive parenting).
 Case management -case identification, enrolment, assessments, case plan
development, monitoring, case resolution. Tracking young people for service
uptake and linking young people to appropriate services as requested. Conduct
training sessions with Community Case Workers and undertake other
administrative tasks encompassing liquidation, data capturing and report
compilation.
World vision Zimbabwe, Nyanyadzi Ap July 2019, July 2020, 19 Nov-13 December
2020
Role: Area Development officer (ADO)
Duties:

 Facilitated and manage Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) groups
of women who saved together and take small loans from those savings and
ensure increased household income, increased household expenditure on
essential social services, increased household access to cash assets and
improved household resilience to external shock such as food insecurity.
 Managed Community Voice and Action groups (CVA), informing, educating
and organizing dialogues between local communities and their government on
GBV issues.
 Formed, managed and conscientized groups of men on GBV as part of an
inclusive approach to activism against GBV.
 Advocating for women participation in community development initiatives and
ensure they have equal representation and participation.
 Implementing the disability inclusion component in schools, through advocacy
for structural and infrastructural recommendations.
 Developed CVA community scorecards to ascertain progress on service
provision. Supervision of community technical projects aimed at empowering
 vulnerable groups such as young girls, women ie the Youth Ready project,
Mukando, Livestock rearing, nutrition gardens among others.
 Proactively engage, conscientize men and community leadership on GBV and
abuse issues.
 Facilitation of Focus Group Discussions to gather data from technical projects
such as Youth Ready, Mukando. Compilation of gathered data from baseline,
mid-term (LQAS) and endline surveys and ensure timely reporting and
liquidation of funds

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Bindura University Of Science Education

BSC Honours Degree in Social Work (Aug 2015- Jun 2019)

Degree Class: Upper Second Class (2.1)

REFEREES

1) Bernadette Tichiwangana (Team Leader)

Contact: 0771928640

Email: [email protected]

2) Rosemary Tsimba (Project Officer)

Childline Zimbabwe Mbare drop in

Contact 0772935833

Email: [email protected].

3) Noah Nyowani

0774756101

[email protected]