Happy Phiri

Experience

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  Cargill

  May 2010 - Sept 2013

  Data Capture Clerk

  • Ensured the data delivered from the field was compliant to the company’s guidelines as regards to quality, reliability, and completeness.• Classified and batched grower documents prior to processing.• Captured grower contract forms, input invoices and cotton receipts accurately • Verified and reconciled grower loans• Filed and secured growers’ documents as per laid down company policy• Analysed farmer queries and advised the action to be taken • Held meetings with farmers on the challenges and how best to overcome them Show less

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  Hillside Girls Secondary School

  Jan 2016 - May 2016

  Student Teacher
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  Mem Private Boarding School

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

  High School Teacher

  • Taught students based on national curriculum guidelines (Grade 8 -Grade 12.• Developed and implemented quarterly teaching plans (schemes of school)• Planned, prepared, and delivered lessons within the given time. • Encouraged student participation in lessons and in other school-related activities.• Supported the leadership team to implement the school’s development plan. • Promoted students research and report writing through formation of Geography clubs • Ensured the highest standards of quality and applied the most up-to-date teaching methods. • Coached and mentored troubled students. Show less

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  Mary's Meals

  Aug 2019 - now

  • Lead the implementation of Mary’s Meals school feeding program across multiple districts in Zambia, providing strategic direction and management oversight in alignment with the MMZ Senior Leadership Team.• Supervise School Feeding Managers to ensure smooth and efficient programme delivery. Develop and manage work plans, ensuring the timely implementation of all activities and the optimal use of resources.• Contribute to strategic expansion planning and the development of new school feeding initiatives across the region, ensuring scalability and sustainability of Mary’s Meals’ impact.• Foster strong relationships with local and international NGOs, government bodies, and other key partners, sharing best practices and advancing Mary’s Meals’ mission within the school feeding sector.• Lead efforts in community sensitization, engagement, and capacity building, empowering local stakeholders to take ownership and support the success of the school feeding programme.• Support the Head of Programme and Programme Delivery Lead in preparing annual budgets and forecasts, ensuring financial efficiency and alignment with organizational objectives.• Contribute to the ongoing review and development of programme policies, ensuring adherence to best practices and the continuous enhancement of the Mary’s Meals Model.• Play an active role in the development and execution of the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) strategy. Provide regular management reports, tracking progress against goals, and ensuring quality standards across all programme activities.• Contribute to institutional funding applications and prepare reports for donors, ensuring transparency and accountability in programme delivery.• Build and maintain positive relationships with Mary’s Meals field officers, partners, internal colleagues, and supporters, fostering collaboration and a unified approach to programme success. Show less Coordinate program delivery in Monitoring and Evaluation, data management and capacity building of the program team and other key stakeholders.• Provide data quality management, data analysis, reporting, and using data for decision-making. • Oversee data quality performance across 11 districts by identifying gaps and provide regular capacity trainings to 9 district managers and 72 school feeding officers. • Develop and effectively implement field monitoring tools for data quality assurance and reporting. • Write monthly and quarterly donor reports communicating programme impact.• Promote a health relationship with stakeholders and partners and provide training to ensure a smooth implementation of the programme.• Manage staff in conducting data quality checks in compliance with SOPs and MEL Strategy. • Provided capacity development to Country Programme staff and field offices, including mentoring, and coaching.• Participate in the personal development review process and to identify learning and development needs of the Programme Quality Assurance team. • Manage communication by ensuring that relevant staff, stakeholders, partners, and other functions are adequately supplied with all communication regarding programme delivery.• Manage budget and ensure that it is used for the intended purpose. Show less Ensured adherence to Standard Operating Procedures across the program by conducting data quality checks and audits. Ensured timely and accurate collation and analysis of programme data, capturing key programme indicators and ensuring that programme information management systems functioned effectively and efficiently.• Database cleaning and ensured data was up to date and accessible to appropriate programme staffs.• Monitored and evaluated progress on achievement of results and document lessons learnt through writing of program monthly and quarterly reports.• Conducted monthly quality assurance and compliance visits to program schools and ensured there was adherence to SOPs. • Trained stakeholders such as the community members, Ministry of education and Ministry of Health on programme operations during expansions in Vubwi, Sinda, Katete, Lundazi and Chadiza.• Assisted the project personnel with M&E tools and supporting them in their use.• Developed a data quality checklist which was adopted as the main tool for reviewing monthly data.• Identified capacity gaps among field staffs and provided regular capacity building trainings to 9 district managers across the 11 districts including 72 school feeding officer.• Prepared high quality monthly donor reports highlighting programme achievements and provided recommendations on how to best overcome the challenges. Show less

  • Programme Delivery Manager

    Jan 2025 - now

  • Program Manager - Quality Assurance/MEL

    Jun 2022 - Jan 2025

  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

    Aug 2019 - May 2022