Mutinta Chowe

YEP period 2018 - 2020, batch WWX1

Young Expert at WaterWorX - Zambia

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First position after YEP

Geographical Information Systems Specialist at Southern Water and Sanitation Company, Zambia

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YEP Role

• Compiling monthly progress reports
• Compiling quarterly progress reports
• Organising monthly project meetings
• Secretariat for the project meetings
• Coordinating all theme leaders
• Coordinating Peer to Peer visits
• Preparing visitation programmes for Short-Term Experts
• Alignment of the project key performance indicators (KPIs)  to the donor recommendations
• Project monitoring and evaluation of the project activities against set KPIs

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Skills

• Knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Good understanding and operation of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) & ArcPad
• Process implementation and Data Management
• Strong verbal communication
• Project management and monitoring

Background

Nationality: Zambian
Education: Bachelor of Science Urban and Regional Planning

 

Experience before YEP

2016 to date: Geographical Information Systems Specialist, Southern Water & Sewerage Company, Choma, Zambia. Responsibilities include:

• Conducting data collection (mapping) in the field
• Transfer of field drawings into a Geographical Information System (GIS)
• Interaction and coordination with water utility staff at head office and the districts
• Preparation of materials and supporting information for the field assignments
• Data analysis in GIS, Asset Management and generation of map products

2017-2018: GIS Specialist –National Water Supply and Sanitation Council, Lusaka, Zambia. Responsibilities include:

• Training of GIS Personals for EWSC, NWWSC and Chwsc
• Preparation of field data collection maps and documents
• Data collection and map preparation for the utilities