Enock Chitakwa

My core skills, qualities and interests give insight of my professional goal for a high-level approach to executing duties prominent to environmental health, public health, water and sanitation, research, health and safety training to help communities elevate their overall health and lives

Personal qualities:

• Interdisciplinary Team Leadership and management
• Initiative, Zealous, and Adaptable to situations
• maintains good work relations with individuals of different cultural and professional backgrounds
• Able to work in emergency conditions

Communication, Writing and Reporting:

• Comprehensive, concise, and coherent report writing and presentation
• I have high proficiency in writing for publication
• community mobilization skills

Technical Skills:

• Conducting inspections of premises; food safety inspections;
• Water quality monitoring/sampling;
• Pollution control;
• Solid and hazardous waste management
• Public Health Surveillance (IDSR), and outbreak rapid responce
• Integrated vector control for public health (IRS, LLITN);
• Healthcare facility infection control and prevention strategies

• Rural and urban water and sanitation strategies (CLTS, PHAST)
• High capacity to implementation of general public health/environmental health strategies and programs

Managerial:

• Co-ordinate, organize, and Plan, formulate, implement and monitor, and evaluate multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary programs
• Team management
• Key in the development of yearly Strategic Plans/programs with emphasis on the development and analysis of budgets for cost-effectiveness and efficiency in the implementation of activities
• Maintaining objective use of key performance indicators for making institutional/project and human resource appraisals

Capacity Development:

• Able to facilitiate training to professionals and community-based volunteers using Interactive community empowerment tools
• train and facilitate holistic and integrated community and health development
• Also have high efficiency in community mobilization and implementation of community based campaigns

Analytical:

• Write research and survey protocols for applied and health systems
• Data colletion and organizastion
• Quantitative (both descriptive and inferential analysis and interpretation) and Qualitative data collection and analysis

IT skills and Information management:

• Proficient in MS Office packages, including SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Stata, DHIS2, and also familiar with ArcGIS, EPI Info