Esther M Masuke
Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania
Summary
Esther is a patriot, an empathetic and hard worker. She is self-initiated, responsible and trustworthy. Esther has a keen developed skill in communication (Verbal and Non-Verbal), engaging, networking, listening, management. A highly motivated and results-oriented social worker with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and seven years of experience in public health programs. Proven expertise in empowering women and youth through community-based initiatives, with a strong focus on economic development. Demonstrated ability to build trust and foster collaboration within diverse communities with a problem solving and Computer skills (Ms Word, Excel, Power Point and Microsoft Outlook). She has handled projects like USAID Afya Yangu-Reproductive Maternal, New born, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) project, Bio- Behavioural Survey (BBS), COMPASS Project, FIKIA KVP Project (ICAP Columbia Mailman School of Public Health), USAID Kizazi Kipya Project, Community Based Service Delivery Project, and Parenting Program Project.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Regional Technical Officer
Amani Girls Organization
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
02.2024 - 02.2025
- Company Overview: USAID AFYA YANGU-Reproductive Maternal, New born, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) project
- Supporting formulation and implementation of innovative approaches to ensure that youth targets are met
- Ensuring youth Family Planning /Reproductive Health plans are properly developed, coordinated and timely implemented
- Working closely with CSO- ASRH staff, provide technical support and coaching to ensure quality implementation of ASRH interventions in targeted region.
- Organizing and supervising and providing technical support during onsite visits at a Regional/District and Ward level, mentorship, and training to Girls Mentors/Youth Health Champions.
- Conducting monthly on-site visits and trainings at respective region led by ASRH TO.
- Conducting refresher trainings to School Focal Person, Youth Health Champions and community Girls Mentors on Power to Girls Methodology.
- Contributing actively to the preparation of internal and donor reporting requirements
- Working with the team in budgeting for project activities and ensure compliance to the finance policy and other organizations policies
- Ensure project activities budget expenditures for youth FP/RH activities are allowable according to program and donor regulations.
- Attend and provide weekly update during project and Amani Girls Organization meetings.
- Prepare and provide monthly, quarterly, and annually reports of ASRH interventions. Monthly/quarterly/Annually Reports prepared and submitted in monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Work closely with the ASRH Advisor on setting project priorities, and responding to requests for support from local counterparts Regularly Advisor and local counterparts supported.
- Participate in annual Regional and Project Annual review and planning meetings.
- Occasionally ASRH TOs perform assigned tasks Annually Annual Work Plan developed.
- Conduct quarterly onsite supportive supervision to monitor progress of ASRH interventions implemented by CSOs, GMs and YHCs and at Health Facilities.
- Perform tasks as assigned by respective Region, Cluster Team Lead, ASRH Advisor and AGH Internal Management Committee.
- USAID AFYA YANGU-Reproductive Maternal, New born, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) project
Survey Coordinator
ICAP Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
07.2023 - 11.2023
- Company Overview: Bio-Behavioural Survey (BBS)
- Assess eligibility of candidate participants who present at the survey site
- Verify and manage survey coupons using an Excel-based management tool
- Administer and obtain informed consent from eligible participants
- Ensure high quality data, and ethical and moral conduct to collect accurate and valid information
- Safeguard assigned data collection equipment, keeping it in good working condition and charged (for electronic equipment), ready for data collection
- Maintain high levels of confidentiality throughout the survey
- Carry out other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the investigators
- Bio-Behavioural Survey (BBS)
Project Officer
Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)-National Council of People living with HIV/AIDS (NACOPHA)
03.2022 - 09.2022
- Company Overview: Coalition to build Momentum, Power, Activism, Strategy & Solidarity (COMPASS) Project
- Prepare work plan, logistics and budget for monthly activities
- Mobilize CSOs in Tanzania to have a common agreed vision for CLM implementation
- Coordinate Community Led Monitoring (CLM) in Tanzania
- Advocate for strategies to address challenges of HIV by increasing national response on HIV reduction through resource mobilization
- Ensure a better Coordination of CLM activities in Tanzania
- Identify barriers to comprehensive HIV responses at country level
- Influence government recognition and implementation of CLM as a potential intervention for improving quality of HIV services in Tanzania
- Document findings/evidence of successful CLM outcomes strategic decision makers for integrating CLM
- Support members CSOs and beneficiaries’ participation into strategic meetings on HIV quality improvement in Tanzania
- Support beneficiaries to present evidence-based lessons and best practices than testimonials
- Increase one on one sessions with top-level government officials who make decisions than technical staff dealing with the process
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor
- Coalition to build Momentum, Power, Activism, Strategy & Solidarity (COMPASS) Project
Field Officer (Kagera Region)
ICAP Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH)
, Tanzania
11.2020 - 09.2021
- Company Overview: FIKIA Project
- Participate in the work plan development for daily implementation at district level of field activities.
- Conduct day-to-day program implementation at the site level including preparing logistics for field activities.
- Support the delivery of field-based HIV prevention services to beneficiaries by community outreach volunteers, including rollout of day and night mobile outreach campaigns.
- Support HIV testing and pre- and post-test counseling with beneficiaries, and facilitate referrals for HIV positive clients.
- Provide combination prevention (Biomedical, Behavioral and Structural) interventions and strengthen linkages to health facilities and other service delivery points targeting KVP.
- Provide supportive supervision in collaboration with CHMTs to Heath Facility Providers, Community Outreach Volunteers and Community Expert Clients and Community Based HIV Services Providers (CBHSP)
- Coordinate training activities and ensure adherence to national guidelines.
- Mentor and supervise peer outreach volunteers regularly and frequently during outreach sessions and lead weekly outreach volunteer meetings.
- Prepare adequate supplies of commodities and tools to outreach volunteers and healthcare workers.
- Work closely with healthcare workers and community outreach volunteers to ensure all data collection tools are entered appropriately, and conduct on-job mentorship for community outreach volunteers.
- Assist with identifying/screening, recruitment, and training of community outreach volunteers from peer groups to implement the outreach services.
- Participate in routine mapping/re-mapping of hotspots and size estimation where targeted populations are found.
- Prepare detailed activity reports including monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annual progress reports
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
- FIKIA Project
Economic Strengthening & Livelihood Officer (Kibaha Town Council)
PASADA Partnership with PACT Tanzania
, Tanzania
10.2018 - 10.2020
- Company Overview: USAID Kizazi Kipya project
- Directly supervise Livelihood Volunteers (LVs) and Community Case Worker (CCWs)
- Recruit and train Livelihood Volunteers in the Village Savings and Loan Groups (VSLGs) model and oversee LVs establishing and supporting new groups and supporting inherited groups.
- Ensure that LVs provide facilitation support for VSLGs to ensure that destitute household members (Lower savings levels and interest) are able to join VSLGs.
- Ensure VSLGs establish Community Resource Mobilization Committee (CRMCs) to map Community Resources for social protection.
- Conduct overarching mapping of economic strengthening services providers in implementation areas
- Work with District level TASAF to ensure USAID Kizazi Kipya is aware of expansion areas
- Ensure TASAF can refer TASAF Beneficiaries to USAID Kizazi Kipya for screening and enrolment.
- Roll out a Household Financial Literacy and Money Management curriculum to LVs and ensure quality roll out to VSLG Members.
- Lead the creation of trade networks and sharing cohorts within industry types.
- Train Livelihood Volunteers to roll out self-assessment tools with mature groups, establish relationship with pro poor financial institutions.
- Provide continuous supportive supervision to Livelihood Volunteers
- Document success stories (best practice) from project beneficiaries and lesson learned
- Write and submit timely monthly, quarterly and annual reports and submit to the relevant levels.
- Ensure ongoing trainings and service delivery activities are monitored, evaluated, documented and disseminated to relevant stakeholders.
- Submit timely update to program Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports
- Document lesson learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication
- Perform any other relevant duties assigned by a program manager.
- USAID Kizazi Kipya project
HIV Counsellor
Pastoral Activities and Services for People with AIDS Dar es Salaam Archdiocese (PASADA)
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
03.2017 - 09.2017
- Company Overview: Community Service Delivery Project, Partnership with MDH
- Create awareness and education on the existence of HIV i.e. educating clients on all aspects of HIV diseases and treatment management as well as basic health lifestyles.
- Conduct HIV Campaigns through Parish Health check days, Community outreach Health Check days and facility-based campaigns Health Check Days.
- Conduct counselling and testing in outreach based using platforms like Long distance, Mama Lishe, Local brew and door to door
- Provide Initiated Testing and Counselling (PITC)
- Conduct Supportive Counselling to clients
- Serve as liaison between clinicians/clinics, individuals screened and care centres.
- Provide on-going counselling while maintaining confidentiality and patient rights.
- Provide psychosocial support and assist with linkage to referral services.
- Conduct Enhanced Adherence Counselling.
- Assess, document all referrals, make follow-up and report on referral outcomes.
- Develop and maintain good working relationship with other implementing partners, government and non-governmental within the region
- Perform any other duties as assigned by supervisor
- Community Service Delivery Project, Partnership with MDH
Positive Parenting Facilitator
Institute of Social Work, partnership International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
07.2015 - 12.2015
- Company Overview: Positive Parenting Program, for children aged (0-5) years old. (From Harm to Home)
- Prepare activity plan on a weekly basis
- Identify beneficiaries to the positive parenting program
- Establish and train Community based groups to deliver positive parenting to their children
- Facilitate parenting program training to sessions to prevent and decrease violence in the home against children
- Facilitate focused parents and caregiver’s sessions based on IRC’s patenting skills training curriculum to promote the well-being of children and adolescent through positive patenting practices, and strategies for supporting children and adolescents with psychosocial needs.
- Establish caregivers’ peer groups for mothers to acquire skills and knowledge on positive parenting and coping with stress to promote children’s well-being at home
- Helping caregivers to support problem solving skills guiding children health choices.
- Ensure that all children are safe from harm
- Empowerment of caregivers on life skills session to their children
- Perform any other duties as assigned by supervisor
- Positive Parenting Program, for children aged (0-5) years old. (From Harm to Home)
Education
Bachelor Degree - Social Work
Institute of Social Work
Dar Es SalaamDiploma - Gender Issues and Development
The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy
Dar Es SalaamCertificate - Youth Work
The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy
Dar Es SalaamCertificate of Secondary Education Examination -
Rorya Secondary School
MwanzaSkills
- Communication skills
- Computer skills
- Monitoring & Evaluation skills
- Program management
- Organizational and time management
Training
- Bio-Behavioural Survey Training, ICAP, 08/01/23
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Result and Learning Roadshow, Pangea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust (PZAT)
- Gender Transformative Approach Training, Pact Tanzania, 08/01/20
- Pediatric and Adolescent HIV and AIDS services, EGPAF, 10/01/19
- WORTH Yetu Application Training, Pact Tanzania, 07/01/19
- DREAMS Package, Pact Tanzania, 04/01/18
- Case Management and Child protection, Pact Tanzania, 03/01/18
- Parenting Skills training advocacy for cooperation of department of social work, International Rescue Committee, 07/01/15
References
- Emmanuel Ndomondo, ASRH Technical Advisor, Amani Girls Organization, +255 784670094, emmanuelndomondo10@gmail.com
- Naseeb Shemndolwa, Program Manager -Mwanza, ICAP at Columbia University Tanzania, +255 784801700, ns3266@cumc.columbia.edu
- Leokadia Mbawala, Program Manager, PASADA-USAID Kizazi Kipya Project Pact Tanzania, P.O. Box 70225, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, +255 754764070, chanjilaleo@yahoo.com
Languages
- English, fluent
- Kiswahili, fluent
Timeline
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Regional Technical Officer
Amani Girls Organization
02.2024 - 02.2025
Survey Coordinator
ICAP Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH)
07.2023 - 11.2023
Project Officer
Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)-National Council of People living with HIV/AIDS (NACOPHA)
03.2022 - 09.2022
Field Officer (Kagera Region)
ICAP Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH)
11.2020 - 09.2021
Economic Strengthening & Livelihood Officer (Kibaha Town Council)
PASADA Partnership with PACT Tanzania
10.2018 - 10.2020
HIV Counsellor
Pastoral Activities and Services for People with AIDS Dar es Salaam Archdiocese (PASADA)
03.2017 - 09.2017
Positive Parenting Facilitator
Institute of Social Work, partnership International Rescue Committee (IRC)
07.2015 - 12.2015
Bachelor Degree - Social Work
Institute of Social Work
Diploma - Gender Issues and Development
The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy
Certificate - Youth Work
The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy
Certificate of Secondary Education Examination -
Rorya Secondary School