Lydia Owola

I'm a people person. I really enjoy meeting and working with a lot of different people and am known for being a great listener and clear communicator, whether I’m engaging with colleagues or employers.

I'm the kind of person who knows how to execute difficult tasks with precision. I pay attention to all the details of a project. I make sure that every task is just right but is also completed in a timely manner.

I'm a creative thinker. I like to explore alternative solutions to problems and have an open mind about what will work best. My creativity has made me an effective team leader because I can anticipate problems and innovate solutions.

I'm an extremely organized person who is focused on producing results. While I am always realistic when setting goals, I consistently develop ways to efficiently achieve, and often exceed, those goals.

I enjoy solving problems, troubleshooting issues, and coming up with solutions in a timely manner. I thrive in team settings, and I think my ability to effectively communicate with others is what drives my ability to solve a variety of problems.

COMMUNITY HEALTH MANAGER

LIVING GOODS KENYA• Dec 2015 – Present

• Coordinate, train, coach/mentor and support Community health supervisors and community health volunteers in community activities such as supervising Community health supervisors and CHVs, assessing and administration of community medical treatment, offering health education to pregnant women and new-born, involvement during dialogue days and action days.
• Create and maintaingood awareness and visibility of the sub county and their impactby involving Regional FieldManager, Government Relation’s manager and FieldOperation’s Director while updating the workplace regarding Sub County activities.
• Planning and undertaking all sub countyactivities as per approved work plans and budgets.
• Manage and accountfor the expenditure of designated funds (CHVs incentive) and petty cash while ensuring consistent compliance with best practices, expensing and ensuring that books balance while managing inventory of stock in and out of the branch.
• Monitor the implementation of Sub County activities throughactive and regularengagement with MOH, beneficiaries and partners, visits to field sites and meetings with CHVs, MOH and partners.

Undertake the general administration of Butula sub county activities, including custody and oversight of the branch assets and products, custody/manage inventory (drugs and energy products, Mpesa/cash sales,manage CHVs phones,credits and payments,communication and reporting

• Creating and managingrelations and partnerships with lead MOH, Community, administration and other implementing partner organizations
• Motivate community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to achieve health targets.
• . Prepare and regularly update the work plans and budgets for all activities of sub county while tracking branchactivities to ensurethey are progressing as per scheduleby maintaining the project calendar, budget and ensure deadline are met.
• Track project activities to ensure they are progressing as per schedule.
• Maintain the project Calendar, budget and ensure deadlines are met.

• Support in developing training or other materials for community stakeholders and others. And draft internal inter-staff communications.
• Preparing of monthly MOH performance presentation report for dissemination.

FIELD ASSISTANT/FIELD OFFICER/SENIOR FIELD OFFICER.

INNOVATION FOR POVERTY ACTION • Nov 2009 – Nov 2015

Public Health Expenditure Project, Fertilizer project, Household Saving Project and Rural Electrification Power Project * Helping the project management to supervise field activities * Liaising with the project management to ensure that field necessities are availed to the team * Liaising with the village elders/guides and the administrative notification over the FIELD STAFF visits. * Ensuring that data collected is well documented and uploaded or safely delivered to the supervisor. * Ensuring that data collection tools (tablets) are fully charged and with the right survey form. * Helping the project manager with ensuring that every office equipment, files respondents’ gifts are safe and well-handled * Administer household survey * Facilitation of community meetings * Provide the supervisor with daily feedback on surveying activities * Documenting of field scenarios and relaying the same to the project manager for necessary action.* On non-field days perform assigned office duties like translation, data entry as advised by supervisor * Represent the organization in the field and give the true impression of the organization’s values

Volunteer

Red Cross Society • Jan 2008 – Nov 2009

* Youth preventive education (Peer Educator). * Trainer of trainees (TOT). * Home based care of people living with HIV/AIDS. * Quantitative data collection during baseline survey. * Disaster preparedness needs assessment. * Dissemination of the Red Cross movement to the community. * Youth entertainment events. * Psychological support for orphans and vulnerable children.

Master’s degree in project planning and management

Moi University • Sep 2022 – Present

Currently pursuing a master’s degree in project planning and management. Courses done are project design, Implementation and Evaluation, Fundamental of project Management, Research Methodology, Decision Making, communication and technology, Project Management for Entrepreneurship, change management and development, Counselling and Consulting, Project Finance, Gender issues in Project Planning, Contemporary Issues, Project proposal writing, Economics and Project appraisal.

Bachelor’s degree in Community Health

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga of Science and Technology • Jan 2014 – Dec 2018

Community capacity building and empowerment, leadership and governance, community partnership, negotiation, healing and peace building, mental health, biostatistics, advocacy and community mobilization, program monitoring and evaluation, critical thinking, health education and communication, occupational health and safety, gender and health, disease surveillance and outbreak investigation, community based health care, environmental health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, drug and substance abuse, spatial data analysis in planning, maternal and child health. Research methods. Community water supply and sanitation, entrepreneurship, immunology, community health and nutrition. Human anatomy, HIV and AIDS, principles of public health, introduction of food security, mathematics, computer organization and application, Communication skills, waste management, information, technology and society, social ethics and integrity

Diploma in Social Work and Community Development

Moi University • Jan 2007 – Dec 2008

Communication skills, qualitative skills, community development, sociology, psychology, community health, anthropology, research and evaluation, management and organization, Family counselling and therapy, social policy formulation and analysis, social work in health and rehabilitation, project planning, monitoring and evaluation, research project, social work in rural community, project design, implementation and management, child abuse, social policy and administration