About

I am an experienced clinical psychologist with over 6 years in healthcare, specializing in general mental health treatment and applying various therapeutic techniques. My career has also involved working with children, focusing on their protection and sponsorship to help alleviate poverty. I have h...

Skills

  • Computer literacy both Excell and word office
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  • Clinical Psychology
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  • Child protection
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Experience

Emmanuel BIKORIMANA

Work experience
  • 1. Daily Field Team Supervision
  • Led a team of enumerators and ensured they followed daily data collection plans.
  • Provided guidance and resolved challenges in real-time during field visits.
  • 2. Community Mobilization and Liaison
  • Engaged local leaders (sector and cell executive secretaries, village heads) to gain support and ensure smooth access to households.
  • Represented the survey team in all community entry and mobilization meetings.
  • 3. Logistics Coordination
  • Managed local transportation for the team using personal resources when necessary due to delays in logistical support.
  • Ensured enumerators had working phones, forms, and access to communication means.
  • 4. Sampling and Participant Selection
  • Ensured adherence to the randomized sampling method by applying skip logic to reach the target population (e.g., dividing 263 people by 30 to determine participant selection intervals).
  • Verified accurate implementation of sampling protocol in each location.
  • 5. Data Quality Monitoring
  • Reviewed collected data daily to check for completeness and accuracy before submission.
  • Provided technical support to enumerators facing difficulties in data entry or understanding questionnaire content.
  • 6. Ethical Oversight
  • Supervised the process of obtaining informed consent from participants and ensured their confidentiality was maintained.
  • Handled any cases requiring special sensitivity or clarification regarding survey intentions.
  • 7. Reporting and Feedback
  • Prepared daily summary reports of activities, challenges, and accomplishments and submitted them to survey coordinators.
  • Provided field-level feedback to improve the survey process and tools.
  • 8. Motivating and Supporting the Field Team
  • Encouraged team morale despite the lack of immediate transport facilitation.
  • Promoted teamwork and a professional attitude among colleagues during emotionally and logistically demanding days.
  • 9. Problem Solving and Adaptation
  • Handled delays or barriers in accessing certain villages or participants by adapting travel plans while maintaining data quality.
  • Advocated for communication support and reported the absence of transportation to central organizers.
  • 10. Final Debrief and Close-out
  • Participated in concluding meetings to summarize lessons learned from Nyamasheke fieldwork.
  • Ensured that all collected data were securely submitted and that materials were returned or archived.

Emmanuel BIKORIMANA

Work experience
  • Providepsychological assessment, trauma counseling, and mental health care to patients.
  • Serve as GBV focal person, managing SGBV cases with confidentiality and survivor
  • Collaborate with nurses, midwives, and local authorities to ensure psychosocial support
  • Lead mental health awareness campaigns and community outreach.
  • centered approaches.
  • continuity.

Emmanuel BIKORIMANA

Work experience
  • Facilitated psychosocial support and maintained consistent, dignified communication between
  • sponsored children and donors, contributing to children’s emotional wellbeing and sense of
  • belonging.
  • Supported vulnerable families by assessing needs, linking them to services, and strengthening
  • activity budgets, monitoring expenditures, and ensuring accountability to donors and
  • beneficiaries.
  • family systems through collaboration with churches and local stakeholders.
  • Ensured project goals were met through regular reporting, coordination with church partners,
  • enhancing community awareness and safeguarding practices.
  • Contributed to planning and implementation of child protection projects, including preparing
  • Led sensitization sessions on child protection, positive parenting, and household wellbeing,
  • processes, and following up on the wellbeing of children and caregivers.
  • Promoted family-based care by monitoring home environments, participating in reintegration
  • and data collection to support evidence-based programming.

Emmanuel BIKORIMANA

Work experience
  • Conducted community-based health and WASH surveys across all districts of Rwanda.
  • Ensured ethical data collection and confidentiality in vulnerable populations.

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