About

Result oriented with extensive experience implementing Orphan and Vulnerable Children programing, HIV/AIDs care and treatment, Child Protection, Case Management , Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response; and Livelihood. Proven Experience in leading and managing teams in high-stress environments; skilled in managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Experienced in stakeholders engagements and effective prioritization of tasks and meeting deadlines.

Skills

  • OVC programming
  • Comprehensive HIV care and treatment.
  • Computer Skills
  • Leadership & Project Management
  • Fluent English both speaking and writing

Experience

Erick Okwera

Work experience
  • Providing oversight to improve field operations efficiency by implementing new strategies and optimizing resource allocation.
  • Overseeing achievement of Saving For Life project performance targets through early planning and budgeting and holding monthly performance review meeting to identify gaps, risks and provide solution to improve implementation.
  • Evaluating project performance using key metrics, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary changes.
  • Providing technical support and supervising all the activities of the Field officers, providing leadership to them through coaching, advising, guiding, and sharing best practices to meet the project goal
  • Leading program implementation of Savings For Life and Spiritual Discipleship (SFL) projects and the implementing teams through early planning, implementation, and monitoring while adhering to plans, budgets, activity trackers; that helps in reporting.
  • Timely carrying out project monitoring and evaluation; and reviewing of all project documentation and reports, including concept notes, memos, and activity reports from the Field team
  • With the Support from the Head Of Operations and Branch Coordinator; carrying out regular field visits to ensure smooth implementation of project activities.
  • Providing ongoing capacity building to Field Officers and Village Agents in SFL methodology and implementation, and ensuring accurate SFL data is gathered for all groups and investigating reasons for errors.
  • Supporting the program staff in planning organizing and conducting events, workshops trainings under Savings Agriculture and Spiritual Discipleship
  • Preparing periodic Plans using the monthly work schedules, compiling and sending accurate weekly, monthly and quarterly written reports on the implementation of Saving For Life projects in Lamwo District.
  • Taking lead in supervising the representation of the Saving for Life program in the community; Ensuring good working relations with OPM, UNHCR, local government officials, implementing partners and other agencies in the area in Palabek Settlement by attending all monthly settlement coordination, sector working groups and interagency meetings
  • Organizing and conducting Monthly Coordination meeting with the Sub-counties, Implementing Partners, Settlement coordination meetings with Office of the Prime Minister and UNHCR

Erick Okwera

Work experience
  • Worked closely with the consortium partner organizations, the district and sub-county stakeholders in providing coordinated and comprehensive services to the Orphans and Vulnerable Children, their caregivers, and the community
  • Supported 100 Para Social Workers to support All Children and Adults living with HIV and other vulnerable families with empathy and compassion during difficult times by counseling, and making referrals for clients during the monthly routine Home Visiting.
  • Maintained accurate case documentation for all Children and People living with HIV both at health facilities and offices while ensuring compliance with the Standard Operating procures in line with the Ministry of Health.
  • Improved client well-being by conducting comprehensive assessments and developing tailored care plans for 1,120 households that supported in addressing vulnerability at the household level and switching off the Red flags.
  • Led technical implementation of USAID/Integrated Child and Youth Development Orphan and Vulnerable Children case management activities in all supported Sub-counties with guidance from Case Management Coordinator and Case Management Advisor
  • Supported district coordinator in developing and establishing strong clinic-community referral pathways for supporting Vulnerable Households for them to access comprehensive services
  • With the support of the District Coordinator developed Memorandum Of Understandings with all the facilities of Care in Gulu and Omoro District and established strong clinic partnerships and case management processes for rapid identification, assessment, and enrolment of CLHIV and other highly vulnerable OVC (sexual abuse survivors, adolescent teen mothers) onto the USAID/ICYD Activity for effective clinic - community referral pathways
  • Organized and conducted facility case conferencing between health facilities and the social welfare staff to support index testing, retention of care, ART adherence, and viral load suppression for USAID/ICYD; HIV Exposed Infants and C/ALHIV
  • Organized, conducted, and Coordinated sub-county level case conferencing with Local Governments, child protection actors, Para-Social Workers, and the staff to improve referrals, linkages of comprehensive services by the OVC.
  • Provided mentorship, supportive supervision, and coaching 30 PSWs, 20 expert clients, 7 Linkage facilitators, and 10 staff in HIV HIV-sensitive case management and case management principles with guidance from World Education Bantwana
  • Carried out awareness raising to the community on child protection failures and the best means of community engagement in curbing down the causes, HIV/AIDs prevention and treatment, and care, Gender Based Violence prevention and response
  • Periodically, assessed the households’ different needs and vulnerability and setting up the best means of providing the comprehensive services required by them.
  • Participated in the overall implementation and provided technical issues related to Child Protection, health, education, and economic strengthening, including case management within the project catchments
  • Timely provided support in the monitoring and evaluation of program intervention through routine data collection, review, and validation
  • Assisted in planning, preparing periodic work plans and budgets, project management, monitoring, reporting to meet the project objectives.
  • Timely compiled activity, monthly and quarterly reports, and family/ children’s success stories and submit to the Supervisor

Erick Okwera

Work experience
  • October, 2019 - November, 2020
  • Fulltime
  • Developed plans to coordinate daily implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all activities under case management, early childhood development, Gender Based Violence, and HIV prevention, Child Protection, and system strengthening in line with the Result Areas.
  • Developed all the plans to coordinate and ensure daily implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all activities under case management, early childhood development, GBV, and HIV prevention.
  • Coordinated all the targeted referrals and linkages of all screened OVC at risk of HIV for HTS and ART initiation (all HIV-negative children, children with unknown HIV status, and children of PLHIV caregivers (index beneficiaries); referrals and tracking of SGBV victims to service providers along the cascade
  • Maintained all the list of non-suppressed C/ALHIV, Missed Appointments, and Lost to Follow-Up Clients for routine follow-up, monitoring Assessments of the factors contributing to the issues and providing a comprehensive service as required
  • Successfully coordinated 5 facilities in Gulu and identified, profiled, and enrolled 732 People Living with HIV and Children Living with HIV Households especially non-suppressing children, HIV+ pregnant mothers, and HIV+ lactating mothers, from clinical providers for social support and coordinated targeted integrated and collaborative community health service outreaches for HIV prevention – screened at-risk children; Violence Against Children, GBV, and DREAMS girls
  • Periodically developed training plans and coordinated the training of 60 Para-Social workers, 8 Linkage facilitators, 4 DBTs, 5 CBTs, and 10 expert clients and provided mentorship, and coaching of these structures in liaison with other project staff on effective referrals and linkages for Health, HIV/AIDS, case management, child protection and the service package including tools and SOPs.
  • Supported the team and community structures to conduct routine home visits in 995 Households enrolled from Gulu and successfully followed up for various Child Protection failures and offered Psychosocial Support, nutrition, HIV, and SGBV education services and provided linkage, referrals, and tracking of SGBV victims to service providers along the cascade.
  • Effectively organized and participated in all OVC, GBV, and HIV coordination meetings with sub-counties and district stakeholders to address child protection/GBV-related issues in responding to and preventing to rampant cases within communities and to improve case identification, detection, follow-up, and monitoring to ensure effective case management.
  • Provided technical support to the CDO, Case Care Workers, and other community resource persons to improve case identification, detection, follow-up, and monitoring to ensure effective case management.
  • Timely compiled and submitted weekly, activity, monthly, and quarterly reports, and supported in documenting best practices of case studies, success stories, abstracts, and video clips in addition to providing routine updates.

Erick Okwera

Education

Erick Okwera

Education

Erick Okwera

Work experience
  • February, 2017 - September, 2019
  • Fulltime
  • Took lead in organizing and conducting community awareness meetings and dialogues for 411households on child protection concerns, HIV/AIDs, gender-based violence (GBV), Health and Education campaigns for children to ensure that children and families in areas of responsibility are aware of the child protection policy and applicable local procedures, in supporting reporting of the cases.
  • Effectively monitored and reported on the performance of Matrons and patrons including Youth trainers of 27 Youth clubs in the schools.
  • Excellently supported in layering required services to the enrolled 411 households through Home Visiting by Para-Social Workers, Club sessions by DBTS, SINO, CBTS, ECD, and peer facilitators.
  • Closely coordinated with the Community Development Officer, health assistants, Headteachers, Probation, and Social Welfare officer to strengthen community-based structures to create demand for child protection at different level through holding a monthly OVC coordination meeting and monthly case conferencing.
  • Mentored and coached community resource persons to strengthen performance management including 4 District Based trainers, 5 community-based trainers, 15 VHTs, 30 Para Social Workers, and CPCs (Child Protection Committee) to improve OVC access to core services of health, education, economic empowerment, Child protection, and GBV.
  • Timely compiled and submitted weekly, activity, monthly, and quarterly reports, and after-action review reports and support in documenting best practices in the form of case studies, success stories, abstracts, and video clips in addition to providing routine updates.

Erick Okwera

Work experience
  • Provided oversight and monitored project activities of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) based on the approved work plan and the budget.
  • Provided training to 15Village Savings and Loan Association groups in VSLA methodology, Income generating Activities – Selection, Planning and Management (IGA-SPM), numeracy and financial literacy
  • Supported in identifying, selecting, and capacity assessment of 1500 vulnerable girls and women (GBV survivors) to benefit from the cash transfer initiative
  • Supported 1500 vulnerable girls and women with cash transfer initiative program to support them in developing businesses as a means of combating the root cause of SGBV
  • Spearheaded Implementation of male and boys’ engagement in gender transformation initiative and formed 5 Role Model men groups, 5 gender activists, and 5 SASA activist in the community who acted as changed agents.
  • Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
  • Strengthened Gender Based Violence referral systems and pathways and referred survivors to the different service points as a way of responding to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.
  • Carried out data collection related to the Program using the different program data tools.
  • Drew weekly, and monthly activity plans as per the approved budget and wrote weekly and monthly progress reports.

Erick Okwera

Work experience
  • Supported 500 vulnerable women and girls in access to socio-economic opportunities through engaging them in Income income-generating activities and cash transfer initiatives.
  • Carried out community mobilization, sensitization, awareness raising, and dialogues on Gender-Based Violence Prevention and response.
  • Provided capacity building to the Stakeholders in Gender Based Violence and provided psychosocial support to the Gender-Based Violence Survivors.
  • Strengthened Gender Based Violence referral systems and pathways and referred survivors to the different service points as a way of responding to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
  • Liaised with police, health workers, and local government to assist the survivors of GBV in getting services to respond to the incidences of Gender Based Violence through effective Referrals and Linkages.
  • Drew weekly, and monthly activity plans as per the approved budget and compiled weekly and monthly progress reports.

Erick Okwera

Education
  • Honors Second Upper Class

Erick Okwera

Education
  • February, 2007 - November, 2008
  • Fulltime

Erick Okwera

Education
  • February, 2003 - November, 2006
  • Fulltime

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