About

A hands-on decisive team leader with over 7 years’ experience in project and product management, implementing digital health systems from product roadmap development, requirements gathering and analysis, design to implementation, to the agreed quality specifications. With a keen eye for detail, led and coordinated project teams, promoting data use through data visualization dashboards, and supporting achievement of over 90% reporting rates for health supply chain commodities through implementation of an electronic logistics management information system. Possess excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills for interfacing with and engaging stakeholders. Competent in negotiating solutions, building digital capacity, and Software Agile methodologies. Comfortable with ambiguity and looking to utilize innovative and creative problem-solving skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

  • Project Management
    8
  • Data Analysis
    7
  • Microsoft Office
    8
  • Time management and Organizational Skills
    7
  • Knowledge of Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
    8
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
    9
  • Databases/Software: DHIS2
    7
  • Microsoft Teams
    9
  • Conducting market research & competitor analysis
    8
  • Presentation skills
    8
  • Project Management and leadership skills
    7
  • Adobe XD
    7
  • UML
    8
  • metabase
    7
  • Data visualization with PowerBI and Tableau
    8
  • Emotional intelligence
    7
  • Asana
    7
  • JIRA/Trello
    8
  • English and Chichewa
    10

Experience

Kondwani Kuthyola

Work experience
  • Lead product development and delivery of interactive, direct-to-consumer adolescent health digital content and products through GRS’s play-based methodology and SKILLZ curricula on various platforms (chatbots, WhatsApp, IVR games, videos, etc.).
  • Manage and coordinate digital health technology providers and partners.
  • Lead updates of existing digital health products based on routine MEL data and formal research insights.
  • Facilitate onboarding and training workshops for GRS teams on new digital health products.
  • Lead the development, roll out, and management of new digital health solutions for front-line staff delivering SKILLZ programs.
  • Provide technical input for developing GRS’s new digital health strategy.
  • Monitor GRS digital health dashboards, recommend improvements for improved implementation and impact, and track the reach of direct-to-consumer products and field staff training/development solutions.
  • Lead quarterly digital health meetings, offering updates and recommendations on digital health trends.
  • Identify and track trends in digital health development.
  • Advise on digital health research studies and organizational learning activities.
  • Support the development of funding proposals, concept notes, presentations, and other technical materials.
  • Collaborate with program and communications teams to create digital health-related external communication materials in various formats.
  • Manage internal communication and learning about digital health, including planning webinars, briefs, and newsletters.

Kondwani Kuthyola

Work experience
  • Supported the development of LMIS strategies, work plans, SOPs, M&E systems, and monitored project performance against targets.
  • Coordinated subcontractors to implement and support the e-LMIS system (OpenLMIS) for the Ministry of Health (MOH) to improve supply chain commodity tracking, ensuring 99% availability.
  • Supported the MOH in developing the 2023-2027 Digital Health Policy and implementing a Supply Chain System Architecture for health commodity tracking.
  • Enhanced OpenLMIS functionality and data visibility through capacity building and user feedback, resulting in better accountability and improving program reporting rates to over 85%.
  • Promoted data ownership and use culture, and provided capacity building for project staff on health supply chain data usage.
  • Analyzed commodity consumption data from 700+ facilities using Tableau for project reporting, forecasting, and supply planning.
  • Supported data analysis, interpretation, and timely dissemination of LMIS data to MOH and stakeholders to improve logistics decision-making.
  • Coordinated with stakeholders to implement a National Product Catalogue, NPC mobile app, and GS1 standards for better health commodity tracking, tracing, patient safety and supply chain visibility.
  • Assisted the MOH in scaling OpenLMIS to 240 facilities and trained over 200 pharmacy users.
  • Regularly communicate with stakeholders to meet and exceed their needs and expectations.

Kondwani Kuthyola

Work experience
  • November, 2019 - November, 2020
  • Fulltime
  • Prepared detailed project plans, budgets > $500k, and work distribution structures.
  • Documented features and changes in product requirements and coordinated sprint planning exercises for over 5 systems.
  • Coordinated with partners and mobile network operators (MNOs) to develop a high frequency data collection USSD service for weekly reporting of COVID-19 products in 500 plus health facilities.
  • Understood the minimum viable product (MVP) including prioritising customer needs for launch and learning feedback as quickly as possible.
  • Adopted Google Analytics to monitor system performance metrics and identify proactive interventions to improve system use.
  • Coordinated MNOs, project teams and partner organizations to support the MOH with COVID-19 surveillance and response by implementing community tools such as a WhatsApp Chatbot, USSD and UNICEF’s SMS RapidPro service.
  • Championed the implementation of a Master Health Facility Registry, Terminology Service, DHIS2 data indicator dashboards, COVID-19 DHIS2 Tracker, and Interoperability between systems for the MOH with a software team of 9 and key stakeholders.
  • Oversaw data use training on digital health solutions to over 100 health care workers including Health Surveillance Assistants from 29 districts across the country.

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