About

I am a highly experienced and vision-oriented leader in the field of Nutrition, Food Security, and Health Education, with 15 years of technical leadership experience in spearheading well-coordinated, effective humanitarian and developmental programs. I excel in sectoral strategy design, planning, policy advocacy, and evidence synthesis to ensure that our interventions are grounded in sound research and best practices. I am dedicated to fostering positive partnerships and driving meaningful change by engaging with diverse teams, government stakeholders, donors, and implementers. My expertise lies in facilitating knowledge exchange, collaboration, and innovation in key domains of multi-sectoral and multi-system nutrition, public health, and food security programs.

Skills

  • Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
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  • Good interpersonal and problem solving skills
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  • Resource Mobilization and partnerships
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  • food security and Community Nutrition expert
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  • Project coordination and management
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  • Proposal Writing and Concept Development
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  • Budgeting and Cost Management
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  • Fluent English and Kiswahili
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  • Basic French
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Experience

Marylyne Malomba

Work experience
  • Establishing a robust system for exchanging advocacy information, leading to improved outcomes and enhanced engagement with donors, as well as national and global networks.
  • Ensuring seamless alignment of nutrition programs with social protection, resilience, school feeding, social and behavioral change, and food security and livelihood initiatives.
  • Collaborating effectively with other clusters, humanitarian actors, government counterparts, and relevant bodies to coordinate operations and actively contribute to the humanitarian efforts.
  • Playing a pivotal role in implementing essential cluster operations while focusing on capacity building for partners and government stakeholders.
  • Support the Nutrition Cluster in needs assessments and gap analyses across related sectors and prioritizing evidence-based response analysis to guide strategic decision-making for humanitarian response by the Humanitarian Coordinator/ Humanitarian Country Team (HC/HCT).
  • Conducting vital nutrition risk analyses using the risk monitoring system and delivering insightful presentations on the developed contingency plans.
  • Ensuring strict technical adherence to national and international humanitarian standards through meticulous reviews of policies and guidelines, rapid assessments, surveillance, IPC and SMART surveys, and information management products.
  • Partnering with the Ministry of Public Health and Public Nutrition Directorate to analyze and evaluate nutrition data and providing valuable recommendations and action plans through collaboration with Cluster/Sector partners.
  • Working with the Nutrition Cluster, Ministry of Public Health, Public Nutrition Directorate and key nutrition partners to roll out the new WHO guidelines on prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema.
  • Coordinating the World Food Programme's partnership with UNICEF and engaging with other agencies and clusters to support program data management, visualization, and reporting through the development of nutrition-specific dashboards, a nutrition commodity tracker, and regular updates of nutrition fact sheets.

Marylyne Malomba

Work experience
  • Oversaw all projects in the country, finding opportunities for quality improvement and enabling communication among technical, operations, and financial leaders in global departments.
  • Engaged with the government and funders (UN, USAID, ECHO, FCDO, GAC, BPRM, private donors, and foundations) to develop strategic cooperation opportunities and reinforce current ones.
  • Identified needs and funding opportunities, and oversaw the creation of concept notes, project proposals, budgets, and donor reports to broaden the funding portfolio.
  • Provided technical advice on multi-sectoral programs and drove the development strategy and operations plans that are aligned with the country's objectives and the organization's global strategy.
  • Supported internal and external project audits, project planning, and donor reporting, as well as annual work planning with national offices and field teams, including sub-award partners.
  • Strengthened the local capacity of partners and stakeholders while maintaining accountability, offering program coordinators, field site managers, and their teams’ continual direction, training, and policy advice.
  • Oversaw the collection and timely reporting of data and statistics for all programs, including objectives, indicators, and outcomes per internal and donor guidelines.
  • Supported program staff selection, recruitment, training, mentorship, and evaluation to improve capacity and job responsibilities, as well as frequent performance talks.
  • Maintained a positive working connection with the necessary Ministries, clusters, and possible partners, and routinely interfaced to ensure approval and collaboration at the outset of initiatives.
  • Ensured active coordination between field-based agencies and national operations headquarters.
  • Ensured that prior project cycles' findings, lessons, feedback, and evidence guided future program strategy, planning, and design, resulting in a high degree of project quality, accountability, and innovative programming.
  • Provided technical assistance to the MEAL department to formulate its strategy, designing and implementing workshops, surveys, monitoring systems, and evaluations, as well as study, and design data interpretation.
  • Represented the organization in all task force meetings, UN coordination meetings, INGO coordination meetings, and organizational conferences, forming collaborations and partnerships as needed.

Marylyne Malomba

Education

Marylyne Malomba

Education
  • PMD Pro 1 Flex in Project Management at   Humentum

Marylyne Malomba

Work experience
  • Oversaw evaluations and incorporated findings into recommendations for food security, conducted market research on cash transfers, and performed causal analyses in both current and prospective new program expansion areas in Northeast Nigeria.
  • To guarantee maximum program coverage, 70 staff, MOH colleagues, and local NGOs were trained, with an emphasis on improving program monitoring activities, vulnerability targeting, and referral mechanisms.
  • Exhibited knowledge of the multi-sectoral approach to food security and nutrition and ensured that project beneficiaries were linked to other health, livelihood, WASH, and education programs.
  • To ensure program uniformity, implementation, and sustainability, funders, host governments, UN, and NGO partners coordinated in-kind and cash-based transfers, Income Generating Activities, and Recovery Activities.
  • Actively participated in the formulation of concepts to assure compliance with best practices in the nutrition and food security sectors, as well as the application of new developments, feasibility, and risk assessment results.
  • Assisted with staff recruiting and training, and conducted performance evaluations in coordination with HR, while ensuring that standards and processes were followed.
  • Examined and administered program budgets, ensuring regular alignment between expenditures and donor expectations to build the portfolio.
  • Organized donor coordination and nutrition and food security sector meetings at the field and country levels to review programmatic obstacles lessons learned, and effectively communicate feedback.
  • Prioritized advocacy conversations for the adoption and amendment of nutrition and food security standards all while creating, improving and implementing country strategic plans and key organizational procedures.
  • Prepared the essential regular program reports per donor and stakeholder expectations and ensured data storage in the country's information systems.

Marylyne Malomba

Work experience
  • January, 2014 - February, 2017
  • Fulltime
  • Administered program development, coordination, and oversight and expertly prepared reports for donors and internal use.
  • Supervised the timely and high-quality field execution of the nutrition program per work plans, goals, and targets.
  • Reviewed reporting metrics, compiled monthly reports, conducted quarterly analysis of trends and devised strategies to enhance report quality in coordination with the MEAL Manager.
  • Participated in coordination meetings, assisted with establishing project plans and budgets for nutrition, and developed trusting bonds with other Northern Bahr el Ghazal implementing partners.
  • Encouraged visits from authorities, funders, the Ministry of Health, and any other pertinent persons that the area coordinator designates.
  • Improved coordination with the health communications officer to create effective behavior change and outreach initiatives and strengthened integration of nutrition activities with other important health programs including HIV prevention.
  • To identify potential requirements and create response strategies, a variety of training on nutrition regimes, SMART surveys, and supportive supervision activities were conducted.
  • Oversaw the nutrition team's performance reviews, hiring, orientation, and job description reviews.

Marylyne Malomba

Work experience
  • February, 2011 - December, 2013
  • Fulltime
  • Carried out staff recruitment, training, performance monitoring and HR management and ensure that standards and protocols are adhered and implemented.
  • Responsible for equitable allocation of human, material and financial resources.
  • Evaluated the progress and impact of nutrition programs through regular field visits, data collection and reports.
  • Participated in elaboration of nutrition project modification and extension, variation, or revision of original project as well as participated in development of proposals, budget and project review processes.
  • Supported Ministry of Health in ensuring that activities relating to CMAM achieve acceptable performance by scaling up in line with the County Nutrition Action Plan.
  • Promoted emergency response actions by implementing the Blanket Supplementary Feeding Program while at the same time considered the need for early recovery planning as well as prevention and risk reduction concerns.
  • Carried out baseline surveys, SMART survey, SQUEAC assessment, end of program evaluations and other program assessments.
  • Represented the organization in district-level coordination and donor meetings.
  • Ensured timely compilation and dissemination of field reports and feedback to health facilities, donors and key stakeholders.

Marylyne Malomba

Work experience
  • January, 2009 - January, 2011
  • Fulltime
  • Trained community mobilizers and Community Health Workers (CHWs) to educate communities on infant nutrition, complementary feeding and maternal nutrition during pregnancy and facilitated community participatory approaches in promoting health and nutrition.
  • Supported nutrition activities in health facilities and their catchment including screening of children and mothers, mobilizing for outreaches, referrals and random home visits.
  • Supervised and trained a team of 6 including Nutrition promoters and community mobilizers and 30 CHWs on CMAM and MIYCN and ensured capacity building of the team to strengthen health and nutrition linkages.
  • Supervised CHWs in community mobilization and dissemination of health/ nutrition education and hygiene and promotion messages and ensured linkage of HIV patients to health and nutrition services.
  • Built strong collaborations with community leaders, nutrition partners and Ministry of Health personnel working locally in the coordination of health and nutrition education.
  • Participated in quarterly assessments and Nutrition surveys.
  • Reviewed secondary surveillance data and provided monthly reports to health and nutrition cluster meetings including key recommendations for the long-term inter-sectorial nutrition responses.

Marylyne Malomba

Work experience
  • April, 2004 - September, 2008
  • Fulltime
  • Assessed nutrition needs in the various clinics, designed, planned, implemented, monitored, evaluated and integrated nutrition interventions in all health facilities.
  • Carried out dietary planning and management of both inpatients and outpatients of various conditions including malnourished children in the pediatric ward.
  • Conducted nutrition counseling and management of patients at the comprehensive care clinic and on MIYCN and achievement of good nutritional status using locally available foods.
  • Prepared and distributed therapeutic feeds to malnourished children according to their weight and phase of treatment.
  • Prepared progress reports and proposals.
  • Implemented nutrition monitoring activities and trained health staff in case detection and referral system including anthropometric measurements and bio-electrical impendence to monitor nutrition progress.

Marylyne Malomba

Education
  • January, 2004 - December, 2004
  • Fulltime

Marylyne Malomba

Education