Raquelina Mutolo

Key Responsibilities :

• Overall leadership to ensure effective delivery of Plan International’s operations, including programs and emergency responses.
• Lead strategic direction in alignment with Plan International Mozambique Country Strategy, ensuring that Plan’s values and commitment to children’s rights and gender equality are embedded in all activities.
• Overseeing programme implementation, and supporting business development to drive sustainable impacts for marginalized children, especially girls.
• Support strategic planning, management, and evaluation of programs ensuring alignment with global quality frameworks and compliance with donor requirements.
• Oversee the implementation of the Sponsorship Program
• Leading project start-ups, tracking performance through detailed implementation plans, and ensuring timely reporting and project closure.
• Represent Plan International at local level, engaging in policy dialogues, and networking with stakeholders to strengthen the organization’s influence.

Under this position i was able to

• Oversee the implementation of two Emergency Response Projects in Child Protection, Food Security and Wash and two development projects
• Coordinated with various departments (Programs, Finance, HR and Supply Chain) to facilitate smooth communication, enhancing operational effectiveness.
• Directly supervised approximately 6 junior staff members, and Indirectly provided guidance to Approximately 30 staff members on implementation of strategies to improve performance indicators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management of the Break Free Program , a collaborative initiative led by Plan International Netherlands, SRHR Africa Trust (SAT), and the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) whose objective was to improve the Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and well-being of adolescents, promote gender equality, and empower women and girls. The project was being implemented across nine African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia
• Coordination of the overall country program implementation in cooperation with three Break Free! consortium partners and local implementation partners.
• Coordination of partners ensuring cooperation and good partnership in the BF! country Consortium.
• Initiating (quarterly) coordination/monitoring meetings with the BF! Consortium partners in-country.
• Organize country planning, monitoring, reflection and learning meetings
• Facilitate and oversee processes of joint annual monitoring, review and planning, including country involvement in baseline, Mid Term Review and evaluation.
• Monitor the quality of the M&E process.

Achievements include:

• Successfully managed multiple teams simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project implementation.
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management of The Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) whose objectives were to ensure access to sexual and reproductive rights especially for girls;
• Overall project management (Planning, implementation and budget management of the MHM project;
• Responsible for training relevant project personnel (Plan and partners) on menstrual hygiene and management;
• Supervise MHM awareness activities in schools and communities
• Articulate with schools with a view to enriching the school curriculum with MHM issues, including education for girls on how to produce low-cost sanitary pads from locally available materials;
• Facilitate the introduction of the production of low-cost sanitary Pads in the VSLA group as one of the income-generating activities, including support in the preparation of business plans.
• Lead the construction / rehabilitation process of girl-friendly toilets and water supplies to ensure good menstrual hygiene management and disposal of used materials

Achievements include

• Improved knowledge on MHM both by communities as well as by adolescents and young people
• Efective budget Management, ensuring resource allocation for maximum project success.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to define clear project goals, leading to consistent alignment with expectations throughout the implementation process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Sub-agreements management under The Clinical and Community HIV/AIDS Services Strengthening (CHASS) project that was designed to improve the quality, coverage and effectiveness of high-impact, evidence-based HIV/AIDS interventions in four provinces in Mozambique: Manica, Niassa, Sofala and Tete.
• Coordinate and participate in the internal and external planning processes and meetings with key departments of the Provincial health directorate (DPS), districts and CBOs.
• Monitoring of partners activities in accordance with annual/quarterly work plans and organization of regular review meetings for balance and activity report.

Achievements include

• Maintenance of good relations, between FHI and the Provincial and district Health Directorate in Niassa and Manica Provinces and 5 CBOs in Manica a 3 in and Niassa)
• Developed of comprehensive implementation plans .

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the coordination of planning, implementation, monitoring and preparation and presentation of reports of projects in progress in Niassa province.
• Support the engagement of partners drawn from the public and private sector, and civil society organization in Niassa HIV-AIDS response
• Support the monitoring and evaluation activities being implemented by partners

Achivements included

• Coaching team members contributing to improved overall performance.
• Identification of program obstacles and communication of possible impacts to senior managment
• Enhanced program visibility with regular status updates, to stakeholder.