Esmeraldo Ricardo Jaime Nicumua

CURRICULUM VITAE • 1. PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Esmeraldo Nicumua Address: Pemba City Contribute to the revision and enforcement of the JIA Security Management Plan. Supply Chain • Oversee logistics functions including procurement, inventory, transport, and equipment maintenance. Finance • Ensure compliance with JIA and donor financial protocols. • Oversee cash handling, internal controls, and financial reporting at the field level. • Monitor commitments and manage procurement approvals based on budget availability. Human Resources and Administration • Coordinate with HR to recruit and support field staff. • Maintain effective administrative systems for smooth field operations. Representation and Communications • Represent JIA with local authorities, UN agencies, NGOs, and partners. Safeguarding • Promote and enforce the JIA Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies. 2. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY FIELD MANAGER 03/03/2025 – Present: Johanniter International Assistance-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. Specific responsibilities: Strategy and Vision • Promote and embody Johanniter’s core values. • Contribute to both global and countrylevel strategy development and execution in line with Johanniter International Assistance (JIA) strategic goals. Leadership • Demonstrate Johanniter's leadership principles, such as fostering trust, promoting inclusion, open communication, supporting staff wellbeing, and taking responsibility. Strategic Planning • Ensure the integration of the JIA program framework into operational activities. • Assist in creating and executing annual strategic and operational plans. • Prepared high-quality narrative reports and contributed to the development of project proposals for donors and institutional partners. Program Operations Management • Supervise operations staff and support field program teams. • Coordinate planning and implementation of program activities with senior program managers and officers. • Facilitate communication between operations and program teams to resolve issues and optimize performance. • Provide feedback to senior leadership for decision-making and operational improvement. Security • Monitor security developments and report implications for safety and program operations to leadership and the Security Manager. FIELD COORDINATOR 20/12/2021 – 28/07/2023: World Vision International Specific responsibilities: • Effective management of the program area. • Ensure community engagement for CWBO in the AP. • Ensure effective implementation of approved guidelines and tools in the Area Programme. • Prepare and submit narrative and financial reports, as well as support the development of the annual Child Well Being report. • Manage DME activities in the AP by collaborating in line with the technical programmes. • Manage quality implementation and monitoring of all technical programme activities within scope, time, and budget in an AP. • Providing day-to-day management including planning, administration, 1 CURRICULUM VITAE • • • • • • • • • • • • implementation, reporting, and decision making for the AP. Implement and maintain Child Safe Organizational standards at the AP level. Ensure that the APs respond to all AP audit reports and findings. Ensure improved risk management for good stewardship and accountability of resources at the AP. Ensure AP’s adherence to financial management standards as guided by the Field Financial Manual. Participate in the development of concept papers and proposals for funding. People Management. Build relationships with community stakeholders, Donors, Government Line Ministries, and other stakeholders in the Area Programme. Represent WV in District Coordinating meetings for alignment of district priorities. Contribute to policy debate, advocacy, and development, through collaboration with the various stakeholders at the AP, district, and provincial levels. Support the integrated research and learning initiatives with the view to generate lessons and knowledge for effective programming. Support the area programme baseline, design, monitoring, and evaluation for programme effectiveness and quality assurance. Support DPOPH and SPI in the selection of proposals for boreholes and small systems, as well as the preparation of minutes and reports. • Water supply interventions, (construction, rehabilitation). • Installation operation of sanitation and hygiene facilities. • Provide inputs for the reporting of UNICEF WASH response and WASH cluster. • Participate in WASH and multisector assessments. • Support analysis of WASH sector needs and priorities. FIELD SUPERVISOR 20/01/2025 – 10/03/2025: CARE International Specific responsibilities: • Project Management • Plan, implement and monitor projects financed by rapid response funds (e.g. CERF, BHA, Start Fund, ECHO). • Ensure that activities are aligned with the tight deadlines and requirements of the emergency fund. • Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of emergency shelter and WASH infrastructure goods and services (e.g. hygiene kits, drinking water, temporary latrines). • Emergency Coordination • Coordinate closely with humanitarian clusters (WASH and Shelter), local NGOs, authorities (SPI, SDPI, INGD, DPOPH), and community stakeholders (Chiure and Mecúfi). • Participate in inter-agency coordination meetings (WASH and Shelter Cluster) and ensure alignment with broader humanitarian response efforts. • Needs Assessment • Conduct or supervise rapid needs assessments to identify critical WASH and shelter gaps (Chiure and Mecúfi). • Translate findings into concrete action plans and priority interventions. • Team and Logistics Management • Lead field teams including engineers, WASH officers, shelter specialists, and community mobilizers. WASH EMERGENCY SPECIALIST | UNV 04/2021 – 31/2021: UNICEF| Pemba Specific responsibilities: • Support the design/execution of WASH projects taking into account GEDSI aspects. • Carry out regular visits to the activities of UNICEF-funded partners in the WASH sector in the Districts of Chiure, Ancuabe, Montepuez, Ibo, Pemba and Metuge. • Support in checking water borehole reports to quantify the materials used to pay invoices. • Support in checking field reports from partners vs. finance to assess the progress of activities and the use of UNICEF funds. 2 CURRICULUM VITAE • Oversee logistics and supply chain management to ensure rapid deployment of materials and construction activities. Supporting the implementing partners (Ophavela and ADRA) in technical and logistical matters. Financial and Reporting Management Monitor project budgets and ensure efficient use of emergency funds. Prepare and submit reports to donors and coordination bodies, including situation updates, financial reports, and postintervention evaluations. Quality Assurance and Gender/Protection Ensure all interventions adhere to humanitarian standards (e.g., Sphere Standards, Core Humanitarian Standards). Integrate GBV, protection, inclusion, and "do no harm" principles in all activities, especially for vulnerable populations (e.g., children, women, people with disabilities) • FIELD COORDINATOR 05/2019 – 10/2020: World Vision International Specific responsibilities: • Ensure that all aspects of the project’s (General Food Distribution, Food for Asset, Lean Season Assistance) daily management are met, including logistics, administration, security, visibility, community and beneficiaries’ liaison, evidence generation, coordination and risk management. • Develop and guide the project team on the usage of project management tools (including but not limited to reports, DIP, Logframe, ITT, SOPs, financial tracking, programmatic process flows) • Handle project’s procurement needs according to the developed procurement plan. • Ensure that project activities are implemented in good quality based on the project/s outcomes and taking into consideration the local context • Follow-up and coordinate with the MEAL and technical teams to ensure that all needed tools are in place, developed and analyzed according to the project needs • Review project level analysis and highlight trends to program manager. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Implement the recommended operational measures to address gaps and challenges. Contribute in the development of ToRs for external consultants. Responsible of the production of high quality narrative reports in a timely manner and based on the agreed template and processes. Provide guidance to teams/partners to identify convenient locations for undertaking project activities based on technical standards. Engage in proposal development as required by the Program Manager. Ensure that the quality of implementation in reference to the donor’s guidelines, national SOPs, best practices while also generating evidence to show contribution to WV national strategic objectives. Ensure that lessons learned, risks and innovation are well documented and shared with the program team Support the identification and escalation of advocacy issues to Program Manager. Participate in periodic evaluations of the impact of the project on the beneficiaries with support from the MEAL unit. AGRONOMIST 09/2017 – 01/2020: SDAE – Murrupula Specific responsibilities: • Dissemination of production technologies to the family sector through farmer field school (FFS) and the Integrated Agricultural Technology Transfer Program (PITTA); • Facilitate access to credit for small, medium and large producers; • To encourage the family sector to form associations and or agricultural cooperatives; • Training in Good Agricultural and Livestock Production Practices; • Veterinary Assistance to Domestic Animals of producers in the family sector (Poultry production); • Promote improvement of knowledge and practices on nutrition and food safety at community level, via (i) creating awareness on food safety and its impacts on health and nutrition and improving access to markets, and (ii) improving 3 CURRICULUM VITAE • • • • • nutrition knowledge, practices and behaviors among local producers, consumers, food-handlers and foodinsecure population; Provide support to all MSMEs at local level. Support in the planning sector through the preparation of reports and strategic documents (PDD and PESOD), plans, and budgets. Work with farmers and farmer’s groups to link them with the products and to processors and the market; Prepare and submit narrative and financial reports on the progress of activities and submission of invoices. 3. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION • 12/2015 - Agronomic Engineering (Eduardo Mondlane University). • 09/24/2021 – Present – Msc. Public Health (Atlantic International University). 4. SKILLS • Promotion of Income Crops and use of Agricultural Machinery. • • FIELD SUPERVISOR 11/2016 – 06/2017: World Vision| Tete Specific responsibilities: • Staff and office management • Administration, Procurement and Logistics. • Ensure that the technical activities are adequately coordinated and aligned with the external stakeholders to support the delivery of the project outputs, products, and services • Oversee the activities to increase production and productivity based on sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices, by managing the improvement of local producers’ knowledge and abilities to implement good agricultural practices (GAPs), climate-smart agricultural practices, and enhancement of a sustainable use and management of natural resource • Manage complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) and other way communication with communities (CwC). • Opening of water wells and construction of small dams and food distribution “In Kind”. • Coordinate and manage M&E activities to ensure the collection, analysis and communication of data and information that enables project management based on concrete data. • • • • • English| work knowledge (Foreign language). Portuguese | Native (Official language). Mastery in Computing (Advanced Informatics and Office Package). Google Analytics for Beginners Leadership Problem-solving Communication and negotiation skills Proactivity and autonomy 5. OTHER SKILLS • • • • • • • • • • • 4 QUALIFICATIONS AND Proposal writing and project design Technical Project Management (TPM) in WASH Emergencies. Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy. Fundraising Strategy. GEDSI Training. Planning for Monitoring and Evaluation. Child and Adult Safeguarding. Personal Security eLearning – Light360. Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA). Preparing and Responding to Active Shooter Incidents. Procurement/ supply chain management