Category: AGRICULTURE

         EXTENSION METHODOLOGIST       Profile    Self-motivated, honest, competent, innovative and easily adapt to new ideas. The knowledge and experience I have evidently accumulated through my academics at various levels of my University education and practical arenas have made me a versatile, quickly trainable, innovative and result oriented person capable of working under minimum supervision but yielding good results. I can work with different groups of people of different back grounds but giving excellent results.      Highlights         Well acquainted with Microsoft word, Excel and PowerPoint together with other Internet and computer basics. I have knowledge of analyzing data using statistical package for social scientists (SPSS) software.     Having worked on various researches, I have the knowledge and skills required in conducting researches. This includes skills in designing data capturing sheets, capturing data in the targeted field as well as analyzing such data leading the interpretation of the findings  I also have excellent report witting skills            Experience     03/2013       Company Name   －   City  ,   State    Extension Methodologist        working for the government of the republic of Zambia (GRZ) in the ministry of Agriculture and livestock as an extension methodologist. The position which is the center for extension service coordination in the ministry of Agriculture and livestock under the department of Agriculture at district level. As extension methodologist I am involved in linking the governments extension officers to various stakeholders/organizations involved in Agriculture extension as a way of improving agricultural extension service provision in the district. Under extension methodologist, monitoring and evaluation for the department targeting supervision of the agricultural extension officers is conducted in a quest to improve service delivery to the farmers.  While working in this position, the interaction with other organizations has further enhanced my skills of collaborating with partners as a way of improving the lives of the people. As an extension methodologist, I have participated actively in implementing agricultural projects run by some NGO's through the ministry of Agriculture e. g. Harvest plus in promoting vitamin A-rich orange maize in eastern province.         11/2012   -   01/2013     Company Name   －   City  ,   State    Research Assistant       worked as research assistant at plan Zambia on staff work-force plan research. The scope of work that was conducted has now assisted the organization in identifying and rectifying the gaps in its work-force team in order to improve its efficiency. While undertaking the duties as research assistant, experience in handling of some statistical packages like SPSS was amassed        06/2012   -   11/2013     Company Name   －   City  ,   State    Policy and Research Analyst (intern)       worked as an intern at agricultural consultative forum (ACF) under research and policy section. Working under this section, I was exposed to different agricultural organization and this created so much diverse views about Zambia's agricultural sector. With ACF I participated in analysis and evaluation of various agricultural policies in line with how they affect Zambian agricultural sector. This includes the manner in which farming input distribution is handled and how it can be made efficient, an activity which led to development of electronic voucher system of distributing farming inputs to the peasant farmers which is yet to be implemented by the Zambian government. The production of policy briefs had a significant impact in building my strong analytical skills which are always desirable by any institution as it leads to efficiency in operations.        01/2012   -   02/2013     Company Name   －   City  ,   State    Research Assistant       Worked as an enumerator in the conservation farming phase 2 research survey organized by the conservation farming unity (CFU) in conjunction with the  independent management consultancy services (IMCS) during the monitoring of the progress and impact of conservation farming in Zambia. In these surveys, I perfected my skills in conservation farming as I practically evaluated the skills of the local farmers in conservation farming. The interaction with rural small scale farmers helped in building my strong understanding of the challenges that are hindering our small scale farmers from increasing their production.        07/2010   -   04/2011     Company Name   －   City  ,   State    Principal Investigator       Participated in the evaluation of acidulated rock phosphate as a source of phosphorous in broiler rations under the supervision of Dr. Daura at the university of Zambia. Under this program chickens were reared under feed formulated using rock phosphate and compared with those under commercial feed. Both the ones under commercial feed and those under rock phosphate their body weight gains and carcases were analyzed and compared statistically         Education     2011     The Universty of Zambia   －   City  ,   State  ,   Zambia    Bachelor's degree  :   Agriculture     Bachelor of Agricultural sciences (Animal Science major)        2004     Samfya Secondary School   －   City  ,   State  ,   Zambia    Bachelor of Agricultural sciences  :   General School Certificate            Languages    Excellent in both spoken and written English.
 Fluent in Bemba and  in Nyanja      Personal Information     Ernest Mwale Mupemo  C/O Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock  P. O. Box 560001  Petauke       Skills     COMPUTER LITERACY, E-mail, English, government, director, management consulting, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft word, policies, progress, research, SPSS, supervising, supervision, surveys, written