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MARGARET KANANA MPAKA
Public health Nutritionist
P.O 58-60206 Meru
Summary
Talented professional considered knowledgeable leader and dedicated problem solver. Brings years of valuable expertise to forward company objectives. Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, programs and improvements.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
16
16
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Office Administrator
Kanini Kega Limited
Nairobi
05.2021 - Current
- Supported office manager with proactive correspondence management, document coordination and customer relations.
- Facilitated office productivity, coordinating personnel schedules, quality assurance and procedural improvements.
- Tracked office supplies and restocked low items to keep team members on-task and productive.
- Reconciled account files and produced monthly reports.
- Edited documents to improve accuracy of language, flow and readability.
- Coordinated communications, financial processing, registration, recordkeeping and other administrative functions.
- Delivered clerical support by handling range of routine and special requirements.
- Trained new employees on administrative procedures, company policies and performance standards.
- Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors.
- Reported on daily office activities to help managers stay on top of dynamic conditions and make proactive decisions.
- Applied advanced administrative and analytical skills in overseeing day-to-day operational activities.
- Interacted with customers by phone, email or in-person to provide information.
- Maintained open communication with customers to foster positive relations and provide updates on issues.
Intern and Volunteer Public Health Nutritionist
Kenya Nutrition and Dietetics Institute
Ageng'a Busia
01.2019 - 03.2020
- Technical assistance in programming and implementation of food security, livelihood and mentorship projects (FSLAMP) in Samia Busia County.
- Orienting interns to academy and coordinating their competences that include community entry, resource mobilization, community resource mapping, market surveys among others.
- Community linkages with interns (using local administration like chiefs in Barazas, churches)
- Organization and coordinating community outreaches, nutrition assessment, food demonstrations, group and individual counseling for target groups (teenage mothers, pregnant and lactating, lifestyle diseases among others)
- Training community health workers and helping them build capacity in screening, diagnosing and referral of malnutrition cases in community.
- Promotion of kitchen gardening and nutrition sensitive Agriculture to enhance vitamin A and iron supplementation in diet through pawpaw farming, watermelon, pumpkin and indigenous vegetable gardening.
- Conducting nutrition surveys, data collection and analysis using mobile digital technologies.
- Organizing and conducting mentorship programs for adolescents in secondary and upper primary and teaching them on sexual reproduction health, nutrition in life cycle, life skills and other topics to curb teenage pregnancies.
- Organizing and Conducting projects for lower primary and coming up with songs games to teach good nutrition especially on fruits and vegetables to impact on their teachers and caregivers, adding hygiene topics, building tippy taps for effective hand wash.
- Beneficiary mapping of malnutrition cases using GIS (Geo Information System)
- Writing partnership papers and proposals for funding for effective interventions in projects in prevention control and management
- Learning, teaching and implementing competences in community and public health nutrition such as community entry lobbying partnership and advocacy, research methodology, monitoring and evaluation, food inspection, legal skills, complex emergency handling skills, international relation, resource mobilization skills investigative skills, community surveillance techniques, procurement and logistics skills.
- Partnering with NHP plus AMREF and Red Cross in organizing outreaches to promote baby friendly initiative, food demonstrations to improve feeding practices, agriculture sensitive projects, and implementing other nutrition programs for intervention of food insecurity and lifestyle diseases in Busia County.
- Partnering with dispensaries and hospitals for easy referrals, follow ups and counseling home based patients.
Clinical Nutritionist-attachment
Thika level 5 hospital
Kiambu
05.2016 - 09.2016
- Conducting anthropometric assessment, health education to clients where necessary coming to hospital at different clinics that include TB clinic, diabetes clinic, Maternal Child Health, Comprehensive Care Centre, Hypertension clinic and general clients.
- Monitored quality control procedures to guarantee preparation and delivery of healthy menu choices.
- Counseled clients on nutrition issues such as obesity, eating disorders, tube feeding management, failure to thrive and feeding dysfunction.
- Provided appropriate follow-up according to patient's individual treatment goals and referred patients to outpatient and community services as appropriate.
- Monitoring and evaluation of progress clients both outpatient and inpatient
- Responsible for management of patients in wards by preparing giving them therapeutic feeds and supplementary feeds according to their nutritional needs.
- Attending medical rounds with other medical practitioners to learn and discuss patient's progress.
- Promotion and support of early initiation of breastfeeding of newborns at maternity and administration of vitamin A to mothers and children.
- Created and prepared visual aids, manuals and other materials used in teaching.
- Calculated, revised and verified proper enteral and parenteral feedings to meet nutritional needs.
- Educated patients about therapeutic nutrition, ingredients selection, food prep and meal planning.
- Collaborated with physicians and healthcare personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of clients.
Education
Bachelors Degree in Food Nutrition And Dietetics -
Kenyatta University
Nairobi 05.2013 - 08.2018
High School Diploma -
St Anne's High School
Kiriari Embu County 02.2007 - 11.2010
Primary Education -
St. Aloysius Boarding Primary School
Kanyakine, Meru County 01.2000 - 11.2006
Skills
Project Management
undefinedAccomplishments
Awarded best public health nutritionist in 2019 by Kenya Nutrition and Dietetics Institute (KNDI).
Interests
Timeline
Office Administrator
Kanini Kega Limited
05.2021 - Current
Intern and Volunteer Public Health Nutritionist
Kenya Nutrition and Dietetics Institute
01.2019 - 03.2020
Clinical Nutritionist-attachment
Thika level 5 hospital
05.2016 - 09.2016
Bachelors Degree in Food Nutrition And Dietetics -
Kenyatta University
05.2013 - 08.2018
High School Diploma -
St Anne's High School
02.2007 - 11.2010
Primary Education -
St. Aloysius Boarding Primary School
01.2000 - 11.2006
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