Emmah Mahume

Emmah Mahume is the Deputy Team Leader and is responsible for supporting the Team Leader in all day-to-day activities and is the point of contact for any issues when the Team Leader is not available. Emmah supports the Team Leader and provide technical oversight and management of all program activities and interventions to ensure integration, coordination, and collaboration across all components. Emmah provides management and appraisal of core technical team, operations team, M&E team, and project financial management team, including building a strong and supportive team environment. Emmah ensures funds are regularly and accurately disbursed to eligible facilities, and documented, in line with agreed policies and procedures, and provides leadership on effective budget management and administration. Emmah travels occasionally to oversee implementation and provide on-site technical and management support, supervision, and quality control. Emmah Mahume was a director of finance and operations and has extensive knowledge in managing a budget of $73 million for a five-year project funded by USAID. Emmah has over 12 years' experience of financial management and 16 years in a supervisory role. As a leader Emmah uses a different leadership style for each team member. Emmah learned to work with different personalities and respect people, she is very good with people management. Emmah has hands-on knowledge in project accounting, budgeting, tax laws, Human resource, Operations, Procurement, grants, and stakeholder relationship management. Emmah is an expert in proposal budgeting and pricing, monitoring, and cost reduction. Emmah has effectively facilitated project operations trainings for the team and partners, these include procurement, contracts, grants, travel, security, and personnel. Emmah has significant project management experience with USAID, PEPFAR, FCDO, SDC, National Treasury and other donors. Emmah travelled around Southern Africa region to do project startup and close out, including providing training and support to field accountants and staff.