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NTEP ALIX CHANTAL

Yaounde

Summary

I am an experienced Data Scientist and Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with over 10 years of expertise in leveraging data-driven insights to enhance decision-making in complex international development environments. With a strong foundation in project management and strategic information systems, I have led cross-functional teams in humanitarian and health sectors to drive sustainable outcomes, aligning closely with global development goals. Fluent in French and English, I excel in high-pressure settings and am passionate about using technology and data to tackle pressing global challenges.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Advisor

West Africa MEAL
07.2023 - Current
  • United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP) – Global Fund Project, Central African Republic (CAR, BANGUI) – Head of Information Management, Communication and Reporting Unit, Developed and implemented customized data management tools and dashboards for various humanitarian partners, ensuring the solutions met the specific operational needs and enhanced decision-making processes;
  • Engaged with government counterparts and other stakeholders to ensure information activities were coordinated and aligned with national standards, maintaining open and effective communication channels to address client concerns and requirements ;
  • Provided training and expertise to UN WFP staff and humanitarian partners on the development and use of information management tools, enhancing their capacity to manage and utilize data effectively in their operations;
  • Streamlined data collection and reporting processes by deploying automated tools and dashboards, resulting in a 30% increase in the efficiency of operational support activities across multiple field offices;
  • Provided leadership and vision to integrated information teams, fostering innovation and early adoption of tools and technologies that improved the overall performance of operational support functions;
  • Identify in-country activities that could benefit from remote information management capacity;
  • Coordinated the development and implementation of performance monitoring frameworks for various projects, including regular tracking and reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs) to senior management and stakeholders ;
  • Act as Head of the Information Management Unit and support strategic planning, preparation of the annual work plan of the information management functions of the office, and related monitoring and reporting ;
  • Undertakes outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on data management and information in the supply chain field
  • Provides substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations ;
  • Undertakes survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes, and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions ;
  • Support the development and implementation of a strategic approach to managing information around the humanitarian program cycle, including supporting common information processes such as preparedness, needs assessment, strategic planning, resource mobilization, implementation, and monitoring ;
  • Provides substantive inputs in the preparation of annual performance planning and reviews, risk assessment, and updating of risk registers, including operational level risk registers and progress towards implementing the risk mitigation actions ;
  • Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables, and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation, and reporting ;
  • Take overall responsibility for the management of information and the production and dissemination of high-quality information products, tools and services ;
  • Provide leadership and vision to the integrated information team
  • Enable a collaborative approach between different areas of expertise within the team, foster innovation, stimulate early adoption of tools and technologies, and support team building and capacity development through continuous coaching and training of team members ;
  • Conceptual analytical and conduct independent research and analysis, including the use of various research sources, including electronic sources on the internet, intranet and other databases;
  • Coordinate with WFP CAR Health Team, French Red Cross and World Vision to obtain inputs required to conduct Supply Chain (SC) analyses and Dashboard ;
  • Produced and managed Supply Chain Management dashboards for the UN WFP, providing critical insights through data visualization that informed cross-functional operational support decisions ;
  • Provided substantive inputs in the preparation of annual performance planning and risk assessments, including updating risk registers and tracking progress towards implementing risk mitigation actions;
  • Support the handover of the facilitation of the monthly Supply Chain Coordination cell meetings to the MOH with all the stakeholders as the French Red Cross, World Vision, and
  • The Global Fund, producing all required materials to support a “fact-based” and data-driven decision-making (Agenda, Supply Chain Dashboard, Action tracker, NFRs, etc);
  • Follow up on actions taken during the Supply Chain Coordination Cell meetings and also during the operational meetings, ensure all parties involved provide their response, and take action as per agreement;
  • Produce all communication materials needed for the Supply Chain Visibility initiative in CAR and other projects that Supply Chain Planning is developing in the health sector (including translation of documents English-French-English);
  • Support the Supply Chain team to resolve and/or provide recommendations on specialized queries/requests ;
  • Coordinate weekly reporting and evaluation for internal and external purposes;
  • Coordinate and ensure technical training of Government staff on the design and maintenance of required operational Information Management Tools that can enable more effective management of the supply chain operations ;
  • Support technical assistance projects in other countries by sharing knowledge and experience from CAR operations with other newly implemented operations;
  • NGO, Catholic Relief Services – EMPOWER Project, West Africa Region (Guinea, Ghana, Ivory
  • Coast, Burkina Faso)

CRS
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Provide technical assistance and lead capacity-strengthening activities for EMPOWER West
  • Africa participating organizations on MEAL and Information Management;
  • Support participating local organizations to develop project management and MEAL documents and tools, technical manuals or guidance, learning and training materials, and quality improvement plans ;
  • Provide capacity strengthening on surveys and assessments, including the use of appropriate
  • ICT4D data collection and analysis tools such as CommCare, Excel, and PowerBI
  • As needed/requested, directly support methodological design, development of data collection tools, training of data collectors, data collection and analysis ;
  • Lead, the development of the technical design for MEAL strategies for proposals, including defining appropriate MEAL systems and indicators ;
  • Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into, ’ approach ;
  • Led feedback, complaints, and response mechanisms (FCRM) initiatives in the West Africa region, ensuring that client feedback was systematically integrated into project design and implementation, resulting in adaptive management practices ;
  • Assume a direct support, management or leadership role in MEAL and Information
  • Management during emergency responses via remote or on-site secondment to local humanitarian actors, as needed/requested ;
  • Monitor and manage the EMPOWER West Africa MEAL system, supporting internal and external knowledge management, database and dashboard management, documentation, learning and reporting ;
  • NGO, CHEMONICS International – USAID Global Health Supply Chain Management

SENIOR DATA OFFICER

12.2021 - 05.2023
  • (01 Year, 05 Months)
  • Coordinate and Supervise field data collection to improve the flow of project activities ;
  • Facilitated cross-functional coordination during Coordination Cell meetings, ensuring alignment of operational support activities and timely resolution of issues raised by various stakeholders ;
  • Published Streamlit app to enhance stakeholder communication reducing drastic changes during quarterly meetings ;
  • Design of survey methodologies, tools, and activity monitoring schedules using Microsoft
  • Project and Jira software to ensure that deadlines are met ;
  • Installed updates and plugins for Excel using homebrew to make data cleaning and data wrangling easier ;
  • Automated data preprocessing with Visual Basic and Python software achieving faster and consistent data quality ;
  • Deployed Surveys dashboards with PowerBi and Tableau for interactive exploration of data among the team ;
  • Setting up the survey questionnaires with Kobo collect and Survey CTO to make data collection easier and more flexible for the investigator's team ;
  • Coordinate data Sharing and communication with the granting of access levels in the online dashboard through PowerBi and specific channels through Microsoft Teams and Google
  • Meet;
  • Creation of tools for the control and monitoring of indicators that contributed to the achievement of 100% of program indicators ;
  • Coordinate need assessments analysis, baseline and end-line surveys, and program evaluations;
  • Supervise field data collection to ensure data quality and integrity and mitigate possible problems that can occur during data collection ;
  • Mentored and Empowered program staff to the survey process and data requirement to ensure good quality of data collected ;
  • Trained and mentored surveys on survey tools and processes to ensure proper data collection;
  • Documented progress of data project in Jira achieving easier and regular updates to management;
  • Present analytical findings to the overall project team to help shape future project delivery plans;
  • NGO,TECH ENERGY FOR AFRICA – German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
  • Development initiative - Regional Coordinator for Central Africa

09.2020 - 04.2023
  • (02 Year, 05 Months)
  • Implemented Data Standards across all the community-based organizations within the Region ;
  • Mentoring the community-based organization on their reporting system ;
  • Train and mentor local partners based on their system information needs ;
  • Design a capacity-strengthening plan for each local implementing partner ;
  • Briefed Stakeholders over new data products and documented feedback for implementation ;
  • Simplified Excel report pipeline reducing missed documents on deadline by 80% ;
  • Implementation of project impact activities, selection of the type and the methodology to be used to make proper impact evaluation ;
  • Design of concept notes and drafting of project proposals for submission to the German
  • Ministry of Cooperation ;
  • Establishment of mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation of all projects and programs funded by the organization in Central Africa ;
  • NGO, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, PEPFAR/CDC Project - Center for Global Health
  • Practice and Impact, CENTER Region – Regional DATA ASSOCIATES

08.2020 - 11.2021
  • Year, 05 Months)
  • Supervise data collection by data entry clerk for Ngoumou District ;
  • Build capacity of all the clinical staff on data reporting, and the importance of a good documentation of activities ;
  • Ensuring the health facilities of the Ngoumou district meet PEPFAR indicators ;
  • Train and coach Data Clerk on Dama where all patients on ART are being mentored and tracked ;
  • Train retention and testing APS on the filling of the Quality Assurance Register, and TARV
  • Register;
  • Contribute to the implementation of quality improvement, monitoring, and evaluation systems of designated health facilities ;
  • Develop and Update Data Management Standard Operating procedure to ensure data validity
  • And Integrity ;
  • Develop Tools to improve the reporting system and tracking of IIT clients, lost to follow-up and missed appointments ;
  • Develop tools to monitor the status of Exposed infants and the Viral load uptake of both HIV pregnant women and breastfeeding ;
  • Coordinate the establishment and maintaining of an effectiveand efficient records management system ;
  • Provide feedback to healthservice providers on the achievement of activities using Dashboard;
  • Conduct regular and routine data quality assessments to ensure data is accurate, valid, reliable, complete, and timely sent to CDC;
  • Analyze to highlight correlations and patterns of Clinical data of HIV clients;
  • Coordinate facility weekly data review meetings to analyze performance, and identify and resolve all data-related issues;
  • Generate timely and complete reports, daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly that capture of direct service deliveries provided during the reporting period to achieve site goals and set targets;
  • Conduct Periodic data quality checks and ;aintain confidentiality and security of the Beneficiary information;
  • NGO, No Limit for Women Project (NOLFOWOP)/ USAID - KIDSS Project Yaoundé

MEAL COORDINATOR

10.2017 - 08.2020
  • Provide technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting;
  • Organize training and workshop on PEPFAR indicators ;
  • Support the development, design, and writing of proposals, concept notes, and Newsletters for related programming information management and reporting ;
  • Support recruiting, interviewing, and training new M&E staff and/or consultants ;
  • Cultivate and strengthen relationships with local partner organizations, donors, private sector partners, and national authorities ;
  • Coordinate data collection by Social Workers and real-time Data entry by Data Clerks in mobile devices, Iformbuilder, Commcare, and KOBO using standard tools validated by the project ;
  • Holds monthly data review meetings to monitor performance ;
  • Create all the databases of the Beneficiaries for the monitoring of beneficiaries Status ;
  • Ensure the implementation and monitoring of the complaints and feedback management mechanism ;
  • Prepare, on a monthly basis, a complaints and feedback report ;
  • Improve, update, and maintain the existing databases in line with indicators ;
  • Perform the descriptive analysis, and multivariate data and compile the tables of results by theme to improve the project results ;
  • Trains and coaches the Case Management Coordinator, Social Workers, and Data Clerks on a regular basis on databases, data analysis and data collection tools, and related quality requirements ;
  • Management follow-up including the creation of queries with SQL to retrieve information from the database ;
  • Maintain confidentiality and security of the Beneficiary Information’s ;
  • Submit to the Hierarchy all daily, Weekly, and Monthly analyses on the monitoring of clinical care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children ;
  • Suggest improvements to strengthen internal control mechanisms; provide inputs for new procedures to complement and/or adapt existing instructions to achieve streamlining efficiencies ;
  • NGO, No Limit for Women Project (NOLFOWOP)/ USAID KIDSS Project Yaoundé

MEAL OFFICER

NGO, No Limit For Women Project , USAID PROJECT
10.2015 - 09.2017
  • Develop the overall framework for project M&E systems in collaboration with donor and senior project staff, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and evaluation surveys;
  • Develop and monitor project management plan to systematically document performance ;
  • Facilitate the design of “SMART” objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during the annual work-planning process ;
  • Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals ;
  • Contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities;
  • Maintain existing indicator tracking tools and develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions ;
  • Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements ;
  • Analyze data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes ;
  • Generate indicator reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed ;
  • Create and integrate graphics in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way ;
  • Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submittal to ensure superior quality and professionalism ;
  • Conduct field visits for data validation and monitor the quality and completeness of data sets, coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data, capture and document lessons learned, and champion the scaling up best practices ;

Education

PhD - Project Management

Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana de Mexico (UNINI

Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science and Machine Learning

University of Maryland

Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science and Business Analytics

University of Maryland, America

Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

University of Maryland

Lorenzo -

Kalu Institute Humanitarian Aid Studies Centre, de El Escorial

Master’s - International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

MBA - Project Management

Institut Supérieur de Management (ISM)

Master’s degree - social sciences and international Relations, option, Action

Protestant University of Central Africa

Bachelor’s degree - social sciences and international Relations, International Justice and Peace

Protestant University of Central Africa

A level - Philosophy

GCE -

GHS Anguissa
2015

Skills

  • Committed to maintaining confidentiality and fostering open relationships
  • CORE COMPETENCIES:
  • 1- Data analysis software:
  • SPSS, DHSI 2, KOBO, ODK
  • STATA, Epi info, SAS, CS Pro
  • Iformbuilder, Commcare, Sphinx
  • 4– Graphic illustration and Video
  • Editing software:
  • Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After
  • Effects, illustrator, Indesign
  • Photoshop
  • 7- Data Visualizations Software:
  • PowerBi, Tableau, Looker Studio
  • Click
  • 2- Suite Microsoft Office:
  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, One
  • Note, Drive, SharePoint, PowerApps
  • Power Automate
  • 5- Project Management Software:
  • Microsoft Project, Gantt Project, Trello
  • Jira
  • 3- Suite Google:
  • Google docs, Google Sheet
  • Google Forms, Google data
  • Studio, Google Meet, Google
  • Task, Google Agenda
  • 6- Programming language:
  • Python, SQL, NoSQL
  • Mash- up, DAX, VBA
  • R, Stata

Certification

Global Exam Certification level B2 General English (2022) – Issued by Global Exam Global Exam Certification level B1 General English (2022) – Issued by Global Exam

References

REFERENCES: Marius POKA Programme Policy Officer, United Nations World Food Programme Tel : (+237) 691-50-72-26 Email: mariuspoka83@gmail.com Odette NGO ETAME President of NGO, No Limit for Women Project (NOLFOWOP) Tel: (+237) 699-94-46-59 Email: nolfowop5@yahoo.fr Thomas Hugues NJOYA Strategic Information Specialist, CDC- Cameroon Tel: (+237) 691-44-12-48 Email: njoyathomas@gmail.com

Affiliations

Monitoring and Evaluation Certificate: MEALDPro (2022) – Issued by PM4NGOs Field Introduction to Meal (2022) – Issued by Save the Children inc, London - United Kingdom Preparing Data for Impact Analysis (2019) - Issued by Global Health E-Learning Center M&E Framework for HIV AIDS Program (2019) - Issued by Global Health E-Learning Center Data Analysis Certificate: Tableau Desktop Specialist (2022) – Issued by Tableau Corporation Tableau Certified Data Analyst (2022) – Issued by Tableau Corporation Tableau Server Certified Associate (2022) – Issued by Tableau Corporation Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (2022) – Issued by Microsoft Corporation Become a Power BI expert the complete training (2022) – Issued by Udemy inc, San Francisco - United States Data Analyst (2022) – Issued by Google Corporation, United States Data Analysis and Action Planning (2021) – Issued by Disaster Ready Data Quality (2019) - Issued by Global Health E-Learning Center Python Object Oriented Programming – Issued by Open Classrooms, France Produce Clear and Impactful Statistical Reports (2022) – Issued by ENSAE-ENSAI, Malakoff - France Initiation to Artificial Intelligence (2022) – Issued by Institut Montaigne, Paris - France Unlock Excel VBA and Excel Macros (2022) – Issued by Udemy inc, San Francisco - United States Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Expert 2019 (2021) - Issued by Microsoft Corporation

Languages

  • Fluent
  • In French and English

    • Timeline

    Technical Advisor

    West Africa MEAL
    07.2023 - Current

    CRS
    05.2023 - 08.2023

    SENIOR DATA OFFICER

    12.2021 - 05.2023

    09.2020 - 04.2023

    08.2020 - 11.2021

    MEAL COORDINATOR

    10.2017 - 08.2020

    MEAL OFFICER

    NGO, No Limit For Women Project , USAID PROJECT
    10.2015 - 09.2017

    PhD - Project Management

    Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana de Mexico (UNINI

    Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science and Machine Learning

    University of Maryland

    Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science and Business Analytics

    University of Maryland, America

    Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

    University of Maryland

    Lorenzo -

    Kalu Institute Humanitarian Aid Studies Centre, de El Escorial

    Master’s - International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

    MBA - Project Management

    Institut Supérieur de Management (ISM)

    Master’s degree - social sciences and international Relations, option, Action

    Protestant University of Central Africa

    Bachelor’s degree - social sciences and international Relations, International Justice and Peace

    Protestant University of Central Africa

    A level - Philosophy

    GCE -

    GHS Anguissa

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