PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

GENERAL INFORMATION

Full name : Lương Thị TìnhSex : FemaleDate of Birth : Oct. 08, 1980

Address : Nr. 15, lane 562/18, residential area 20, Ngoc Thuy ward, Long Bien district, Hanoi, Vietnam

Tel : 0913003863.Email :tinhluong80@gmail.com

EDUCATION/TRAINING

1998-2002: Bachelor of Art at Hanoi University of Foreign Studies, English majority

2004 Training course on public health, HIV/AIDS in Bangkok, Thailand

2004-2011 Participated in serial trainings on research skills, HIV/AIDS care and support, Training on project cycle and project management;

2013 Training on Leadership and success held by VUSTA and supported by AusAid

2011-2015 Training courses on the project leadership skills; Social Analysis and Action, Presentation skills

2015 Training on Monitoring Evaluation and Learning course in Canberra, Australia.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Have good skills to build trust and good relationships with service providers and the most at risk/ key populations.

Good skills and experience in organizing workshops and seminars, trainings.

Experience in project management and participatory planning skills

Experienced in technical materials development: research design, program curricula, technical guidelines, technical protocol, standard operating procedure (SOP)

Experienced in working with high risk behavior group as drug users, female sex workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Experienced in Project planning, implementation, coordination and management especially the USAID-funded projects and the Global fund project to fight HIV/AIDS (CSO component)

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EMPLOYMENT RECORD AND WORKING EXPERIENCES

From September 2014 to nowPosition: Portfolio Manager:

Projects:

Personal Advance and Career Enhancement for female garment workers in Knitwear Companies, belonging to GAP Foundation in Vietnam.

The “Nang Quyen” Women Empowerment project, which support to enhance access of the female sex workers in Quang Ninh, Can Tho and HCMC to support services.

Regional evidence to influence gender based violence (GBV) policy

Key tasks:

- To manage and supervise the projects’ performance and budget expenditure to meet donors’ requirement and ensure these projects are implemented in line with approved activities, budgets; financial policies and standard operation procedures required by donor, CARE and the Government of Vietnam.

- To maintain cooperative relationships with implementing partners of these projects and oversee partner’s performance to ensure they follow compliance of CARE and Donor regulations

- To ensure staff management and create an collaborative, supportive environment to assure effective teamwork, and contribution among the project team members

From 2013 to August 2014 – Center for Community Health and Development (COHED)

Position: Deputy Director of COHED, managing the Global Fund project to fight against HIV/AIDS – COHED sub-recipient.

- Manage and supervise the project performance and budget management, ensure budget expenditure is in line with approved budgets, financial policies and standard operation procedures required by donor, VUSTA Project management unit, COHED and the Government of Vietnam;

- Participate in and provide inputs to the technical SOPs, guidelines on HIV Outreach, Communication and HIV Home based care led by PACT Vietnam under Global Fund project to fight against HIV/AIDS – VUSTA Component.

- Coordinate and follow up with the subcontractors/implementing organizations involved in the project to follow up on progress, proactive identification of joint program issues and risks and reporting on any foreseen problems that could affect joint program overall progress or delivery;

- Provide technical support for the subcontractors/ partners in implementing the project activities.

- Provide technical assistance and guidance for team members on the update approaches on HIV prevention and care & support within the HIV services cascade.

- Provide training for the self help groups of PLHIV, IDUs, SWs, PSP and MSM in Bac Kan, Nghe An, Vung Tau province on outreach skills and networking skills to target

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key populations risk assessment, counseling and referring them to HIV testing, care, treatment services.

- Facilitate and support the key population groups to initiate and apply innovative peer outreach and communication methods, such as ILOM, PDI outreach, art based communication, internet based outreach and networking.

- Coordinate and collaborate with local health facilities to promote HIV testing among high risk populations, especially mobile testing and counseling.

- Undertake and supervise the project monitoring and evaluation at the project level, sub-contractors and at field level to assure the project activities are implemented as scheduled and meet the required objective and to make adjustment if needed.

- Monitor the performance and financial management by subcontractor, and ensure they follow compliance.

- Establish, maintain cooperative and supportive relationships with subcontractor, local authorities and partners to obtain support for the project activities.

- Convene quarterly meetings with local partners, authorities and relevant stakeholders to coordinate the project activities at the project sites.

- Ensure the integrity of the joint program and information sharing among the main stakeholders of the program facilitation of monitoring and evaluation missions;

- Document success stories and lessons learnt and share them with relevant stakeholders

- Prepare of quarterly and annual joint program progress reports, funds requisition, financial reports, and any other reports as requested by the participating agencies;

From 2013 to August 2014 – Center for Community Health and Development (COHED)

Position: Technical coordinator Pathways project supported by USAIDS via RTI

Key tasks:

- Participating in the CSOs selection process under Pathways Project

- Developing project annual technical and financial plans

- Developing the standard operation procedures (SOP) on HIV prevention, care and support

- Developing the referral & networking SOP for HIV testing , care and treatment and other services

- Implementing the project approval procedures and partnership agreement between COHED and RTI

- Co-facilitating the HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support (cascade model) hosted by FHI360 to provide capacity building for the CSOs participating in the Pathways projects.

- Developing the Home based care for PLHIV at higher needs, Referral guidance

- Being responsible for project reports

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From 2007 to 2012 – Center for Community Health and Development (COHED)

Position: Project manager Project: Support for HIV positive women in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province,

supported by USAID/PEPFAR through Pact Vietnam.

Key tasks:

- Implementing the project management activities, including: Planning, implementation, monitoring and supervising the project activities to ensure the project progress and impacts.

- Developing, implementing outreach strategies and campaigns focusing on HIV communication prevention, care, and support and decreasing stigma and discrimination

- Providing training on peer outreach skill, networking skills, behavior change communication skill for peer educators and caregivers.

- Providing training for local health workers on outreach activities, stigma and discrimination reduction to provide friendly HIV counseling, testing and care, treatment services for the key populations.

- Establishing the partnership with provincial HIV/AIDS prevention center, Health service providers, Outpatient Clinics, Women Union, Ha Long city Health center…

- Representing COHED in the workshop, meeting with donors, partners and other relevant stakeholders.

- Coordinating and providing capacity building for implementing partners and community based organizations (CBOs)

From 2004 to 2007 – Center for Community Health and Development (COHED)

Position: Program officer: Project: HIV/AIDS prevention in rehabilitation centers (05/06 centers) in Hanoi, Thai

Nguyen, Binh Dinh, Khan Hoa provinces

Project: Behind stage – Art based communication on HIV/AIDS prevention in Hai Phong, Ha noi and HCMC

Project: Support programs for women living with HIV/AIDS in Quang Ninh, Hai Phong and HCMC

Key tasks:

- Developing the project implementation plan (monthly, quarterly and annually)

- Coordinating closely with local provincial partners in implementing, monitoring the project activities and field visits to project sites in order to supervise the project implementation

- Organizing and be a co-trainer for the training courses/workshops on different topics for the project beneficiaries

- Planning, organizing, providing technical assistance, monitoring and evaluating other projects implemented by COHED

- Developing small project on health education, HIV/AIDS communication

- Participating in the study, researches, and assessment implemented by COHED4

- Developing materials and facilitating training courses on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, organizational development…

From 2002 to 2004 – Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Position: project officer - Bach Mai Project for Functional Enhancement with the responsibility of cooperation with DOHA Office (Direction Office of Health Activities - Bach Mai Hospital) in order to:

- Organize training courses for medical staff at the provincial level (TOT).

- Conduct the training need assessment and situational assessment of the northern provincial hospitals

- Be a facilitator of the training courses on hospital holistic care, Nosocomial Infection Prevention for nurses and community caregivers in Tuyen Quang, Vinh Phuc, Ha Tinh, Son La and Bac Ninh provinces.

- Being team member of the materials development team: including developing IEC materials, training curriculum, project regular reports, survey forms, booklets…

- Provide translation and interpretation for the project regular meetings between JICA experts and Vietnamese counterparts in Bach Mai hospital.

ABSTRACT AND PUBLICATION

Luong Tinh, Minh Thai, Mai Hoa, Lan Anh: “Scaling up empowerment support by civil societies for PLHIV in Vietnam” Accepted for poster presentation in ICAAP 9, Bali 2009

Vietnam. COHED, BU, LIFE. 2008-2010. “Engendering the care and treatment response: Addressing the needs of women living with HIV in Vietnam Evaluation report.

HIV community and home based care training manual, 2009.

Dao Mai Hoa, Luong Thi Tinh, Lan Anh Tran, Minh Thai Pham “Empowerment of the household responses for HIV/AIDS care and support”, accepted for poster presentation in ICAAP 10, Pusan, Korea, 2011.

Abstract “Empowerment for Women living with HIV in HIV response through economic development opportunities, Abstract ID: ICAAP1678-00906” and “Greater involvement of PLHIV and MARPs, greater HIV/AIDS responses, Abstract ID: ICAAP1678-01260 – ICCAP11, Thailand.

Standard Operation Procedures: Delivery of Core HIV Care and Support Services to People Living with HIV/AIDS, May 2013.

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