Walusungu Chibwe
Mzuzu
Summary
Business Consultant with 8+ years relevant work experience in Business Development Services Consulting & SMEs Incubation and Acceleration. Knowledgeable in business strategies, supply chain management, commercial markets, business modelling, enterprise development, skills and talent development, project management, coaching, mentorship while maintaining the utmost confidentiality. A professional Trainer & Coach in SMEs Management. Holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration. Looking to leverage her extensive knowledge and experience into Project Management and related roles.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Leader - Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Livelihoods
Emerge Livelihoods
02.2025 - Current
- Lead the formulation and execution of sustainable entrepreneurship and livelihoods strategies
- Develop and manage programs that support community-based enterprises and sustainable development initiatives
- Provide expert advice on business development, investment opportunities, and impact measurement
- Foster strategic partnerships with stakeholders, donors, and investors to enhance program effectiveness
- Advocate for policies and interventions that promote sustainable livelihoods and entrepreneurship
Investment and Portfolio Analyst - Acceleration
Emerge Livelihoods
02.2025 - Current
- Conduct investment
- Source, recruit, and perform due diligence on high-growth potential enterprises
- Coordinate acceleration programs, ensuring alignment with investment and sustainability goals
- Facilitate investor-entrepreneur matching to enhance MSME growth and scalability
- Lead program reviews, monitoring, and evaluation to ensure impact-driven results
Business Consultant
Tradeline Corporation Limited
01.2022 - 01.2025
- Team lead on existing client delivery while building team leadership capabilities within the team
- Ensure that teams are supported in their development and provided with stretching opportunities
- Set an example, encourage behaviors that foster a strong team spirit
- Provide leadership on high profile external partnerships and industry relationships, bringing gravitas and experience to those interactions
- Responsible for overseeing a diverse portfolio of Agri SMEs, screening and onboarding new clients
- Bring project management experience to projects, ensuring that the delivery is managed appropriately and is delivered by team members at the right level
- Pursuing acquisition of new business
- Project management
- Designing innovative solutions, business models, products
- Designing training programs and curriculum
- Coordinating delivery of trainings
- Carrying out HR related issues (recruiting, career development plan, disciplinary issues within the division)
Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant
Tradeline Corporation Limited
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Provide technical assistance and building capacities of all project staff and beneficiaries at field level in all M&E related activities
- Work with recipients to develop systems to track SME activity against grant implementation and record the progress of SMEs compared to performance measures of the grant
- Review all performance reports and quarterly financial reports of the beneficiaries, to assess progress and achievement of objectives, recommendations for remediation if needed, and answer questions and concerns
- Work with SMEs to develop monitoring plans based on the status of grant activities
- Develop remediation plans jointly with the beneficiaries
- Help beneficiaries develop analytical skills to understand the situation and the financial conditions of their companies
- Undertake annual assessment of Program Impact (API)
- Ensures that site visits are conducted in a timely manner in order to achieve an adequate financial closure of projects where appropriate
Business Development Officer
Tradeline Corporation Limited
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Analyzes and evaluates the clients’ requirements and business goals
- Performs comprehensive data analysis to uncover operational inefficiencies, weaknesses, complications, and problems
- Formulates, recommends, and executes business strategies in line with company goals
- Presents findings, conclusions, and recommendations to peers and clients
- Assists with the implementation of recommended changes
- Monitors implementation of strategies and engages with clients for feedback
- Plan, organize and manage business projects for clients
- Perform initial assessments for each client before the project begins
- Collect as much information about the client's business as possible
- Constantly recommend solutions for improvement
- Determine the project's KPIs
- Track KPIs and prepare reports
Marketing Assistant
Employer’s Consultative Association of Malawi
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Coordinate the activities of Global Apprenticeship Network-(GAN) Malawi with the aim to advance lobbying and advocacy for an enabling business environment
- Maintaining and updating membership data base
- Prepare for new member orientation
- Disseminating Economic data to members
- Assist in surveys and project coordination
- Preparing comprehensive proposals
Coordinator for Global Apprenticeship Network Malawi (GAN)
Employer’s Consultative Association of Malawi
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Support development of the Network Strategic Plans and Roadmaps
- Liaison between ECAM and TVET on skills related projects
- Facilitate planning, implementation and coordination of network activities
- Lobbying and advocacy
- Facilitate Network membership recruitment
- Develop and document progress reports
Research Assistant- Social Cash Transfer Endline Project
Centre for Social Research (CSR) under University of Malawi
01.2015 - 12.2015
- Participated in Research work planning
- Conducted interviews and recorded data using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
- Facilitated Data Entry, Cleaning and Analysis
- Attending feedback meetings to review and submit work, and receive additional instructions
Research Assistant - Fisheries Integration of Society and Habitats (FISH) Baseline Survey
Center for Agriculture Research & Development (CARD)
01.2015 - 12.2015
- Conducted interviews with different households and asked questions following a script and recorded data on forms
- Entering data for the survey for two weeks in which we used both SPSS and CSpro
- Documented and reported on research issues to supervisor
Education
Master’s - Business Administration (MBA)
Malawi Institute of Management
01.2023
Bachelors’ Degree - Business Administration (BBA)
University of Malawi-The Polytechnic
01.2015
Skills
- Report writing
- Research skills
- Problem Solving
- Logframe analysis
- Strong presentation
- Project management
- People Management
- Proposal Development
- Monitoring & Evaluating
- Analytical and evaluation
- Design & Strategic Planning
- Data Analysis & Management
- Excellent communication skills
- Attention to detail
- SME Business re-engineering skills
- Reasoning & Decision-making skills
- Data Collection & Management Skills (Conversant with KOBOCOLLECT, SPSS and CSpro)
- Coaching
- Leadership
- Performance evaluations
Accomplishments
Successfully designed and led in implementation of several short and long-term assignments for SMEs and Private sector development.
Training
- 2023, Training in Start and Improve Your Business (SYIB), Trainer of Trainers workshop
- 2019, Training in Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation with MS Projects
- 2018, Certificate of participation in Lobby, Advocacy and Policy Influence to improve the business environment
- 2016, Expand Your Business (EYB) for Growth Oriented Enterprises Training of Trainers Workshop
- 2016, Certificate for Participation in ‘Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification’ Methodology workshop
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Team Leader - Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Livelihoods
Emerge Livelihoods
02.2025 - Current
Investment and Portfolio Analyst - Acceleration
Emerge Livelihoods
02.2025 - Current
Business Consultant
Tradeline Corporation Limited
01.2022 - 01.2025
Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant
Tradeline Corporation Limited
01.2020 - 01.2022
Business Development Officer
Tradeline Corporation Limited
01.2019 - 01.2020
Marketing Assistant
Employer’s Consultative Association of Malawi
01.2016 - 01.2019
Coordinator for Global Apprenticeship Network Malawi (GAN)
Employer’s Consultative Association of Malawi
01.2016 - 01.2019
Research Assistant- Social Cash Transfer Endline Project
Centre for Social Research (CSR) under University of Malawi
01.2015 - 12.2015
Research Assistant - Fisheries Integration of Society and Habitats (FISH) Baseline Survey
Center for Agriculture Research & Development (CARD)
01.2015 - 12.2015
Master’s - Business Administration (MBA)
Malawi Institute of Management
Bachelors’ Degree - Business Administration (BBA)
University of Malawi-The Polytechnic
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