The document provides a summary of the professional experience and qualifications of Constansia Hitjevi Banda. It details her experience as an independent consultant providing services to organizations focused on women's entrepreneurship, farming cooperatives, and water resource management in Namibia from 2008 to the present. It also outlines her experience as a lecturer at Polytechnic of Namibia from 2010 to the present, teaching subjects related to business, logistics, and supply chain management. The resume highlights her education, including degrees from universities in the US, UK, and Namibia, as well as her language and computer skills.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Uetujama Strategic Human Development Close Corporation
www.strategichumandeveloment.com 2008 to Present
Founded company from start to provide consulting services either
directly or through employment contract to a number of funded public
service, businesses, tertiary education, and community projects based
on the needs of the organisation.
Position: Independent Consultant
Project: Namibia National Association of Women in Business
(NNAWIB) Sept. 2011-Mar. 2012
Main consulting services was to help raise funds of N$200,000 for
NNAWIB to continue supporting its low-income women entrepreneur
members to acquire the necessary human and business skills to
sustained their main sources of income operating small-scale
businesses in marginalised and rural communities across Namibia:
 Development their organisational profile to ensure a proper structure
and governance in place to deliver training and services initiatives to
low-income women entrepreneur members in the marginalised and
rural communities with high concentration up north of Namibia
 Reviewed and implemented new practical fund-raising strategy
Project: Omusati Co-operative Farmers Association Feb. 2010-Apr. 2012
Involvement with the Namibia National Farmers Union (NNFU) inspired trust
and confident within the small-medium scale farming sector spurring the path-
way to provide consulting services and volunteering to work closely with 1600
subsistence farmers members of the Omusati Co-operative Farmers
Association in the Omusati Region, North of Namibia. The consulting services
included successfully delivering and achieved the following:
Self-started Initiative Mentorship
Program:
 Imbedded institutional mind-sets
networking with a divers
 Inspired to remove structural
obstacles to nominate an Advisory-
Subcommittee responsible and
accountable for work and
membership performance,
 To pass-on and elect a younger
chairperson, sub-groups’ members
and leadership styles,
 Imbedded individual mind-sets for
all things considered and less
Graceful Achievements:
 In April 2010 a nomination and new
Advisory Subcommittee was
established during the Annual General
Meeting,
 In May 2010 exactly 3 months later a
new and younger chairman elected
releasing the elderly and long serving
chairman since the initial inception of
the association in 1973 to 2010,
 The association revealed that it
observed an increased in active
member’s commitment reducing
membership debts, and membership
RÉSUMÉ
ACADEMIC & QUALIFICATIONS
University
The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Pennsylvania, USA, 2013
County Women’s Resource Center, State, College, Pennsylvania,
USA, 2013
Degree(s) & Major Obtained
Postgraduate Certificate
Majored in International Human Rights Law
Counselor/ Advocate Graduate Certificate
Parallel Majored in Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK,
(Pre-known University of Wales, Cardiff), 2008
Masters’ of Business Administration Degree
Majored in International Business
University of Sunderland, England, UK, 2006 Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree
Majored in Business Studies
CONTINUING ACADEMIC EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
University/Institute
University of California, Davis, USA, 2012
Grade/Credit, Certificate or diploma (s) obtained
Intensive International English Academic Program
B Grade in Oral/Aural Fluency Skills
C+ Grade in Reference Reading & Writing/Research Paper
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia,
USA & Institute for International Education, 2013
Continuing Professional Development Certificate
Global Development & Social Justice
EDUCATION
High School & Highest Qualification Obtained
Centaurus High School,
Centaurus Road, Windhoek,
Namibia, 1997
12th Grade Cambridge International
General Secondary Education
(IGSEC) Certificate
SOFTWARE PROGRAMS KNOWLEDGE & COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft: Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint,
Poster & Outlook Email Competent
Internet Web-Search Engine Competent
Animation video & power-point & web editing Good
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Language Speak Read Write
English Excellent Excellent Excellent
German Very Good Good Good
Otjiherero Very Good Fair Fair
Oshiwambo Very Good Fair Fair
Afrikaans Good Fair Fair
Portuguese Advanced Fair Basic
French Fair Fair Basic
Spanish Fair Fair Basic
Chinese rudimentary Self-Learning Self-Learning
CONSTANSIA HITJEVI BANDA
Private Bag 12041, Suite#:2, Ausspannplatz, NAMIBIA
House No. 107B Papageien Street, Hochland Park, Windhoek, NAMIBIA
E-mail: ctgbanda@yahoo.com / Mobile#: +264 81-339-9422

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mechanisms
 Challenged to secure large funding prior, I achieved to secured
grand funding pledge from private businesses, foreign support
donors, including government institutions.
Project: Namibia National Farmers Union Sept. 2009-Jan. 2010
 Facilitated an outreach consultative annual conference attended by
more than 50 farmers association members from around the country
 Reviewed and communicated audit findings on internal system
operation, infrastructure, human capacity and risk management
analysis
 Prepared outcome information report to facilitated in the
development of 2010 Strategy Plan
Project: Southern Africa Development Community Parliamentary
Forum, Private Bag 13361, Windhoek, Namibia & Malawi
Sept.-Dec. 2008
 Regional Project on Integration Water Resources Management
(IWRM) Policy. A concept found on the Dublin and Rio 1992
principles, and adopted at the International United Nations
Conference on Water and Environment Development
 Representing the country I fostered a national cooperation through a
round-table dialogue attended by 14 members of parliament from
around SADC responsible for policy development and decision-
making in their respective countries: Namibia, Angola, South Africa,
Zambia & Botswana.
 A participatory follow-up on the commitment pledged by these
nations to implement and promote the IWRM policy.
 The project was started in 2007 and achieved to address the supply
of fresh drinking water and sanitation to 15% of Namibian residence
in the Cuvelai-Delta, including able to share and reduced the
dependency on Angola across four shared sub-water basins.
desired to focus on the common
goal and advance the association
to the next level.
growth from 1600 to over 2000
members between 2010 and 2011.
Project: Kambekura Farmers Association Community Project, Namibia
Jan.-Aug. 2009
 A project on institutional and human capacity building on leadership
management and skills development a tender award funded by the United
Nations for Global Fund.
 Consulting services included project management, planning, organising, and
coordinating.
 Conducted desk assessment and review of job descriptions, roles and
qualifications
 Coordinated with top management, donor; issue resolutions, work papers and
report preparation, and exit training needs assessment report
 Development a capacity building curriculum training program based on the
needs assessed
 Provided a successful two day on-site training attended by 14 key managerial
personnel at the Ovitoto Reserve and rewarded a certificate of attendance to
the participants
 Project exited with a monitoring and evaluation program follow-up,
recommendation corrective action plan report, including a designed operating
effective yearly plan for executive directors.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Polytechnic of Namibia, Private Bag 13388, Windhoek, Namibia
Position: Lecturer Aug. 2013 to
Present
Work as a Lecturer, Face-to-Face Tutor, including Research
Supervisor, Marker & Moderator in the Faculty of Business &
Management Sciences and for the Centre of Lifelong Learning
(COLL)
Duties includes:
 Assigned full-time, part-time, long-distance learning and vacation
school’s students attending from 1s to 3rd years.
 Teaching Business & Management Sciences subjects such as:
Business Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and Purchasing
and Supply Management
 Accountable for moderating Junior Lecturers’ marked research
transcript papers for consistency and accuracy verification of junior
lecturers’ market transcripts.
 Face-to-face and extra tutoring students on long-distance and
during vacation school conducting Research Methodology,
including preparing progress reports.
 Research proposal and projects supervision, marking and grading.
 Preparation of lesson plans and monitoring classes attendance.
 Meeting with students and helping them in solving their problems.
Worked as an Adjacent- Lecturer serving in both the Faculty of Business &
Management Sciences and Faculty of Hospitality & Tourism Management
Duties included: Feb.2010-Aug.2010
 Taught Business & Management, including Hospitality and Tourism subjects
such as: Business and Management, Introduction to Principles of Marketing,
and Hospitality and Tourism Marketing.
 Prepared tests and examination question papers for mid-term and finals,
including conducted tests and examination invigilation.
 Prepared lesson plans, and monitoring attendance.
 Marked transcripts, assignments, and research proposal and projects,
including preparing progress reports.
 Conducted one-on-one counselling consultation sessions with students.
 Participated in curriculum review for Marketing and Strategic Marketing
subjects.

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Namibia Training Authority (NTA), PO Box 70407, Khomasdal,
Namibia
Position: Quality Auditor Jul. 2010-Oct.
2014
Accountable for quality auditing and ensure compliance in publicly
and privately vocational education and training providers,
programmes, training, assessment and administrative controls.
Enforced and strictly held education and training institutions liable to
various government regulations (e.g. Vocational Education &
Training Act, 2008; Namibia Qualification Authority/National
Framework, Act 1996, Ministry of Trade & Industry Companies Act,
1973, Labour Act, 2007 & HIV/AID Police; Affirmative Action
(Employment) Act, 1998, Social Security Act, 1194; and
Occupational Health & Safety Act, 1992), including Standard Quality
practices (e.g. ISO 9001:2008 & ISO1911).
High level of knowledge and worked to foster networking
collaboration with various professional authorities for the purposed
of promoting the right and quality of education and training (e.g. the
Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCN) established through
the Allied Health Professions Act, 2004) etc.
Duties included:
 Conducted on-site audits, audit planning and design, risk
assessment evaluation of internal control, contracting and
supervision of subject matter experts (SME) audit procedure,
analysis, and documentation.
 Analysed audits findings and interpret all complex regulations
compliance and non-compliance issues according to the
registration and accreditation regulations and procedures.
 Compiled audit reports results with all necessary actions to be
implemented by training institutes under a set time-frame, and
monitoring guidance to resolve all non-compliance issues to ensure
adherence to registration criteria, regulations and procedures.
 Expected to submit quarterly a minimum of three final audits
reports to the Standard Assessment and Certification Council for
decision-making and registration approval.
 Carried out monitoring and evaluation (M&E) process as follow-up
to ensure that training institutes are improving and maintaining their
entire operations’ quality management systems (QMS) on a
continuous basis.
Position: Administrative Secretariat Jul. 2010-Sept. 2011
(Promotion)
Tasked to assist NTA with the operational development of and
successfully helped to implement the Council and Industry
Engagement Division.
Facilitated with the implementation of a fully-fledged Standard
Assessment & Certification Council (SACC).
 Contributed to the achievement with committee members
nomination,
 application recruitment and procedures, drafting and issuing of
approval of appointment.
 Additionally, achieved fourth months ahead of the targeted time:
helped to set-up operational system processors, and administrative
controls for each respective committees consisting of 13 elected
Millennium Challenge Account-Namibia (MCA-N), Atlas House, 6th Floor. Cnr.
Mandume Ndemufayo & Sam Nujoma Drive, Windhoek, Namibia
Position: Technical Adviser Aug. 2011-Oct. 2014
Served as one of the three panel members for the Technical Evaluation Panel
accountable for the COSDECs Strategic Plan and Management Proposal. Tasked
to provide support to MCA-Namibia on a technical partnership level with NTA to
promote in the development of COSDECs and Vocational Education and Training
Sector in Namibia.
Duties included:
 Actively participated in the review of a shortlist of individual business
consultants’ business plans and qualifications
 Conducted long hours of complex evaluation process analysing and identifying
tender application business consultants’ plans and qualifications against the
project’s terms of reference (ToRs) and requirements.
 Contributed technical advice information to the tender project budgeted at least
for the amount of U$D1.3billion
 Contributed to the panel team consolidated recommendation, selection of three
top best consultants, this included contributing inputs to the final report
documentation presented to the Country Director.
United States Human Rights Network (USHR Network)
250 Georgia Avenue #330, Atlanta GA 30312, U.S.A
Position: Unpaid Professional Affiliation Contract May.-Jun. 2013
During my Hubert Humphrey Scholarship Program in the United States of
America and after completing my studies at Penn States University in
Pennsylvania. I took on an unpaid professional internship working for USHR
Network. Gained in-depth knowledge and practical skills related to United Nations’
strategic approaches with focus on critical issues in the lives of women and young
girls, including promoting education & training, health, access to legal services,
research and policy reform programmes aimed, particularly at community
grassroots level and public services in local, national, international countries.
Duties included:
 Assisted with setting up education programming for national
conference/http://www.ushrnetwork.org/events/advancing-human-rights-2013-
dignity-justice-action
 Conducted regular review and updates on U.S.A Senate and House Judiciary
Committee Timeline-Passage on the Comprehensive Immigration Policy &
Reform Bill, 2013.
 reviewed & Collected data on U.S Government and Grassroots Organisations’
Shadow Reports 2006-2012 on International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights
(ICCR)
 responsible for producing and reviewing drafts of educational resources
pertaining to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheets; plain- English language
translation version of both U.S Government’s ratified and USHR Network’s
recommended treaties in line with e.g. UN- Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRC) & UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) for ratification.
 Learned a great deal about the ICCPR Treaty Taskforces’ work and
participated with human rights subject matter experts attending formal
conference call meetings, groups advisory policy review , including training
sessions on discussions, motions, decision-making and actions related to the

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qualified, highly experts with extensive professional experience
within the public and private industry they represent. Such
Committees are: Agriculture, Hospitality & Tourism, Financial &
Business Services, Fishery & Marine, including the fifth committee
consisting of a combination of seven industries’ expert members:
Mining, Construction, Mining & Quarrying, Construction, Electricity,
Gas & Water Supply, and Sanitation. Duties included:
 Managed the planning process and provided operational division’s
functions, direction, governance and control to the members of the
council and committees.
 Held pre de-briefing meetings with the council and the respective
committees’ chairperson preparing him or her on key delicate
matters likely to arise among members during the next meetings
and at special called meetings.
 Coordinated the structures of functions, work-plans,
national/international travel-plans, calculations of subsistence and
incidental costs, workshop, marketing, conference events to enable
the council and committee members to carry-out their activities and
meet their target goals.
 Drafted motion-discussions minutes accompanied by a decision,
and action plan for the council and each committee with minimum
language-techniques editing by the Division-Manager, including
circulation in a timely-manner of such documents to members for
their approval with follow-up inputs and changes effected.
 Additionally, on average a month successfully submitted eighteen
paper-work documentations related to council and committees’
formal meetings.
 Supported the division manager with mid-term review and helped
compile the annual budget.
coordination and support functions for grassroots organisations; screening
contents to ensure the drafting of successful shadow reports, and help facilitate
the submission process of such paper documents to the United Nations Human
Rights Committee for ratification.
The Pennsylvania State University
Commission for Educational Equity Department, 314 Old Main, University
Park, PA16802, U.S.A
Position: Dual-Study and Professional Internship Oct. 2012-Apr. 2013
In pursuit of gained substantial understanding of both the approach to ensure a
successful execution of the University President’s Strategic Plan and aspects of
diligent administrative roles and processes under the mentorship of Dr. Victoria
Sanchez, Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Equity at Penn State University.
Spurred a task assignment to assist the Commission for Women (CFW) with the
development of Penn State Women with Influence Project. The CFW was
established in 1981 as an advisory group to the President of the university on
issues affecting women; to guide the university in its efforts advocating women’s
concerns related to employment and educational equity policies, and promoting
the status of women at Penn State University.
Duties included:
 Participated and attending various university’s advisory groups formal meetings
(e.g. Commission for Women, Educational Equity, President Strategic Plan &
Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT).
 Provided research information and administrative support to the Educational
Equity Department.
 Assisted undergraduate paid-intern students with advice and editing their study
research projects.
 Created the project initiation document (PID) and directly reporting to the co-
chair of the Commission’s Marketing Committee.
 Contributed and worked closely with together the co-chair to develop the
portfolio and nomination package.
 Drafted the call nomination letter and achieved approval from the CFW’s
Chairperson and seconded by the Assistant Vice Provost.
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