Jenipher Chandika

Jenipher Chandika serves as an HR Assistant at USAID/Zambia, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen local capacity in public health, agricultural resilience, and digital governance. In her procurement role, she facilitates the acquisition of personal services essential to operationalizing USAID’s technical assistance programs, particularly those requiring specialized human capital in health systems strengthening, data management, and institutional capacity building. Her responsibilities include coordinating contract actions under the 812990 NAICS code, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations, and aligning staffing solutions with programmatic goals. She works closely with program officers and finance teams to translate project needs into compliant, timely acquisitions that uphold USAID’s emphasis on sustainable, locally led development. Jenipher collaborates with a diverse array of service providers, including domestic and local Zambian firms offering human resource, training, and administrative support services. Her contractor relationships are primarily centered on firms delivering non-clinical, mission-critical personal services such as program coordination, data entry, monitoring and evaluation support, and capacity-building facilitation. She maintains a structured, compliance-driven procurement process that prioritizes transparency and accountability, fostering long-term vendor partnerships grounded in performance and adaptability to evolving program requirements. Jenipher demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic inclusion, with a balanced procurement profile that equally allocates opportunities between open competition and 8(a) competed set-asides. This reflects a deliberate strategy to empower small, disadvantaged businesses while maintaining competitive rigor. Her contracting patterns consistently channel awards to 8(a)-certified firms, reinforcing USAID/Zambia’s broader objectives of building local entrepreneurial capacity and promoting equitable economic participation in development outcomes. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 812990—All Other Personal Services—which encompasses a wide range of specialized human capital services critical to USAID’s operational model. These include contract-based consultants, administrative support personnel, training facilitators, and data management specialists who enable the agency’s data-driven decision-making and supply chain transparency initiatives. Her expertise lies in procuring agile, mission-aligned human services that directly support health systems innovation and governance modernization in Zambia.