{"id":2011,"date":"2025-08-21T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testdomain19.gov.zw\/?page_id=2011"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:38:04","slug":"dr-gloria-magombo-msc-mech-eng-mba-phd-hon-pr-eng-fzie-permanent-secretary-ministry-of-energy-and-power-development-moepd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/?page_id=2011","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Gloria Magombo, MSc Mech.Eng., MBA., PhD (Hon.) Pr. Eng., FZIE. PERMANENT SECRETARY \u2013 MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND POWER DEVELOPMENT (MoEPD)."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Administrative Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Supervising all members within the Ministry.<\/li>\n
  2. Ensure smooth day-to-day operations and coordination across departments.<\/li>\n
  3. Overseeing recruitment, discipline, and performance management of staff.<\/li>\n
  4. Offer secretariat work to the Ministry Board.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Policy Implementation<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Translate government policies and ministerial directives into actionable programs.<\/li>\n
    2. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of ministry initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Financial Oversight<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Serve as the chief accounting officer of the ministry.<\/li>\n
      2. Manage budgets, resources, and ensure compliance with financial regulations.<\/li>\n
      3. Oversees the preparation and justification of the ministry\u2019s annual budget.<\/li>\n
      4. Ensures effective allocation and utilisation of financial and material resources.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Advisory Role<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Provide professional and technical, and administrative advice to the Minister.<\/li>\n
        2. Support the Minister in formulating strategies and policies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Inter-Ministerial Coordination<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          1. Liaise with other ministries, agencies, and stakeholders to ensure coherent government action.<\/li>\n
          2. Represent the ministry in official meetings when required.<\/li>\n
          3. Attend Cabinet working parties and Committees<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Performance Accountability<\/strong><\/p>\n

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            1. Accountable to the President and Parliament for ministry performance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Stakeholder Engagement-<\/strong><\/p>\n

              Oversight for procurement-<\/strong><\/p>\n

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              Gloria has more than 33 years of experience in the Energy Sector spanning the fields of engineering, management, power sector reform and regulation. Before joining MoEPD, Dr.Magombo served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA). She also worked as the Managing Director of an international consultancy firm, Norconsult Botswana. She also worked as Regional Energy Advisor with Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Hub. She is a former Executive Commissioner of Zimbabwe Electricity Regulatory Commission (ZERC) and she also worked as a Generation Expert for ZESA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              She served as the Regional Chairperson of Capacity Building Portfolio for the Regional Electricity Regulators Association (RERA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Dr. Magombo served as a Councillor at the Engineering Council of Zimbabwe (ECZ) and was recently appointed as the Vice Chairperson of the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              She is a representative of Zimbabwe to the IRENA<\/strong> Council were she is the current chair of the 28th<\/sup> and outgoing Chair of the 27th<\/sup> IRENA Council meetings respectively. She is currently cofacilitating the Collaborative Framework on Hydropower and she also chaired the Open Ended Group on IRENA staff tenure. She is a member of the UN Secretary General\u2019s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Dr Magombo is the co-Chairperson of the Zambezi River Authority<\/strong> Board of Directors for Zambia and Zimbabwe<\/strong>. She is also a Board Member of Mathew Rusike Children\u2019s Home Childca<\/strong>re in Zimbabwe,  <\/strong>for orphaned and vulnerable children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              Permanent Secretary Functions Administrative Leadership Supervising all members within the Ministry. Ensure smooth day-to-day operations and coordination across departments. Overseeing recruitment, discipline, and performance management of staff. Offer secretariat work to the Ministry Board. Policy Implementation Translate government policies and ministerial directives into actionable programs. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of ministry initiatives. Financial Oversight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2011","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2011\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}