Ephraim has over 20 years work experience, mostly in the civil society organisations sector with short stints in parastatals and the public sector. He has a Masters (Economics) and BSc Honours (Economics and Agricultural Economics) and vast work experience in development and policy work at grassroots, national and international levels. This experience is underpinned by many years of managing, coordinating, providing technical services and consultancy on programs covering a wide range of themes covering livelihoods including micro-enterprise development, agriculture and food security, environmental conservation, education and health, water and sanitation with gender and women’s rights, youth and women empowerment, governance, peacebuilding, orphans and vulnerable children and HIV and AIDS as core or cross-cutting themes. He has developed expertise in strategic and business planning, program appraisals, baselines and feasibilities, partnerships and donor relations, monitoring and evaluation, institutional capacity assessment and building, and policy research and analysis. He is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe