MICHELLE G. DUMA is an Education Program Specialist II of the Human Resource Development (HRD) in the Department of Education (DepEd) – Schools Division of Quezon Province, Philippines. She earned her Doctorate Degree major in Educational Management, at Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST), Sta. Mesa, Manila. Being an education program specialist, she is specifically trained in the development of policy recommendations along HRD programs and their implementation based on research, and learning and development (L&D) needs analysis. She is working on different HRD interventions to determine professional and competency development needs of individual personnel in the Schools Division of Quezon Province, and to identify those which can be responded to through relevant L&D programs. She is also trained in the provision of technical assistance to schools and learning centers by responding to local needs in relation to HRD and other matters on governance and operations. Besides her post’s primary key result areas, she has been designated as the Division Gender and Development (GAD) coordinator since 2020.

As GAD coordinator, she works on different programs, activities and projects as to the provision of gender-responsive basic education in the Schools Division of Quezon Province. She has authored localized policies on GAD: Division Policy Guidelines on the Implementation of Gender and Development Program, Projects and Activities (Division Memorandum No. 356, s. 2021). She further authored a Division-initiated project on GAD: Strengthening DepEd Quezon Gender and Development through Project PU2GAD (Division Memorandum No. 356, s. 2021). In addition to this, she is the associate editor of the Baskula: Official GAD Folio of DepEd Quezon (Information, Education and Campaign Material for GAD Program). She had been exposed to the teaching profession for almost six (6) years, handling junior high school students of different levels as Mathematics teacher, both in the private and public schools. In her term as Mathematics teacher in the public school, she received various opportunities to be trained in the said discipline. She attended seminars, and participated in trainings and workshops, which helped her develop her professional competence as teacher and curriculum practitioner. Apart from her attendance to various professional seminars and trainings, she has also been working in different research projects which further develops her competence as educator and statistician. With passion in research, she has already authored seven researches, and four of them were already published.

With her dedication to both research and GAD advocacies, she has been frequently invited as resource person and lecturer not only in public schools, but also in private institutions. Ma’am Mich, as she is fondly called by colleagues, holds other designations: Secretariat of the Division Research Committee; Secretariat Head of the Division Quality Management System; Secretariat of the Document Control Committee; Co-Team Leader of the Education Training and Development; and Internal Auditor of the Internal Quality Audit Committee of DepEd Quezon. In 2019, she was recognized by DepEd Quezon for her meritorious accomplishment as co-chairperson of the Human Resource Committee towards achievement of the Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM) Maturity Level 2 along the four core HRM systems—Recruitment, Selection and Placement; Performance Management; Learning and Development; and Rewards and Recognition, as awarded by the Philippine Civil Service Commission (CSC). She is also affiliated with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as part-time instructor in Leon Guinto Memorial College, Inc., Atimonan, Quezon Province.