Tatenda holds a bachelor’s degree in social work (University of Zimbabwe) and Graduate, Erasmus Mundus MA Advanced Development in Social Work. a joint Programme between the University of Lincoln (England); Aalborg University (Denmark); Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal); University of Paris Ouest Nantere La Defense (France); Warsaw University (Poland).

Tatenda started his career in Zimbabwe (2008-2013) working in Relief and Development and Social Research, focusing on child welfare and gender issues. Whilst employed in Zimbabwe’s Department of Social Development [the then Department of Social Services], Tatenda’s work focused on policies and protocols implementation pertaining to care and protection of children, older adults, Persons with Disabilities, disadvantaged persons and households in distress. For a progressive period extending over 16 years of professional frontline social work engagement, Tatenda has accumulated vast knowledge and experience in social work with a strong bias towards child centred development, child protection and social development programming. Tatenda has worked with both local and international NGOs, the Government of Zimbabwe and UK Local authorities in frontline social work interventions. Tatenda has worked on programs focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), social protection, education, gender, and livelihood support whilst actively mainstreaming child protection, disability, age and gender issues in programming. Tatenda has published over 40 accredited research outputs, 70% of which are in international journals and half of which were published in the past five years  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Id_XbFoAAAAJ&hl=en

Besides being a frontline social worker in UK,Tatenda is a Research Associate with University of Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Social Work and Community Development. Tatenda’s research agenda revolves around social policy and implementation of developmental programmes in their attempt to address issues such as poverty, inequality, HIV/AIDS and poverty traps of vulnerable groups such as women, children, older adults and youths. Tatenda has high academic standing with a growing reputation in research, evidenced by an emerging portfolio of internationally recognised publications.