Experience

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  Catholic Relief Services

  • United States
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Program Manager Food and Cash Assistance

    • Mar 2022 - Present

    Coordinating and lead WFP lead Food and Cash Assistance program in South Sudan with more in Greater Jongle state. I am a team leader for one of the biggest food and cash assistance program serving food insecure people.

  • Program Manager - Emergency

    • May 2019 - Mar 2022

    As a member of the Ethiopia country program’s emergency team, provides strategic direction, leadership, and support to full scale emergency programming portfolio for the agency’s largest country program. Ensures the establishment, expansion, and successful implementation of high-quality emergency programs serving the poor and vulnerable in Ethiopia. Provides leadership, management, and knowledge to ensure that programs deliver high-quality results and continuously works towards improving the impact, sustainability, and accountability of programming across multiple sectors. Coordinates with operations leads to ensure appropriate project budgeting and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources, with a particular emphasis on providing operational support. In coordination with resource mobilization staff, engages with business development cycle to ensure quality proposals per agency and donor standards. Manages team dynamics and promotes staff well-being. Creates and maintains proper conditions for learning. Promotes accountability, learning and knowledge management.

  • Technical Advisor I, Commodity Compliance

    • Jan 2018 - May 2019

    Provided technical leadership to the largest USAID funded food assistance program (Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP), led by CRS managing more than 200K MT of food commodities reaching more than 3 million individuals. Provided advise and support to the JEOP team to ensure that all four CRS primary distribution points (PDPs) followed CRS principles, standards, and donor guidance. Ensured that PDPs had in place strong commodity management practices including record management, physical warehouse checks and reconciliation through regular visits and routine follow up. WFP as lead for national and sub national food cluster I served as sub-national food cluster lead for CRS’ emergency food assistance program in southern Ethiopian responding to more than 600K internally displaced people. Engaged with WFP in food pipeline planning, ensuring adequate logistic provision for the programing. Together with WFP participated at national and sub nation prioritization meeting. In coordination with WFP lead first of its kind joint targeting exercise to support humanitarian organizations to target those most in need of humanitarian assistance within conflict-affected areas, regardless of their status with involvement of UN agency, INGO, government counter parts and community. Provided capacity building for more than 70 PDP commodity staff and took the lead in developing comprehensive monitoring checklists and data collection tools to ensure compliance and quality control.

  • Commodity Compliance Officer

    • Jun 2016 - Dec 2017

    Led commodity compliance management for one of CRS’ largest warehouses in Ethiopia for JEOP to serve more than 3 million participants. Ensured that USAID commodity management practices were adhered to at all levels. Ensured that proper internal control systems were in place through the reviews of partner commodity management practices, commodity reports and monitoring of food distributions. Supported compliance oversight in in hard-to-reach, and highly insecure areas including Somali region of Ethiopia. Engaged in the development of commodity management minimum standards, distribution guidelines and satellite warehouse management and prioritized partner capacity needs in alignment with preidentified risk scores.

  • Team Leader, Commodity and Risk Monitoring

    • Jun 2015 - May 2016

    Led a team of eight food monitors to ensure that all seven-consortium partners’ warehouses, records, and distribution management practices were compliant with donor requirements and CRS rules and regulations for JEOP, managing more than 100K MT of commodities and serving more than 1.7 million participants. Reviewed warehouse and record management practices, monitored food distribution, ensured end user checks, and conducted market and mill surveys using digital monitoring tools. Led capacity building and provided accompaniment for local implementing partners on regulation and commodity management.

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  National Shelter NFI Cluster, Ethiopia

  • Ethiopia

  • Co-Coordinator for National shelter NFI cluster

    • Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
    • Ethiopia

    Representing CRS, works as co -coordinator for the National Shelter NFI cluster to develop, review and coordinate the cluster’s strategy and emergency response. In coordination with the cluster lead, participates in various shelter sectoral meetings with donors, humanitarian stakeholders, government, and other key representatives. Supports advocacy in this role to develop strategic priorities and prioritization criteria to mobilize resources for joint response across Ethiopia. Promotes INGO participation in cluster coordination meetings and liaise with international and national NGO partners to identify challenges and propose solutions.

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  Save the Children International

  • Borena, Ethiopia

  • Monitoring And Evaluation Officer

    • Aug 2012 - May 2015
    • Borena, Ethiopia

    Served as lead monitoring and evaluation expert for the Development Food Aid Program (DFAP) and the Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) with Save the Children International. Led the development of detail implementation plans and organized joint monitoring in coordination with local government officials. Monitored program activity progress against the budget and prepared best practices, lessons learned led program evaluations to measure impact.

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  World Bank and other donors Financed Food Security Project

  • Shaskiso, Ethiopia

  • Project Coordinator - Food Security and Livelihood

    • Sep 2007 - Feb 2011
    • Shaskiso, Ethiopia

    Provided technical oversight for implementation and design of a five-year food security program funded by World Bank. Led the implementation of food security programs at the Woreda/District level, liaising with local government officials, to ensure proper disbursement of community grants for program participants. Prepared project progress and narrative reports and shared with donors and respective local and regional government counterparts. Participated and led baseline and impact assessments with external consultants.