Experience

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  United Nations OCHA

  • United States
  • International Affairs
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head of Planning and Coordination Unit

    • Apr 2023 - Present

  • Humanitarian Affairs Officer- Emergency Preparedness and Response

    • Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

  • Head of Field Coordination Unit

    • Aug 2017 - Jan 2023

    Providing humanitarian programmatic, administrative and personnel oversight to four humanitarian hubs of UN OCHA across Ethiopia including technical backstopping of hub staff, strategic leadership and planning.

  • Humanitarian Affairs Officer/Head of Sub-Office

    • Feb 2012 - Aug 2017

    Providing leadership to the humanitarian community in Central Darfur, including coordination, advocacy, resource mobilization and reporting. Providing adminstrative, financial and personnel management oversight at the Sub-Office

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  United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA)

  • Kampala, Uganda

  • Disaster Preparedness Officer

    • 2009 - 2011
    • Kampala, Uganda

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  Oxfam

  • Kampala, Uganda

  • Disaster Risk Reduction Officer

    • Apr 2007 - Oct 2009
    • Kampala, Uganda

    Oxfam GB is an international humanitarian, development and campaigning organization that works with others to over come poverty and suffering in the world. The positionof Disaster Risk Reduction Officer involved overall management of the DRR strategy in Oxfam Uganda including strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, resource mobilization and representation.The Disaster Risk Reduction strategy in Oxfam (which I participated in developing and directly managed) aimed at increasing preparedness to timely and effective response, integrating DRR and CCA into Oxfam’s programs, advocacy and capacity building of governmental authorities in DRR.