Dereje Getachew Mekuria
Hawassa
Summary
Ten (10) years of progressive professional experience in implementing youth’s employment & job creation projects, Community based disabilities inclusive employment creation project, School based Harmful Traditional practices prevention, HIV/AIDS Prevention & empowerment of PLWHA, Child protection & empowerment, OVC care & support, Prevention of Child trafficking projects in different NGOs. Moreover, I have the knowledge & skill of Monitoring & Evaluation, Proposal development and leading & implementing of interventions. Have also experience in developing and conducting trainings, coordinating projects and, providing technical support to project staffs in project planning and capacity development in project management. High‐performing, strategic‐thinking professional with more than ten years' experience in project coordination in the non‐profit sectors. Highly skilled at relationship‐building with clients and across organizations and teams; Exceptional writing, presenting, and interpersonal communication skills. Adept at assessing needs, generating options, and implementing solutions in collaboration with clients and stakeholders. Well‐experienced in all phases of project cycle management tools, experienced at managing projects from the requirements gathering/needs identification phase through to completion.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Officer
Cheshire Ethiopia-Hawassa rehabilitation center
- Plans and develops methods and procedures per the directives of the manager for implanting Cheshire Ethiopia programs in the Rehabilitation centers and CBR office
- Oversees the development of organizational programs; including staff development, project management, implementation and daily management of activities
- Plan budgets for project costs and program expenditures
- Work closely with other managers, vendors and financial supporters in developing, maintaining and ensuring adherence to budgets
- Develops and/or reviews grant proposals
- Build and maintain strong linkage and communication with other centers of the organization and lead proper execution of plans and projects
- Make periodic supportive supervision visits to project locations
- Keep informed the Manager and others about program development and ongoing activities by supplying periodic reports on monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and yearly basis
- As per the directives of the manager, coordinates activities concerned with implementation and carrying out objectives of program
- Organize reports and records of activities to ensure that progress is being accomplished towards specified program objectives
- Works in collaboration with monitoring and evaluation team whenever necessary
- Prepares program reports for the manager or for donors per the directives of manager
- Ensures his planned expenditures in accordance with budget allocations.
Project Coordinator
Cheshire Ethiopia-Hawassa rehabilitation center
09.2018
- Participation in mobilization, identification & assessment of youth with disabilities & market for community based skill training (Community Based Trainings) & TVET training
- Make close supervision to youth with disabilities in community based training (Community Based Trainings) & TVET, self-employment and wage employment & provide them the required technical support
- Facilitate enterprise trainings, business skill & entrepreneur trainings for needy youths
- Planning, organizing, developing and budget preparation for the project
- Provide trainings for stakeholders and Community based rehabilitation staffs
- Arrange and supervise implementation of activities as per budget plan
- Provide supportive supervision for field workers in field works
- Monitoring and evaluating the different components of the project
- Ensure that project activities meet project goals and objectives
- Work with health institutions, schools, micro-finance institutions, disabled person organizations and Self-help groups for effective mainstreaming of disability issues
- Promote community participation and involvement
- Establish good working relationship with the rehabilitation team above all with service users and the community
- Referral of clients to other medical institutes
- Create smooth working grounds for the Community based rehabilitation, Centre and Outreach
- Facilitate admissions and discharges and follow-up care
- Ensure proper record keeping and budget utilization
- Promote formation or strengthen beneficiaries’ independent organizations of Persons with disabilities
- Prepare correspondence and documents as needed
- Prepare activity report on monthly, quarterly and annual basis and present it to the Rehabilitation Center Director
- Involve in the fundraising activities of Cheshire Ethiopia
- Support the Manager in related organizational activities and participate in project proposal writing together with the project officer
- Take part in the centre's management team and contribute insights in decisions to be taken
- Involve in the fundraising activities of Cheshire Ethiopia
- Support the Manager in related organizational activities and participate in project proposal writing together with the project officer.
Project Coordinator
Timret Lehiwot Ethiopia (TLE) Hawassa Project Office
04.2016 - 12.2016
- Planning, coordinating, supervising and overseeing the implementation of the project activities
- To provide technical support in the following key program areas: HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment, mainstreaming gender & environment issues in the project implementation
- Monitoring and Evaluation of the project activities being carried out both at Provincial, District and Peripheral health institution & schools
- Facilitating training for health extension workers, community health workers and other partners on HIV/AIDS Testing and Counseling (DTC)
- Networking with donors and other stakeholders in the region on implementation of the project activities
- Writing routine reports regarding HIV/AIDS surveillance and case detection
- Participating in quarterly, bi-annual meetings and other relevant meetings within the province and districts
- Implement and manage project changes & interventions
- Manage & control project budgets
- Develop & present project progress reports
- Maintain smooth communication with project stakeholders & manage expectations and so on
- Achievements: Contributed to training of health extension workers which resulted in 112 domestic workers being tested for HIV
- Successfully implemented the project activities on time & with the allocated budgets and prepared & submitted progress reports both to the donor agency & signatory government bodies
- Strengthened the partnership between the 6 targeted school principals to provide holistic support to schools’ HIV, Gender and Girls clubs in playing their roles in HIV prevention and raising gender based violence in schools
- Able to establish & strengthen 10 school HIV/AIDS & Girls clubs in five targeted schools.
Project Coordinator
Center of Concern (COC) in sidama zone
01.2014 - 12.2015
- To ensure project activities at field level are properly planned, mobilizing required resources, and implemented timely in line with the organization Cornerstones and development approaches
- To ensure proper implementation of planned project activities timely and in a cost effective and result oriented manner
- To ensure relevant networks are initiated, maintained and developed with the community, local government and other stakeholders for experience sharing, information exchange, joint project monitoring and evaluation
- To ensure regular and effective project monitoring take place to collect relevant information
- To ensure monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports are developed and submitted it to the program manager, government and other relevant stakeholders
- To ensure that all data and information generated in the process of project implementation are recorded and filed in a safe manner for it to be retrieved whenever necessary
- To contribute as a member of the project team in developing strategies, plans and guidelines in line with the organization, Mission, Cornerstones and Values
- To ensure that all visits of guests, funders, supporters and stakeholders are effected smoothly and effectively
- To supervise data collection and ensure its quality in line with monitoring, evaluation, project planning, and best practices of beneficiaries
- Achievements: Worked in coordination with program manager & implemented the project from initiation to completion successfully
- Coordinated the project team to implement activities
- Prepared, analyzed & monitored project reports, documented it & timely submitted to manager
- Played great roles in reducing the occurrence of Harm full Traditional Practices & saved the lives of more girls from HTPs
- Identified key HTP performers with the woreda government body, raised their awareness on effects of HTPs on girls & engaged them in different income generating activities
- Established strong relationship & partnership between the concerned government bodies both at zonal & woreda level
- Effectively lead & coordinated project budget of 4.7 million birr with teams of up to 6 and successfully delivered the project with the allocated budget & due time.
Senior Social Worker
Center of Concern (COC) in Hawassa city administration
10.2012 - 12.2013
- Provide life skill training for children living on the street
- Participate in rehabilitation service provision and reunification of street children with their families/parents
- Play the leading roles of reintegration of the children in different options like reunification, vocational skill training & access to income generating activities (IGAs)
- Follow up children health, academic and vocational skill training the street children
- Assist in proper maintenance of children files
- Prepare & submit monthly report, annual plans, year-end reports
- Conduct children home visit and street children contacting
- Maintain correspondence logbook
- Identify & develop success stories of different children
- Worked in different units by delegation
- Achievements: Provided basic life skill training to more than 400 street living children & youths
- Participated in the Reunification more than 123 street living children & youths with their families/parents
- Responded to street living youths’ income generation activities and vocational skill needs: helped the youths find and access for jobs employment opportunities, and assisted their IGAs status
- Provided consultation services to families of the street living children & youths, and other neighbor community members regarding their children
- Participated in multi-disciplinary team of psychosocial support officers, social workers, and case managers who were in charge of the status of the children
- Diagnosed with major psychological disorders, attention disturbances, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse; services provided to the children in the drop in center
- Collaborated with treatment team of social workers, clinical nurse, psychologists, and rehabilitation center counselors to develop individualized treatment plans to the children
- Led daily psychotherapy groups using multi-modal approaches: cognitive therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, psycho-educational, and expressive arts.
Social worker officer
Shiny Day Social Services Association (SDSSA)
01.2010 - 09.2012
- Follow up the status of orphan & vulnerable children (OVC) & prepare necessary reply and submit to the coordinator
- Communicate with Hawassa city administration Police department and women, children affairs to assess trafficking children and dropped them in the established rehabilitation center
- Screened and selected orphan & vulnerable children (OVC) from different sub cities
- Provided psychosocial support (Guidance & counseling) for OVC & trafficked children
- Provided rehabilitation services for trafficked children and reintegration & reunify them with their parents
- Facilitated health services accessibility for trafficked children
- Mobilized the community & seeking the needs of the community
- Facilitated things & follow up women involved in lively hood enhancement schemes
- Organized more than 560 women in 35 Self-Help Groups (SHG) & conducted intensive follow-up their status
- Conducted community need assessments
- Prepared & submitted plans & reports timely and the likes
- Achievements: Played the major roles of the OVC’s psychosocial need, academic support, home to home visiting & follow up of their status
- Timely prepared & submitted monthly, quarterly & annual progress report of the project to my immediate supervisor
- Facilitated & processed the necessary things to empower the care givers of the OVC.
Education
Hawassa tabor secondary & preparatory school
Hawassa tabor secondary & preparatory school
Skills
- Computer & motor bike driving with driving license
- Project coordination, technical & analytical skill
- Ability to multi-task & prioritize tasks logically
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management concepts, methods & practices
- Effective communication, planning, organizing, leadership & management skill
- Problem solving, Interpersonal, Team working skill, Sensitive to Diversity
Languages
Amharic
English
Sidamigna
Certified Trainings Recognition Letters
- Letter of appreciation, from Cheshire Ethiopia for playing the leading role of developing winning project proposal and implementing on-hand projects
- Certificate of recognition, from Hawassa city administration for participation & contribution on the 4th Ethiopian urban forum held in Adama, Oromia
- Certificate of training completion entitled ‘Theory of change (ToC), logical frame work & project cycle management’, prepared by Cheshire Ethiopia & Ethiopia Management institute
- Certificate of training completion entitled ‘Gender mainstreaming, Child safeguarding & disability inclusive development’ prepared by Cheshire Ethiopia & Ethiopia Management institute
- Certificate of training completion entitled ‘Resource mobilization & proposal development’, prepared by Cheshire Ethiopia & Ethiopia Management institute
- Certificate of training completion entitled ‘Designing Behavioral Change & communication (DBCC)’, prepared by Goal Ethiopia
- Certificate of training completion entitled ‘Concept & formation of Self Help Groups (SHG),’ prepared by Consortium of Self Help Group Approach Promoters (COSAP).
- Certificate of training completion entitled ‘Prevention of communicable diseases’ prepared by Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE).
References
- Ato Dagim Getahun, Manager, Cheshire Ethiopia-Hawassa, 0916606894, dagim@cheshireservicesethiopia.org
- Wr/o Hewan Tadesse, Finance & Admin head, Cheshire Ethiopia-Hawassa, 0920716704, hewan@cheshireservicesethiopia.org
- Ato Bruk Tilahun, Program officer, Link Community Development (LCD), 0911383186, bruksweet@yahoo.com
Timeline
Project Coordinator
Cheshire Ethiopia-Hawassa rehabilitation center
09.2018
Project Coordinator
Timret Lehiwot Ethiopia (TLE) Hawassa Project Office
04.2016 - 12.2016
Project Coordinator
Center of Concern (COC) in sidama zone
01.2014 - 12.2015
Senior Social Worker
Center of Concern (COC) in Hawassa city administration
10.2012 - 12.2013
Social worker officer
Shiny Day Social Services Association (SDSSA)
01.2010 - 09.2012
Program Officer
Cheshire Ethiopia-Hawassa rehabilitation center
Hawassa tabor secondary & preparatory school
Hawassa tabor secondary & preparatory school
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