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Mehari Redae

Mehari Redae

Mekelle

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Zonal Joint Emergency Operation Programme Coordinator

World Vision Ethiopia
01.2024 - Current
  • Play overall the leading, coordinating, managing and supervising the implementation of the program, budget, logistics and the team found at all project areas
  • Attend and boldly represent WV on regional Joint Review and Implementation Support (JRIS) meetings;
  • Attend on TWG and represent the organization on government coordination meetings;
  • Ensure the compilation and documentation of JEOP program activities through maintaining the donor commodity report requirements;
  • Review relevant food transaction documents to check and provide feedback on practice of standard recording and documentation and reconciliation between different commodity transaction recording documents
  • In addition to that check and ensure if control procedures are adequate at each stage of JEOP food handling and distribution process to prevent corruption and misappropriation;
  • Provide technical support, guidance and capacity building on the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of JEOP program in JEOP operational woredas based on the required reporting templates
  • Engage in standard and sound budget management practice for proper and timely implementation of JEOP activities
  • Ensure logistics and transportation process as per the donor requirements and plans carefully the delivery of commodities and ensures that they are delivered on time and at the right place;
  • Advise and provide direction for field team to make adequate preparations to receive commodities
  • Confirm availability of adequate warehouses in distribution sites and propose improvement areas;
  • Ensure the regular distribution of food assistance; warehouse management, and monitor the distribution and submit monthly/quarterly/yearly reports to donor on the required format
  • Coordinate and foster relations with other Programs of the organization in the district as to ensure proper allocation and sharing of resources
  • Co-ordinate with other Relief and Development Agencies, Local Authorities and Government stakeholder in the district in ensuring that food security intervention targeted to the appropriate target population
  • Visit target communities on regular basis to get their perceptions and experience so as to assist in planning and development relevant community-oriented and sustainable programs
  • Closely work with donor, project participants and program leadership to improve and enhance Food Assistance operational quality through developing and implementing standard operating procedures;
  • Liaise with Local government and other government agent on issues related to implementation of food assistance in the Zone
  • Ensure good representation of the organization in government coordination meetings
  • Maintain tight budgetary control over all program budgets and ensure compliance with the grant rules and regulations of a variety of donors (USAID and WVI standards)
  • Assist Finance Related Tasks in the creation of programmatic budgets, and recommend revision where necessary in coordination with the donor
  • Create budgets and spending projections for the Commodity operations on monthly bases
  • Prepare district budgets, expenditure analysis resources (financial and material) and staff management produce regular and timely progress reports regarding program
  • Prepare monthly management reports, and well as monthly narrative reports for the district according to set standards and formats
  • Maintain a comprehensive commodity tracking systems so as to ensure that all commodities are properly distributed and accounted for World Vision Partnership and major donor standards
  • Ensure accurate and timely reporting of program finances, CPDR and progress status, review actual financial performance against the budget, and explain variances on a regular basis
  • Ensure that all commodity losses and claims procedures are in accordance with the World Vision Partnership and donor requirements;
  • Maintain inventory control on a monthly basis and ensure that the commodity book balances match with the actual stocks;
  • Identifying and formalizing intervention objectives in conjunction with other teams and departments (logistics, finance, human resources)
  • Lead and support monitoring and compliance team in planning and ensure execution of food resource monitoring and compliance plan for the improvements of operations of GFD of Different grant projects and compliance principles, standards and procedures;
  • Undertakes visit to all WV warehouses to evaluate commodity-handling, status of the stores, working methods, whether they are in line with the rules and regulations;
  • Lead Monitoring and Compliance TWG and participate in different concerned meeting through representing food resource program;
  • Ensures food assistance program activities are supervised, monitored in line with the donor guideline;
  • Work closely with the MEAL, food monitoring and nutrition team to ensure accountability mechanisms are in place and that feedback is incorporated into program design
  • Responsible for the recruitment, selection, supervision and training of commodities staff
  • Ensure proper and adequate supervision of commodities staff for a smooth implementation of the projects
  • Work on staff development plans through coaching, on job training and possible recommendation for support to other programs within the partnership
  • Conduct performance assessments, maintain employee files, create job descriptions, chair hiring panels, and maintain performance standards for all employees in the department
  • Conduct and organize review meetings and training to enhance the capacity of field staffs and local government stakeholders

Food Monitoring Officer

World Vision Ethiopia
11.2021 - 12.2024
  • Organizing and facilitating capacity building trainings, workshops and review meetings
  • Organizing and facilitating beneficiary targeting and registration exercise
  • Organize and conduct food security and livelihood assessment
  • Participate in concept note development and write up of project proposal
  • Ensure the participants have received the right entitlements at right time & place with right quality and identify beneficiaries has known the donor source & ration size
  • Facilitate and organize the efficient and proper distribution of food assistance at the distribution point (FDP)
  • Conduct beneficiary verification to minimize inclusion and exclusion errors
  • Triangulate Master Beneficiary List (MBL) and Beneficiary Distribution List (BDL/payroll)
  • Distribution plan preparation in collaboration with woreda Food Management Committee (FMC)
  • Conduct sensitization and information provision/dissemination
  • Provide support and strengthen to causal workers, woreda FMC and CHD
  • Monitor and review the food assistance distribution including contact the beneficiary during distribution, Post Distribution Monitoring and warehouse monitoring
  • Conduct market assessment
  • Using different monitoring tools to achieve the objective of the project efficiently
  • Liaise with warehouse or other commodity staff on distribution planning and commodities dispatching from Warehouse to distribution centers
  • Ensure the food distribution conducted as per the standard and participants have received their right entitlements/rations and verify other relevant information addressed at each food distribution
  • Facilitate the planning and implementation of all GFD-WVI/WFP activities in the woreda by closely working with the program team, commodity team and stakeholders at woreda level
  • Supervise and lead the commodity team at woreda level to ensure best commodity management practice in warehousing and distribution to transfer the commodity in timely manner
  • Provide written reports, data and feed back to WVI/WFP program and commodity team at head office in the course of WVI/WFP Program implementation
  • Enhance the community participation through strengthen the voice to be herd and resolve complaints on the spot using the available compliant mechanisms
  • Conduct Post Distribution Monitoring
  • Conduct/participate in different rapid assessments such as in livelihood & food security, situational assessment, Nutrition and WASH
  • Develop team work to address the common goal of providing food assistance in timely manner

Zonal Coordinator

Digital Green Foundation
07.2018 - 10.2021
  • Conduct coordination, planning, monitoring and evaluation on the project activities
  • Prepared and submit periodic reports (monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual) as well as provided feedback
  • Facilitate and organize of Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP), Workshops and review meetings on the project
  • Coordinating and managing all the project tasks in Zonal level
  • Prepare detailed implementation plan (DIP)
  • Identify potential gaps and problems in cooperation with other relevant sections recommend appropriate solutions to ensure the efficient implementation of programme activities
  • Assist in a timely, effective follow-up and support to the front-line workers and stakeholders and recommendations that relate to programmatic tasks
  • Support Results Based Management and programme capacity in light of evolving requirements, programming approaches and gaps
  • Coordinating and managing multi-projects and programmes
  • Coordinate and conduct Gender related and Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture activities
  • Work on collaboration and networking with other partners in the targeted woreda
  • Facilitate and organize of Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP), Workshops, review meetings on Food security & Livelihood improvements and DRR activities
  • Work on collaboration and networking with other partners in the target areas
  • Conduct quality assurance and impact assessment
  • Conducting data collection, data analysis and data management systems
  • Compile and prepare the success stories, best practices in written document and by producing video based and disseminated to all concerned bodies

Crop insurance & Livelihood Officer

Relief Society of Tigray
04.2015 - 07.2018
  • Conduct coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Livelihood and Food security activities
  • Coordinated and collaborated all partners and stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of the Food security and livelihood project activities
  • Facilitate and organize of Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP), Workshops, review meetings on Livelihood improvements and Food Security activities
  • Coordinating, supporting and supervising all the project staffs and activities to achieve efficiently and effectively
  • Ensure relevant, timely, and quality support to the field office on assessments and evaluations; i.e
  • Support in developing the survey tools, data analysis, and report writing
  • Provide training and conduct regular support to the project beneficiaries, development agents and district experts in order to have resilience and coping from Climate change risks by adopting integrated risk management packages
  • Coordinating and conducting in targeting the smallholder farmers (low income level) to participate in IGA, livelihood and Food security and in cash & non-cash based interventions to lift them from poverty trap
  • Conducted and organized all in Risk Transfer, Risk Reduction, Risk Taking and Risk Reserve activities
  • I conducted and facilitated different types of trainings such as Demand driven extension approach, value chain, DRR Activities, watershed treatment(NRM), Agronomic practice, Irrigation activities, Environmental Impact Assessment, Climate change resilience, weather index insurance, Income Generating Activity /IGA/, MIS/Management Information System/ and Scope Registration
  • I conducted monitoring and evaluation on DRR activities &water shed treatment
  • Organize and facilitate Insurance for Work in Disaster Risk Reduction/ DRR/ Activities such as watershed treatment, micro garden, Spate irrigation and compost preparation in the project areas for R4 labor beneficiaries
  • I organized and supported for crop insurance beneficiaries mainly to discuss and taking an action about social and economic agendas
  • I supported PSNP beneficiary HHs to be beneficiaries of our project as well as they build a confidence to uptake inputs to increase productivity and improving access to engage income-generating opportunities
  • Responsible for day to day follow up of the project management process, facilitating and compiling of detail operational plans, monitoring activities of the programs, preparing reports to donors’ consumption, responding to queries raised by donor partners and supervising all activities at ground levels
  • Collect compile and analyze information from the field and submit report to the department and division heads and recommend the best course of action for operational and planning department
  • Collect comprehend and analyze the program status through comparison of physical program achievements against financial utilization report
  • Monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual report preparation
  • Work on collaboration and networking with other partners in the target woreda
  • Conduct monitoring and evaluation to track the progress in all my tasks
  • Prepared potential based plan, and cascade to stakeholders and monitor to achieve as per planed

Irrigation Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Agriculture and Rural development office
04.2008 - 04.2015
  • Responsible for day to day follow up of the project management process, facilitating and compiling of detail operational plans, monitoring activities of the programs, preparing reports to donors’ consumption, responding to queries raised by donor partners and supervising all activities at ground levels
  • Ensure detail activity break down on the basis of monthly, quarterly and annually, make sure the detail action break down is reflected by wereda, Review and confirm detail procurement plan is done on quarterly basis
  • Monitor and check whether financial disbursement is incorporated in the operational plan
  • Prepare and review operational plan and articulate it to pertinent departments
  • Prove the original activity versus budget is maintained comparing to the detail operational plan prepared by operational department
  • Prepare annual, quarterly and monthly work plan
  • Ensure quarterly cash forecast is prepared and submitted on the basis of project calendar
  • Collect compile and analyze information from the field and submit report to the department and division heads and recommend the best course of action for operational and planning department under this study the expert is mandated to, but not limited to:
  • Collect comprehend and analyze the program status through comparison of physical program achievements against financial utilization report
  • Follow up and implement directives and guidelines of the project team as the contract entered with the donor
  • Follow up timely disbursement of project funds and proper uses of the resources
  • Consolidate and submits monthly, quarterly and annually progress report to the donor as per agreed up on time frame and format
  • Collect and prepare success stories and best practices in collaboration with knowledge management and disseminate reports to all concerned bodies

Education

MSc. Degree - Developmental Economics

Raya University
Maichew

BSc. Degree - Agricultural Economics

Mekelle University
Mekelle , Tigray Ethiopia

Skills

  • Partnership building
  • Multi-agency coordination
  • Respect for diversity
  • Integrity
  • Confidentiality
  • Analytical skills
  • Flexibility
  • Quick learner
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Networking
  • Communication skills
  • Teamwork
  • Project coordination
  • Program implementation
  • Computer skills
  • Data analysis
  • Case documentation
  • Ability to work in dynamic contexts
  • Negotiation skills
  • Solution-oriented approach
  • Planning
  • Monitoring

References

  • Mr. Fentaw Ayalew, National JEOP Food Resource Program Manager in WVE, 0913944167
  • Mr. Adugna Gessesse, Regional Food Resource Manager in WVE, 0914785843
  • Mr. Meles G/Mariam, Regional Emergency Program Manager in ZOA, 0913714300

Languages

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Training Participation

  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Report Writing organized by CCRDA & REST.
  • Project Cycle Management/PCM/ organized by WFP & Oxfam America.
  • Plan preparation and data quality assurance.
  • On community participatory project planning, monitoring and evaluation in Sekota.
  • Gender Mainstreaming in Mekelle organized by Digital Green Foundation.
  • MIS data in Mekelle organized by REST & Oxfam America.
  • Project, Program & Report writing in Mekelle organized by REST.
  • COCO data system and Monitoring tool systems and data management.
  • Kobo software.
  • Climate change and adapt to climate change risks through integrated risk management packages organized by Oxfam America.
  • Climate change resilience and Coping methods organized by Oxfam America.
  • Livelihood components and value chain development organized by SNV.
  • Risk Transfer, Disaster Risk Reduction, Risk Taking and Risk Reserve.
  • Demand driven extension approach on business communication and facilitation skill organized by SNV Ethiopia in Alamata.
  • Water shed treatment structures in Mekelle.
  • On Environmental Impact Assessment and mitigation measures organized by SAVE.
  • Scope Registration in Mekelle organized by REST, Oxfam America & WFP.
  • Save for change in Mekelle organized by Oxfam America.

Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Tigray
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Ethiopia

Timeline

Zonal Joint Emergency Operation Programme Coordinator

World Vision Ethiopia
01.2024 - Current

Food Monitoring Officer

World Vision Ethiopia
11.2021 - 12.2024

Zonal Coordinator

Digital Green Foundation
07.2018 - 10.2021

Crop insurance & Livelihood Officer

Relief Society of Tigray
04.2015 - 07.2018

Irrigation Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Agriculture and Rural development office
04.2008 - 04.2015

MSc. Degree - Developmental Economics

Raya University

BSc. Degree - Agricultural Economics

Mekelle University

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