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Misgina Gebreselassie

Misgina Gebreselassie

Axum,Ethiopia

Summary

Accomplished professional with expertise in programme and project management, specialising in humanitarian response and child protection. Demonstrates strong capabilities in capacity building and evaluation, alongside comprehensive skills in monitoring and assessment. Committed to advancing impactful initiatives that enhance community resilience and child welfare.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work history

Area Program Manager

World Vision
07.2022 - 09.2025
  • Responsible for managing all the activities of the organization in the Area Program encompassing different Program projects and Support i.e. Child Protection and Sponsorship, Education, Livelihoods and food security, WASH, and Finance.
  • Oversees planning, monitoring, and management to ensure informed decision-making and timely & quality implementation of projects/activities.
  • Manage overall Program implementations of Sponsorship funded & Grant emergency projects from initiation to completion.
  • Provide guidance and monitoring for project staff, program implementation of all projects under my supervision.
  • Guide the day-to-day activities of programs interventions such as management of procurements, logistics, Finance expenditures, and overall administrative program operations.
  • Manage capacity building for project staffs, train partners & community planned by each project in coordinated & prioritized manner.
  • Strengthening Partnership with partners, INGO’s, donors by Promoting active participation and integration.
  • Ensuring staffs’ positive team spirit and wellbeing with regard to creating conducive and satisfactory work environment.
  • Lead all staffs are working their work by integrating it with organizational core values.
  • Ensure biannual and annual staffs performance evaluations are made based on their achievement and organizational guidelines.
  • Develops and delivers project plans, concept notes & proposal documentation, training, presentations to management and staff & partners.
  • Proven Experience in development program, humanitarian & Emergency response management & implementation.
  • Ensure that Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and Post-Harvest Monitoring (PHM) exercises are carried out by MEAL in a regular bases and as per approved plan.
  • Partnership and networking like Represent the organization in regional meetings, technical working groups, forums, coordination platforms with different stakeholders such as DRM/ATF, Food Cluster, WFP, RHB, regional CWG coordination platforms and meetings.
  • Managing Sponsorship programs & emergency multi-sectoral projects like WASH, GFD, Shelter, Nutrition, Health, education, Livelihood, protection funded by USAID, BHA, GAC, SWAN, OCHA, UNICEF & different support office sponsorship donors for more than two years.
  • Preparation of quality and timely program & projects operational and financial reports (Monthly, Quarterly, biannually and annually) to partners, ChSA, Head office and to donors by ensuring transparency and social accountability principles.

Program Officer

World Vision
05.2019 - 06.2022
  • Collaborate and work in integration with technical project officers by handling the allocated RC and program activities in the KAs.
  • Develop a plan for implementing sponsorship 2.0 initiatives in the AP in collaboration with the AP team and ensure quality and timeliness by delivering the required production.
  • Plan and conduct capacity building trainings on sponsorship activities, new initiatives, positive parenting and child development for front line staff and volunteers.
  • Follow up child well-being (CWB) cases (education, health/nutrition and protection, etc.), annualize with AP team and take action engaging all responsible stakeholders.
  • Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly and annual sponsorship accomplishment reports to all concerned in timely manner.
  • Coordinate and take part in timely management of AP transitions related activities like Project Closure Comment/report, Fare-well Letters and video and RC drops as per the SOs guidance.
  • Facilitate and take part in Sponsorship Audit and other accountability review processes at AP and handle the implementation of audit recommendations to ensure that the identified gaps are addressed in timely manner.
  • Support system and data management specialist during work load and in absence of the staff from AP area by handling sponsorship system and data management related activities.

Case Management Officer

Norwegian Refugee Council
05.2017 - 05.2019
  • Work with the case management team to identify, document and refer children that are in need of additional assistance.
  • Support database and case management team in their day-to-day work.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with various service providers to ensure proper referral and services for children at risk.
  • Closely follow up and review all child protection cases followed by the CP case workers through the use of supervision tool and develop system for regular supervision of case management.
  • Ensure face to face discussion with the relevant parties involved (children, care giver, stakeholders etc.).
  • Facilitate inter-agency case management meeting with service providers in collaboration with the child protection team.
  • Provide technical support, guidance and training to NRC case workers and Child protection team on case management in coordination with child protection coordinator.
  • Ensure case management system is properly followed up and that case workers and other staffs fill in correctly the case management forms, referrals and other tools.

Counselor

MSF-Holland
11.2016 - 04.2017
  • Counseling and psycho-social support to the patient who live at the patient care center (PCC).
  • By conducting with HIS and NRC helping the children at CFS (CHILD FRIENDLY SPACE) like storytelling, drawing, sport and psycho education to the adolescents.
  • Psycho-education to the outpatient psychiatric department (OPD).
  • Supervise and assist to the mental health community workers (MHCW).
  • Perform counseling and/or education sessions to patients (and/or caretakers, community,), following different medical and mental health protocol in order to improve their psychosocial condition.
  • Identify the psychosocial, socio-economic and administrative needs for patients.
  • Refer patients to other specialists or other institutions for further assistance, when necessary in order to propose the best support available.
  • Keep files and statistics of daily activities and participate in team meetings to share experiences and discuss special cases with other counselors, preserving confidential.
  • Provide assessments and plan implement, and administer the mental health program.

Education

Masters - Social Work

Mekelle University

Bachelor’s Degree - Social Work

Addis Ababa University

Skills

  • Program and project management
  • Humanitarian response and child protection
  • Capacity building and evaluation
  • Monitoring and assessment

Custom

  • Project Cycle Management(PCM), 09/03/18, NRC
  • Community Based Protection, ARRA and UNHCR
  • Understanding Human Rights, YALINETWORK Online
  • Personal Security, World Vision
  • Child and Adult Safeguarding, World Vision
  • Information Security and data Awareness, World Vision
  • Proposal Writing, Cornerstone On Demand Foundation Online
  • Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation, IRC Online
  • Project Management for Development Professionals (PMD Pro), Humentum Online
  • Mental Health and psychosocial wellbeing of Children, Save the children Online
  • Human Trafficking awareness for General Public, Stanford University Online
  • Community Organizing for action, YALINETWORK online

Timeline

Area Program Manager

World Vision
07.2022 - 09.2025

Program Officer

World Vision
05.2019 - 06.2022

Case Management Officer

Norwegian Refugee Council
05.2017 - 05.2019

Counselor

MSF-Holland
11.2016 - 04.2017

Bachelor’s Degree - Social Work

Addis Ababa University

Masters - Social Work

Mekelle University

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