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Kabul

Kabul, Afghanistan

Lead program, finance, operations and security team of over 300 staff to achieve the mission and strategic outcomes of the organization. Review the existing strategic plan and operational approaches to align with the current situation and future scenarios. Exploit all opportunities to expand DCA's scope of work and portfolio thereby expanding the funding base through systems approach within the organization and externally by involving in the country humanitarian service provisions. Assist the team in the development of project design, narrative and financial reports and lessons. Liaise with the communities, government, funding agencies and the office in the Netherlands. Lead over 300 staff and average annual budget of $10 million.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Food Security, Livelihoods Resilience, Market Systems Development, Natural Resources Management, Pastoralist Policy, Ecological Governance, Climate Change, Conflict, Public-Private Partnership. Key AchievementsStudied the impacts of climate change adaptation through conservation farming in Ethiopia for a Norwegian funding agency called DCG; conducted assessment of Lessons Learnt from Climate Change, Social Resilience and Conflict in Borana/Southern Ethiopia for USAID/Chemonics; developed work plan to carry out urban-rural linkages of the communities in Borana/Southern Ethiopia for Goal Ethiopia along with other colleague; carried out FAO’s Final evaluation of livestock emergency response in 4 drought affected weredas of Afar Region/Ethiopia; Prepared Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) training manual and trained CAHWs in the highland context, Ethiopia; Trained staff and government partners of DUBAF development Association on Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction, Ethiopia; running bulls fattening private project near Lake Ziway in the Rift Valley, Ethiopia.

Canada

Guided by servant leadership principles whereby customer obsessions, strong courage with viewpoints, challenging the status quo, entrepreneurial approaches, ‘it can be done’ attitude, doing the right thing, and being accountable.Coaching, supervision and directing team; Operational and Staffing decision while ensuring world-class customer services; oversee daily store operations and inventory; Sales plan and growing profitability; Setting high standards and modeling behaviors for optimum customer services through quality leadership and team work; Establish new product lines and create strategies to introduce product mix versus inventory; Safety and security of the store; Compliance with government laws and regulations of safety standards, public health systems and business approaches.

Senegal

- Maintained and developed government and private sectors partnership in order to mobilize resources for WFP in Senegal; - Identified new fundraising opportunities encompassing the private sector as well as local financing and helped with donor stewardship; - Collated data and contributed to preparation of timely proposals and reports to enable informed decision-making by senior stakeholders; Prepared compelling advocacy materials to educate potential donors on the strategy, design, relevance and impact of WFP activities.

Toronto, On, Canada

Developed Theory of Change and result chain management; research on compelling cases and analysed the problem statements particularly in the areas of environmental protection, marine pollution, and coastal clean up; identified stakeholders and explored the possibility of working with them; understand the strategies of the funding agencies, eligibility requirements, and fitness of our projects to the needs of the donors; monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning as well as sustainability assessment of the proposed projects; developed work plan and gantt charts; and job descriptions of the project team. The key focuses of the projects were marine and ecosystems clean up and alternative livelihoods for the communities.

Kabul

- Provide technical and strategic leadership to more than 10 project managers across Afghanistan in the areas of families’ livelihoods; reintegration of returnees, IDPs and host communities; alternative development opportunities for communities involved in illicit livelihoods; poverty reduction and promoting gender equality; rangelands management; mine actions and livelihoods; social empowerment of women; livestock welfare and emergency agriculture and livestock based responses.- Manage a total of $16million budget. - Support the field team in building the capacities through on-job training, organization of training opportunities nationally and internationally. - Liaise with and support the project team members in effective communications with all stakeholders (funding agencies /UKAID, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, NORAD, HALO/DFID, German Humanitarian Assistance, FAO, UNODC, Brooke etc/, communities, government and private sector partners).- Involve in the management of the security of the organization, staff and facilities.

New York City

Essential Job Functions1. Provide on-going direct technical support in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods to 6-8 country programs;2. Develop strategies and tools to improve the quality of IRC’s agriculture and rural livelihoods programs;3. Contribute to the Economic Recovery and Development Unit’s research portfolio;4. Fundraising/ proposal development including business development strategy for agriculture and rural livelihoods;5. Represent IRC at relevant fora of agriculture and livelihoods in New York and DC;6. Support/ participate in the strategic planning, special projects management, meetings, communications material development and intra-net contents of Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) Unit;7. Provide inputs for agriculture emergency preparedness and response.Key AchievementsSupported country teams in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Mali, Chad, Niger, Afghanistan and Pakistan in managing host communities, refugee and IDP livelihoods projects; Defined and provided theory of change for pastoral programs in East Africa, Sahel and Asia; Designed and presented a strong pastoral programming and projects approaches in different countries to experts from the Middle East, Africa and Asia; Along with country offices teams, designed and implemented successful projects that encompassed Sphere and LEGS projects which were funded by OFDA, USAID, ECHO, DFID, etc; Supported and supervised 10 country teams in the implementation, monitoring, evaluation and networking of different projects; Developed a global pastoralist growth opportunity for International Rescue Committee’s internal use.

Afghanistan

The Program Manager is responsible for the design and execution of DCA’s overall program strategies. The PM works closely with the Program Director in a manner of comprehensive and complementary mutual support. The PM takes a leading role in the design of innovative projects, program quality assurance, donor reporting, documentation, institutional learning, strategic inputs and team building. 1. Strategic and Policy Inputs2. Programme Development, Planning and Fund Raising3. Commitment to quality programme delivery: Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment4. Reports and Documentation 5. Team Building and Leadership6. Staff capacity building and institutional learning 7. Organizational Assets and Finance Management 8. Networking, diplomacy and representationKey AchievementsSupported the team of experts in livelihoods funded by USAID, IFAD, EC, JICA, GIZ, Royal Kingdom of the Netherland Embassy and other donors; Developed a strong country strategic plan (2013-2017) along with the DCA team; Developed a ‘best practice guideline’ for the management of veterinary field units (VFUs) which also included engagement of the public-private partnership of Afghan government and the private sector; Supported the team and consultants in participatory impact assessment of livestock health and husbandry projects and analysis of the overall performance of the organizational administration including minimization of the risks of conflict; Worked on the “Afghanization” of the organization along with the board of the DCA and country team; Increased the funding of DCA to $36 million all the way from about $4 million along with the executive director, communications officer, project managers and field staff particularly achieved through increased performance of the team as a result of capacity building of the team and strong networking with funding agencies and government; delegated the country director.

Afghanistan

Horn Of Africa Region

Involved in the development of humanitarian strategic plan (2009-2012) for Ethiopia and Sudan; Supported local partners to incorporate Sphere projects in their humanitarian activities; successfully implemented a Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) project in Ethiopia that included emergency responses (food, cash, voucher), recovery (restocking, seeds distribution), preparedness, capacity building and resilience; Carried out real-time evaluation of emergency response projects in Ethiopia; Encouraged conflict connectivity through engaging local NGOs in Borana and Guji instead of the fact that the previous projects funded local NGOs that are located only on one side; Trained teams of experts of local NGOs, governments and non-government stakeholders on community managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR) approaches; Increased the funding platform of Ethiopian program from about $600,000 to more than $3 million in the southern and central Ethiopia which increased the national funding to more than $7 million; Established and run a new office in Moyale that supported 5-7 local NGOs in the Southern Ethiopia.

Ethiopia

Provided training on Mobile Emergency Livestock Slaughtering to local/international NGOs, Government and customary leaders (Procurement, Slaughtering, Skin and Hide Management and Dry Meat Preparation); Coordinated between stakeholders (Donor, Government, NGOs, Community leaders); Overall team building and management in a Mobile Outreach Camp (MOC); Project resources control and administration (human, materials, finance and information); Liaised with relevant GO offices (regional to PA level), community and NGO partners, donors and consortium partners; Prepared annual, quarter and monthly plans and reports; Facilitated workshops, training, market linkages.

Ethiopia

Led a mobile team of experts that travelled in the mountains of Ethiopia to sort out best alternatives for control of rabies in wild animals, domestic animals and human being. The project was both research and piloting of models (Action Research).

Zeway, Ethiopia

First Class Honorary Masters Degree, International Development Practice, 3.68

Thesis: "Exploring the Roles of Informal Institutions in Building Resilience among Pastoralists in the Central Region of Afghanistan"

Dvm, Veterinary Medicine

Activities and Societies: Founder and Chairman of Addis Ababa University Anti-Aids Movement, Research Project on skin diseases, Senior.