Abdella Gube
Saint Paul,MN
Summary
To secure a responsible career opportunity to fully utilize experience, training, and skills, while making a significant contribution to the success of the organization. To secure a challenging position in the organization for expanding my learnings, knowledge, and skill. To make use of my interpersonal skills to achieve the goals of the organization that focuses on stakeholders' needs.
Abdella is a development specialist from Ethiopia who graduated from Haramaya and Jimma Universities with bachelor's degrees in agricultural economics and a diploma in general agriculture, respectively. He has worked for CARE Ethiopia; SNSF and Haraghe Catholic Relief Service for 25 years as a Lead Community Facilitator, Facilitator for Empowerment, WCB-TA Community Facilitator, Commodity Distributor, and SILC Supervisor. Abdella is renowned for his active participation in projects including market-based development, food security, DRR and CCA and livelihoods at the designated levels. He has made above-and-beyond contributions to his job and responsibilities. In this regard, CARE Ethiopia has recognized him and given him accolades for his commitment to successful initiatives. Through academic and professional development, contact with senior professionals, and capacity-building training, Abdella has embraced improved knowledge and experience that allow him manage various assignments, roles, and responsibilities both on his own and with the team.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Community Facilitator
CARE Ethiopia
01.2019 - 01.2025
- Company Overview: CARE Ethiopia (SPIR/RFSA) Project
- Organizes and lead support to participatory, watershed-based resource/assets mapping, problem-opportunity identification and needs assessment of communities together with the facilitators and PA/Woreda level partners implementing the PSNP.
- Coordinates capacity assessment for PA/community task forces and prepare capacity building plans in line with the project objectives and government guidelines.
- Facilitates community institutions capacity assessments and foster/negotiate mechanisms for their involvement in the project alongside government partners.
- Ensure marketing networks established and communities have the required market and marketing information.
- Supervises & Evaluates CF under his supervision as per the HR policy.
- Assists safety net program implementers in the Preparation of annual, Quarter & monthly operation plans with its equivalent resource and submits to the Woreda team leader and FSTF for approval.
- Holds regular on job training to facilitators and partners at community level.
- CARE Ethiopia (SPIR/RFSA) Project
Facilitator for Empowerment
CARE Ethiopia
02.2017 - 11.2019
- Company Overview: CARE Ethiopia (DFSA, GEW GEW DINGETE COMMUNITY Development and HIBRET I Projects)
- Facilitates safety net program participants in the identification and prioritization of PW and targeting and promote the establishment of saving groups with agreeable internal regulation for better household asset building and protection.
- Facilitates community meetings and community action plan (CAP) preparation and ensure the participation of each community group in problem identification, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Ensures CARE's key program principles of accountability, empowerment, nondiscrimination are followed in community analysis and action plans.
- Facilitates community livelihoods analysis, wealth ranking, and targeting along with partners and responsible body from the Kebele's.
- Supports and facilitate the development of action plans for their respective villages.
- Makes sure public work and direct transfer participants are identified and selected in a participatory manner and full acknowledgment of the whole community.
- Assesses marketing and market chain problems with the community and develop participatory solutions.
- Supports mobilization labor for field activities through community groups.
- Organizes and build skill and knowledge of asset creation groups and saving groups.
- Ensures that activity implementation is informed by CARE's core rights-based approaches and principles, gender equity and community-level advocacy in particular.
- Provides technical and organizational assistance to saving promoters, community animators, Kebele food security committees, Kebele and village representatives and community members.
- Supports regular capacity assessment activities conducted for kebele and village level institutions and CBO's.
- Selects potential community animators from the community with relevant government stakeholders/partners and arrange training for them with the Lead Facilitator.
- Represents CARE at kebele (s) level as a member of the food security task force; other related issues.
- Strongly works to make the plan of the project to be part of the plan for the kebele or kebele's.
- Closely works with government institutions, CBO's and communities at kebele and village level to ensure adequate linkages are established.
- Highly motivated with a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines to regularly gather output data as required for the purposes such as internal progress reviews and donor reporting.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and submit to her/his supervisor.
- Support and facilitates community involvement in annual innovation and knowledge fairs.
- Collects basic information, best practices, case studies, and lessons and report to her/his supervisor.
- Undertakes personal professional development initiatives identified with his/her supervisor.
- CARE Ethiopia (DFSA, GEW GEW DINGETE COMMUNITY Development and HIBRET I Projects)
Commodity Distributor
CARE Ethiopia
02.2016 - 01.2017
- Ensure that all commodities entrusted to World Vision arriving at distribution centers are properly accounted for.
- Inspect all waybills for commodities arriving at the distribution centers.
- Ensure that the commodities are of correct quantities and quality as manifested on the waybill.
- Immediately record all quantities delivered short (missing), quantities lost in transit and quantities damaged if any (In the field and FDP).
- Commodities must carefully be counted during off-loading.
- At the distribution center, commodities must be stacked in an organized manner, by commodity type to facilitate easy distribution.
- All observations must be recorded immediately.
- Take active role in the registration and verification of beneficiaries to ensure that the process is fair.
- Organize and supervise food distributions and equipment / materials in the field and FDPs.
- Ensure that commodities must be properly stacked on plastic sheet at distribution center.
- Ensure that the distribution center is properly organized and secured with ropes and crowd control measures put in place to ensure smooth distribution and flow of beneficiaries.
- Responsible to ensure that all necessary distribution equipment are available at the distributions center, including forms, ropes, banners, plastic sheets, measuring devices etc.
- Supervise loading of food that is left over after distributions. Ensure that a waybill is prepared for food to be returned to the warehouse.
- Coordinate with community mobilizers and verify beneficiary identity and eligibility.
- Coordinate and collaborate with community key figures and health workers to ensure communities are well protected from COVID - 19 through implementation of regulation given by ministry of health.
- Prepare daily distribution center visit reports and submit to commodity distribution reports.
- Ensure proper completion and safe return of all tally documents and beneficiary lists to the office for safe storage.
- Ensure proper accounting of all quantities of commodities received and distributed at each center.
- Perform any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.
Saving and Internal Lending (SILC) Supervisor
Hararghe Catholic Relief Service
03.2012 - 09.2014
- Company Overview: Peace and Justice Project
- Works closely with ELRP livelihoods team to integrate savings and internal lending communities (SILC) into the program as part of CRS/ET Integral Human Development Framework (IHD).
- Raises awareness, promotes and market the SILC model among implementing partners, and donors.
- Builds the capacity of ELRP implementing partners to integrate SILC into their activities.
- Provides vision and leadership to effectively develop, promote, integrate and expand CRS/Ethiopia's SILC Program.
- Designs training modules for ELRP staff, partners, supervisors and filed agents and builds local capacity to deliver high quality trainings.
- Provides technical assistance and manages the development, monitoring, analysis and evaluation of the SILC portfolio in ELRP.
- Works closely with partners to achieve scale and excellence in operations; designs specific trainings to address weaknesses and integrate best practices into operations.
- Monitors the quality of the SILC programs through regular community site visits.
- Gathers, analyzes and studies information captured through the SILC MIS, Guides and supports ELRP staff and partners in their efforts to collect and analyze data on a monthly basis.
- Advises on savings-led Microfinance quality standards and opportunities for enhanced programming.
- Designs, appropriate to monitoring and evaluate tools for SILC program.
- Participate in overall program reviews and evaluations.
- Supports project proposal development within the different sectoral programs, helps CRS /ET program managers and partners' budget for SILC and integrate SILC in a multitude of development activities.
- Supports successful establishment of SILC groups, identification, training and launching of Private Service Providers (PSP).
- Actively participates in meetings with program managers and unit heads to define program vision.
- Integrates SILC in design of ELRP monitoring and evaluation approaches.
- Documents, disseminate and publish lessons learned and best practices.
- Incorporate lessons learned and innovations from partners to improve data gathering and MIS spreadsheets.
- Stay abreast of new developments in savings-led Microfinance.
- Performs other related duties as required.
- Peace and Justice Project
Field Officer/ Extension Agent
CARE Ethiopia
03.2007 - 09.2011
- Company Overview: Seed Voucher program
- Daily Monitoring of seed suppliers of voucher program.
- Distribution of voucher.
- Prepare master list.
- Awareness creation on technology for voucher program.
- Seed Voucher program
Field Officer/ Extension Agent
CARE Ethiopia
04.2005 - 10.2007
- Company Overview: Cash for Relief Project
- Awareness creation of community on water and soil conservation.
- Awareness creation on family planning, HIV/AIDS.
- Awareness creation on community good governance.
- Awareness creation on risk management.
- Gender and Women empowerment capacity building.
- Cash for Relief Project
Commodity Storekeeper
CARE Ethiopia
09.2001 - 03.2004
- Company Overview: Emergency Project
- Distribute food aid to community.
- Prepare beneficiary list regularly.
- Awareness creation on Food preparation and utilization.
- Child feeding and personal hygiene protection.
- Emergency Project
Extension Agent
CARE Ethiopia
09.1995 - 09.2003
- Company Overview: Community Development Project
- Represented CARE at operation level so as to keep quality and standard of works and its proper implementation as per the organization's rules and regulation.
- Organized & facilitated series of community based training on integrated gender responsive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) micro nutrient and health projects.
- Developed training materials & toolkits on promotion of micro-nutrient and health program using different IEC/IPC techniques.
- Facilitated the Preparation of participatory annual operational community empowerment action plan & ensure its proper implementation.
- Promoted Organic Farming Such As Compost Making and Integrated Pest Management at households' level.
- Promoted and Managed income generating activities that are gender responsive (IGAs) especially High Value Fruit And Vegetable crop Production.
- Facilitated & mobilized the Community for labor, cash contribution, tools, equipments & local knowledge at grass roots level for different food for work (FFW) schemes construction.
- Processed and prepared FFW or cash for work payments as per the norm & submit for approval to immediate supervisor and ensure for it's just and fair distribution to the targeted beneficiaries.
- Ensured the community participation throughout the project design to implementation, monitoring & evaluation.
- Ensured that data collection, record keeping and timely data transmission are properly organized and carried out from operational to management level.
- Followed-up the proper implementation (quality technical standard and timely accomplishment) of various schemes such as Water Supply, Access Road, SWC structures, Nursery Operations etc.
- Undertaken Agricultural Extension Education & ensured cross-cutting issues such as Gender Partnership, Sustainability, HIVAIDS, and Environment & Employment Opportunities are entertained in different projects using various PRA tools.
- Undertaken Socio-Economic baseline Survey for Irrigation Schemes.
- Periodically produced report to the respective Extension supervisor.
- Community Development Project
Education
MSC - Agricultural Economics
Hara Maya University
BSc - Agricultural Economics
Hara Maya University
Ethiopia07.2010
Diploma - General Agriculture
Jimma University
Ethiopia07.1994
Skills
- Advocacy
- Group dynamics
- Community outreach
- Fundraising
- Computer skill (words, excel, power point),
- Motor cycle driving skills,
- Conceptual understanding of participatory approach and sustainable development
- Interpersonal communication and report writing skills
- Demonstrated technical ability and skills to work effectively with others at all levels
- Experience in working with diverse partners {community based organizations, NGOs, government counterparts
Accomplishments
- Documented and resolved [Issue] which led to [Results].
- Collaborated with team of [Number] in the development of [Project name].
- Supervised team of [Number] staff members.
Educational Status
- MSC, Agricultural Economics, Haramaya University
- BSc, Agricultural Economics, Haramaya University
- Diploma, General Agriculture, Jimma University
Training
- Result Based Management for PSNP and HABP planning and Performance Measurement Training, 03/25/13
- Coordination and Collaboration Series for PSNP/HABP Committees Best practice and Effective Committee Management training, 03/04/13
- Leadership Management Course, 08/01/12
Summary Of Qualifications
Abdella is a development specialist from Ethiopia who graduated from Haramaya and Jimma Universities with bachelor's degrees in agricultural economics and a diploma in general agriculture, respectively. He has worked for CARE Ethiopia, SNSF, and Haraghe Catholic Relief Service for 25 years in various roles., CARE Ethiopia has recognized him and given him accolades for his commitment to successful initiatives.
Certification
- Certified [Job Title], [Company Name] - [Timeframe]
Languages
English
Professional Working
Oromo
Native or Bilingual
Amharic
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Lead Community Facilitator
CARE Ethiopia
01.2019 - 01.2025
Facilitator for Empowerment
CARE Ethiopia
02.2017 - 11.2019
Commodity Distributor
CARE Ethiopia
02.2016 - 01.2017
Saving and Internal Lending (SILC) Supervisor
Hararghe Catholic Relief Service
03.2012 - 09.2014
Field Officer/ Extension Agent
CARE Ethiopia
03.2007 - 09.2011
Field Officer/ Extension Agent
CARE Ethiopia
04.2005 - 10.2007
Commodity Storekeeper
CARE Ethiopia
09.2001 - 03.2004
Extension Agent
CARE Ethiopia
09.1995 - 09.2003
MSC - Agricultural Economics
Hara Maya University
BSc - Agricultural Economics
Hara Maya University
Diploma - General Agriculture
Jimma University
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