Experience

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  Amhara region, ankesha woreda agriculture office

  Oct 2005 - Oct 2008

  Agronomist

  • Develop Woreda planning on agronomic activities.• Frequently monitoring and evaluation of fieldwork activities of crop production and protection

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  Awi zone agricultural office main department

  Aug 2010 - Feb 2015

  Agronomist

  • Collect zonal yield assessment data and analysis it. • Creating power point presentation and provided technical trainings to crop production and protection extension workers.• Frequently field monitoring and evaluations of all agronomic activities.

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  Amhara region bureau of agriculture

  Feb 2015 - Jan 2018

  Agronomist

  • Creating power point presentation and provide technical trainings to extension workers at all levels.• Frequently field monitoring, evaluation and provide technical supports on crop production and protection activities.• Develop reports and minutes, data collection for federal and regional level yield estimation.• Acquired additional duties such regional maize cluster coordinator and different technical committee at regional and federal levels.

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  Amhara region bureau of agriculture

  Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

  Seed production expert

  • Developed regional annual planning on seed multiplication activities. • Developed training materials and provided technical trainings for experts. • Frequently field monitoring, evaluation and provided technical supports on seed multiplication activities.

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  Fintrac inc

  Jan 2018 - Oct 2021

  Senior crop value chain & mechanization specialist

  • Get approval and implement different activities through concept note development in different areas of value chain activities. • Carry out the FtFE-VCA interventions of the project pertinent from the farm level to the processor and end markets and ensuring quality as well as sustainability. • Improving agricultural productivity and commercialization of smallholder farmers through providing technical & professional support on improved technologies among the value chains (maize and chickpea). • Support project teams in value chains' development and marketing strategies.• Technical leads for monitoring, evaluations and supporting different partner fund award implementations (Shayashone trading plc, Aybar engineering Plc, Tsehay & Ghion Farmers’ cooperative unions, Biniyam Mulat seed Enterprise, Crop life Ethiopia, HiTEC trading houses, EGAA Agricultural input supplier’s plc, Farm radio international and Seed technology fund beneficiaries etc.) activities for compile findings and documentations. • Train subcontractors and grantees in the region in M&E, data collection and reporting.• Incorporate, coordinate & support crosscutting activities that enhances the Project scale and impact across gender, youth, nutrition, environment, and climate change. • Coordinated & organized several successive workshops and trainings participated from government institutes, INGOs, LNGOs.• Develop a public-private partnership framework for developing agribusiness investments to promote value chains for Chickpea and Maize.• Conduct impact assessments of the program and feedbacks for head quarter that resulted in the redesigning of the program.• Writeup succeeding/success stories and documenting lesson learned. • Documentation of best practices, lessons learned and success stories. Show less

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  Ethiopian agricultural transformation institute (ati)

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2023

  Senior project officer-cooperative based seed production

  • Technical support to cooperatives in governance, leadership, seed business plan development• Support and provide business advise to unions to diversify their business• Explore the systemic challenges and solution of seed business• Develop strategic linkage and partnership to link unions with finance, service, customer, input and key stakeholders• Coaching and supervision of cooperatives to follow up implementation of training and technical support provided

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  Rti international

  Jul 2023 - now

  Crop market system officer