METEKIA GETACHEW

Experience

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  Ministry of Agriculture government of Ethiopia

  Aug 2002 - Oct 2004

  Junior Instructor and Department Head

  Provide leadership to agriculture research staff and relevant institutions for technical innovations transfers, Identify and promote best practices for forestry and nursery projects.

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  Food for the Hungry, Inc.

  Mar 2005 - Jul 2006

  Productive Safety Net Program Officer

  Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all activities under the productive safety net programs, Coordinate and manage transport, warehousing, distribution and reporting of commodities and maintain government relations and compliance.

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  AIZON PLC

  Jul 2006 - Feb 2008

  Program/ technical Coordinator

  Business plan development for running for-profit agricultural development project. Creation and management of an annual implementation plan and budget plan.

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  ZOA

  Feb 2008 - Jun 2008

  Environmental Officer

  Planning, Implementation and monitoring of agriculture and environmental project activities, responsible for all agricultural and environment related activities in Shemelba refugee camp, and represent ZOA for subject matter meetings with UNHCR, ARRA and other partner organizations in the Eritrean refugee camp.

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  Food for the Hungry, Inc.

  Jul 2008 - Oct 2008

  Emergency Relief Program Manager

  Responsible for activity and budget planning, coordination and successfully implementation of 6 months Emergency response for Flood affected populations with a total of $237,000, Responsible for 12 Direct reports (finance, M&E, technical staff) and manage all emergency relief program in the particular area and liaison with government and other stakeholders.

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  Samaritan's Purse

  Oct 2008 - Nov 2010

  Regional Manager

  Directed and implemented program strategies, budgets and work plans for emergency and refugee programs including WASH, Non Food Items, Shelter, Food Security, Education in Emergency & Nutrition, developed staff leadership and technical capacity in the Gambella region to respond to acute needs of IDPs. and oversaw resource utilization, monitoring and evaluation, liaising and representing the organization at regional level, ensuring timely and accurate report and network with all key partners, donors and stakeholders. Show less

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  World Food Programme

  Apr 2011 - Oct 2013

  Fild Monitoring Assistant (FMA)

  Coordinate, monitor and review the overall commodity movement for the Gambella Region (over $2 million USD in commodities for both Refugee and host community and assisted implementing partners, supervise the efficient distribution of food commodities items across the region and ensure proper distribution of entitlements for the refugee and host communities.

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  Center for Creative Leadership

  Nov 2013 - Jun 2016

  Senior Program Manager

  As a Senior Program Manager’s my role is to ensure that multiple programs operate smoothly at one time, giving careful attention to client communication, program delivery, program budgeting, coordinating, monitoring and reviewing the overall project activities manage Civil Society supported programme over $348,000 USD in 3 Years period for capacity development on the Ethiopian civil society organizations.

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  Samaritans Purse

  Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

  Food Assistant Program Manager

  As the Food Program Manager I am responsible for leading food program activities in South Sudan Mayendit County of Unity State, including General food distribution (GFD),Blanket Supplementary Feeding Program (BSFP), Targeting Supplementary Feeding program (TSFP, Monitoring, Logistic, Human resource and Finance as a budget holder for the Emergency Food assistance Program. . and responsible for community mobilization, regular program reporting, Budget approval and supervising program staff and the use of the organization’s assets. Show less

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  Welthungerhilfe

  Jul 2017 - Dec 2022

  Technical Expert for technical and Social issues, focus: “food distribution”

  As Expert for technical and Social issues, focus: “food distribution”, my role is to ensure the overall commodity movement, proper documentation and accountability of all receipt, waybills, warehouse management, commodity handling, delivery and distribution of General Food distribution (GFD) and Blanket Supplementary feeding program (BSFP) based on the standard of the donor and the organization.

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  Center for Creative Leadership

  Jan 2023 - Jul 2024

  Program Director
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  Welthungerhilfe (WHH)

  Jun 2024 - now

  Deputy Head of Project