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Staff members

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    Zarir Merat

    Position
    Country Director
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    Katie Simba

    Position
    Finance and Operations Director

    Katie is a seasoned Finance and Operations Business partner with close to 20 years progressive management and global experience in multisectoral sectors in UK, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Sudan. With an MSc in Financial Management and a Certified Public Accountant, Katie has extensive experience in project, financial and operations management. She has led teams and developed competencies in leading change, building teams, analytical thinking, effective communication, networking, stakeholder management and managing people. Extensive knowledge and application of multiple donor rules and regulations including USAID, EU, FCDO, UN (UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNFPA) and private foundations across multiple sectors. She is passionate about ensuring efficiency and value for money in all our actions and delivering programs to our diverse beneficiaries. Besides work Katie volunteers within the rotary community through her club in Kenya.

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    Rebecca Dimitri

    Position
    Finance Manager / Accounting

    Rebecca is a professional in finance and management with more than 25 years of experience both in private organizations and international NGOs in the field of office administration and financial management. With this vast experience she got a chance to develop her knowledge and skills by working in various donor funded projects with different INGOs like EU, ECHO, USAID and UNOCHA.

     

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    Hagere Tsegaye

    Position
    Human Resources Manager

    Hagere has over 10 years experience in human resources. She is interested in formulating human resource strategies to create an organizational culture that attracts and retains talented staff while representing different backgrounds.

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    Habtamu Worku

    Position
    Logistics and Procurement Officer

    Habtamu Worku has more than 15 years experiences in INGO, government and private companies where he applies strong logistics and shipping expertise to provide guidelines and recommendations to achieve objectives. Through the years, he has built and maintained strong relations with customers and logistic suppliers. Moreover his supply chain service delivery and emergency response knowledge and experience are great assets to Cordaid and implementing partners.

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    Workneh Bekele

    Position
    PBF Finance Officer

    Workneh is  a very well experienced  financial management and accounting professional with over 15 years of experience in INGOs, governmental organization. His experience includes  preparing  program budgets and producing financial manuals. He has been trained and experienced on PBF financial management in multiple Performance Based Financing projects within Cordaid on budgeting, costing, managing, controlling, and reporting to donor.

     

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    Illile Bekele

    Position
    Livelihood/Disaster Risk Management Programme Officer

    Illile Bekele is a dedicated programme personnel in coordination, partner management and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes for over ten years. She inherently appreciates to be there for people in difficult situations. Her interest is to contribute more to the areas of disaster management and resilience building that creates a safer condition for affected people.

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    Teklebrihan Hailu Beyene

    Position
    Resilience and Livelihoods Programme Lead

    Teklebirhan Hailu is the Resilience and livelihoods programme officer/ expert for  Cordaid Ethiopia, Responsible in planning, coordinating, providing technical support for effective implementation of multi-sector projects.  Tekleberhan has 12 years experience in NGOs (7 years in Cordaid):. He has  extensive experience  in the field of  resilience livelihood, Agriculture, Watershed and Natural Resource Management,  DRR and Climate Change Adaptation, Small Scale-Irrigation,  Integrated Risk Management, Conflict Risk Reduction  interventions.  Teklebirhan has skills in the capacity building of local  organizations , province and woreda level government staffs on Resilience livelihood, Climate Smart Agriculture, Integrated watershed development planning,  NRM, CMDRR & CCA , Agroforestry and irrigation and Conflict Risk Analysis, and Conflict resolution

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    Essa Ahmed

    Position
    PBF Senior Project Coordinator

    Essa is a pragmatic and committed worker who is currently working for Cordaid in Senior Project Coordinator role for the PBF project. He coordinates and overseas the successful implementation of the project in Ethiopia. He believes that PBF is the future. In the past 10 years, He has gained the skills to lead a project and coordinate activities at different levels through his eagerness to pull himself up and hard work. He highly value working as a team. He will never get tired of dreaming and PBF creates in him the passion to become an expert in health policy and health economics.

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    Abebe Hailemariam

    Position
    Project Controller

    Abebe is a dedicated professional with a passion for financial management and international business. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Addis Ababa University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in international business from the same institution. Abebe plays a pivotal role as a Project Controller at Cordaid Ethiopia, where he effectively oversees assigned projects. His responsibilities include budgeting, financial planning, monitoring project expenditures, and preparing accurate and timely financial reports. Abebe actively collaborates with colleagues to streamline financial processes. With over three years of experience in managing grants under EU, DRA and other donors, he has gained expertise in navigating complex funding requirements and ensuring optimal resource utilization. He is dedicated to efficient financial management, compliance, and the achievement of Cordaid Ethiopia’s organizational goals.

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    Eyoel Ephrem

    Position
    Partnership Officer

    Eyoel is the Partnership Officer of Cordaid in Ethiopia. He is an African culture and history enthusiast with big hopes for the continent and its people. After graduating from Addis Ababa University with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he continued to pursue economics at the same university for his Master’s degree. From his experience of working in various projects in Cordaid, he is now well versed in the funding and compliance requirements of donors such as the EU, Bread for the World, Dutch Relief Alliance, among others. Partner management and capacity building, compliance assurance, grant management and reporting are among some of Eyoel’s strong suits. Besides his professional work, Eyoel has been actively engaged in volunteering through Rotary sponsored Interact and Rotaract clubs where he developed his teamwork and leadership skills.

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    Sena Getahun

    Position
    Communications Officer

    Sena is a Communications Officer at the Cordaid Ethiopia Country Office, since March 2022. She graduated from Addis Ababa University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in organizational leadership. Sena has certifications in graphic design, photography, content creation, web development, institutional funding, report writing, skill development and others. She is a passionate content creator who enjoys working on virtual communication through different platforms and technology. Sena always have a talent for creative expression through design and photography, which she was able to channel through her volunteer work and her regular assignments. She also volunteers in humanitarian, development, and youth organizations in her spare time. Outdoor activities, nature, technology, photography, advocacy, and leadership are all things she enjoys.

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    Tadesse Gesit

    Position
    Project Officer

    Tadesse has a professional experience in Coordinating, managing and implementing different Donnor projects such as Kinder not Helf (Better future for children project),  EU and Oxfam GB(Soaring food prices in Ethiopia project), Supporting cooperative transformation ( SOS Faim), Integrated chilled welling project(Terres des hommes Netherlands), Food security and rural entrepreneurship (FSRE)(ICCO cooperation),Learn for work (Edukans foundation) and I have been working as master trainer for Save the children youth potential project and Rural Saving and credit cooperatives.

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    Luya Tsega

    Position
    Humanitarian Program Officer

    LUYA, an energetic Program Officer who has more than three years of working experience in Humanitarian, Development and Peace building interventions. Luya has good communication and relationship-building skills. She is eager to learn new things and takes great pride into motivating herself as well as others.

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    Diramu Dub

    Position
    Finance controller – PBF Borana project

    Diramu Dub is a finance controller of the PBF Borana project at Cordaid Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She has a degree in Accounting, and a Masters in Business Administration. She worked for one local NGO, and two International NGOs before joining Cordaid.

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    Tarekegn Jabara

    Position
    PBF Programme Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist

    Tarekegn Jabara is a PBF program Clinical Quality Improvement specialist at Cordaid Ethiopia. He Joined Cordaid since May 2022. he completed his education at Jimma University in professional Health science and MPH in Health service management in 2011 and 2016 consecutively. He has more than a decade professional experience at public and INGO in health sector programs. Thematically, His inclination is on Improvement of Quality of Health care.

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    Zerihun Kassa

    Position
    RESET Plus innovation programme officer

    Zerihun Kassa is a RESET Plus innovation programme officer at Cordaid Ethiopia. He has B.Sc. degree in Forestry from Wondo Genet Collage of Forestry and M.Sc. degree in Climate Change and Development from Arbaminch University. For the last 12+ years, he has been working in government and NGOs organization from project officer level to program officer. Thematically, he has been working mostly in Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Disaster Risk reduction, Climate Smart Agriculture and Climate Resilience. He does have a great interest and motivation to work in the field of climate change adaptation and resilience.

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    Tenaw Fentaw

    Position
    Senior Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (PMEAL) Officer

    Tenaw has been working for more than 15 years in NGOs both in Humanitarian and Development sectors. Thematically, he has rich experience in Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (PMEAL), Livelihood, Food Security, Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation, Women and Youth Empowerment, Resilience Building, Community Based Organization Establishment and Strengthening, Natural Resource Management, Capacity Development, are among others.