Social Worker/Social service coordinator

RESUME/CURRICULUM VITEA

*. Personal Data

*.*. Name Tolosa, Wondimu Geleta

1.2. Birth Date Jan 20, 1955

1.3. Birth Place Woliso, Southwest Shoa

1.4. Nationality Ethiopian

1.5. Marital Status Married

1.6. Address: 1208 Rainbow Parke Drive, Round Rock TX. 78665

Tel. (737) 217 – 6852

Email: *************@*****.***

2. Education Background

BA in Social Work from Addis Ababa University in 1979

Other trainings

-Conservation Agriculture Workshop Training in Ethiopia/locally in 2015;

-Municipal Finance Management in India in 2002

-Municipal/Metropolitan Management in UK in 1997;

-Cooperative Management workshop training in local in 1991; and

-Housing – Group Training in Japan in 1991;

3. Language Proficiency

Reading Writing Speaking

Afan Oromo Excellent Excellent Excellent

Amharic Excellent Excellent Excellent

English Excellent Excellent Excellent

4. Employment Record

4.1. August 2008 to August 2018

Employer Organization: Oromo Self Reliance Association (OSRA)

Position: Monitoring & Evaluation Program Officer

Duties:

Developing monitoring and evaluation plan for projects/programs the organization executing and executed;

Monitoring implementation of programs/projects and evaluating programs/ projects implemented by OSRA as per the designed plan;

Assess the results that were achieved through OSRA’s thematic areas interventions like agriculture production & productivity; rural clean water supply, sanitation & hygiene education; environmental protection management to mitigate climate change by way of forestry; and promotion of anti-harmful traditional practices;

Facilitating programs/projects implementation review meetings for local level regulatory bodies/public sector line offices as well as direct beneficiaries; and

Recommend as required the necessary measures/strategies for rectifying the challenges encountered.

4.2. October 1999- July 2008

Employer: Oromia Works & Urban Development Bureau (OWUDB)

Position: Head, Municipal Finance Management Team

Duties:

Working on improvement of municipal financial system

Facilitating preparation of rules & regulations of municipal finance for ensuring cities’ empowerment on their resources

Adopting different systems, which can serve the expenditure control management and allow cities to utilize their resources effectively and efficiently;

Facilitating proto type tariff regulation framework preparation for cities of the region;

Working on five years Public Sector Capacity Building Program (PSCAP), Urban Reform Program funded by the World Bank, from project development up to implementation; and

Providing Technical Assistance for Urban Local Governments in developing projects, which had been undertaken in four cities by Urban Development Fund, financed by KfW, one of the German Banks; and Ur Local Government Development 3 years program that had been financed by the World Bank in “Capital Investment Plan” preparation.

4.3. August 1998- September 1999

Employer: OWUDB

Position: Head, Project Preparation & Implementation Unit

Duties:

Preparing different projects that could serve for strengthening cities of the region in furnishing with operation capacity and some guidelines; and

Building the capacity of cities to discharge their duties and responsibilities through training (the projects were financed by the World Bank/IDA funds & GTZ).

4.4. February 1997- July 1998

Employer: OWUDB

Position: Head Housing Cooperatives Team

Duties:

Preparing directives, which could serve Housing Coops. expected to be established at respective city;

Preparing proto type bylaws for Housing Coops to ensure their smooth running of their affairs and make rule bounded the relationship of coops. Members; and

Preparing different formats, which could serve the establishment of coops. to simplify the processes.

4.5. October 1994- June 1997

Employer: OWUDB

Position: Head, Personnel Administration Division

Duties:

Working on personnel affairs of the Regional Bureau of Works & Urban Development including cities;

Working on personnel remuneration;

Administer personnel as per the rules and regulations of Civil Service; and

Ensure the merit of employees.

4.6. March 1993-September 1994

Employer: OWUDB

Position: Head, Housing Cooperatives Division

Duties:

Prepare directives and guidelines for housing coops. established at city level;

Strengthening those coops previously established in a way by making them to serve the objectives they had been established for; and

Working on different strategies that could serve to mitigate housing problem in the region.

4.7. August 1979-February 1993

Employer: Ministry of Housing & Urban Development (MOHUD)

Position: Housing Cooperative Expert

Duties:

Organizing Housing Coops as stipulated in the policy of the government;

Access the coops to urban land and Bank finance in advising them how to fulfill the Bank requirements; and

Provide technical advice/assistant to those who were low income group organized on self-help basis – mechanism of establishing members’ saving system in block account, and to solicit support from different organizations to fill their financial gap.

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5. Skills

Microsoft word, excel and power point application;

Managing community development interventions;

Planning monitoring and evaluation schedules for assessment of programs/projects implementation achievements;

Project/program proposal development and designing implementation and compiling and reporting execution status to the concerned agencies;

Organizing training sessions, and monitoring and evaluation meetings of key projects/programs stakeholders;

Promotion of cooperatives to address social issues both in urban housing sector and rural agricultural production; and

Carrying out socio-economic survey pre and post intervention.

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