Training High School

Addis Tigabu

**** ****** ***** ****. *********, VA 22003

202-***-**** *********@*****.***

SUMMARY

A self-motivated and well organized professional with over 4 years supervision experience, providing constructive,

empowering, thorough and skillful supervision to counselors and handling more challenging cases of diverse clients.

Over 10 year’s extensive experience in counseling with psychology background, excellent interpersonal relation and effective

communication skill.

Extensive experience working in nonprofit organization serving the disadvantaged people through offering outstanding services

and enabling environment to make them self-motivated and supportive citizen

Flexible, goal oriented and energetic team leader having strong project management experience, decision making and problem-

solving skills, able to identify problems, prioritize and implement corrective measures.

An independent and motivated professional having extensive local and international training and training of trainer experience

B ilingual professional with outstanding academic record and award winning volunteer

Proficient in MS Word, Excel, access, power point and internet

PROFESSIONAL Experience

Counselor supervisor

John Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

02/2006 – 10/2011

JHU is non-profit US based organization established in recognition of the pivotal role communication plays in people thinking, behavior,

and in their life, With a mission of implementing Social and behavior change communication to influence social norms and solve public

health problem.

• Conduct supervision of counselor and provide constructive and empowering feedback based on the case managed. A

total of 3000 to 4000 clients received proper confidential counseling in a daily bases.

• Monitor the delivery of updated information properly. 120 counselors involved in the updating of callers seeking

information on a variety of sensitive topics such as rape, drug use, suicide, sexual health and HI V/AIDS.

• Organize training and empower counselors. Build the capacity of 120 counselors and improved the quality of

counseling information and referral system

• Established referral system with sisterly organization for the competiveness of the services. A total of 500 to 600 callers

received appropriate referral to access basic service such HIV testing, and for further care and treatment options.

• Managed challenging calls referred from front line counselors through utilizing counseling techniques. 80 to 100

challenging caller transferred from front line staffs and handled accordingly in a daily bases.

Care and Support Program Coordinator

Cooperazion International (COOPI) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

06/2007 – 03/2010

COOPI is a non-profit Italian based humanitarian, organization established to fight against all kinds of poverty to make the world a better

place. It is established with a mission of assisting populations struck by emergencies (disasters and conflicts) and to facilitate their civil,

economic and social development. It intervene through agriculture, water and sanitation, health care, humanitarian assistance, human rights,

education, socio-economic services, and migration.

• Accomplished specific projects based on the result of market and need assessment of target beneficiaries .A total of

240 vulnerable single mothers benefited from the income generating activities, health and environmental hygiene

orientation, mainly HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases

• Give health and environmental hygiene orientation to target beneficiaries. 240 single mothers and vulnerable women

benefited from awareness raising activities on the issues of health and personal and environmental hygiene

• Ensured the proper implementation of microcredit services following the skill training. A total of 240 targeted

vulnerable single mothers empowered, rehabilitated and start generating income and became self-supportive citizen.

• Provide psycho social supports to children’s and single mothers .330 children benefited from the psychosocial support

and continue their education as a result of enabling environment created to their single mother to generate their own

income

Counselor and Program Coordinator

Hope for Children Organization, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

01/2002 – 02/2006

Hope for Children is a local humanitarian organization established in response to the staggering AIDS pandemic and its related problems. The

organization provides community-based care and support to the growing number of stigmatized children and disintegrating family structures

caused by HIV/AIDS. Its established With the Vision of enabling HIV/AIDS affected children and families to live with dignity in their local

communities while ensuring that their basic needs are met

• Ensures the provision of essential psychosocial supports to children who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS and their

caregivers. A total of 600 aids orphans received psychological support, rehabilitated and developed coping mechanisms

against the stigma surrounded them.

• Follow up the proper implementation of community mobilization and awareness raising activities target the fear and

misconception of HIV in the community. A total of 46 volunteer caregivers trained and assisted critically ill bed ridden

patients with activities of daily living and make referral to hospitals and clinics

• Provide counseling training for Caregivers specifically grief counseling which helps children, as well as their caregivers

to understand and respond to the possible behavioral changes that occur as a result of the trauma of losing loved ones

and parents. Also provided memory box orientation 146 Dying parents put mementos, photos and items of significance

in the boxes for their children.

• A fter 2 year successful counseling services promoted to project coordinator position. Provide counseling services for

600 Orphans and caregivers during their challenging situation

Translator

PROPRIDE, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

01/2002-12/2002

PROPRIDE is a nongovernmental organization established to provide compressive, integrated and sustainable sexual and reproductive health

information and services in Ethiopia.

• Provide translation services for expatriates

• Ensure the proper meaning and delivery of the right information for the target community.

Tutorial teacher

jiren secondary school,jimma, Ethiopia

06/2000-09/2001

Jiren is one of the two government high school in the town jimma

• Planned, develop, conducted and evaluate language training and Instructed the structure of the English, rules of

composition, grammar and the meaning and spelling of words

• Instructed English to high school students for the preparation of Ethiopian school leaving certificate examination.

EDUCATION

Advanced Certificate in Training of Trainers

Kenya Association of Professional Counsellors, Nairobi, Kenya

2007

MA degree in Counseling Psychology

2007

Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa,

BA degree in Linguistics

2001

Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

AWARD RECEIVED

• Recognized as an Ambassador of Pease from the Universal Pease Federation and international Federation for world Pease

for the dedicated volunteer service and hard work sacrifices which is in consistent with their mission to establish world Pease

• Certificate of appreciation awarded from Hope for Children Australia and A hope Ethiopia for the long term volunteer

service made for the children who need it most.

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