Gadisa Gefa
Washington DC, District Of Columbia 20010
United States 240-***-**** ************@*****.***
Fully Work Authorized No Visa Sponsorship Required
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Managerial and coordinating positions for more than 8 years responsible for planning; organizing and coordinating projects/ programs. Strong leadership, management and problem solving skills, strong orientation towards results and working with teams, active team player with the ability to work well independently under stress and tight deadlines as well as to work effectively with people of all levels and diverse background, honest, meticulous with strong analytical skills, cooperative, innovative, passionate, self-motivated, committed and result-driven with high initiative to accomplish the job efficiently and timely.
Key Skills
Detailed organizer, coordinator and advocate in promoting medical program compliance
Health care(patient treatment, prescription of ART,TB, PMTCT drug, ANC, attending delivery,counseling & provision family planning and child immunization)
HIV/AIDS prevention & control (Mainstreaming, school & youth center HIV prevention Package, working with MARPS, condom promotion & distribution, care & support PLHIV & OVC)
Certified Professional in Public Health
Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing
Proficient in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; Internet applications
Case Planning & Management, Life-Skills Counseling, Client Needs Assessment & Response and Client Advocacy
Community-Client Relations & Community Outreach
Program Administration,Policy Development & Implementation
Grant Program Management & Fundraising & Donor Relations
Staff Development & Supervision
Interagency Partnerships / Referrals
Recognizing program problem areas and generating solutions
Supervision & Performance Evaluation.
Budget Management
Training and Development
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Regional Program Officer 07/01/2013 - 12/20/2016
Oromia Regional state Health Bureau, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The largest regional state health Bureau in Ethiopia serves for 35million total population and with an active 20 Zonal administrations and 18 city administrations.
Coordinating the Most at Risk Population/MARPS, HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming to Public and Private Sectors, School HIV prevention Package, Condom Promotion & distribution for general population & MARPS, Social mobilization and care &support for PLHIV & OVC in the region.
Establish, organize, sensitizing, assist, monitor and evaluate Zonal Health, district Health Office, CBO, FBO, Local & International NGO Working on HIV/AIDS Programme in the region.
Provide care and support for person living with HIV/AIDS in the Region, Provided and coordinated training on HIV/AIDS prevention, Sexual & reproductive health, Behavioral change communication and life skill to reduce spread of HIV for high-risk groups like commercial-sex workers, mobile workers, youth out of school & in school.
Conducted and facilitated development of HIV/AIDS prevention and control project implementation manual and respective workshop.
Prepared timely monthly and quarterly project activities plan ahead and Regular follow up of activities implementation plan according to the standards and the Country policies.
Health Officer 02/17/2012 - 10/31/2012
Doctor without boarder (MSF)-France, Gambella/Mattar & Bambasi Refugee camp, Ethiopia
Doctor without boarder (MSF) is leading Humanitarian organization in the world working on health care.
Involved comprehensive health care system (worked at outpatient department, inpatient department, under five clinics and mobile clinic).
Involved in screening and management of malnutrition.
Ensuring the quality of the triage at each step of the activities.
Consultation severe or Moderate Malnutrition Children and social problems of the family with trial of the possible solution,
Ensuring appropriate anthropometric measurements for all children in therapeutic feeding Program.
Providing Emergency Management Patients Presenting with the emergency cases.
Ensuring Criteria Of admition as well as discharge each clients for SC as well as OTP.
Transferring All Clients To Targeted Supplementary Feeding Program Whale Discharged From The Therapeutic Feeding Program.
Appropriate Nutrition and Drug Management for severe acute management and its complication.
Ensuring full service access for each clients in collaborating with UNHCR, WFP and ARR.
Head of Health Center 10/01/2008 - 01/31/2012
Bishoftu Health Center, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
Bishoftu health is one health center located in Bishoftu town,service 40,000 population with health care and more than 35 health profession and more than 15 supporting staff.
Ensures that planning and implementation of the activities in accordance with the program principles, approaches, and procedures of the federal minister of health.
Works closely with partners in planning, implementing and monitoring and evaluation of different project activities.
Supports/assists the communities understand SRH, HIV/AIDS issues and immunization programming.
Ensures that gender issues are properly addressed during the process of the health center’ activities planning and implementation.
Involved in providing ART drugs and follow up for those who are eligible for ART and on Pre- ART. Client’ CD4 follows up, adherence Counseling, ART drugs prescribing for clients.
TB screening,Nutritional Screening, weighty monitoring and MDT meeting
Coordinating, Supports and coordinates and Provide technical assistance for health
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Temporary Training facilitator 02/11/2010 - 02/26/2010
Save the children USA & John Snow Inc. (JSI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Facilitate training
Involved in providing training for male volunteer community support for save new
Health Officer 06/30/2008 - 09/30/2008
Chefe Donsa Health Center, Gimbichu District, Ethiopia
As a team leader, I have been responsible for all the activities outlined in the Café health center with special reference to adult outpatient department, under five clinics, TB, injection & dressing service, pharmacy and laboratory services.
Together with the staffs of health center sets program quality standards and action steps and monitor the performance accordingly.
EDUCATION
Master of Arts (MA), Master of Social Work, 01/04/2013
Indira Gandhi National Open University, MSW Thesis: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Childbearing-Intentions-Infected 365-***-**** Receiving ART Paperback – April 25, 2016. by Gadisa Degefa (Author)
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science in Public Health, 06/27/2007
Jimma University,
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/AFFILIATIONS
Professional in Public Health Certification Oromia Regional Health Bureau, Ethiopia, 07/01/2013
Certificate of The Evidence - Based Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage online course Geneva foundation for medical education and research WHO Collaborating Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction May 2016
Certificate of Maternal Infection from Global Health Network eLearning 09/06/2016.
Certificate of Obstetric Fistula from Global Health Network eLearning 17/06/2016.
Certificate of Assessing Newborn size by Anthropometry from Global Health Network eLearning 27/06/2016
Certificate of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) from May 13-17/2015 organized by John Hopkins University at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Certificate of leadership in strategic information training program for health program leaders from May 20-29/2015 GC organized by Oromia Regional Health Bureau and Adama Hospital Medical College at Adama, Ethiopia.
Certificate of Adult and Pediatric ART by MSH (from August 13- Sept 8,2009) at Adama, Ethiopia;
Certificate of TOT for male volunteer community support to mother & newborns organized by save the children USA & JSI, (from Feb 11-13, 2010) at Shashamane, Ethiopia.
Certificate of HIV volunteer counseling and test by MSH (from Feb 9-29,2009) at Adama, Ethiopia.
Certificate of basic training on TB- HIV/AIDS by MSH (from March 23-31) at Adama, Ethiopi.;
Certificate of Clinical Nutrition care for children and adults with HIV by FANTA (from August 26-28,2009 on top of ART by MSH) at Adama, Ethiopia.
Certificate of syndromic management of sexually transmition (STI) organized by Ethiopia medical association (from July 27-31,2009) at Adama, Ethiopia.
Certificate on TB infection control training for general health workers organized by TB CAP (from April 7-9, 2010) at Adama, Ethiopia.
Certificate of Injection safety and sharps waste management organized by AIDSTAR-ONE ETHIOPIA at Adama, Ethiopia.
Certificate of outcome based assessor’s methodology organized by Oromia TVET (from March 4-6, 2011) Bishoftu Ethiopia.