Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Leadership and Communication skills
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
REFERENCES
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AHMED SAID MOHAMUD

AHMED SAID MOHAMUD

Hargeisa

Summary

Dedicated Management and humanitarian professional with over 5 years of experience in management, monitoring and emergency response. Proven ability as a data analyst, data quality, analysis, visualization, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Committed to delivering high-quality results in diverse settings, and advancing professional goals through strategic planning and collaboration.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Payroll employee

Somaliland Ministry of Justice
Hargeisa
01.2021 - Current

CRM Focal Point

ACTION AID INTERNATIONAL SOMALILAND
ERIGAVO
01.2023 - 06.2023
  • Coordinated grievance and redressal efforts, enhancing community preparedness for emergencies through strategic planning. Utilized modern technology to manage complaint data, ensuring prompt responses and accurate delivery of aid. Registered and sensitized project beneficiaries on Scope platform usage, promoting efficient entitlement redemption. Facilitated food distribution and cash-based transfers, ensuring eligibility validation and scope card functionality. Documented demographic information and analyzed statistical data for effective community profiling.

Project Officer

ACTION AID INTERNATIONAL SOMALILAND
Erigavo
06.2021 - 12.2022
  • Coordinated project schedules and timelines for various initiatives.
  • Facilitated communication between stakeholders and team members.
  • Assisted in resource allocation for project execution.
  • Maintained project documentation and reports for tracking progress.
  • Supported risk assessment processes to identify potential issues.
  • Organized team meetings to discuss project updates and challenges.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on goals.
  • Facilitate community mobilization, meetings and trainings before the redemption and cash out activities;
  • Work with Food Management Committees to ensure Action Aid International WFP receive feedback from the beneficiaries on the project, including information on complaints related to food quality and conduct of the vendors/agents.
  • Sensitize the beneficiaries so that they are aware of project objectives, project modalities, entitlements, right to complain, complaint modalities and redemption/cash out days.
  • Represent Action Aid International in the field with community leaders, local authorities, other humanitarian actors. Conduct regular meetings with such entities, prepare minutes for sharing with the CBT Manager/Project Manager.
  • Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of cash transfers, by maintaining and/or expanding Action Aid International community outreach to ensure beneficiaries have one communication channel with the CBT team.
  • Supervise and coordinate the work of the field team by ensuring their presence in the field, keeping track of their attendance, submitting accurate information for their payment at field level and providing instructions to them on the planned activities.
  • Build the capacity of the Field Monitors to ensure project quality, providing regular training/coaching.
  • Coordinate the distribution and management of of SCOPE cards to targeted beneficiaries with support of SCOPE IT Assistant and SCOPE Registrars.
  • Coordinate and supervise the monitoring of monthly redemption and cash out activities, conduct market price monitoring, conduct vendors’ price monitoring, shop monitoring, ensure that beneficiaries receive their full entitlement and they are treated with dignity and not taken advantage of.
  • Conduct monthly meetings with the vendors/agents to ensure that their activities are fully in compliance with WFP regulations, represent beneficiaries’ interests in such meetings.
  • Timely report any irregularities to the Project Manager.
  • Conduct regular visits to the communities where beneficiaries reside in order to collect feedback, follow up on their food security status.
  • Prepare and submit weekly activity reports to the Project Manager.
  • Prepare and submit a monthly report on redemption/cash out activities to the project Manager for their further compilation and sharing with the donor.
  • Support and coordinate data collection for the outcome monitoring surveys.
  • Treat beneficiaries with dignity and apply Action Aid Internationals Code of Ethics and Conduct, Core Humanitarian Standards, the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Field Staff In-kind/CBT-Cash-Based Transfer

ACTION AID INTERNATIONAL SOMALILAND
ERIGAVO
10.2019 - 05.2021
  • Registration of project beneficiaries using Scope platform
  • Sensitize communities on how to use their scope cards to redeem their entitlement
  • Sensitize beneficiaries on their entitlement and share full information to the beneficiaries on the cereals, split pulses, and vegetable oil and Cash-Based Transfer per month
  • Identify key challenges in the Sanaag region during food distribution
  • Receive and sign waybills from the track by cross-checking food per unit and keep ActionAid’s Copies (receipt) and bring them to ActionAid Field Officer
  • Responsible to hand over food entitlement (per KG) to the beneficiaries having topped up the scope cards to validate the eligibility of the beneficiaries
  • Responsible to top up and purchase all scope cards during food distribution and Cash-Based Transfer as well- to validate the functioning of the cards
  • Responsible ActionAid Scope kits, and I will redeemable if any damage occurs
  • Reporting daily and share to the field officer and project manager, the number of beneficiaries who received the food, those that did not receive, number of No Voucher Found and other technical issues to sort out on time

Project Assistant

Care International
Erigavo
08.2016 - 12.2017
  • Coordinated project schedules and meetings for international humanitarian initiatives.
  • Assisted in developing project documentation and reports for stakeholder review.
  • Managed communication between team members and external partners effectively.
  • Organized training sessions for staff on project management tools and best practices.
  • Assisted with coordination of daily activities for projects.
  • Assisted Project Manager in preparing project plans, schedules, and budgets.
  • Organized and maintained project documents and records.
  • Provided administrative support to the project team including scheduling meetings, coordinating travel, ordering supplies.
  • Participated in weekly status meetings with the Project Manager to discuss ongoing tasks and issues requiring resolution.
  • Met schedule and deadlines by ensuring that work was completed efficiently.

Education

Master of Science - Environmental Management and Sustainability

Accord University
Mogadishu, Somalia
09.2021 - 08.2023

Project Management

Eelo University
Borama, Somaliland
08.2015 - 09.2016

Bachelor of Science - Science in Environmental Management

Amoud University
Borama, Somaliland
09.2012 - 07.2016

Skills

  • PLANNING
  • IMPLEMENTATION
  • MONITORING
  • REPORTING
  • MICROSOFT OFFICE
  • RESEARCH METHODS
  • RAPIDLY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
  • ANALYTICAL SKILLS
  • SPSS
  • INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
  • CREATIVE THINKER

Leadership and Communication skills

I am a highly organized and results-oriented leader with more than five years of humanitarian and development experience, and I am an excellent written and verbal communicator, as well as a confident, verbal, communicative, and experienced listener and speaker. I'm good at both creative and factual writing, as well as speaking in forums, groups, or in the media, and negotiating.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

  • Global Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Pathway
  • BSAFE
  • CVA – Fundamentals
  • Climate adaptation in Africa
  • Shea and safeguarding

REFERENCES

  • Mohamed Jama Dahir, Action Aid International| Phone number: 0634 214 776| Email: mohamed.dahir@actionaid.org |
  • Mohamud Ismail, Care International | Phone number: 0634214992 | Email: Mohamud.ismail@care.org |

Timeline

CRM Focal Point

ACTION AID INTERNATIONAL SOMALILAND
01.2023 - 06.2023

Master of Science - Environmental Management and Sustainability

Accord University
09.2021 - 08.2023

Project Officer

ACTION AID INTERNATIONAL SOMALILAND
06.2021 - 12.2022

Payroll employee

Somaliland Ministry of Justice
01.2021 - Current

Field Staff In-kind/CBT-Cash-Based Transfer

ACTION AID INTERNATIONAL SOMALILAND
10.2019 - 05.2021

Project Assistant

Care International
08.2016 - 12.2017

Project Management

Eelo University
08.2015 - 09.2016

Bachelor of Science - Science in Environmental Management

Amoud University
09.2012 - 07.2016
AHMED SAID MOHAMUD