Waleed Solaiman Ahmed Gido
Port Sudan
Summary
Enthusiastic Program Management Specialist with expertise in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene projects in emergency and early recovery settings. Dedicated to overseeing implementations and positively contribute strategy development. Possesses good leadership skills, with a focus on team building. Successfully evaluated programs and implemented sustainable solutions. I am driven, self-disciplined, and solution-oriented in delivering high-quality WASH services to beneficiaries in accordance with the Organization's global standards.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Programme Engineer
The UN migration Agency [IOM]
04.2018 - Current
- Contributed positively to developing and implementing the WASH strategy/response plan for IOM, aligning with national and IOM plans to support population in needs.
- maintain successful coordination with all relevant WASH stakeholder to ensure efficient WASH service delivery and inline with standard and specification. and represent IOM among deferent WASH meetings.
- Ensured approved project work plan well applied to ensure quality achievement, timely completion, and budget allocation.
- Ensure effective community engagement approach in place and well applied throughout the project stages, and setup effective feedback mechanism.
- Maintain successful technical support provided to IOM stakeholder for WASH emergency and urban intervention, and contribute to truck good lessons and practices with IOM and WASH sector.
- Ensure contextual analysis to generate concept notes and project proposals in place in regular based and contributed to maintaining an effective emergency contingency and response plan on a regular basis
- Ensured periodic and timely technical reports drafted and shared with program coordinator, including achievements, financial, quality control, and schedule compliance with technical proposals
- Ensured that WASH projects followed technical guidance and standards for infrastructure and construction, such as unified assessment, civil design preparation and review, Bill of Quantities calculations, drawings, scheduling, tendering, and contracting
- Ensured that the project deliverables correspond to the donor's requirements, and maintain successful multi sectoral technical support provided
- Contribute successfully in WASH assessments and identify Water, environmental Sanitation, hygiene promotion gaps and maintain regular assessment report drafted and timely shared.
- Obtained all necessary permits and authorizations from local authorities to ensure project stability and positive relations with the local government
- Established a monitoring plan, undertook regular physical missions to operational areas, and collected necessary data for analysis
- Ensured that all the project data and information is archived and shared appropriately
- Evaluated bidders' credentials, competency, and experience, and compared quoted unit pricing and specifications to engineering estimates
- Ensured planned activities well-coordinated with resource management with clear roles and responsibilities to ensure timely and seamless implementation
- Ensured effective contribution to generate all needed information eduction communication materials and well used.
- Established strong working relationships with clients through exceptional communication skills, fostering trust and collaboration.
WASH Information Management and Reporting Officer
The UN Migration Agency [IOM]
01.2017 - 04.2018
- Successfully collaborated with government counterparts and stakeholders in north Darfur to strengthen program implementation and achieve WASH output results through active information and knowledge exchange
- Strengthened WASH program data information gathering and management through uploaded in ND WASH sector website
- Ensured accurate and timely data on WASH, including coverage, gaps, and interventions, is shared throughout North Darfur
- Planned productive WASH technical committee meetings to make decisions, get feedback, and track lessons learned
- Led the monthly completion of a clear, user-friendly, effective reporting process and format in collaboration with WASH sector partners
- Oversaw monitoring and sector reporting system and led WASH sector field visits to monitor the achievement and test community satisfaction.
- Promoted a culture of data-driven decision-making by providing training sessions on effective reporting practices to colleagues.
WASH Program Manager
American Refugee Committee [Alight]
02.2016 - 02.2017
- Provided technical and programmatic support to Alights (ARC) WASH program in East Darfur
- Oversee administrative WASH staff and ensured effective provision of adequate and relevant capacity building to the team members and linked with possible internal and external opportunities.
- Monitored staff performance and provided necessary support and carried out staff annual performance
- Ensured successful Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), Environment, and other cross-cutting relevance issues in WASH program during the designing and implementation stages
- Oversaw the process of effectively implementing partners through ensuring capacity assessments for national NGOs and engaging in the analysis process
- Participated in yearly WASH sector preparedness and response plans, and formalized Alights preparedness plan and other goals of the government, as well as the involvement of various external stakeholders like line ministries to ensure effective support maintained
- Ensured soundness of the program proposal identified with a focus on WASH outcome and output outcomes, relevant indicators, baselines, objectives
- Tracked and verified during the program design
- Prepared the documents needed for program reviews
- Ensured effective program monitoring tools based on defined KPIs for each grant, as well as data entry and tracking progress on a weekly basis, and efficiently used to generate a report
- Ensured regular budget expenditure well tracked, and budget forecasting well shared with the Finance department, and reviewed monthly financial reports against expenditure and updated payment documentation accordingly
- Identified WASH program supply requirements and collaborated with the logistics team to develop a suitable phased procurement plan for each WASH project
- Oversaw successful project executions on schedule and ensured needed corrective actions and needed modification during the implementation stage provided after effective communication with the country program coordinator and donor.
- Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for program initiatives.
WASH Engineer
CARE International Switzerland
02.2011 - 02.2016
- Ensured successful planning and implementation in place for WASH activities in IDP camps in coordination with WASH committees
- Guided WASH Sector Committees in assessing needs and planning WASH activities in the rural villages and camps
- ensure well BOQs prepared and monitored the contractors for the best quality services.
- Represented WASH program in the procurement committee to select suitable bidders
- Conducted skills training or refresher courses for CBOs in WASH related topics
- Assisted WASH program coordinator through the provision of effective inputs and analysis of the general situation for fundraising purposes.
WASH Team Leader
CARE International Switzerland
11.2015 - 01.2016
- Managed the WASH database, ensuring it is regularly updating
- Provided technical and managerial support to WASH projects to ensure holistic provision of services to South Sudanese refugees
- Managed WASH budgets by different donors and tracked the expenses to ensure expenditures remain within donor recommended thresholds
- Ensured timely need update, progress report, and donor report well shared and ensured project documentation accordingly.
Water and Sanitation Officer
Samaritans purse International Relief
02.2009 - 11.2010
- Ensured excellent community participation throughout the program
- Prioritized needs during program identification utilizing the consultation meeting process
- Additionally, established regular meetings and communication channels to gather feedback from stakeholders
- Ensured that relevant inputs were provided from various SP operational locations and included in the development of the WASH proposal
- Ensured smooth implementation of water and sanitation operations, adopted an effective monitoring plan for SP operational areas, and provided timely progress reports and necessary revisions to the Program Coordinator.
Education
Module from the Master´s Degree Programme in International Material Flow Management (M. Sc./Eng.) -International Zero Emission and resilience strategies -
International IMAT Universities – Al Gasira University
09.2020
Master’s degree in water management -
ALGasira University
03.2018
Bachelor’s degree in Geology -
International University of Africa
05.2006
Skills
- Demonstrates effective leadership skills in managing teams and create productive atmosphere
- Demonstrates strong decision-making and problem-solving abilities in challenging situations
- Ability to adapt to different dynamics, including competitive, multicultural, and changing environments
- Strong decision-making
Phone
+499 181 85632, +2499 23333533
References
- Marcello GOLLETI, Head of TRU unit, mgoletti@iom.int
- Nick Rice Chudeau, WASH Manager- UNICEF – DRC, nchudeau@me.com
- Mohammed Ishag Altaib, WASH Team Leader- UNHCR Somalia, maltaib@outlook.com
Timeline
Programme Engineer
The UN migration Agency [IOM]
04.2018 - Current
WASH Information Management and Reporting Officer
The UN Migration Agency [IOM]
01.2017 - 04.2018
WASH Program Manager
American Refugee Committee [Alight]
02.2016 - 02.2017
WASH Team Leader
CARE International Switzerland
11.2015 - 01.2016
WASH Engineer
CARE International Switzerland
02.2011 - 02.2016
Water and Sanitation Officer
Samaritans purse International Relief
02.2009 - 11.2010
Module from the Master´s Degree Programme in International Material Flow Management (M. Sc./Eng.) -International Zero Emission and resilience strategies -
International IMAT Universities – Al Gasira University
Master’s degree in water management -
ALGasira University
Bachelor’s degree in Geology -
International University of Africa
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