BDRELDIN OSMAN
Nyala
Summary
Professional Expertise and Skills A highly motivated humanitarian aid worker with over 15 years of extensive experience in overall public health program management in humanitarian emergencies and development contexts. My qualifications and expertise are truly well-suited for the challenging yet rewarding field of humanitarian aid work. Here are some key strengths that I can highlight: Extensive Experience with over 15 years of experience in public health program management, encompassing health, nutrition, and WASH it bring a wealth of knowledge and practical expertise and experience in navigating the complexities of humanitarian aid operations. Humanitarian Emergency and Development Contexts my experience spans both humanitarian emergency situations and development programs, which demonstrates your versatility and ability to adapt to diverse operational environments. This breadth of experience is crucial in addressing the varying needs of populations affected by crises or living in resource-constrained settings. Overall Program Management my background in overall program management competence in overseeing various aspects of public health interventions, from planning and implementation to monitoring and evaluation. I have holistic approach to ensuring the effective delivery of comprehensive and integrated health , nutrition, and WASH services. Competency Profile I am able to work independently, my capacity to be a team player is equally vital , involves collaborating with various stakeholders, such as local communities, government agencies, and other aid organizations. My ability to work effectively within teams and foster a cooperative environment to achieving collective goals and maximizing impact. I willingness and capacity to work under stringent circumstances demonstrate my resilience and adaptability two critical qualities in the humanitarian field. Challenging environments, limited resources, and rapidly changing situations are common, and my ability to remain focused and productive under such conditions is invaluable. Effective communication where I interact with diverse populations, cultures, and stakeholders. My good interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills facilitate clear understanding, build trust, and enable effective collaboration and coordination efforts. I have personal organization skills to managing multiple tasks, prioritizing effectively, and ensuring efficient use of resources and demanding humanitarian contexts. Strong organizational abilities contribute to productivity, timely delivery, and overall operational effectiveness. My ability to learn, understand, and apply new technologies is a valuable asset in t evolving humanitarian landscape. My adaptability and willingness to embrace new technologies can enhance the efficiency and impact of public health interventions, enabling data-driven decision-making and innovative solutions.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Public Health associate
UNHCR
07.2020 - Current
- Responsibilities
- Data analysis and reporting: to provide accurate Health and Nutrition information, data analysis, and documentation on a timely basis is crucial for effective situation analysis, sectoral input, and reporting
- Technical assistance and strategy development: Providing technical assistance in the development and implementation of integrated health and nutrition strategies, including social and behavior change communication strategies, draws expertise in public health program design and implementation, as well as understanding of diverse stakeholder needs
- Work planning and coordination; Effectively establishing work plans, delivering planned results through technical support and coordination with partners, and enhancing project efficiency and effectiveness through implementation follow-up, leverage program management experience, coordination skills, and ability to work collaboratively
- Monitoring project implementation progress, adjusting program delivery, and ensuring sustainability, as well as providing gender-disaggregated data and inputs, align with expertise in monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, and gender mainstreaming in health and nutrition interventions
- Ensuring transparency in supply and non-supply assistance and disbursement of program funds for health and nutrition aligns with your commitment to integrity, accountability, and ethical conduct in humanitarian aid work
- Maintaining effective partnerships, working relationships, advocacy, technical coordination, information sharing, and knowledge networking, with a focus on specific areas such as adolescent health/nutrition, HIV, and social and behavior change communication, draw interpersonal skills, communication abilities, and subject matter expertise
- Preparing and sharing up-to-date program information and reports with relevant stakeholders, and effectively implementing integrated monitoring systems, align with data analysis, documentation, and reporting skills, as well as your experience in program management and monitoring
- Maintaining emergency preparedness and providing effective coordination and response in emergencies, in line with the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action and partnerships with health and nutrition humanitarian actors within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), leverage your experience in humanitarian emergencies and ability to adapt to changing situations
- Additional responsibilities to effectively accomplish other assigned duties and responsibilities demonstrate your flexibility, adaptability, and commitment to achieving organizational goals
Programme area Manager
Save The Children, Sudan, Zalingei
10.2018 - 07.2020
- Summary/ responsibilities
- Program Management and Compliance: Ensuring that all Central and West Darfur programs/projects are implemented in compliance with Save the Children International, humanitarian, and donor standards, while effectively addressing the needs of host/beneficiary communities, underscores your expertise in program management, monitoring and evaluation, and your commitment to upholding humanitarian principles and accountability
- Financial Management and Oversight: Managing an estimated budget of $10 million USD sourced from various donors, including OFDA, ECHO, SHF, GSK, and small grants from agencies/embassies in Sudan, highlights your financial management skills, budgeting expertise, and ability to work with diverse funding sources
- Collaborating closely with the Finance Director and Finance Grant Manager to ensure timely budgeting, review, and monthly finance liquidation further demonstrates your financial oversight and coordination abilities
- Human Resource Management: Establishing and maintaining efficient and effective people's management by revising job descriptions, assigning relevant staff to match tasks and responsibilities in line with a multitasking approach, enhancing coordination, staff performance management and development, and staff recruitment showcases your leadership skills, strategic resource allocation, and commitment to building a high-performing team
- Partnership Management: Establishing partnerships with eleven national NGOs and efficiently managing sub-grants with proper documentation in line with their Terms of Reference (TOR) highlights your ability to foster effective collaborations, coordinate with multiple stakeholders, and ensure accountability in partnership management
- Program Quality and Cost Review: Ensuring program quality and conducting prompt program/cost reviews based on needs and funding, as well as conducting assessments and program design reviews with quarterly planning/review meetings, demonstrates your commitment to continuous improvement, adaptability, and data-driven decision-making
- Safety and Security: Ensuring staff safety and security procedures are followed as the safety and security focal person in Darfur, reporting to the Country Director, underscores your commitment to staff well-being and your ability to navigate complex and challenging operational environments
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Adaptation: Ensuring timely monitoring and evaluation of programs/projects and making quick adjustments based on field findings and program analysis showcases your data-driven approach, adaptability, and commitment to program effectiveness
- Strategic Planning and Capacity Building: Conducting major area strategic planning and Annual Operation Plan development (2019-2020), which you then rolled out to national partners, highlights your strategic vision, leadership, and commitment to building the capacity of local partners
- Stakeholder Coordination: Liaising with UNAMID (United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur) to train staff on operational and field safety procedures and armed escort, as well as ensuring timely IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) needs assessments and quick response to lifesaving needs (water, health, nutrition, sanitation, food, and NFIs), demonstrates your ability to coordinate with various stakeholders, manage emergency responses, and prioritize the well-being of affected populations
- Field Presence and Support: Conducting frequent field visits and providing managerial support and program reviews to field staff, as well as improving networking with external stakeholders, underscores your hands-on approach, leadership, and commitment to ensuring effective program implementation and stakeholder engagement.
WASH officer
UNICEF - Sudan /Kadugli
01.2016 - 08.2018
- Program Management and Monitoring: Ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and timely program implementation by setting specific, measurable performance monitoring indicators and realistic timeframes demonstrates your project management skills, attention to detail, and commitment to accountability
- Partnership Identification and Compliance: Developing thorough and rigorous criteria/procedures for identifying local implementing partners, local government agencies, local NGOs, and subcontractors/suppliers, while ensuring strict adherence to organizational standard procedures and government guidelines, highlights your due diligence, compliance expertise, and ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes
- Technical Support and Integrated Approach: Providing strong technical support and working in close collaboration with other team members to ensure an integrated approach to public health promotion and engineering activities showcases your technical expertise, teamwork, and commitment to holistic program delivery
- WASH Program Coordination and Implementation: Overall coordination of hygiene education, water, sanitation, and hygiene programs, and providing technical support to ensure implementation in synchronization with technical specifications, demonstrates your leadership in WASH interventions and your ability to manage multifaceted programs
- Program Design and Integration: Designing different integration options in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Emergency interventions of UNICEF in target areas in Kordofan highlights your program design skills, adaptability, and ability to address diverse contexts and needs
- Advocacy and Cross-Cutting Issues: Identifying and advocating for issues related to humanitarian work, such as the right to basic needs with dignity, land rights, and other cross-cutting issues, underscores your commitment to human rights, dignity, and addressing complex challenges faced by affected populations
- Partnership Management: Partnering with eight national NGOs and efficiently managing sub-grants with proper documentation in line with their Terms of Reference (TOR) demonstrates your partnership management skills, coordination abilities, and adherence to accountability standards
- WASH Interventions and Capacity Building: Leading the rollout of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and community water safety plans in Kordofan regions showcases your technical expertise and commitment to building community capacity and sustainable solutions.
Health and Nutrition Manager
Save the children
11.2010 - 12.2015
- Sweden - Sudan /Zalangei, Data Analysis and Reporting: Providing accurate information, data analysis, and documentation on a timely basis to support situation analysis, sectoral input, and reporting aligns with your proven skills in data management, analysis, and documentation gained from your program management experience
- Strategy Development and Implementation: Offering technical assistance in developing and implementing integrated health and nutrition strategies, approaches, and related social and behavior change communication strategies and plans, through collaboration with internal and external partners, highlights your technical expertise, strategic planning abilities, and capacity for effective coordination and partnership management
- Work Planning and Coordination: Effectively establishing work plans and objectives, delivering planned results through technical support and coordination with relevant partners, and enhancing project efficiency and effectiveness through implementation follow-up demonstrate your program management skills, coordination abilities, and commitment to achieving intended outcomes
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Adaptation: Monitoring project implementation progress for adjustment and improvement of program delivery and sustainability, as well as providing gender-disaggregated data and inputs relevant to the health and nutrition program, aligns with your monitoring and evaluation expertise, data analysis skills, and commitment to gender mainstreaming and program adaptation
- Financial Transparency and Accountability: Ensuring transparency in supply and non-supply assistance and disbursement of program funds for health and nutrition interventions underscores your adherence to ethical principles, financial oversight, and commitment to accountability
- Partnership and Advocacy: Maintaining effective partnerships and working relationships for advocacy, technical coordination, information sharing, and knowledge networking, with a focus on areas such as adolescent health/nutrition, HIV, and health/nutrition social and behavior change communication, leverages your interpersonal skills, communication abilities, and subject matter expertise
- Information Management and Reporting: Making up-to-date program information available and preparing and sharing reports with relevant stakeholders, supported by effective implementation of integrated monitoring systems, aligns with your data management, reporting, and information-sharing capabilities
- Emergency Preparedness and Response: Maintaining emergency preparedness and providing effective coordination and emergency responses in line with the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action, while strengthening partnerships with health and nutrition humanitarian actors within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), highlights your ability to adapt to dynamic situations, coordinate emergency efforts, and foster collaborative relationships
- Versatility and Commitment: Your willingness to effectively accomplish other assigned duties and responsibilities demonstrates your adaptability, versatility, and commitment to organizational goals and objectives
- Health promotion and children activities program manager
TEARFUND – UK
07.2009 - 10.2010
- Managed field staff responsible for implementing health promotion and child protection programs, ensuring that the organization's goals and objectives were achieved in a timely and high-quality manner
- Ensured compliance with procedures and guidelines set by donors, the organization, and the host government
- Advocated for new organizational directives on health promotion and child protection program design and management with state authorities when applicable
- Oversaw the timely and high-quality implementation of programs based on established quality standards and donor benchmarks
- Conducted assessments related to health promotion and child protection
- Drafted field proposals based on identified needs and contextual considerations
- Ensured timely reporting to donors such as ECHO, USAID, CHF/UNDP, the organization, and relevant ministries
- Improved working relationships with internal donors like UNAMID and other UN bodies like WHO, UNHCR, UNICEF, and UNDP
- HIV/AIDs, TB and GBV Programme Coordinator
Ministry of Health, Sudan
11.2005 - 12.2007
- Planned, implemented, monitored, and reported on activities related to HIV/AIDS, TB, and GBV in the state/region you were working in
- Coordinated with various sectors and partners working in the fields of HIV/AIDS, TB, and GBV
- Provided technical assistance and capacity building to community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on HIV/AIDS, TB, and GBV response
- Built capacity and led the program staff working on these issues in the state/region
- Prepared and submitted annual, quarterly, and monthly plans and reports related to these programs
- Reported to local donors like UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, and UNAIDS according to their guidelines and requirements
- Provided technical support to health facilities on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) management, and disease surveillance
- Established HIV/AIDS sero-prevalence and behavioral surveys at the state/regional level
- Managed sentinel surveillance sites for pregnant women and TB patients.
Public Health Promotion Officer
OXFAM GB
10.2004 - 11.2005
- Actively promote safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services
- Ensure appropriate community involvement in the design and delivery of essential
- WASH services and facilities
- As part of a multi-sectoral team carry out an assessment of public health risks and an analysis of the threats to life, health and dignity faced by the refugee community guided by the Oxfam Public Health
- Assessment Checklists and analytical model in the ERM (Emergency Response
- Manual)
- Work in liaison with the counterparts and PHE team to ensure an integrated approach to the public health needs of all programme activities
- Work closely with OPM and other sectors and agencies working locally in order to coordinate within the WASH sector and between sectors such as health and shelter
- Assist Oxfam staff, partners, volunteers to plan and implement communication activities when appropriate and conduct needs assessments, design and implement the trainings for both partner hygiene promotion volunteers and identified committees
- Supervise, manage, and monitor the mobilization of the target population to promote hygiene practices, environmental sanitation, and control mechanisms while being sensitive to community needs and gender issues
- Take account of gender, protection, HIV, the environment, and other important cross-cutting concerns in programme design, implementation, and reporting; carry out activities in a way that reflects the needs of specific groups and individuals e.g., elderly people, children, and people with disabilities
- Represent Oxfam when appropriate in sector coordination meetings with the national authorities, UN bodies and international and national NGOs on request
- Work in liaison with the PHE team, develop monitoring indicators and tools in line with the log frame and regularly collect data to reflect progress against objectives, and giving feedback to the PHP TL
- Present regular written reports on progress against objectives as required by the
- PHP TL and ensure that a final report is completed on completion of the contract
- To be familiar with and abide by NGO code of conduct and SPHERE minimum standards.
Education
TB -
Master of public Health -
Khartoum University
2009
Bachelor of public and environmental Health -
Upper Nile University
2000
Skills
- Oral Communication Skills
- Health Promotion Strategies
- Organizational Leadership
- Critical thinking abilities
- Cross-cultural communication
- Problem Solving Prowess
- Healthcare systems navigation
- Sexual Health Education
- Project management principles
- Interpersonal relationship building
- Technical report writing
- Data analysis proficiency
- Conflict Resolution Strategies
- Team Collaboration Aptitude
- Community Outreach Abilities
- Financial management understanding
- Social determinants comprehension
- Epidemiology Expertise
- Disease Control
- Community Engagement
- Emergency Preparedness
- Program Development
- Interventions understanding
- Grant Writing
Accomplishments
- Senior programme manager
- Save The Children salahsuliman28@yahoo.com +249924284401
- Dr
- Mohammed Diaa Eldin Fatahallrahman
- Health and nutrition specialist
- UNICEF - Kenya diaa143@yahoo.com +252616098832
- Mr
- Sahnon Abbas WASH-specialist UNICEF , Kadugli/Sudan saosman@unicef.org +249912378171
- Hamza Ibrahim Dalil Darfur area manager
- Save the children Sweden hibrahim00@gmail.com +2499221538861| Page
Timeline
Public Health associate
UNHCR
07.2020 - Current
Programme area Manager
Save The Children, Sudan, Zalingei
10.2018 - 07.2020
WASH officer
UNICEF - Sudan /Kadugli
01.2016 - 08.2018
Health and Nutrition Manager
Save the children
11.2010 - 12.2015
TEARFUND – UK
07.2009 - 10.2010
Ministry of Health, Sudan
11.2005 - 12.2007
Public Health Promotion Officer
OXFAM GB
10.2004 - 11.2005
TB -
Master of public Health -
Khartoum University
Bachelor of public and environmental Health -
Upper Nile University