Curriculum Vitae, 2019
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Mohammed Alebachew Sisay
Mohammed Alebachew Sisay
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
--Sex: Male
Date of birth: 03/12/1987
Nationality: Ethiopian
Passport No.: EP-
WORK EXPERIENCE
April 29, 2015 to date
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
i) Senior Planning and Support Officer (July 9, 2019 to date)
• Proactively provide efficient day to day support to V/P by collecting
and analysis financial data and information for on-going business
activities;
• Assist the vice president in creation of effective and efficient process;
• Plan and coordinate overall operational activities of division;
• Involve in business and strategic planning activities of the division;
• Provide necessary support to all units regarding the business plan
development;
• Participate and engage in the scorecard cascading process and annual
budget preparation of division;
• Design the divisional performance targets using key performance
indicators;
• Advise unit/line mangers on plan preparation, scorecard cascading, and
procedures development;
• Participates in assessment of operational risk of the departments in the
division;
• Follow-up progress of operational risk mitigation action plan, prepare
quarterly progress report and send to risk management sector;
• Participate on functional strategic initiative development and critically
review their alignment with each other and with overall strategic
objectives;
• Participate in managing cross-departmental strategic initiatives
implementation, to ensure that they have sufficient resources and are
delivering expected results;
• Participate in the preparation and review of the division’s
guidelines/procedure/Policy and propose necessary amendments;
• Periodically communicate performance reports to respective organs and
ensure its communication;
• Arrange, organize and set seminars, workshops, briefing and training
session for division’s core tasks and functional strategy;
• Measure the overall internal customer satisfaction (having direct contact)
on yearly basis.
ii) Engagement Coordinating Officer (June 30, 2018 to July 8, 2019)
• Participate in all digital media developments within CBE for the purposes
of communications and engagement;
• Facilitate online communications of the Bank;
• Develop, post and monitor online digital contents;
• Regularly monitor social media pages and website of the Bank;
• Develop digital and social media marketing strategies;
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• Develop digital marketing policies, procedures and plans;
• Identify new social media platforms to promote services of the Bank;
• Promote services of the Bank through social media pages and
interactively follow-up their status;
• Enhancing the reach of the Bank’s social medias by adopting different
strategies; …
iii) Communications Officer (July 12, 2017 to June 29, 2018)
iv) Associate Communications Officer (July 11, 2016 to July 11, 2017)
• Participate in designing communications strategy, policies, procedures
and annual business plans and scorecards;
• Participate and taking part in conducting different surveys and studies;
• Participate on media audience survey carried out all over the country;
• Prepare and release updated version of advertising messages on all LED
screens;
• Prepare different progress reports;
• Draft/write contents of brochures, flyers, website and other promotional
materials;
• Arrange exhibitions, ensure availability of necessary instruments including
exhibition stand, determine number of exhibitions, and nominate
exhibitors in collaboration with experts;
• Prepare proposal to organize special events and prepare assessment
report thereon;
• Provide soft copy of publication and deliver advertisement information
to the publisher or media;
• Distribute promotional materials;
• Write initial drafts and proof-read articles for publications including
website articles;
• Collect, compile and write complaint reports from different organs of the
bank.
v) Customer Relationship Officer at Gofa Sefer Branch of CBE (March 14 to
May 12, 2016)
• Advising the customer regarding credit facilities given by the Bank and
process the requests as per the directives;
• Facilitate consumer and DTS loans for staff and clients;
• Customer hunting and handling;
• Purchase order preparation, advising and approval;
• Request foreign currency for approval as per proforma invoice
presented by the customer;
• Advising the customer regarding international trade (import-export and
guarantees).
vi) Management Trainee (April 29, 2015 to July 11, 2016)
• Attending on-job and off-job trainings provided by the Bank;
• Recruiting and handling customers;
• Preparing monthly and quarterly reports;
• Carry-out market research;
• Preparing annual marketing plan;
• Facilitating consumer loans for condominium house winners and advising
them on the modalities of payment;
• Participating and taking part in all activities of the bank.
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September 11, 2008 to
May 9, 2015
Mohammed Alebachew Sisay
Ethiopian Horticulture Development Agency, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
i) Agricultural Economist III (April 9, 2015 to May 9, 2015)
ii) Agricultural Economist II (January 10, 2013 to April 8, 2015)
iii) Agricultural Economist I (July 7, 2010 to January 9, 2013)
iv) Junior Agricultural Economist (September 11, 2008 to July 6, 2010)
• Prepare strategic and annual plans of the Horticulture sector;
• Monitoring and evaluating the performance of Horticulture sector and
respective exporting companies;
• Facilitate and provide short-term trainings for stakeholders and
companies who are engaged in horticulture export sector;
• Carryout different development and market studies for the sector;
• Analyze the value chain of exportable horticultural crops (flower,
vegetables and fruits);
• Analyze monthly performance of the horticulture export sector;
• Follow-up and provide support for the Bahirdar-Abay Valley Horticulture
sector development corridor;
• Following-up the loan rescheduling and returning performance of
companies with Development Bank of Ethiopia;
• Prepare budget plans and follow-up performances;
• Collect and analyze data;
• Coordinating different stakeholders of the horticulture sector;
• Provide up-to-date information for investors and different stakeholders
of the sector.
EDUCATION
2014
MBA Degree in Business Administration Specialization with Marketing
Unity University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2008
BSc Degree in Agricultural Economics
Haramaya University, Haramaya, Ethiopia
TRAINING & CERTIFICATES
December 18 – 25, 2019
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September 16 – 18, 2019
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May 08 – 13, 2017
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Sept, 2015 – March, 2016
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August 25 – Oct. 15, 2015
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September 7 – 9, 2015
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November 20 – 21, 2014
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March 16 – April 17, 2009
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December 4 – 5, 2008
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Event Management, organized by Addis Ababa University School of
Commerce, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Social Media Engagement Strategy, organized by the I-Capital Africa
Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Statistical Data Analysis using STATA, organized by the Ethiopian
Statistical Association (ESA) in joint collaboration with Commercial Bank of
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Computer Maintenance and Networking (Hardware & Software and
Server Based Networking), by SATCOM Institute of Technology, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia.
Management Trainees Scheme organized by Commercial Bank of
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Delighting the customer: Feelings for professionals, organized by
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and Ethiopian Airlines, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
Promotion of Exports from Ethiopia: Product Certification and Sustainable
Development Organized by International Trade Centre, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
Horticulture and competence-based curriculum development Coordinated
by Wageningen University and PTC+, Netherlands.
Introduction Master Class (Cut Flowers) organized by CBI [Center for the
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Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries], Debrezeit, Ethiopia.
Digital Certificates
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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
March, 2018
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
E-Commerce for SMEs: An Introduction for Policymakers, issued by
International Trade Centre (ITC) on September 27, 2019.
Digital Marketing, issued by Google on July 19, 2019.
Online Marketing Foundations, issued by LinkedIn on August 08, 2019.
YouTube Channel Growth, issued by Google on July 23, 2019.
Integrated Planning for Climate Change and Biodiversity, issued by
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) on August 28,
2019.
Urbanization and Inclusive Economic Growth in Africa, issued by IDEP African Institute for Economic Development and Planning on July 31,
2019.
Sisay, M. (2018) Assessment of Challenges in Export Marketing: The Case of
Ethiopian Vegetable and Fruit Commercial Growers. iBusiness, 10, 1-20. doi:
10.4236/ib-.
Strategic Planning and Management, Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation,
Data Collection and Analysis, Budgeting and Follow-up, Coordination of
Stakeholders, Report Writing, Customer handling, ...
COMPUTER SKILLS
Experienced in Microsoft Office Applications (MS-Word, MS-Excel, MSPowerpoint, MS-Access), SPSS, STATA, Internet and other Basic Computer Skills.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Amharic (Mother tongue)
- English (Independent user – Very good in writing, listening and reading &
Good in speaking)
- French (B1)
OTHER SKILLS
Driving License
REFERENCES
- Dr. Asfaw Yilma, Senior Market Research Officer in Commercial Bank of
Ethiopia and Assistant Professor in St Mary University.
Tel: -
Email:--, Addis Ababa.
- Belihu Takele, Director-Marketing Department in Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.
Tel: -
Email:-, Addis Ababa
- Tsegay Lubelo, Marketing Officer in Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.
Tel: -
E-mail:-, Addis Ababa
- Wondwossen Tadesse, Former Director of Planning and Strategic Management
Directorate at Ethiopian Horticulture Development Agency.
Tel: -
E-mail:-, Addis Ababa
I certify that the statements made by are true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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