GETAHUN TASSEW MELESE
Gondar
Tel: (+251) 918032731/ 943060903
[email protected]
Or [email protected]
PERSONAL STATEMENT
A hardworking and professional personal with experience in teaching in university, conservation and monitoring the protected area. Organized and efficient person, with a thorough and precise approach to project partners. Able to manage own time effectively, and priorities workload. Experienced at working to tight deadlines and under considerable pressure. Friendly and approachable with very good interpersonal and customer relations skills.
KEY SKILLS
 Ability to manage time and priorities workload to ensure efficient delivery of all aspects of tasks
 Regular user of Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, internet Compass and GPS; and some basic skill on software (SPSS, R, SAS & GIS)
 organized and efficient
 Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal (Amharic and English)
 Polite and professional manner
 Both Taxonomist and Ecologist
CAREER HISTORY
 Lecturer, University of Gondar, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Department of General Forestry
(April 2018- Present)
Main activities: preparing teaching materials, lecturing, advising undergraduate students in their research and seminar works, assisting students in concerned subjects and related issues, working in community services, preparing research proposals and conducting researches, working with NGOs in collaboration, etc.
 Project Coordinator , at Die Ofenmacher e.V- problem solving stove building project in collaboration with African wildlife Foundation and Die Ofenmacher e.V
(February 2018– December 2018)
Main activities – instructing the local stove builders, ensuring supply of materials, managing the finances, and reporting to Die Ofenmacher. Guiding foreign visitors to the project area
 Wildlife & Their Habitats Research and Monitoring Senior Expert , EWCA (SMNP-World Heritage Site)
(March 2017- March 2018)
 Wildlife & Their Habitats Research and Monitoring Expert , EWCA (SMNP-World Heritage Site),
(Jan. 2014- Feb. 2017)
The main activities were: Prepare training manuals for monitoring, train scouts and local communities, identify and prioritize research areas, serving customers as protection and monitoring warden, preparing scientific proposals and conducting research, searching funds for conservation purposes.
Identifying the problems and finding resolution mechanisms of the protected area, prioritizing threats, making and revising annual plan, evaluating/appraising the performance, assisting researchers, train park rangers (scouts), making relation bridge with concerned bodies, monitoring the wildlife and their habitats, making presentations for meetings and workshops, advising students, working with communities integrative for their livelihood improvement, mostly delegated as chief warden and accomplish excellently.
 Assistant Wildlife & Their Habitats Monitoring Expert II, EWCA (SMNP- World Heritage Site),
(Jan. 2013- Jan. 2014).
The core activities included were collecting field data (organizing wildlife total count, making transects, assessing habitat quality, managing, supervising the works of park rangers, managing nursery site, afforesting by public mass mobilization, establish school environmental clubs and park advisory committees, following up on the illegal activities and finding sustainable solutions, working together with IUCN and UNESCO to remove the site from the world heritage site endangered.
 Wildlife and Their Habitats Monitoring J/ expert, EWCA (SMNP-World Heritage Site); (Nov. 2009-Jan. 2013).
 In Wildlife Development, Protection and Utilization Team; protected areas development and protection expert, PaDPA (SMNP- World Heritage Site); (Nov. 2008- Nov. 2009).
 wildlife Development and Protection Junior Expert, PaDPA (SMNP- World Heritage Site); (Sep. 2007– Nov. 2008)
EDUCATION
Bahir Dar University, College of Science, Biology Department
MSc. in Botanical Science (Oct. 2014 – Nov. 10, 2016)
University of Gondar, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Applied Biology
BSc. in Applied Biology (Oct. 2004 – July 21, 2007)
TRAINING
HDP (Oct.2018 – Jun.2019)
ETS – for 6 days at Bahir Dar
Sensitive agriculture, Vegetation monitoring …. Awash
Practical training … South Africa, Etc
Award – Recognition certificate for contributing in removal of Simien Mountains National Park from world heritage endangered list
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Doing researches and seminars, Watching TV, Listening Radio, Doing physical activities, Reading newspapers, research materials, publications, Conservation and entrepreneur related other books
REFERENCES:
1. Berhanu Abraha (PhD) +251 918766766; [email protected]), from Bahir Dar University (BDU), Lecturer, MSc. and Seminar Advisor;
2. Getinet Masresha (PhD) (+251) 918782159; [email protected], from University of Gondar (UoG), MSc. external advisor;
3. Asmamaw Alemu (PhD) (+251) 967134053; [email protected], University of Gondar, Vice Dean of College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
4. Maru Biadeglign (+251) 918731742; [email protected], SMNP Chief warden;
5. Yohannes G/Mariam (+251) 912692537, Head of General Forestry Department (UoG)