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Esayas Gebre

Yarmouth

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Professional Associate- GSO

Department of state, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
08.2023 - 06.2025
  • Company Overview: This is a federal job
  • Salary: $88,180.00 USD Per Year
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Pay Plan: FP – Foreign Service Personnel (Public Law 96-465, Section 103(5))
  • Grade: FP-4
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
  • My duty and responsibilities within the GSO team. I have been in the position of supporting all six GSO portfolios since August 2023. These portfolios consist of Housing, Procurement, Travel, Motorpool, Property and Warehouse, and Shipping. Specifically, my focus is on overseeing the housing and leasing activities. This includes ensuring that our team adheres to standard procedures and department guidelines when commissioning and decommissioning houses. Additionally, I work closely with the IAHB team to recommend suitable housing for incoming officers and liaise with real estate agents to secure properties that meet USG requirements.
  • Furthermore, I am responsible for preparing and submitting detailed housing survey reports, tracking arrival and departure cables, and establishing communication with sections/agencies to anticipate and meet housing needs. I also oversee make-ready activities and conduct inspections prior to occupant arrivals, as well as engage with incoming officers to address any housing-related issues.
  • Additionally, I have been assisting the procurement team in eFiling requests in the system to streamline processes and improves efficiency.
  • Supervisor: Mark Fernando (+251111306824)
  • Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Professional Associate-GSO

Department of State Accra, Ghana
01.2021 - 06.2023
  • Company Overview: This is a federal job
  • Salary: $88,180.00 USD Per Year
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Pay Plan: FP – Foreign Service Personnel (Public Law 96-465, Section 103(5))
  • Grade: FP-4
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
  • Coordinates the full scope of operations related to GSO activities and specifically assigned portfolios, including Housing, Motor Pool, Travel, Shipping/Customs, Procurement and Property/Warehouse. Reviews processes and establishing written standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  • Establishes written material to support routine GSO notices to inform or refresh customers on appropriate post policies and procedures.
  • Improves communication effort for tracking and reporting activities.
  • Coordinates with the customer service center to disseminate information to customers.
  • Mentors staff and colleagues for career development and improved skills. Serves as Acting S/GSO as needed.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Revised housing pool to support growing personnel at the mission and to remove aging houses that did not seismic standards. This included replacing over 27 houses and adding over 12 new residences to the pool.
  • Coordinating efforts with Overseas Building Operations (OBO) and Interagency Housing Board to establish build-to-lease housing project at post to acquire over 100 new housing units.
  • Mentored two rising Housing employees, resulting in their promotion to a higher grade and more responsibility.
  • Accra Mission grew by 35% in the past 5 years. This rapid growth caused gaps in staffing and service by all ICASS service providers- especially Motor Pool and housing. To remedy this, I secured approval to add 11 new positions and increase the Motor Pool fleet size. As a result, the Mission is now able to support more service requests and VIP visits.
  • Supervisor: Halleck Jason (HalleckJD@state.gov) (+233302741542)
  • Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Logistician

Department of Security (DS)-ESO Accra, Ghana
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Company Overview: This is a federal job
  • Salary: $56,103.00 USD Per Year
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Pay Plan: FP – Foreign Service Personnel (Public Law 96-465, Section 103(5))
  • Grade: FP-8
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
  • Provided and coordinated logistical support for security engineering officers, security technical specialists, secretary of state details, naval support unit Seabees, and regional security technicians
  • Accomplishments:
  • A complete Annual Inventory had been delayed as this position was vacant for eight years before I joined the team. As the ESO Logistician, I conducted the first full length inventory in a decade. This resulted in the disposal of out-of-date equipment and updated supplies for Accra, Monrovia, Lomé, Libreville, and Sao Tomé Missions.
  • Supervisor: Lukas N Fried (Friedln@state.gov) (+862038145672)
  • Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

General Services Assistant

Department of State Kampala, Uganda
09.2016 - 07.2019
  • Company Overview: This is a federal job
  • Salary: $53,662.00 USD Per Year
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Pay Plan: FP – Foreign Service Personnel (Public Law 96-465, Section 103(5))
  • Grade: FP-6
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
  • Oversaw all warehouse and property activities for the US Kampala Mission. Supervised 32 locally employed staff to ensure property, supply, and event requests were approved and executed in a timely and professional manner
  • Responsible for the supervision of all warehouse activities, including tracking expendable and non-expendable property (administrative supplies), planning and managing annual inventory and reconciliation, coordination of property auctions and facilitating the house make-ready process
  • Coordinated with GSO Management Office to procure goods and services, such as furniture, general supplies, and contractors for services while ensuring procurements are tracked, received on-time, and are within budget
  • Directly supervised 32 GSO property locally employed staff. Mentored employees to provide better customer service. Drafted performance evaluations and identify career opportunities for employees
  • Approver for in country travel for motor pool staff. This required careful review of travel authorizations and vouchers during absence of the S/GSO
  • Coordinated with facility maintenance team to repair and maintain government owned and leased properties in accordance with Department of State service standards. Ensured that facility maintenance have the appropriate expendable supplies in stock to address all repair issues at embassy residences
  • Guided Housing staff to select residences for housing pool, leasing support, and recommend residence assignments to the Interagency Housing Board
  • Key Accomplishments:
  • When I started this position, I found the property stock in the warehouse was over 29% percent, which well over the standard and was wasting government money through inefficiencies. To quickly minimize further losses, I organized the mission’s first continuous online auction. This event not only moved out dead stock efficiently it also regained a significant amount of money for the Mission. Lastly the online auction minimized administrative costs as it required less personnel involvement and space
  • I liaised with the Washington ILMS team to roll out the Department's new Annual Inventory Modernization (AIM) system deployment to post. Because of this, Kampala was one of the first AF Bureau posts to use AIM, which resulted in a smooth annual inventory process, unlike previous years, where other activities had to be put on hold on until after inventory.
  • I recognized need for capacity building of staff in customer service and warehouse safety operations. I brought three trainings to post, as a result property staff customer service ratings improved, and the property team won a Mission customer service award. Employees are also now certified to safely operate warehouse equipment, improving productivity.
  • Supervisor: Lukas N Fried (Friedln@state.gov) (+862038145672)
  • Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Assistant motor pool supervisor

Department of State, Kampala, Uganda
11.2014 - 09.2016
  • Company Overview: This is a federal job
  • Salary: $37,941.00 USD Per Year
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Pay Plan: FP – Foreign Service Personnel (Public Law 96-465, Section 103(5))
  • Grade: FP-8
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
  • Supported Motor Pool functions with assisting in the management of 52 motor pool drivers, including approving time and attendance; travel requests and vouchers; writing annual evaluations; reviewing drive cam and coaching; and organizing driver trainings.
  • Responsible for managing day-to-day Motor Pool Activities necessary for Embassy function, including organizing driver schedules and overseeing Motor Pool Logistics.
  • Provided support to supervise 52 motor pool drivers, including reviewing and approving leave requests and overtime hours, conducting annual performance evaluations and development plans. Guided Motor Pool team to ensure that all work is performed in a professional and timely manner and customers are satisfied.
  • Reviewed all drive cam events and provided coaching to employees by USG transport standards. Organized Drivers Safety Smith Training for all drivers throughout the mission
  • Key Accomplishments:
  • I identified capacity gap of post drivers who did not have experience with defensive and armored vehicle training. This training was traditionally offered in the US and was very difficult to get in. I identified funding and arranged logistics to bring the training to Post. As a result, over 45 drivers became trained in defensive and armored vehicle training; more drivers were trained and more than $225,000 in training costs and time were saved.
  • Supervisor: Joseph Anderson (+2638677021412)
  • Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business Management, Accounting

Phoenix
AZ
07.2018

Skills

  • General service operations
  • Ethics
  • Logistics management
  • Acquisition and procurement
  • Integration of logistics systems
  • Fleet management systems

Languages

Amharic Spoken Advanced Written Advanced Read Advanced
English Spoken Advanced Written Advanced Read Advanced

Timeline

Professional Associate- GSO

Department of state, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
08.2023 - 06.2025

Professional Associate-GSO

Department of State Accra, Ghana
01.2021 - 06.2023

Logistician

Department of Security (DS)-ESO Accra, Ghana
01.2020 - 01.2021

General Services Assistant

Department of State Kampala, Uganda
09.2016 - 07.2019

Assistant motor pool supervisor

Department of State, Kampala, Uganda
11.2014 - 09.2016

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business Management, Accounting

Phoenix

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