TARA JAFF
[email protected] | + 20 109 5307770 Skype: tara.jaff
WORK EXPERIENCE
Assistant Programme Officer (Paid Intern) – Programme Unit for the Integrated Road Map (IRM)
United Nations World Food Programme, Regional Bureau for North Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe – Cairo, Egypt
02/2017 – Present
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Provide regular support to 18 Country Offices (COs) in the region in transitioning through the IRM process.
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Review, edit and finalize project documents on Country Strategic Plans (CSP), interim country strategic plans (ICSP) transitional ICSP for the COs across the region.
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Provide support to RB policy and programme activities to effectively address food assistance needs.
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Assist with archiving Programme Cycle documents on TeamWork Space for Programme Unit.
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Review project/budget revision documents and ensure consistency of project statistics and logframes for COs.
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Follow up with Programme Sections and other units to ensure timely technical inputs for project documents.
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Schedule and help coordinate Programme review meetings for technical review of the project documents through two different forums - electronic review (e-PRP) and strategic programme review process (s-PRP) for regional senior management to show inputs on programme design that are provided at early stages.
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Monitor the submissions of project documents by COs and track logframes and budget accordingly.
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Assist Nutrition and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) units with webinar and organising meetings.
Webmaster Executive and Web Editor
Boudi Designs LTD – London, United Kingdom
06/2014 – 08/2015
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Monitored and updated company website and monitored company’s outsourced IT functions.
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Assisted with IT purchases including software and hardware and related contractual and legal follow ups.
EDUCATION
Masters of Science in Globalisation and Development – Development Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London - London, United Kingdom
09/2014 – 09/2015
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Courses: Globalisation and Development, Political Economy of Development, Global Health and Development and Gender and Development.
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Thesis: Maternal Mortality in Rural Egypt: A Critical Analysis of Challenges and Limitations of Social and Cultural Health Determinants.
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations
Regent’s American University London (RAUL) – London, United Kingdom
09/2010 – 06/2014
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Thesis: Were the Events of June 30th - July 3rd 2013 in Egypt a Second Revolution or a Coup D’états?
American High School Diploma
American Community School of Abu Dhabi (ACS), United Arab Emirates
08/2006 – 06/2010
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES AND VOLUNTEERING
Volunteer – Syria Emergency Operation (EMOP) and Nutrition Unit
United Nations World Food Programme (Country Office) – Cairo, Egypt.
07/2013 – 08/2013
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Engaged with standing contacts, supplies and arrangements of trainings of the ongoing project activities.
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Assisted programme officers in organising field visits and participated in field missions to several governorates in Egypt.
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Managed budgets for the EMOP team and mission logistics that were planned to refugee stations.
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Provided all administrative support required for implementation of iodine level in subsidised Baladi (local) bread.
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Designed and implemented a monitoring tool to track WFP provided food vouchers and number of refugees.
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Assisted WFP’s Finance Unit with receipt reconciliation received from WFP partner and local suppliers.
Paid Intern Dr. John Keet Medical Practice London, United Kingdom 09/2015 – 12/2015
Volunteer SIFE Memorial London, United Kingdom 09/2011 – 07/2012
WORKSHOPS AND WEBINARS
Organised, coordinated, and participated in the following workshops/webinars:
08/08/2017 WFP Regional Bureau Cairo Nutrition Webinar: Nutrition Sensitive School Meals
27/02/2017- 01/03/2017 WFP Regional Bureau Cairo Concept Note Workshop – Cairo, Egypt:
Participants from: Egypt, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, and headquarters (HQ).
03/04/2017 – 05/04/2017 WFP Regional Bureau Cairo transitional ICSP Workshop – Cairo, Egypt:
Participants from: Algeria, Armenia, Iraq, Morocco, Syria Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, and HQ.
25/04/2017 – 27/04/2017 WFP Regional Bureau Cairo Country Strategic Plans and ICSP Workshop – Cairo, Egypt:
Participants from: Iran, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Palestine, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, and HQ.
15/05/2017 – 18/05/2017 WFP Regional Bureau Cairo M&E Workshop – Cairo, Egypt:
Participants from: Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Libya, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, and HQ.
21/05/2017 – 24/05/2017 WFP Regional Bureau Cairo M&E Workshop – Cairo, Egypt:
Participants from: Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, and Armenia.
TRAINING COURSES
07/2017 Resource Mobilization Fundamentals – WFP: Outlines new perspectives, approaches, and tools for mobilizing resources for WFP’s IRM portfolios.
07/2017 Introduction to M&E – WFP: A key M&E tool, the logic model along with overview of M&E terminology.
07/2017 Country Office Tool for Managing Effectively (COMET) Training – WFP: Training on Country Strategic Plans and Interim Country Strategic Plans for Logframes.
07/2017 ICT Getting Started with Teamwork Spaces – WFP: A course to help users learn to effectively use teamwork spaces platform.
07/2017 M&E Fundamentals – United States Agency for International Development (USAID): A beginner’s course to M&E and understanding the basic concepts.
06/2017 IRM Course - WFP: Aims to answer general questions about the IRM and its importance.
06/ 2017 Nutrition Global Health Course - WFP: Discusses the basic concepts of good nutrition, causes of undernutrition, and outlines the major population-based interventions to improve nutritional status.
06/2017 United Nations Prevention of Harassment, Sexual Harassment & Abuse of Authority: An informative course on the preventative measures to combat harassment and abuse of authority in the workplace.
03/2017 Advanced Security in the Field: A training course on advanced security approaches in the field.
03/2017 Cash-Based Transfers - WFP: A programme on Cash and Voucher transfers designed by WFP to inform staff.
03/2017 United Nations Prevention of Fraud, Corruption & Sexual Exploitation, and Abuse: An informative course on the preventative of fraud, etc. and the ways in which WFP staff may support that prevention.
03/2017 United Nations Ethics and Standards of Conduct: A mandatory course to complete before starting with the United Nations.
02/2017 Basic Security in the Field II: A training course on basic security approaches in the field.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office Suite, TeamWork Spaces Platform, Adobe Photoshop CC 2014/CS 9, and Social Media Channels.
LANGUAGES
English (native), Italian (working knowledge), French (basic communication skills), and Arabic (beginner).
REFERENCES
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Xuerong Liu
IRM supervisor
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Regional Programme Policy Advisor – Programme Cycle/IRM - RBC
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[email protected]
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Sara Bazoobandi
Dissertation Supervisor
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Lecturer in International Political Economy/ Associate Fellow, Middle East North Africa Program Chatham House
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[email protected]
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Abraham Abatneh
EMOP Supervisor
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Head Food Security Unit Egypt Country Office
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[email protected]
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