Job Market

Country

Date from - Date to

Miscellaneous Arab & African Countries

June 2008 – July 2008

Nov 2007 – Feb 2008

Nov 2006 – Feb 2007

Aug 2005 - Oct 2005

United State of America

1997-07/2005

Lebanon

1990 – Present

Date

Location

Company

Position

Description

March 1^st, 2012 till present

Lebanon

UNRWA

Peace Building Fund Coordinator

Project title: Empowerment of Youth at Risk through Job Creation Programme in Areas of Tensions (Lebanon)

Scope of work: Through the Immediate Response Facility programme, UNRWA, UNICEF and the ILO focus on maintaining Palestine refugee youth away from violent paths and having them gainfully occupied, through selected high-impact projects, which would stabilize their socio-economic environment. The projects run by UNRWA and UNICEF involve vocational training, the establishment of a youth empowerment and job creation programme, and micro-credit facilities. In parallel, the ILO works towards the collection and analyses of data on the Palestinian labour force. Another aspect is the improvement of information on the demand-side of the Lebanese labour market which is undertaken through Lebanese national partners and NGOs, in coordination and conformity with existing programmes.

Serves Rendered:

• Responsible for the day-to-day oversight of the implementation and coordination of activities which is valued above 2 million USD;
• Responsible for the provision of technical inputs, day-to-day monitoring and backstopping;
• Act as the liaison between the various project managers for any issues related to the implementation of the interventions, and for communication purposes;
• Follow-up and support the implementation of the strategy and achievement of objectives set for employment and TVET (Technical and Vocational Education Training). The employment includes but not limited to apprenticeships and on the job training to the youth, improved employment services and Support to create businesses. While the TVET includes but not limited to improved vocational training courses, improved vocational training curriculum and equipment, improved vocational training methodology and capacity building of staff; search for means to serve refugees within the context of the current situation in Syria;
• Liaise with donor in the Head Quarter in New York, and also with UNRC and LPDC-UNDP in Lebanon;
• Ensure coordination with UNICEF and ILO on the progress made on the implementation of the project.
• Keep close contact with the other Agencies throughout the project to collect data on a monthly basis. Ensure each outcome is progressing according to schedule;
• Alert the LFO Senior Management in case of any delays and provide recommendation and technical support;
• Prepare the monthly, quarterly and annual reports;
• Lead the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track delivery against the IRF Outcome indicators. The Monitoring framework include targets and benchmarks to used to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the intervention; conduct regular field visits to the various fund projects to monitor the quantity and quality of delivery then suggest correction measures to be in place;
• Launch midterm and final evaluation; prepare ToR and responsible for the whole recruitment and hiring process
• Prepare the work plan and monitoring plan and responsible for its follow up; assist in the visibility plan;
• Insure transparency and good means of conduct;
• Assist the Field Programme Support Officer in tasks such as preparation of presentations, organizations of field visits, organization of roundtables with employers, etc.).

Date

Location

Company

Position

Description

July 2011 – end March 2012

Lebanon

UNDP

United Nation Development Programme

UN agency

Field Officer-  South 

SC-8

Project Title: “Support to the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee”

LPDC is the civil side of the Lebanese government to deal with the Palestinian issues. As a result of the Lebanese Council of Ministers mandate in 2005, the LPDC was established as a committee from 7 ministries in order to provide consultation to the Prime Minister on the Palestinian file. The main partners are the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as the official representative of the Palestinian people.

Scope/Objective

Under the overall guidance of the National Focal Point and the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Field Officer is responsible for establishing close relationships with local Lebanese and Palestinian stakeholders, and international partners and for identifying issues for follow-up at the local and national levels. The Field Officer will cover the Palestinian camps of Mieh Mieh, Ein el-Hilweh, El Buss, Burj El-Shemali, and Rashidieh, as well as surrounding municipalities.

Mandate of Activities:

• Provide technical support and assistance in the application of government policy in all efforts and events relating to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
• Coordinate between the various ministries in the application of government policy
• Collaborate with UNRWA on a range of issues including improvement of refugee camp infrastructure
• Initiate and sustain dialogue with the various Palestinian groups and civil society
• Coordinate with international and Arab donor countries to raise funds for the implementation of new policies
• Promote dialogue and understanding between Lebanese and Palestinians
• Maintain contacts with Lebanese political parties, religious leaders and civil society to promote government policy
• Participate in relief operations and coordinate with relief recovery and reconstruction efforts during and after crises
• Liaise with local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society groups

Functions

• Carry out regular visits to the Palestinian camps and surrounding areas in the assigned region and establish relationships with key local stakeholders (e.g. Popular Committees; local Palestinian and Lebanese NGOs and CBOs; municipalities; etc).

• Produce a monthly report of key development and issues on the ground for consideration by the LPDC Inter-Ministerial Committee which includes seven ministries.
• In coordination with the Camp Improvement Initiative, follow-up on emerging issues (e.g. service provision; access; local initiatives; etc) with relevant counterparts at the local and/or national level.
• Support the establishment and updating of a knowledge base/assessment on situation in all camps (economic, health, education, etc). Set the ground for the objective systematic data gathering and research.
• Initiate, organize, and follow up on project activities in the assigned region, as per the agreed work plan.
• Develop recommendations for risk management and troubleshooting, whenever applicable. 
• Develop field strategy and action plan
• Identify and apply best practice and corrective actions. 
• Assist in workshops, meetings and conferences preparation, identifying participants, talking points, etc.

Date

Location

Company

Position

Description

October 15, 2008 –

May 31, 2011

Lebanon

International Labor Organization, Regional office

ILO

UN agency

Vocational Training Expert -National Officer

NOA-3

Project title: North & South of Lebanon Emergency Programme, Poverty reduction through Enhancing local employment, skills & enterprises – Strengthening Information and Access to Employment for Palestine Refugees

(funded by Canadian embassy CIDA, UNRWA, UNDP,  implemented by ILO)

Services Rendered:

• Liaise and build sustainable relationships among INGOs, local NGOs and stakeholders including UN agencies & Lebanese officials
• Liaise & cooperate with Palestinians institutions' fund providers, stakeholders, and National authorities including private & public sectors
• Coordinate & collaborate with local Employment Service Centers and with other ILO projects
• Review career guidance & placement materials
• Assist in NBC Participative Value Chain Analysis of the Construction Sector (PVCA)
• Provide different types of technical and HR backstopping as needed to beneficiaries on their internal levels
• Follow up, participate, & provide recommendations as requested in most activities with local NGOs, INGOs, EU, & other UN agencies that have activities related to VET
• Follow up & participate in cluster activities for Palestinian camps especially livelihood & educational clusters
• Conduct Vocational Education and Training institutions mapping
• Conduct field & desk research, qualitative labor market demand driven rapid skills assessment
• Analyze gap between VET courses & labour market demand then match with labor force interests and capacity
• Provide recommendations and training plan for the vocational training in response to the labor market demands in various sectors mainly construction, management, services & IcT
• Conduct M&E and develop indicators to show project impact and progress
• Develop suitable indicators to measure in a systematic approach the project impact & progress along with its effectiveness & efficiency
• Develop Training of Trainers intensive course materials & its assessment guide line – 4 Modules of learning in English & Arabic. They are equivalent to 9 university degree credits; prepare and supervise ToT training for 45 trainees
• Decide, plan, fund, implement, and M&E apprenticeship (on-job training) activities in automotive &construction sectors. Conduct all tasks involved from planning, contracting, M&E, reporting to logistics & payments process
• Plan and prepare Entrepreneur development, business management and self development training
• Decide, plan & prepare projects’ vocational training plan, strategy, and action plan, implement & monitor, on-site visits, inspections, report, follow up analyses, corrective actions, draw conclusions and recommendations in various sectors such as construction (electricity, heating & cooling, carbentry, landscaing, etc), IcT (AutoCAD, website, graphic design, ICDL, etc), Services, Tourisem 
• Decide, plan and oversee all VET activities: 9 consultants, 6 team members, 9 VET providers and 388 end beneficiaries
• Make decisions on fund allocation to VET courses that are labor market demand driven to fill the gap between vocational training and labor force for skills development initiatives
• Decide on fund spending for all VET activities. Conduct & follow up with all tasks involved
• Prepare Term of Reference (ToRs), service contract and External collaborations contracts, waivers, addendums for consultants, employers & VET institutions. Also other forms as supporting documents for contracts
• Oversee projects’ implementation & impact based on result based management and ILO procedures
• Decide, plan & facilitate workshops & seminars in English & Arabic
• Manage logistics aspects & data base development
• Follow up with all payments and logistics process related to contracts as ILO rules
• Provide assistance and backstopping to VET providers in camps and assure timely manner delivery
• Assure all projects component are done with gender lens
• Assure good understanding of legal/institutional framework as well as methods of delivery

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

Sept 2008 – Oct 2008

Lebanon

United Nation Development Programme

UNDP

Regional Support Center in the Arab States

(Former SURF-AS)

Gender

Research Assistant

Develop and Enhance the Arab States Gender Portal Website:

• Collect and review information related to gender mainstreaming and women empowerment in all practices, events, maps, products, institutions that have been cumulated at the former SURF AS & made available by the UNDP COs
• Collect all lessons learnt, good practices available at the former SURF AS and from other sources
• Collect consolidated replies from the UNDP gender net on issues related to the GES 2008-2011 as well as gender events posted in the former SURF AS Digest
• Und ertake the preparation of a compendium reflecting products made available in the Gender mobile resource unit (GMRU) and include SURF AS products on gender

Knowledge Management Codification, Capture, Dissemination and Content Management:

• Identify the knowledge maps on gender available on thematic. 
• Contribute to the development of knowledge maps on gender relevant to the work of UNDP COs in the region to implement the GES 2008-2011
• Collect all SURF-AS annual reports from 2005 until 2008 and extract the sections on missions summary as well as the narrative related to gender in the first section of the reports to produce an over all document identifying the interventions and tendencies on gender mainstreaming in the region for the past years. Package recommendations for strategic planning and programming. And provide maps identifying type of interventions per country.
• Collect , identify and classify power points presentations made by gender policy advisor on gender as well as the director of RBAS and BDP on gender
• Archives photos from events and retreats related to gender issues with list of participants
• Triage of all documents in the library for docs related to gender and categorize
• Collect and codify GMRU (1 + 2) and identify areas that needs to be strengthened by searching for key gender documents in need and, packaging them for dissemination and gender portal
• Prepare with the gender portal team : a compendium covering the GMRU 1-2 photos and small summary per document
• Production of fact sheets summarizing interventions per country
• Enhance linkages with internal and external sources of knowledge in coordination with the Global Knowledge Management activities;
• Liaise with other SURF/RSC for products development, cross posting of queries, network discussions and other tasks  Global Knowledge Management activities; and capture relevant content & products for gender portal and or future knowledge product
• Assist gender policy advisor in her mandate and according to the SURF AS work plan
• Support gender focal points of the Knowledge Services Team (KST) in required tasks
• Contact and prepare all necessary procedures for translating documentations

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

Oct 2005 –August 2008

Three year project

I was the only full time consultant on the project

Lebanon

IFOA, Italy /

European Union project

Project Coordinator /

Senior Manager level /

VET Expert

Project title: VET Project: “Improvement of employability of Young Palestinian Refugees (YPR) in Lebanon through technical assistance to VET providers (Vocational, Educational, and Training)”

The project aims to enhance the chance of employability of YPR through improving the education level.  Build the capacities of Palestinian 5 VET providers in Lebanon (over 30 centers) to provide vocational training for Palestinians. (Europeaid/120583/c/sv/lb)

Services rendered:

• Liaise and build sustainable relationships among INGO’s, local NGO’s and other stakeholders, cooperate with other Palestinians institutions' fund providers, and National authorities including private & public sectors
• Liaise between EC Delegation, Beirut; IFOA, Italy; NPA, DRC, UNRWA, 4 Palestinian NGOs, and VET Providers' target groups (supervised 41 in-house trainers – 25 at a time)
• Provide support to ensure all deadlines are timely met and meeting the EU rules and regulations from financially and administratively perspectives and programmatic and implementation ones.
• Involve in developing projects implementation plans in collaboration with head of projects
• Vocationalising of curriculum as a measure for reducing mismatch between labour force demand & supply. Hence, making curriculum more labour market (LM) relevant & responsive for example to business/entrepreneurship needs. It involved Designing & Developing of training courses (curriculum development) for practical & theoretical aspects, i.e. upgrading of courses/ programmes, allocate modules for learning courses, Training of Trainers (ToT) implementation, their M&E, capacity building and HR & management development of the 5 VET provider institutions – Their work is mainly related to construction, ICT, and automotive sectors.
• Conducted with experts activities & trainings in: VET Audits; Labour Market Survey; career guidance, counseling, & placement; motivation activation; ICT, proposal writing; Project Cycle Management & logic frameworks trainings to draw recommendations & strategic action plans based on LM & YPR needs in relation to the HR level of vet providers
• Manage and implemented ToT training in 5 locations for 132 participants
• Supervised field & desk research, qualitative & quantitative pilot survey: covered 250 employees from 4 regions in Lebanon
• Conduct M&E following EC Evaluation guidelines and develop indicators to show project impact and progress; assure donor visibility requirement is met
• Draw training plans, coordinate, implement, monitor, evaluate, report & overseen all activities for total of 146 experts, trainers and trainee trainers
• Assure gender lens is carried out in all aspects of the projects
• Analyse programme and take any corrective action and measures as needed
• Develop suitable indicators to measure in a systematic approach the project impact and progress along with its effectiveness and efficiency
• Planned & facilitated project's workshops, seminars & trainings in English and Arabic
• Manage logistics aspects & data base development
• Provide different types of technical and HR backstopping as needed to beneficiaries on their internal levels
• Preparation, planning & implementation of Study Tour to Italy
• Good understanding of legal/institutional framework as well as methods of deliver
• provide the project progress report and six monthly report then draw out project next period recommendations, training plan and alternative action plan, follow up with project implementation, M & E beside conduct a pilot Labor Market survey, provide support and monitor other consultants national and international, liase and coordinate with stakeholders, and perform all administrative tasks since I was the only full time consultant in the project.

Other relevant information (e.g., Publications):

• Head of project and I developed a full package for the Training of Trainer (ToT) course materials.  Training took place over 5 locations.  Total of 132 trainers and trainee trainers participated.  I managed, supervised, implemented and monitored & evaluated all courses.
• Developed the Training of Training course documents, course layout, monitoring and assessment process (4 Modules) for the Vocational Education Training VET Providers.  (02/2006)
• Developed Career Guidance and Counseling manuals

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

June 08- July 08

Jordan

ProDev

European Union project

ToR 148- Vocational Field Counsellors Training Expert

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Ministry of Education, Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy (ERfKE I) Project, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION UNIT, 4.0 Vocational Education

Service rendered:

1. Review the current situation relating to vocational career counseling and vocational guidance activities in Jordan’s public schools
2. Identify key aptitude and interest inventories that are used, available (with adaptation), and needed to support vocational career counseling in Jordan
3. Prepare an appropriate program for training based on the national strategy for training counselors in working with students and families in the area of vocational career counseling, including but not limited to:

• developing a career counseling resource area in a school
• use of aptitude and interest inventories to support career counseling

4. Implement training programs with a core team of trainers Training included:

• Considerations in developing an effective career counseling area in a school
• Orientation to aptitude and interest inventories  - their strengths and limitations
• Review of key features of the technical manual for these inventories
• Administration and scoring procedures
• Interpretation and necessary cautions
• Guided practice in the use of the inventories.

Deliverables

• A work plan that details the process required to accomplish the scope of work
• A preliminary report highlighting (objectives, outcomes, content and tools used) in the area of program development counseling for vocational education
• Production of a program for training counselors and school teams in working with students, families and school personnel indicating the need for vocational education at schools and recommendations for approaches to addressing them
• A summary national strategic document for counseling and vocational guidance in collaboration with partners in vocational education
• Training workshops, presentations, and seminars to a core team of trainers based on the national strategy for training counselors, (with a package of resource materials including presentations, works sheets, etc.)
• Abstracts and summaries of key documents
• A Final Report with recommendations detailing areas to take into account when implementing next steps

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

July 2005 – Oct 2008

Lebanon

Organizer

HRD Manager & Career Guidance Consultant

Organizer provides vocational training courses in Information Technology, ICDL, accounting & others.  It also provides software solution for private and public sectors especially in accounting & maintenance track system

Services Rendered:

• Career Guidance and Counselor consultant
• Human resource development and management: Staff mentor for capacity building plan follow up to further widen center capacity and staff competences
• Monitor and analysis of the training programme, monitoring and evaluation, develop action plan,  and resources allocation with gender perspective
• Identify problems and draw out alternatives
• Placing systematic indicators and approach
• Specialized English courses development and teaching

Jan 08 –March 08

Lebanon

ProDev and Transtec

European Union project

VET Expert

“Identification of Pilot Plants for Qab Elias Agro-food Vocational Institute  ” – European Union Funded

EUROPEAID/ 119860/C/SV/multi, LOT N° 10: Support to Industry / commerce / services, REQUEST N°: 2007/145557/1 

Services rendered:

• Developing methodology, Needs Analysis, assessment and recommendations
• Survey existing food plants & establishment including their capacities, potential, competitiveness, needs, etc
• Desk research : Review existing studies and reports, also provide competencies for agro food sector
• Reassess industry feasibility/sustainability
• Available vocational education/ training for agro-food
• Training needs
• Needs for supporting certain sectors
• Industrial development necessities and training requirements
• Assist in drafting the technical specification report

Nov 07- April 08

Nov 06 –Feb 07

Aug 05 -Oct 05

18 Arab countries

Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, PAAP, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen

UNDP / Sub Regional Resources Facility for Arab States (SRRF-AS) /

Gender Thematic Trust Fund (GTTF),

Netherlands

Gender Resource Management Unit Assistant

GRMU

Project title: Gender Thematic Trust Fund (GTTF 2005), funded by The Netherlands for UNDP / SURF-AS

The project aims to support the implementation of the 3^rd goal of the UN Millennium Development Goals: "Genderization and Women empowerment" in the UNDP / SURF-AS (18 countries)

Services rendered:

• Launching the GTTF 2005 project and all follow up components
• Event planner for seminars and retreats in various countries such as Egypt
• I provided required logistics, systems & support related to human, material and financial resources of GTTF SURF-AS activities. The Gender Mainstreaming Resource suitcase prepared by Mrs. Talbot & I received an award from the Dutch foreign ministry in March 2007.
• Handled conferences logistic work; in addition to compiling, gathering, and analyzing assessments’ questionnaires & evaluations for 9 UNDP Country Offices (CO) gender focal points and recommendations for UNDP CO Egypt for their support system.
• Monitor and support the usage of collaborative space by the GFPs (Gender Focal Points); usage of gender tools, updates reports; conduct needs assessment amongst GFPs; maintain and raise regional cooperate profile; strategy promotion; desk review of UNDP means of dissemination and relevant networks; disseminate information.
• Monitor and ensure recording, codifying, archiving activities; monitor and provide narrative and financial updates and reports.   Monitor budget and spending within budget ceiling and best money distribution
• Handled and overseen all logistics, purchasing, deals and contracts with various suppliers and publications
• Handled all matters related to Gender Mainstreaming Resource Unit: ranged from gathering information, materials reproduction, follow up with all suppliers to printing, packing and shipments
• Handled all Graphic Design, publication works, presentations and set up slides & CDs
• Follow up and monitoring on GMRU 1 overall distribution & report to gender PA

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

July 2009

Lebanon

Oxfam

Participant

Humanitarian principles training

Introduced to Matrix to help programmes implement accountability systems: four ‘dimensions’, or focus areas for programmes to work on: Transparency, Participation, Learning & Evaluating and Feedback Mechanisms

April 2009

Lebanon

Roshod

Participant

Effective participatory teachers

Introduced to modern ways of teaching, communications, body language, class management, evaluation techniques, class management and preparation, how to make children genius: male and female

Feb 2007

United Arab Emirates

IFOA

Participant / VET Expert

Tawteen Symposium, Learning & leadership Programme, Emirate Foundation

Represented an NGO in Lebanon in the Vocational Education system vision, mission, strategies and recommendations.

Identified, analyzed, planned and drew out piloting projects for UAE national and regional youth problems: HR and capacity building. Nine countries were represented (3 from Europe and 6 from MENA)

10/2006 -Present

Lebanon

Life Makers

Consultant

Draw out proposal for strategic Action Plans for Life Makers union which its groups exist in over 20 countries.  Assessing, designing and planning various projects in connection with civilization and development from all aspects: social, cultural, educational, economical levels.  Also, board member for "Zidni" which provides Career Guidance and Counseling workshops and seminars.  Carry out HR internal training with accordance to the members needs analysis, best practice and incentives 

May 5 & 6, 2006

Lebanon

Lebanese Ministry of Educational Affairs & UNRWA                       

Participant / VET Expert

Palestinian Employability Workshop

Provided in collaboration with an international expert an input in the Vocational Education system vision, mission, strategies and recommendations

Dec. 2005

Lebanon

United Nation Development Programme

Participant

Title: Training in Gender Development

Training in Gender awareness strategies, development and follow up in projects and action plans

Nov. 2005

Lebanon

ESQWA

Participant /

VET Expert

Title: The Arab Network Coalition

Arab networks from eight different countries worked together to establish coalition to provide recommendations and action plans to Palestinians in three areas: agriculture, education, and health matters.  I was one of the education expert team.

Sept. 2005

Egypt

UNDP

SURF-AS

Organizer

Title: Gender Retreat

Gender Focal Points training for 18 Arab countries to launch GTTF, Netherlands funded project

Sept. 2005

Lebanon

Palestinian Human Rights Organization

participant

Title: The Holistic Palestinian’s Gathering

Human Rights: The conference focused on: What the Palestinians in Lebanon want from themselves, Lebanese government, UNRWA, and international NGOs. What are their needs and how can they integrate in the society

01/1995-Present

Lebanon

Kickboxing Federation of Martial Art 

Coach, monitoring, & judge

• Conduct training in semi contact, karate style.
• Receive a yearly training in Training of Trainer courses and refresher on health and physical education.  In addition, get a yearly examination to be a judge in the Lebanese Federation for Kickboxing. 
• Received intensive training in health and body care for over six month period in 1992. 
• Design and develop curricula for practical and theoretical courses in health and body related courses.

1991-1997

& 2005 -Present

Lebanon

Lebanese Scout Federation

Educator and Trainer of Trainer

• Training of Trainer for children and youth groups & coordinator and planner for activities and camps.  Activities have to project on building successful individuals in the society.  Drew out strategies and action plans to advocate living together, physical, health, and environment concepts.
• Coordinator and conduct educational activities and camps to bridge Syria and Lebanon's scout federations.  Cultural, ethics, social, and economical awareness based activities.

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

Oct 2001 –Apr 2005

Colorado, USA

Palestinian Association,

Colorado State University

Director

• Launched and established student and community chapter to raise awareness through educating others about the Middle East countries; especially Palestine and the Palestinian Refugees and Lebanon. The activities aim to advance the world we live in through value based grassroots activities to strengthen mutual relationships between the east and the west with sensitivity to cultural, ethic, social, and economical concerns.    
• Human Rights activities: The association handled issues related to the US governments, foreign laws, international community, economical analysis, education, health, physical education, living conditions, physical environment, and psychological aspects of the situation.  The association activities are still on going.
• Lias and build partnerships with other NGOs, universities, organizations, in public and private sectors
• Conducted and planned many workshops, seminars in a multi-cultural context
• Collect qualitative data, evaluate and draw projection on education and level of awareness in order to view strategic action plans
• HR development: Training and mentor PSA members and volunteers in how to lead and handle the activities involved in the organization in order for them to be able to take the lead
• My tasks varied between events & activities planner, program coordinator, HR, public relations, facilitator, speaker, accountant, bookkeeper and budget controller, promoter, fundraiser, grant application writer, and exhibits designer
• Network experts, speakers and trainers from the US, Aisa and Middle East regions
• Drafting projects and programmes specifications financially and content wise
• HR development and management: Monitor and ensure recording, codifying, archiving activities; monitor and provide narrative and financial updates and reports.   Monitor budget expenditure and ensuring all to be within budget frame and best financial allocation

June 00 – Oct 2003

Colorado, USA

New Islamic Community Center

Technical Committee Design Consultant expert

Project title: "New Islamic Community Center". The project aim end result is to have a community center that includes: community center, mosque, school, and gym. The project average size is 35,000 sq ft.

• Conducted community Needs Assessment about the local community's different culture background (drawn from 31 different countries covering 4 continents). All along supervised and overseen information sharing and dissemination of data for all stakeholders to reinforce collaborative relationship internally and externally.
• Client liaison and representative between stakeholders and key players: Islamic community, CSU university, Architecture team, and City of Fort Collins
• Conducted workshops and trainings related to the project
• Technical coordinator: reviewed different aspects of the project phases: programming, schematic design, design development, furniture and finishes selection, specification and cost estimation. AutoCAD architect desktop drawing.  Also reviewing conceptual design, blue prints interpretation, biding and contracts review.
• Technical work: reviewed bids and technical proposals from and business plan.  Draw recommendations and conclusions
• Mentor 39 senior design students through out the developing process. Supervised, Monitor & Evaluation of 39 university students’ projects in accordance with the city standards and guidelines. Draw recommendations relevant to the findings, outcomes, and lessons learnt.
• Prepared my own complete project: programming, schematic design, design development, furniture and finishes selection, specification and cost estimation.
• Data from 31 countries: including Asian countries especially China & Indonesia, Gulf countries, different African countries and others.  Assure data and participants included males and females needs

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

03/2002-01/2003

Colorado, USA

Facilities Management Department, CSU, CO    

Construction         

Project Manager assistant

The main duty of the "Facilities Management Department" is to deal with any construction development is needed on CSU campus.  The scope of work ranges from new construction, remodeling to building new addition.  CSU average number of students per year is 24,000. The campus size spreads over 30 city blocks.  

• My duties were to manage and overseen along with the main project manager 4 major construction projects beside other activities going.
• Handled client liaison between stakeholders, local authorities and beneficiaries and information dissemination among all partners and stakeholders
• Handled As-Built drawing review, update and follow up with architects and stakeholders
• Handled reporting, project budgeting & scheduling, change orders, invoice processing, biding process and contracts reviews
• Review budget expenditure and best allocation of resources
• Identifying problems and take appreciate actions within the project time frame
• Technical specification review and monitoring and evaluation
• Handled projects' site visits inspections, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting

Jan 2003-Feb 2005

Colorado, USA

McCormick Law Office

Paralegal

McCormick Law Office is a law firm that deals with cases that range from criminal, international immigration criminal cases, divorce, adoption, discrimination, to deportation removal cases.   Cases backgrounds were from different countries: Asia, Middle East, middle & South America and Canada, beside US citizens.

• I worked as client liaison between different courts, attorneys and clients.
• Handled desk and field research to gather information & evidence related to political, social, and economical; reports findings and follow up needed.
• Handled documents/ forms/ applications preparation for District, County and Immigration Courts for criminal, international immigration criminal cases, divorce, adoption, and discrimination cases 
• Beside above I specialized in immigration application filings in marriage & fiancé visas, asylum, and all other criminal-immigration related cases.

2005 – Present /

1989 - 1997

Lebanon

Scout Jarrah Chapter

Scout Leader and Educator consultant / TOT

• Scout leader for children and youth, leaders' supervisor and Trainer of Trainers. 
• HR developer: Play a key role in designing, developing, evaluating and revision of camps trainings and delivery of the leadership programmes. Reports and draw recommendations

05/2002 – 12/2002

Colorado, USA

Advanced Professional Engineering

AutoCAD Technician

Advanced Professional Engineering was a company that offered civil engineering services to private subdivisions and different cities in Colorado

Services rendered:

• AutoCAD technician for building and city foundations and attributing Utilities; transfer  information from as-built drawing into GIS UMS2002 database software
• Graphic and exhibits designer

June 2000 –May 2002

Colorado, USA

Department of Publications and Printing, CSU

Graphic Designer

Department of Publications and Printing is responsible for all publications and printing needed by all CSU departments

• Creation of logo design, brochures, pamphlets, CD covers, business cards, and publication layout
• Review other graphic design work and give recommendations

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

09/2003-12/2003

Colorado, USA

City of Fort Collins

Facilitator Training and Participant

Title: Public Dialogue Series: Bridges to the Future, Human Rights Office

Training on how to facilitate discussion groups.  Participant in group dialogue and discussions in order to form anti-discrimination awareness recommendation – peaceful-, and strategic action plans for communities

Nov 2003

Colorado, USA

Palestinian Affairs Council

Judge

Title: Palestinian Affairs Council, 2003 Rocky Mountain Model Arab League Conference

Judge, monitor, and review the students’ social, economical, and political affair knowledge and accuracy about 15 Middle Eastern countries.  The students were from seven different universities

09/1999-05/2002

Colorado, USA

American Society of Interior Designers

Chair

Colorado State University student chapter:

• Planning and implementing the yearly “Design Exposition”. 

• Assess and Evaluate students design projects
• Report and draw recommendations for following years

Jan 91 –July 97

Lebanon

UltimateCOM, SARL         

Supervisor & HRD, computer Instructor/ Career Guidance consultant

UltimateCOM provided training courses in Information Technology, accounting, ATA, and other.  It also provided training summer camps for children.

Services Rendered:

• Human Resources Development and management: Staff mentor & training program coordinator and scheduler, recruitment, career path, HR data base, and staff motivation and competencies
• Budget controller and resources distribution
• Planned, Implemented, and Evaluated Technical training courses.
• Computer instructor for ages ranged from four to above 40 years of age
• Career Guidance, Counseling and Placement services consultant

09/1990-06/1996

Lebanon

Lebanese Folklore Dance Society                                                

Folklore Dance Instructor

Lebanese Folklore Dance Team was a national team that vivid the folklore dance. The folklore dance training included body and health care education

• Supervised and trained 16 participants at a time
• Assisted the main trainer in all related tasks involved
• The team received the national folklore dance honor awards for 7 consecutive years and was among the first international top ten countries in Turkey, 1994

July 92 –Sep 92,

July 91-Sep 91,

July 90 – Sep 90

Lebanon

UNICEF

Activities Leader & Counselor

Project title: United Nation Mission for Peace

Children and youth summer educational activities planner and leader, counselor for war-torn and disabled individuals, activities facilitator, leaders’ supervisor, and children's camp designer.  The design had to provide peaceful, secure and stimulating environment taking into account difference between girls and boys. 

Monitor, evaluate and then draw recommendations for activities.  Activities were based on motivating collaborative and peaceful thinking conducted through games, sports, acting, singing, and playing

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Location

Company

Position

Description

03/2003-12/2004

Colorado, USA

Alternative Homes for Youth

Behavioral Counselor

Alternative Homes for Youth (AHFY) mission is to teach, support and model healthy skills to youth and families by providing therapeutic and educational interventions to end violence. 

It deals with troubled teens/juveniles (ages twelve through eighteen), who had been in jail and then put in a probation sentence due to their age.  They spend this period at AHFY under close supervision from the court, police department, and AHFY.  Monitoring and evaluations done by AHFY will determine the future of the teen whether to go back to jail or stay to finish the full program. Cases problems range from sex offenders to drug & gang related issues which could be the result of mental illness, learning disabilities, chaotic family environments, emotional or behavioral disorders, or sometimes just “poor choices”. 

The programs include residential treatment, drug and alcohol therapy, alternative educational programs and intensive individual, group and family therapy.  The agency offers a positive environment to explore life experiences and create positive futures.  Within the treatment program, they have opportunities to learn how to share common goals, build appropriate relationships, and discover and actualize their own self-worth. 

Services rendered:

• Supervising, monitoring, and evaluating high risk teenagers
• Career Guidance and Counseling guidance
• Handled implementation of the therapeutic treatment goals; redirecting misbehavior; guiding the emancipation and independent living process; looking into motivation, personal & technical skills, educational level, and their housing and its surrounding environment.
• One to one and group counselor to those teens providing opportunities to overcome their obstacles and lead successful and stable lives.   By providing them with structure, tools for success, and a support system for positive growth in order to be able to turn their lives around and lead healthy, productive lives.

09/1998-12/1998

Colorado, USA

Colorado State University

Researcher on War and Children

• Conducted a comprehensive desk research on effect of war on children
• Drew out a complete study on how to measure post war traumatic syndrome of the Lebanese children in relation with aggression and depression and the difference between boys and girls responses
• Delivered a paper on research outcome and Delivered a paper on education “Education and Peace”

09/1995-05/1997

Lebanon

Lebanese University

Parent-Children/Youth Relationship Researcher

         Observed and analyzed children who grew up with violent, tyrannical and criminal background parents.  I was part of a team that held many sessions with the children and youth where we absorbed the mechanisms that they used to overcome the difficulties they were facing with their parents/children relationship. 

           I was also involved in collecting, sorting and analyzing the data.  The research outcome was presented in a seminar at the university

09/1995-06/1996

Lebanon

Lebanese University

Women's Studies researcher

        Conducted surveys and interviews, and gathered information and research materials regarding the difference of women's image/personality between the east and the west and the implication of women role and education level in connection to their work.  Materials were used as part of a longitudinal women’s study.

09/1994-06/1995

Lebanon

Lebanese University

Suicide Researcher

        Gathered and analyzed information and research materials that covered a period of ten years from public health records and families about suicide cases and their causes for different age groups. Recommendations and action plans were provided. These materials were used as part of a longitudinal suicide study.

09/1996-10/1997

Lebanon

Lebanese University                                                  

Consultant on Family Dynamic

           Researched and analyzed the effect of family dynamics in marital decision.  The subjects were females who faced many problems with their families and mostly decided to get married to move away.  Families’ dynamic, social, cultural, educational, and economical aspects were studied.  The analytical report was presented in a seminar at the university

09/1996-09/1997

Lebanon

Lebanese University     

Marriage consultant

Project title was marriage failure and remarriage decisions

           Counseled males who had trouble recovering from previous marriage failure and struggling with decisions to get remarried and move on with their lives. The Carl Rogers principles of clinical counseling were followed and TTP (French developed projection test designed to explore the three self-dimensions, the id, the ego, and the superego) was used. The subjects mostly reached enlightenment and were able to get remarried.  Report was presented in a seminar at the university

09/1996-09/1997

Lebanon

Lebanese University     

Sexual Rigidity Researcher and counselor

            Counseled through Carl Rogers’s counseling method married females who suffered from severe sexual rigidity due to childhood memories.  I conducted the TTP (French developed projection test designed to explore the three self-dimensions, the id, the ego, and the superego) and TAT (Thematic Apperception Test was developed by Henry Murray). I was able to reach conclusions with most subjects and get positive results by saving their marriages that reached the boundaries of divorce.  Reports was presented in a seminar at the university

09/1996-06/1997

Lebanon

Lebanese University     

Schizophrenia cases observant

            Observed, communicated, analyzed and report about females individuals who were confined in a mental hospital.  Their symptoms were referred mostly to their childhood where no room to play or express their feeling were allowed in addition to other conditions. Reports was presented in a seminar at the university

Certificate of Appreciation for Martial Arts Judges, Kickboxing Federation of Martial Art, Lebanon 

June 2007

Ambassador Peace Award, 19th Annual An Hour for Peace, Fort Collins, Colorado, US                                                                                       

2005

Certificate of Appreciation; 2003 Rocky Mountain Model Arab League, National Council on US-Arab Relations, CO                                            

2003

Certificate of Achievement on Completing Fannie Mae, Neighbor to Neighbor, CO                                                                                              

2003

Teaching and Learning Peace Award, Colorado State University, CO, US                                                                                                           

2002

Certificate of Appreciation for programming, schematic design, cost estimation, & design development of New Islamic Center, CO, US                

2002

Best Overall Booth Display: educational and cultural awareness, International Month, Colorado State University, US

2001 & 2002

Best Employee of the Month, Advanced Professional Engineering, Inc, CO                    

August 2002

Certificate of Recognition, 15th Annual Interior Design Expo 2001, Colorado State University                                                                              

2001

Certificate of Recognition, Universal Design Competition, Colorado State University                                                                                             

2000

Martial Arts Judge Honors Award, Kickboxing Federation of Martial Art, Lebanon                                    

1996

Best Leader of the Year, Scout Federation                                                                                

1995

Best supervisor of the Year, Ultimate COM, SARL                                                                     

1994

Folklore Dance Best Team Award, Lebanese Folklore Dance Society                                            

1990-1997

Best Leader of the Year, Scout Federation        

1995

Best supervisor of the Year, Ultimate COM, SARL                                                                     

1994

Sports Merit Award, Scout Federation                                                                                                         

1993