Dania Wafa, Senior admission and student affairs officer

Dania Wafa

Senior admission and student affairs officer

Kuwait International Law School

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mass Communication And Media
Experience
10 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :10 years, 11 Months

Senior admission and student affairs officer at Kuwait International Law School
  • Kuwait - Al Jahra
  • March 2016 to September 2022

• Counsel prospective students and family members about admission criteria and other critical factors in the educational decision process.
• Explain about admission procedures and courses offered to the prospective students and their parents through phone calls and face to face meetings.
• Analyze the applications of prospective students based on standard admission policies.
• Follow up with students for any enquiries through direct meetings, phone calls and emails.
• Review all students’ applications and follow up with them in case there is a missing document.
• Maintain a database of student information, telephone logs and student feedbacks to generate student reports for management whenever required.
• Participate in all recruitment event, school fairs, information sessions, exhibitions, school visits and off-campus events.
• Visiting high schools and community colleges to answer questions regarding the College's admission requirements, available curricular and academic programs, housing, and scholarships.
• Participating in on campus visit programs, new student’s orientation, and campus retention programs.
• Coordinate with high schools for admission activities including student registration, testing and recruitment.
• Working with deans, provosts, and department chairpersons in ascertaining and communicating the use of transferred units in meeting college and major requirements.
• Working with the student affairs committee that deals with students’ absences and their excuses.
• Presenting the University to prospective students and the public.
• Coordinate in elections, events, and student activities.
• Interact with students and provide them with administrative and personal guidance.
• Interpretation and implementation of university policies and regulations in student affairs functional area.
• Coordinate between students and the student affairs committee.
• Other duties as assigned.

Senior Admission Advisor at The American University of Middle East
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • April 2014 to April 2016

• Advice students about the programs offered, admission procedure, eligibility and cost involved.
• Provide an annual analysis report for all students who applied each semester.
• Giving a full admission training for new advisors.
• Representing the University to prospective students and the public.
• Counseling prospective students and family members about admission criteria and other critical factors in the educational decision process.
• Explain about admission procedures and courses offered to the prospective students and their parents through phone calls and face to face meetings.
• Participating in on campus visit programs, new student’s orientation, and campus retention programs.
• Support the students throughout the admission process by answering to their queries and helping them to complete the required documents.
• Coordinate with high schools for admission activities including student registration, testing and recruitment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Admission Advisor at The American University of Middle East
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • June 2013 to March 2014

• Representing the University to prospective students and the public.
• Counseling prospective students and family members about admission criteria and other critical factors in the educational decision process.
• Explain about admission procedures and courses offered to the prospective students and their parents through phone calls and face to face meetings.
• Support the students throughout the admission process by answering to their queries and helping them to complete the required documents.
• Coordinate with high schools for admission activities including student registration, testing and recruitment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Marketing and Public Relations Officer at Taiba Hospital
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • December 2011 to September 2012

• Manage and maintain positive relationships with venue staff and media partners.
• Support the overall marketing objectives of the Hospital both externally and internally.
• Take responsibility for originating and planning campaigns in conjunction with the Marketing Manager and marketing staff.
• Develop promotional opportunities and ideas from conception through to delivery.
• Project Management.
• Handling presses releases and Public Relations.
• Support advertising, media, and printing materials.
• Support the marketing manager yearly with the marketing and media plan.
• Translate and copy write.
• Research materials for social media.
• Design media materials.
• Other duties as assigned.

Research Assistant at Kuwait University - Mass communications Department / Dr. Heba AlMusallam
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • October 2011 to February 2012

- Data Entry.
- Research regards public relations and social media.

Business Development Coordinator - Intern at Feasibilities International Trade
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • June 2011 to October 2011

• Manage the Public Relations campaigns.
• Organize exhibitions and marketing events.
• Initiate communications with business partners and suppliers.
• Conduct market research and studies related to competitors and vendor affairs.

Public Relations - Intern at “Kuwait National Nuclear Energy Committee " KNNEC - Kuwait Institute For Scientific Research "KISR"
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • March 2011 to June 2011

• Coordinate press releases and press kits.
• Manage awareness campaigns.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mass Communication And Media
  • at Kuwait University
  • February 2013
Diploma,
  • at Media club - Kuwait University
  • April 2012

Public RelationsCourse - PR successful professionals talked about their own experiences with PR, Marketing and Media - Social Media - CSR - Internal PR activities - External PR activities

Diploma, International Computer Driving License (ICDL)
  • at Al - Athari Institute for Computer Studies
  • January 2012

- Information Technology - Internet - Windows - Word - PowerPoint - Excil - Access

Diploma, Various Kinds of Journalism Writing Course
  • at KUWAIT UNIVERSITY
  • November 2011

Various Kinds of Journalism Writing Course: - Interviews - Releases - investigations - Media coverage - Media Analysis - Jurnalism Features - Debaties - Working for Media commissions

Bachelor's degree, Mass Communications - Public Relations & Advertising / Minor English Translation
  • at KUWAIT UNIVERSITY
  • June 2011

I studied mass communication because i like this field and i'm a social person that love people and dealing with them. I chose the major public relations and advertising because it's an uptodate field. My minor is translation ( English-Arabic).

High school or equivalent, science studies
  • at Fajr Al - Sabah School
  • June 2007

Specialties & Skills

Organizing
Administration
Student Affiars
Admissions
Registration
Counseling
Guiding
Photoshop
microsoft programs
computer skills
spss for statistics
internet skills
Illustrator Adobe
campus vue

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert