Content Manager (Home-based)
Rahala Media Production
Total years of experience :14 years, 3 months
Create, develop and manage content for organization’s web presence (requires working with content management software)
• Coordinate web projects across departments
• Maintain a consistent look and feel throughout all web properties
• Write articles, stories, news with pictures (both English and Arabic versions)
• Copyedit and proofread all web content
• Oversee freelancers, including writers, copyeditors and community outreach organizers
• Assure web-based information is archived for future needs and reference
• Work cooperatively with key team members, clients and vendors
• Insure quality of content, whether it is articles or pictures
• Get rid of spam
• Report technical problems to IT support staff
• Translation of all English articles and website content into Arabic and vice versa
Follow teaching plan
• Teach Alphabets, Jolly Phonics, Numbers, Dictation, Addition, Count up to 100, Long Vowels, Short Vowels, Tricky words, Writing and copying, Mental Math, Labeling, and more.
• Using a variety of activities and instructional methods (songs, stories, media, games, art) to motivate the children
• Monitor children’s behavior and nurture cooperation and sharing
• Cooperate with administration staff
• Follow and comply with teaching standards and safety regulation
• Create, develop and manage content for organization’s web presence (requires working with content management software)
• Coordinate web projects across departments
• Maintain a consistent look and feel throughout all web properties
• Write articles, stories, news with pictures
• Copyedit and proofread all web content
• Oversee freelancers, including writers, copyeditors and community outreach organizers
• Assure web-based information is archived for future needs and reference
• Work cooperatively with key team members, clients and vendors
• Insure quality of content, whether it is articles, road tests, new cars, used cars or pictures
• Get rid of spam
• Report technical problems to IT support staff
• Manage Facebook Page Posts
• Translation of all English articles and website content into Arabic and vice versa
• Discussing the client's core message and target audience
• Brainstorming visual and copy ideas with other members of the creative team
• Writing and presenting a few options to clients
• Modifying copy until the client is satisfied
• Overseeing the production phase.
• Day-to-day management and development of editorial content on social media platforms, including tweets, posts and discussions
• Proactively interacting with online communities across all platforms
• Using social media monitoring tools to monitor conversations and report on metrics
June 2012 - Present JorMall
Social Media Manager
• Implement the social media strategy, coordinating with stakeholders across the Company to ensure its effectiveness and encouraging adoption of relevant social media techniques into the corporate culture and into all of the company's products and services
• Work with the Product development team to ensure social media tools (for ex. FB connect, Sharing buttons) are kept up to date
• Manage presence in social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, and other similar community sites, posting on relevant blogs, and seeding content into social applications as needed
• Monitor effective benchmarks for measuring the impact of social media programs, and analyze, review, and report on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize results
• Make Facebook Ads and Campaigns for clients, regularly check and manage the Ads, and send weekly report to client
May 2011 - September 2011 Fortune Promoseven
Trained as Account Executive/ Copywriter
• Handling below the line, through the line, and above the line advertisements for several important clients like The Emirates Palace, Kempinski Hotel Ajman, Environmental Agency of Abu Dhabi, Kempinski Hotel Cairo, Kempinski Hotel Dead Sea, Kempinski Mall of the Emirates, Al Hilal Bank and Kempinski Hotel Aqaba
• Time managing all the accounts, with the pressure of advertisement and stresses of certain occasions like Ramadan. Meeting with clients, making presentations, coming up with creative ideas, designs, and copies.
• Wrote several advertisements (and collaterals) for different clients like The Emirates Palace, Kempinski Mall of the Emirates, Kempinski Hotel Ajman, Kempinski Hotel Cairo, Kempinski Hotel Dead Sea, Al Hilal Bank and Kempinski Hotel Aqaba
Sept 2010- March 2011 The National Newspaper UAE
Reporter for the news section
• Wrote on critical topics that impact society on a daily basis, such as bullying, obesity and social networking. Also, had two front page stories in the period I worked there, one was about accidents that happened in the fog and one about voting for the FNC.
• In addition to the above, I also worked at M Magazine, another publication by the Abu Dhabi Media Company. I was assigned to make "tried and tested" articles and talk to a lot of shops and restaurants around Abu Dhabi to feature them in the magazine depending on the theme.
June 2009 - May 2010 Bin Salem Holdings UAE
PA to CFO and Media Coordinator
• Responsible for coordinating all the CFO's meetings, files, reminders, and work. This included writing professional emails and working with different teams to implement various corporate strategies
• Responsible to stay updated with the news that might interest the company, write press releases, be in contact with news agencies, and be responsible for the Media contacts.
COMPUTER SKILLS
• Microsoft Office XP (full suite)
• Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
• Multimedia builder
• Inspiration
• Fast typing skills
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Soft Skills
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication and public speaking skills
• Ability to apply academic knowledge to real life situations
• Team player
• Result oriented and meets deadlines
• Performs well under pressure
• Flexibility to perform various tasks
