Aemal Joya Akbari, Resettlement Officer

Aemal Joya Akbari

Resettlement Officer

Refugee Action

Location
United Kingdom
Education
High school or equivalent, Development Economics And Management
Experience
18 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months

Resettlement Officer at Refugee Action
  • Great Britain (UK)
  • My current job since June 2018

Have a direct role for building and leveraging excellent working relationships with external stakeholders e.g Birmingham city council, Home Office, International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nation High commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and local charities on the UK's resettlement scheme
•Analysis of UNHCR & Westmidlands Strategic Migration Partnership (WMSMP) pre-departure reports and prepare Personal Integration Plan and negotiate a support package with both internal & external agencies for new resettled refugees
• Responsible for the design and delivery of a 12 months resettlement support package for new refugee to foster the independency and advocate on their behalf to access a range of tailored mainstream and specialist services
•Production of technical reports via Apricot database including statistic figures & KPI updates to senior management, Home office and Birmingham City Council
•Representing Refugee Action at external national and international meetings and technical working groups

Project Manager at Foreign and commonwealth office Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan
  • September 2009 to May 2015

Foreign Office (FCO) Rule of Law Team British Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
Major Responsibilities:
•Responsible and successfully completed the day-to-day management of UK government role of law project worth of GBP £10million in Afghanistan
•Was responsible and achieved project's expected outcome on the design, delivery and accomplishment of role of law project
•Had a direct role to represent the UK diplomatic mission in the multi-donor and ministerial meetings and carried out successful political and policy activities at the senior capacities with senior Afghan government ministers and MPs.
•Had a direct role for the production and reporting on the project progress report (technical & financial) on annual, quarterly and monthly
•Management responsibility for three Embassy staff and ten Afghan government staff delivering project management services on behalf of British Embassy role of law

Head Of Communication at United stated Agencies for International Development
  • Afghanistan
  • September 2007 to August 2009

of Communications, USAID-funded Afghanistan Municipal Strengthening Program (AMSP) under Democracy & Governance team, Afghanistan

Major Responsibilities:
•Was responsible for the production and delivery of the program media and communication strategy in partnership with USAID and government implementing partners
•Was responsible and produced/ oversight all program media deliverables (digital, social media, website, print and events)
•Fully accounted for the production of communication department biweekly, monthly and quarterly and had active contribution on the program's report production with chief of party (COP) to USAID and ICMA HQ
•Designed and delivered tens capacity building training to provincial (local authority) and managed several social events e.g. project inauguration, official receptions, workshops, seminars and USAID VIP and VVIP visits

•Was fully responsible and represented USAID / AMPS program in several multi donor meetings and senior level technical meetings

Investigation Department Manager at SSSI
  • Afghanistan
  • May 2005 to December 2007

Was responsible for the planning, management and task allocation for junior investigators
•Was responsible and for quality investigations to verify educational qualifications, character references and suitability of applicants for employment for SSSI and associated clients (USAID, corps of engineering and other foreign embassies)
•Was representing investigation department on the panel discussion during hiring proceeding with Human Resource Manager
•Was responsible for the developments of weekly, monthly and quarterly progress reports to SSSI country director

Security Adviser at US Embassy Kabul Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan
  • May 2003 to April 2005

Was responsible for building the professional working relations with Afghan security forces MOI, MOD NDC on the regular exchange of daily security updates
•Was responsible for the production of daily security updates for security manager and internal colleagues with recommendation for local movements and movement restrictions
•Responsible for background checks and security clearance of sub-contractor staff (KBR, ARC, Red Sea and YUKSEL)
•Was responsible for security checks of large construction good/material from Dubai and Pakistan to the embassy
•Was responsible for the security arrangements of VIP

Education

High school or equivalent, Development Economics And Management
  • at University of Oxford
  • November 2017

courses: Certificate of Economic Development

Bachelor's degree, Communication
  • at Kabul University
  • January 2003

four year fulltime) Faculty of Communication

Bachelor's degree, Communication
  • at Ghulam Haidar Khan High School
  • January 1996

High School

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Communication Skills
Public Information
DELIVERY
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
GOVERNMENT
MEETING FACILITATION
NETWORKING
PROGRESS
STRATEGIC
FINANCIAL

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Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Persian
Native Speaker

Memberships

Farsi Tajki Action Charity London
  • Board of Management
  • February 2019
Aamu Association Birmingham
  • Board of Management
  • January 2017

Training and Certifications

Certificate of Economic Development (Online) (Training)
Training Institute:
University of Oxford, England, UK
Date Attended:
November 2017
Duration:
80 hours

Hobbies

  • reading, watching news, foodball,