Aisha Osman

Free Lancer Educational Project Manager 2005 - To date
Ms. Osman has been the Education Project Manager for a variety of companies and organizations. As Manager, she is responsible for:
Providing all resources essential for the project such as academic experts, formats, and local professionals and materials.
Training and directing team members whenever needed.
Developing business and work flow plans.
Liaising with main organization to ensure ongoing
communications .
Solving all day to day issues.
Incorporating any new requirements into the existing frame of work.
Ongoing review of plans & adjusting them whenever needed.
ME educational project manager, reviewer, Various PUBLISHERS -2005 - present :

1.Cambridge University Press
CUP is the oldest, most prestigious press in the world .
Aisha started working with Cup in 2009 in various projects as consultant, editor and reviewer like active grammar, science books for KS1, ( OMAN project math & science 2017 ) and other projects .
- Area of specialization : Involvement in all details of book editing, proofreading, and reviewing .

IN 2009
Managing Director, Cambridge University Press ( Egypt), 2009
- Cambridge University press is one of the leading publishers in the world, they have their agent in Egypt that represents them on both schools, Academic levels .
- Aisha’s role was to set up the team and then to lead the team to guarantee best adoptions in the market on both schools & Academic levels, this involved all technical, marketing, administrative and financial phases .
- Area of specialization : Management of all activities related to technical and marketing of schools and academic products including financial and technical ones .

2. McGraw- Hill
- McGraw Hill is considered as No.1 in academic books and No.2 in ELT books in the international market, they started heavily their publishing tailored programs in ME in 2005 where Aisha started her involvement with them in many projects with various roles, the main ones were as follow :

- Maths & science k-12, Project for MoE - UAE :
- Aisha’s role was to manage all aspects of the tailored version for MoE including, but not limited to managing editors, financial aspects, managements aspects, progress of project, deadlines
- Area of specialization : Project management for editing of educational materials

- Health books- UAE :
A series of health books taught in UAE
- Aisha’s role was to manage all aspects of the tailored version for ME including, but not limited to translation & producing the bilingual version, editing & reviewing
- Area of specialization : Project management for educational books including translated versions

- MOE curricula / KSA 1- 12 :
- MH was involved in the MOE pilot and initial project of English reform in KSA including books k-12
- Aisha’s role on the first phase was to manage all phases of the project to produce the tailored version for the MoE including but not limited to managing all financial, HR, monitoring & execution phases of the project .
- Area of specialization : Involvement in all financial, managerial & administrative details of the publishing project on international standards.

- Interactions /Mosaic- International :
One of the most widely used resources in Academic level in ME for the 4 skills
- Aisha’s role was to manage all aspects of the tailored version for ME & Aisha was the only one from ME / who is non-university staff involved in the review of the new international version
- Area of specialization : Involvement in all details of Academic books publishing & revised editions

- English zone book 1-6 ( ELT ), Grammar zone, Little hands - MENA region :
- MH produced its most successful ELT series in 2006, their target was to present something new in the ELT market to the ME
- Aisha’s role started in specifying the methodology to be used, structuring the S&S and the involvement in all phases of production in a very tight schedule ( 6 months instead of 3 years for the production of total of 36 books from scratch ), the book sold thousands of copies and it presented a new trend that other publishers followed afterwards
- Area of specialization : Involvement in all details of book creation following the best hands on practice with the most experienced personnel from MH .

- Green Light, Whiz kids, Platform, Grammar in view - MENA region :
- MH target as they started hitting the ELT market, was to adopt and edit existing series to present something new in the ELT market to the ME
- Aisha’s role started by selecting from existing series, doing all editing stages and reviewing till approving the final ready to print & digital related version
- Area of specialization : Involvement in all details of book editing and reviewing .

- 3. Discovery education :

- project manager, EKB - Egypt, 2016
- Discovery Eductaion is considered as one of the best provider of educational videos, in collaboration with EKB in Egypt, they have a project to present their materials to the Egyptian market .
- Aisha’s main role is to Manage a team of translators and reviewer for their materials, reviewing materials for suitability, consulting on all related issues
- Area of specialization : Project management for educational videos in digital format

Free Lancer Education Consultant,
Teacher Trainer, e- learning specialist, ELT Editor \{ Middle
east & Africa \}

More than 300 General seminars held all over Egypt for all schools
categories going from promotional seminars through methodology & till teacher training seminars
- More than 100/year in school visits for both promotion & training purposes

Responsibilities include, but is not limited to: 1-setting project framework & standards
2-handling all financial requirements & plans
3- hiring free lance personnel
4- following up all project executions till final delivery
5-liaising with project supervisor for output requirement & resources
availability
6- working while targeting best time line & best budget
7- Strategic direction of education consultancy
8- Assist in the formation of advocacy programs that support policy and funding in education technology among key decision makers and other stakeholders
9- Coordinate cross-functional teams working to develop and support
strategic initiatives across KSA

Education Consultant, project educational manager &
Content Developer, Interactive content development PROJECT for Egyptian
curriculum, with development of more than 1000 interactive lessons

Responsibilities include, but is not limited to: 1-Managing all educational phases
2-approving all scripts & editing it whenever needed
3-Guiding & following up IT programmers
4- Guiding designers & following up all A/W
5-Approving & testing final product
6-ensuring required editorial standards are met.

Responsibilities include, but is not limited to: 1-Training teachers on using IWB
2-Training teachers on producing lessons using IWB techniques
3-Guiding & following up teachers in delivering interactive lessons
4- Following up the market updates & coordinating with International EC
5-Coordinating with software companies for content development
6-Coordinating with MOE in different MENA countries to secure sales,
teacher trainings

Jan.2009 - Nov.2009: Managing Director, Nahdet Misr for
Education Services Cambridge University Press, Britannica
Online, Exclusive agent
Responsibilities include: • Managing all tasks related to Development
procedures
• Reviewing weekly reports from all departments
& adjusting business tasks accordingly
• External deals: including initiating cooperation with international publishers, organizations & following up the flow of work afterwards
• Big adoptions responsibility MOE,
Experimental schools
• Daily follow up with all sections
• Handling daily problems & reporting to
Chairman whenever essential
• Approving & processing all office daily needs
• Approving targets & plans
•. Following up all sections
• Handling all publications & presents needs & delivery
• Dealing with all technical details including
choosing, tailoring, editing & reviewing books,
seminars, deals, training ..etc.
• Designing Marketing plan & follow it up • 1recruiting technical staff & following them up
• Ordering yearly samples
• 1suggesting sales forecast & pricing to new
products
• Open New markets in Arab countries
• New agents deals
• EXTRA WORK WITH EXTRA PACKAGE: • Supervising all Smart Software development for all subjects as Project Manager & Education/ English Consultant
• Choosing, editing & adapting ELT books


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- 4. Heinemann UK ( under Pearson ) :
Keys to reading, Comprehension directions
Heinemann UK, now under Pearson, was considered one of the leading publishers in the field of ELT .
Aisha’s role was to do adopt old out of print versions, and change them into new versions according to market needs, by re arranging units, adding some materials and deleting others, re jacketing and adding supplementary materials as well.
- Area of specialization : Involvement in all details of book editing and reviewing .

2005, EGYPTESOL
Workshop on " Observation techniques in the classroom"

Language schools/institutes in Cairo as follows: 2001-2002:Sadat Academy Adults English courses Teacher

Designing curriculums according to schools policy
- Setting general objectives as well as specific stage by
stage objectives
- Assigning sub- supervisory tasks to different teachers
- Selecting, training, guiding & evaluating teachers
- Placing teachers
- Selecting books according to school objectives
- Training teachers in schools on the new books as well as
the new methodology
- Following up books application in classes & giving
guidance whenever needed
- Preparing all administration forms
- Dealing with all technical features regarding the English
language
- Designing tests as well as related sheets
- Designing Assessment rubrics
- Supervising & Following up all the correction & final results
process

1990 - 2002: General supervisor of English All stages

1992, Cairo International Kindergarten
15 days Training course on Different Methodological areas


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