Bernaba Ghanim

• Lead and supervise global operational teams (facilities, IT, HR, finance, procurement, logistics, safety/security) across multiple campuses and international offices, ensuring continuity of education and organizational efficiency.
• Direct facilities operations including maintenance, repairs, renovations, safety and security, working closely with engineers, architects, and contractors to ensure learning environments are safe and compliant.
• Oversee IT services and assets, ensuring technology supports teaching and learning needs while maintaining business continuity.
• Manage procurement, vendor contracts, service providers, and inventory systems to ensure cost efficiency and timely delivery of resources.
• Develop and administer multimillion-dollar departmental budgets, aligning financial strategies with institutional goals.
• Ensure compliance with accreditation requirements, Ministry of Education regulations, and donor obligations.
• Collaborate with academic leadership, faculty, and staff to provide operational support that fosters a safe, secure, and positive learning environment.
• Represent AUAF with ministries of education, international donors, and partners to advance institutional mission and compliance.

• Lead, deploy and Supervise Start-Up Team.
• Contract with attorney and start-up HCN consultants.
• Prepare Procurement, HR, Finance and Logistics Manuals and policies.
• Engage local attorney for local contract review.
• Establish bank account, available funding, and financial systems in place to make financial disbursements.
• Secure in-country legal status.
• Help PMU in setting up Khartoum branch office systems.
• Pre-departure logistics for Program Team.
• Lead the establishment of country security portfolio.

• Conduct market studies, based on needs determined by experts.
• Initiate business and organization partnerships with suppliers.
• Negotiate with external vendors to secure advantageous terms.
• Ensure application and documentation of PRAG procurement procedures.
• Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries.
• Contracting of suppliers and Ensure delivery of the goods.
• Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
• Collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the project.
• Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements.
• Control spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs.

• Designed and supervised financial and operational systems supporting country-wide education and development programs.
• Managed budgets, cash flow, audits, payroll, compliance, and financial reporting in alignment with donor and government regulations.
• Led staff and built capacity across multiple offices, ensuring strong internal controls and accountability.
• Partnered with senior leadership and program teams to align financial and operational functions with organizational goals.

• In coordination with the CNFA Operations and Compliance (O&C) team, provide general procurement and operations support to strengthen staff capacity and processes in Egypt.
• Review CNFA’s procurement manual. Provide training and hands-on support to the team in Egypt to complete key procurements. Provide feedback to the PMU and O&C team on the CNFA procurement process based on the consultant’s experience with industry standards.
• Review CNFA’s salary scale and salary setting procedures. Provide training and hands-on support to the team in Egypt in implementing the salary scale and developing required salary documentation. Provide feedback to the PMU and O&C team on the CNFA salary setting process based on the consultant’s experience with industry standards.

• Review the Egypt FAS Grants Manual. Provide guidance and support to the Egypt FAS grants program, ensuring compliance with USAID rules and regulations and CNFA policies and procedures as detailed in the approved grants manual.
• Complete key recruitments as assigned to support CNFA’s activities in Egypt.

• Directed operations departments including HR, finance, logistics, facilities, IT, and procurement, ensuring efficient delivery of education and community programs.
• Developed country-wide operational strategies, policies, and systems.
• Supervised and trained teams across multiple field offices, supporting compliance with government, accreditation, and donor standards.
• Oversaw third-party contracts, service providers, and vendors to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery of resources.

• Led procurement, compliance, and operations teams to support multimillion-dollar projects, including construction and education facility upgrades.
• Developed procurement and operations manuals, policies, and procedures ensuring full compliance with international and local standards.
• Supervised vendor management, contracts, and service delivery, ensuring timely and compliant project implementation.
• Built capacity of local staff and partners to strengthen sustainable procurement and operational systems.

1. Lead and direct the grant and contract portfolio for a total of $48.6M, including sub-grantees administration and implementation in compliance with AMIDEAST acquisition and assistance regulations, procurement, operations procedures and financial regulations as well as AMIDEAST WBG special mandatory provisions.
2. Lead the creations of the sustainability, monitoring and evaluations strategies and plans through creating a data base of manuals, needs assessments, policies and market analysis to support sub awardee plans and strategies to enable the sustainability’s of the sub awards.
3. Supervise, train, mentor and guide the grantees’ s procurement and operations teams for advancement of grant under contracts and in kind grants activities and deliverables.
4. Provide recommendations and detailed direction to sub grantees and in kind grants including but not limited to building their financial, operations and procurement systems as well as internal controls to ensure full compliance with AMIDEAST regulations.
5. Develop grant financial, procurement and operations manuals and carry out training to ensure efforts are streamlined across departments to successful implementation of the portfolio programs for grant under contracts and in kind grants including but not limited to construction contracts.
6. Supervise, train, lead, mentor and guide the contracts and grant under contracts and in kind grants departments of 27 national staff members including training to operations and procurement departments.
7. Train, develop the capacities of the local unaccustomed organizations and sub awardees to administer the complexities of the activities associated with management of grants under contracts and other types of funding.
8. Ensure the coverage of the needs for further training and constant monitoring to the sub awardee through hiring a wide variety of short term consultants. Over the course of the project, I’ve hired and trained 17 STTAs to support the sub awardees.
9. Lead the creations of multiple scenarios, templates, manual, policies training materials and sustainability plans to enable the technical teams’ additional resources to cover a wide range of grants under contracts. A data base of 900 pages of those documents.
10. Hire STTAs and train them on these materials to enable them support the sub awardees in the implementations.

1. Provide operational and financial management oversight and advise the Office of Quartet Representative (OQR) management and government officials to ensure compliance with USG/UNDP/EU rules and regulations.
2. Develop and implement project budgets, procurement/personnel work plans, staff/sub-contractor Terms of Reference, and MoU/LoA Implementation Analysis Notes (IAN).
3. Work in collaboration with donor and OQR headquarters in London and AUAF/UNDP/EU regarding administration and operational initiatives, including contract management, recruiting and procurement.
4. Oversee office and project finances, analyze transactions, ensure conformity of activity results with desired outputs, goals/objectives and budgets. Ensure that work plans are achieved.
5. Manage offices, teams, including proposals development teams and delegates.

1. Process financial transactions, including maintenance of accounting records to comply with IRI and Donor accounting principle and grant under contracts and in kind grants requirements.
2. Manage cash flow, budgets, payroll and expenditure reporting, ensuring a continuously strong financial position.
3. Ensure bookkeeping accuracy and timeliness of voucher payment and receipt and journal entries within financial systems such as QuickBooks and Cost Point

1. Ensured procurement and operations procedures and documentation are in compliance with CARANA rules and regulations.
2. Coordinated and oversaw implementation of procurement and service agreements in collaboration with the Senior Contracts and Procurement Manager for grant under contracts and in kind grants including but not limited to construction contracts.
3. Collaborated with the operations and project Management teams regarding information and activities for estimating, financial and budgeting, sub-contractors, vendors and CARANA personnel, ensuring strong communication flow.
4. Supported recipient organizations in areas of procurement, operations and financial technical issues in preparation of program financial reporting requirements to comply with CARANA regulations.
5. Ensured accurate and successful fund disbursement with recipient agencies through detailed inspections.