Freelance Consultant
Freelancer
Total years of experience :35 years, 8 Months
1. Prepared an action plan for Zakat Fund (Federal Government Organization) in Abu Dhabi - UAE to support five needy women to start their business.
- Trained the target group for five days.
- Provided counseling session for assessing the business idea and start preparing the business plans.
- Assess the prepared business plans.
2. Assessed four business plans and networked them with a financial company (finance applications are under process).
Main Skills: Training Planning Management Communications & Networking
- Guided the development of the Training Centre to facilitate growth and financial strength.
- Contributed to preparing annual plan and training calendar.
-Contributed to designs the contents of the training programs of the center.
- Participated in conducting training for different government organizations and businesswomen councils.
- Managed the day-to-day operations of the Training Centre. - Supervised internal and external communications.
- Developed contacts and partnerships with corporations and individuals to increase total awareness of the Training Centre and networking as potential clients.
- Developed relations with international certifications providers.
- Responsible for operational performance against budget - including revenues/profitability.
- Ensure customer service best practices are in place and active.
Main Skills: Project Monitoring Counseling Services Report Writing Business Evaluation Project Re-structuring
- Monitored more than 400 funded projects by Khalifa Fund, provided counselling services to more than 400 entrepreneurs, and prepared around 20 quarterly feedback reports.
- Conducted quarterly monitoring site visits for funded projects.
- Liaised between the funded entrepreneurs and the relevant Khalifa Fund units.
- Networked among all the funded entrepreneurs for mutual benefits.
- Evaluated and provided recommendation for any needed project modifications or financial restructure.
- Prepared three industry reports (Beauty Salons in UAE, Fisheries in UAE and Mobile Business in UAE).
Main Skills: Counseling Business Plan Assessment Financial Analysis Leading Initiatives M&E
- Provided counseling sessions, processed applications for around 1000 entrepreneurs.
- Assessed business concept summaries for more than 2000 applications.
- Evaluated the business plan, and financial analysis for around 1500 business plans.
- Team leader for initiatives, planned, implemented, monitored and evaluated, the followings:
- Amal initiative (supporting people with special needs in Zayed Higher Organization for People with Special Needs and Minority).
- Acqua-ponic Project (the largest project in the world).
- Al Hassilah Initiative (supporting program for small fishermen in UAE).
- Micro-credit program jointly with Zakat Fund - UAE. Responsible for planning the initiative and awareness program for three years.
Development Advisor (1 August 2005 - July 1, 2007)
Responsibilities:
• Register applicants in SME, provide counseling sessions, process applications.
• Prepare business concept summaries.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
• Prepare Guidelines for Business Concept preparations in two languages Arabic and English Languages.
• Contribute in conducting awareness presentations and seminars.
• Participate in designing the website of the establishment.
• Prepare and update operations manuals for provided services by the establishment.
• Design monitoring and evaluation systems.
Responsibilities:
• Team leader for the initiative of "Employing Job Seekers with Special Needs in UAE". Prepared the initiative plan, implementation follow-up and evaluation report.
• Recruitment services to national job seekers
• Training needs assessment; and managing assigned training programs, liaison with training providers, following-up the implementation of the training programs.
• Plan and coordinate for orientation programs and Career Guidance Workshops for national job seekers, as well as provision of the career guidance.
• Coordinate with employers for organizing Employers' Orientation Programs to the national job seekers.
• Implementation monitoring and evaluation of the planned activities.
• Contributed to the preparation of the office annual plan.
• Participated in establishing Tanmia - Abu Dhabi Office (ADTO)
• Contributed to preparations of the ADTO' s annual plans and budgets.
• Designed/implemented monitored and evaluated a comprehensive plan for enhancing employability and employment of job seekers with special needs (disabled) in the UAE.
Responsibilities:
• Conducting scientific researches: problem identification, setting of objectives, designing of questionnaires, data processing, analysis, report writing and skills of presentation.
• Analysis of implementation problems, capacity building and coordination.
• Contribution to the National Strategy Project for the Development and Employment of National Labor Force in the UAE, Particularly Towards Increasing National Women's Participation Rates in the Labor Force
• Assist in setting up policies of the co-operative society.
• Conducting surveys on rural women and design development and employment programs.
• Projects’ proposal writing and preparation of feasibility studies for getting bank’s loans.
• Monitoring & Evaluation.
Accomplishments:
• Contributed to setting up a long-term plan (1990 - 2005) for the agricultural co-operative society, jointly with the Board of Directors.
• Conducted a survey on rural women in Al Siderah District - The Gezera Scheme in the Sudan, by applying Rapid Rural appraisal (RRA) approach - (1994).
Responsibilities:
• Conducting market surveys for agricultural inputs.
• Preparation of feasibility studies for the imported agricultural inputs.
• Marketing of agricultural inputs.
Responsibilities:
responsible for collecting and processing of data.
Achievements:
Contributed to the following researches: • The Labor Force in Khartoum, "The Four Years Salvation Program for Economic Development".
• Distribution Channels of Important Commodities in Khartoum Province.
• Vegetables & Fruits in Khartoum Province
The grade system is B.
I got a scholarship for four years, I was the top of my class at graduation. Got the award from the former president, Hosny Mubarak.