Jihene Chebbi Ghannay

 Submitting and vetting grant applications to QNRF on behalf of CNA-Q.
 Managing the grants while monitoring the performance of projects funded by QNRF on timely manner,
 Submitting progress reports and ensuring adherence to performance goals, to time schedules and other requirements, as appropriate.
 Executing the Master Research Funding Agreement (MRFA).
 Managing the compensation of research team members, travel, procurement and miscellaneous expenses in compliance with the approved budget and in accordance to the Awardee’s policies and procedures and maintain record of all documents.
 Handling legal and administrative issues with the sub-awardees.
 Ensuring continuous communications with the research team.
 Ensuring compliance with the applicable laws of the State of Qatar including the policies of the Qatar Supreme Council of Health (QSCH) and applicable laws for the protection of human research subjects through working closely with the institutional review board (IRB),
 Comply with the terms and conditions of the Fund Management Agreement of the relevant funding program.
 Initiate and process change requests using the QNRF QGRANTS while being in compliance with the policies set forth in the Fund Management Agreement.

 Carrying out needed research in the field of my subject;
 Collecting data from various sources including the Internet, libraries, and personal contacts; reads sources for relevancy to research themes; assembles documents, and reports;
 Organise and undertake quantitative research including sample selection, piloting, data collection from industries and data analysis
 Organise and undertake qualitative research including depth interviews with some selected industries.
 Perform cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis using SPSS
 Communicating results to the scientific community via published papers;
 Participating in national and international research forums and conferences, presenting ongoing work and findings and summarising the nature of the research, methodology and results;
 Collaborating with industry to apply the results of research and develop new techniques and practices;
 Presenting results to the director of research;
 Writing research papers, reports, reviews and summaries;
 Supervising junior researcher;
 Ensuring that quality standards of research are met;
 Liaising with junior researchers and the director of research;
 Developing original solutions to problems related to my subject;
 Keeping up to date with relevant scientific research and developments;

 Develop and propose annual plans and budget of the company in co-operation with the seniors Managers;
 Communicate with the Marketing Managers regarding problem with the clients.
 Coordinate with the Finance and Sales Departments regarding any issues related to customers' payment ability.
 Reconcile customers' accounts on monthly basis and resolve any invoicing or discount issues to avoid late payment.
 Prepare financial and operational reports, cost reports and financial forecasts on a regular (monthly) basis in order to control the budget and financial situation of the company;
 Present monthly results, budget variances and ad-hoc analysis;
 Participate in financial analysis around investment decisions to aid the company’s growth;
 Insure the yearly negotiation of budget with the representative of the ministry of finance;
 Prepare the financial statements in coordination with external accountant;
 Prepare and Monitor the Business Council of the company;
 Take minutes of all meetings;
 Work with seniors managers, coach them and advise on all the people issues;
 Advise, initiate, and coordinate with other departments about policies and procedures;
 In coordination with the general manager, ensure all the company policies and procedures are up to date in line with current employment law;
 Prepare the strategic planning progress for the business;
 Ensure that business and operations are conducted according to the agency procedures;
 Coordinate with the member of committee, to the definition, follow and the execution of annual training plan according to budget;
 Participate to the development of recruitment plan, interviews to ensure best candidate in administrative departments;
 Coordinate audit activities with other departments to secure resources needed to evaluate programs and conduct audit to ensure maximum efforts have been taken before assigning bad-debt status to account;
 Assure follow up of audit findings to ensure adequacy and timeliness of correction;
 Presents findings and recommendations concerning activities audited to the audit committee and to the general manager;
 Work collaboratively with projects managers to achieve organizational goals;
 Maintain a networking relationship within the industry in order to exchange information and update controls;
 Perform others duties as assigned.

 Prepare the annual organizational financial budget ensuring provision of sufficient resources and assets to attain organizational objectives.
 Prepare monthly financial reports including expenditures, variances against budget, balance sheet etc
 Prepare and report income and expense forecasts to the general manager
 Oversee all aspects of financial control in the business.
 Prepare objectives contracts and activities reports
 Prepare and Monitor the Business Council of the Agency.
 Ensure staff compliance with the approved financial policies and procedures as well as being up to date of any new accounting and reporting standards.
 Undertake reviews of departmental operational objectives and all related financial policies affecting the organization’s accounting and financial systems.
 Coordinate between the various divisions and administrative/technical services for the development of dashboards

 Monitoring of Regional budgets (25 Regional Directorates) and Central Directorate
 Produce monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts...
 Prepare and validate business case studies as needed
 Prepare salary scales and monitoring of salary increases.
 Monitor national entrance exams and budget allocation.
 Prepare management information from source data
 Participate in the implementation of the pilot project for the establishment of the Budget Management by Objectives "BMO".

Researcher (MSc) at the Research Unit - ETHICS, Tunis University
Impact of the AFDIE model of Competitive Intelligence on the Competitiveness of Tunisian SMEs
Carrying out needed research in the field of my subject
Recording and analysing data
Communicating results to the scientific community via published papers
Participating in national and international research forums and conferences, presenting ongoing work and findings and summarising the nature of the research, methodology and results

 Coordinate with the service head to monitor the Regional budgets and the departments of the ministry and to prepare the monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts...;
 Participate in the implementation of the pilot project MBO;
Coordinate the budget forecasting with the Regional Directorates and the finance central directorate.

Internship with the Department of Planning and Programming / Ministry of Education.

Internship with National Institute of Office and Computer (INBMI - Tunis)
Implementation of the program "ITC introduction to Education" Pilot Project ESSADIKIA

Internship with Regional Directorate of Education -Ariana:
Familiarization of realized work at administrative and financial division.