HR & Administration / Production Coordinator / Reception
Explorer Publishing & Distribution LLC
Total years of experience :13 years, 2 Months
• Effective administration & office skills support service that includes planning, implementation of management and company goals for changes and development.
• Performs all given HR & recruitment functions from posting job ads, searching & screening candidates, setting up interviews for management presentation and final decisions; leads and conducts employee orientations, admin duties for entry & exit procedures for all staff, handling and generation of all leave reports for employees’ and accounts’ references.
• Responsible for filing, keeping and organizing all related company documents; safeguarding all confidential information for all employees and developing a systematic process on record. Main in charge of the company’s tenancy contracts, staff medical, office, fire and car insurances for yearly processing and renewals.
• Deals with all customer and front office services management and reception duties including and not limited to answering & transferring of switchboard calls, relaying of accurate information, managing the company email ids for sales and queries; overseeing and handling of all local, international courier, bulk shipments and deliveries for all staff, clients and the company’s online shop.
• Actively liaising with internal (editorial, design, cartography, sales, production) teams and external suppliers to help manage and complete specific projects for company clients, in house tasks and all other marketing and sales requirements.
• Efficacious in dealing with all other required adhoc tasks for any given job roles to effectively complete deadlines and achieve excellent outputs for the company’s benefit.
• Managed the entire jobs website for a period of one month to boost the traffic and add hundreds of new jobs on the website. Entailed extensive research, persistent sales and follow up skills in order to persuade all UAE and GCC known companies to avail of the website’s job advertising offer. Result: 760 new jobs & 37 new recruiters
• One of the original founding employees of the regional network group tasked to produce the first daily local TV documentary show and news program in the region.
• Knowledge and experience in news and data gathering, news prioritization, monitoring, deployment, research, summarizing details, data processing and sequencing
• Schedules and conducts effective interviews of local personalities, government officials and the mass to support program needs; double check sources, data, facts and figures for all stories aired whether local or national
• Write scripts for TV, radio and print (news, articles, segments, feature stories)
• Solve and manage office and field related situations; handles all administrative functions and finances
• Participates in story conferences and conceptualization for production programs
• Planning and implementation of taped/canned or live programs and edit broadcast materials (documentary and news) through Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere
Cum Laude, Consistent University / College Honors, Student Assistant Scholarship