Maggie Mostafa

Specific tasks include;
1. Supporting the implementation of the regional program on rural women’s empowerment through the Letter of Agreement with the Arab Women Organization;
2. Support the organization of a capacity-development training to strengthen FAO capacity on mainstreaming gender in projects and programmes targeted at GFPs from Cos and Technical Project Staff;
3. Support the conduct of a regional gender stock taking exercise according to ESP guidelines;
4. Support the implementation of country gender assessments in at least 3 countries;
5. Supporting the SIDA funded project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity & Water Sustainability in NENA” to mainstream gender equality and implement its gender action plan;
6. Support the coordination and compilation of the regional gender newsletter and provide content to the regional website;
7. Assisting in general with gender normative work in RNE across the three regional initiatives;
8. Monitor and report on gender work and activities on achieving regional priorities for the FAO work in support of member countries in NENA;
9. Support the review of country annual reports and PPRC;
10. Support the coordination of the regional gender focal point network;
11. Perform any other relevant duties as necessary

Initiate, review, process and follows-up on actions related to the administration of the unit’s human resource activities;
 Assist the HR Officer in the recruitment process of Fixed Term staff including advising managers on the preparation of panel member, short-listing of candidates; handling correspondence to applicants and organizing interviews with officers and applicants, book the room for the interview;
 Process overtime requests of staff;
 Responds to enquiries and provides information and advice to staff regarding their entitlements, administrative procedures, processes and practices, conditions of service, duties and responsibilities, and entitlements under the Staff Rules and Regulations;
 Initiate non-staff recruitment;
 Respond to routine requests for information;
 Review, record, distribute and process incoming mail and correspondence; follow-up on pending actions;
 Proofread documents and format texts for accuracy, grammar, punctuation and style, as well as for adherence to established standards;
 Provide assistance in the administrative processing of vacancy announcements and consultants' contracts;
 Research, compile and organize information and reference materials from various sources for reports; create spreadsheets and presentations; manage and update databases for mailing lists and other information; and maintain electronic and paper files;
 Attend meetings with the Regional HR Officer (when required) and be responsible for taking minutes of meetings;
 Monitor and follow-up on administrative requirements of the department.
Perform any other admin duties as required.

• Assist the activities of the Regional Communication Officer; especially for daily activities, preparing travel arrangements, drafting routine correspondence, memoranda, and reports from oral instructions, previous correspondence or other available information sources; via internal channels and GRMS;
• Attend meetings with the Regional Communication Officer (when required) and be responsible for taking minutes of meetings;
• Verify availability of funds under all programmes and departmental functions; ensure that operational expenditures are in accordance with approved budgets and that all committing documents are complete and consistent;
• Maintain detailed records of budget estimates, obligations and available balances; participate in the consolidation of budget proposals; prepare financial data for budget estimates and financial planning.
• Provide reports to the Regional Communication Officer on the amount and quality of content being created and keep track of initiatives by other UN agencies, NGO's, partners and donors that may be relevant to the department’s work;
• Update the content of the electronic screens within the premises;
• Liaise with technical officers and decentralized offices to collect and update information to disseminate the event calendar of relevance to the FAO RNE; in alignment with the regional and global FAO websites;
• Support the media relations functions as instructed by supervisor (Media Advisory, Press Release distribution, Letters and invitations)
• Provide constant tracking of the departmental tasks and delivery deadlines;
• Update the list of stakeholders in the region (Government, Donors and CSOs)
• Assist in completing all departmental procurement requisitions, external contracts and purchase orders
• Monitor and follow-up on financial and administrative requirements of the department;
• Support in internal branding projects and internal communication services’ improvements
• Support the administration of equipment;
• On the ground support to different events;
• Perform other administrative and communication-related duties as required.

Since 2013, I've been working as an English Teacher at Umm Maabad Independent Preparatory school for girls in Doha, Qatar. I'm teaching grade 8. In my work, I'm responsible for making lesson plans, making parts in the clusters exams and I'm responsible also for teaching one or two weak students independently to increase their levels. I'm the head of external school activities at the English department.

I’ve worked as a TV anchor for nine months in two programs at Hala Qatar TV. The first one was medical called “My Special Doctor”. The second one was specialized in covering the events inside Qatar called “Doha Events”.