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Maha Alakhras

Gender Justice Senior Officer

OXFAM GB in Jordan

Location:
Jordan - Amman
Education:
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience:
12 years, 6 months

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Total Years of Experience:  12 Years, 6 Months   

December 2018 To Present

Gender Justice Senior Officer

at OXFAM GB in Jordan
Location : Jordan - Amman
S/GBV Protection and Empowerment Project funded by AICS
Non-Formal Education Project funded by DANIDA
Masculinities vs Women Empowerment Project/ Ma’an
Health & Social Protection within COVID-19 crisis Project funded by OCHA
COVID-19 Protection Legal Response Project funded by LAP
Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Advocacy Project
 Design project documents (workplan, LogFrame, MEAL tools, contingency plan, mitigation plans)
 Maintain a high-level quality safe programming within the project cycle as outlined in proposal
 Promote inclusion by identifying barriers that prevent individual and community participation
 Budget management (budgeting, forecasting, expenditures tracking, NCE and payments authorization)
 Proactively guarantee that masculinities activities feed into Women’ Empowerment
 Support in masculinities curricula design
 Establish media monitoring baseline against UNESCO’ GSIM methodology
 Manage Oxfam Gender website/ Women’s rights advocacy
 Monitor & evaluate projects for smooth running, improving project deliverables and future recommendation
 Develop knowledge-based system covering project technical activities, challenges and lessons learned
 Identification, mapping and assessing new partners (identifying risks, gaps and recommendations)
 Technical capacity building for partners
 Ensure stewardship of effective partnerships with local partners to support enhanced local ownership
 Support partnership engagement and communication to complete program deliverables
 Managing consultants contracted for GBV protection services, researches and assessments
 Coordination with Finance, Media, MEAL, technical advisors and Logistics for best program deliverables
 Create a glossary for SRHR (Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights) for advocacy purposes
 Design project required SOPs and protocols for each intervention
 Develop new project CNs and proposals, identify relevant partners for each proposal
 Submission compliant and accountable donor reports
 Submit Gender Justice Country Reports (OCR, OPR, QMR)
 Promote external collaboration with SGBV SWGs, CP SWG, Referral coordination meetings
January 2018 To November 2018

Protection Program Coordinator

at Mercy Corps
Location : Jordan - Amman
Child Protection and Youth project funded by OFDA/USAID in Northern Syria
Women and Youth ASPIRE Livelihood- Protection project funded by GAC in Northern Syria
 Quality control over project implementation, operational and technical guidance to project partners
 Design project full frameworks with all project relevant formats
 Budget management (budgeting, forecasting, expenditures authorization, NCE, financial reconciliation)
 Ensure cost-effective financial management of program budgets
 Ensure strengthening women and youth’s participation with local authorities and civil society
 Leadership of program staff located in multiple countries (Jordan, Syria and Turkey)
 Effectively, design and plan trainings to increase the capacity of local/ regional staff and partners
 Technical lead of implementing partners, ensuring that the activities are operated in compliance with donor requirements and humanitarian standards
 Support partners in developing curricula matching context & required results. Authorize curricula accordingly
 Promote a professional relation with projects’ donors for a consistent approach of project design, implementation and close out
 Tracking system by ensuring that sub-grant and grant records are kept up to date
 Internal coordination with finance, compliance, operations, MEAL and security teams
 Lead partner selection process for new grants (reviewing partners proposals, scoring and interviewing regional partners) in prior of funding decisions
 Track partners’ narrative reports providing technical inputs, technical guidance to partners
 Submit periodical donor reports and grants. Same for security incident reports
 Design, lead, and participate in relevant workshops, meetings feeding to program objectives
 External coordination with Protection cluster and implementing partners in Turkey and Syria
 Develop success stories and lessons learned through identification of program strengths and challenges
 Promote gender & protection mainstreaming throughout the non-gender focused project implementation
 Development of new project CNs and proposals, identify relevant partners for each proposal
 Improve the accountability between program and financial reporting trackers
July 2017 To December 2017

Syria Response Senior Protection Officer

at Mercy Corps
Location : Jordan - Amman
Youth and Child Protection RECOVER project funded by OFDA in Northern Syria
 Ensure smooth running of project, technical oversight, design of sector interventions, planning and making sure that all related activities adhere to child protection standards (Life Skills, Vocational training, Non-formal education and PSS- Psychosocial Support)
 Budget monitoring (monthly projections, expenditures tracking and reconciliation)
 Guides and supports all assigned staff in their development
 Develop periodic plans (work plan, procurement plan, Logistics plan, etc)
 Update procurement plans on a regular basis and tracking all operations documents
 Work with relevant stakeholders to assess, select and manage relevant volunteers, staff and partners
 Prepare Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, and other finance documents related to project planning
 Tracking political concerns affecting program activities ensuring that all issues are solved in a timely manner with prior safety to beneficiaries and staff
 Supervise outreach program activities providing technical inputs and support into programming related assessments to the protection field team
 Ensure safety of beneficiaries and MC staff on the ground with coordination with local authorities/councils
 Design contingency plan according to security situation with all relevant documents
 Facilitate the smooth transition of the MC program direct implementation to the sub-grant by coordination with the field level in parallel with the management level
 Develop periodical and incident reports (Internal and donor project reports)
 Ensure compliance with policies and procedures as well as the donor regulations
January 2016 To June 2017

Protection /PSS Specialist

at ACTED
Location : Jordan - Mafraq
ITS Makani Project for Vulnerable Outreach Communities
 Lead the project implementation with quality of programming (project timeline, efficiency and accuracy)
 Planning, lead and oversee the delivery of protection, LS and PSS related activities in project’s areas
 Provide oversight and direction of project-compliant activities
 Design project relevant documents (Budget, SOP, team workplans, monitoring and final evaluation plan)
 Lead and guide staff in-charge of delivering protection, PSS and LS related activities
 leading on competency development and growth of assigned Program(s) staff
 Protection capacity building and improvement for Protection Social workers, Protection Assistants, Protection Volunteers and Education Community Mobilizers
 Conduct Protection and PSS TOT training for Protection staff
 Manage referral mechanisms related to protection, CP, GBV and Health and following up sensitive cases confidentially with related service providers
 Lead GBV needs assessments. S/GBV safeguarding focal point
 Design S/GBV prevention and response tools across projects
 Design Protection standard of procedures “SOPs” for each intervention
 Project monitoring and evaluation against project indicators
 Regular field monitoring visits
 Enhance protection mainstreaming within WASH and Education interventions
 Ensure that Child Protection policy and code of conduct is followed by all staff
 Lead data management process throughout the project cycle (BNFs DB, case management, referral DB)
 External coordination with protection sector stakeholders, Task forces and Sub-Working Groups

 Donor regular and incident reporting
November 2015 To January 2016

District Field Assistant

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at JEN (Japanese Emergency NGO)
Location : Jordan - Mafraq
Hygiene project in Za’tari Camp
 Develop HP messages
 Organizing events and HP FGDs
 Monitoring water vouchers and distribution
 Disseminating winter safety community messages
 Reporting and following up community WASH concerns
 Tracking CFW R&R (Cash for Work roles and responsibilities)
December 2014 To August 2015

Premiere Urgence Aide Medicale Internationale

at PU-AMI
Location : Jordan - Zarqa
Protection project (Cash and awareness) in Host communities
 Vulnerability assessments, home visits, outreach and protection/ Legal awareness raising sessions
 Coordination with external stakeholder to conduct Group Information Sessions, Focus Group Discussions
 Case management full process (interviews, follow up and referral when needed)
 Sexual reproductive health consultation through the case management process
 Individual protection and child protection counseling
 Regular reporting against project’s indicators
 Capacity building and technical support for PUI volunteers
 Accountability to ensure related activities adhere to protection standards
 PUI external representation to field stakeholders (NGOs, CBOs, Community Leaders, Focal Points)
July 2012 To June 2014

Center Director & Mental Math Instructor

at Mathnasium
Location : Jordan - Amman
Mental Math Learning Center
 Administration tasks (HR, financial duties, students’ registration and contracts)
 Baseline assessments to determine the students’ mental level
 Create specialized curricula for each student upon the level determined/special needs
 Mental math teaching service provision
October 2013 To December 2013

Mental Math Instructor

at Caritas
Location : Jordan - Karak
NFE Project for Syrian Refugees in Host Communities
 Develop social and emotional learning materials for Education and PSS purposes
 Mental math coaching skills for capacity building purposes
 Design mental math resources in a PSS frame
July 2009 To July 2010

Network Supervisor Engineer

at Jordan Telecom Group
Location : Jordan - Amman
Business development for Telecommunications
 DWDM technical support
 Optical fiber networks troubleshooting
 SDH and PDH transmission networks structuring
 Monitoring data network devices (STMs, routers, switches) using HPoV and MRTG tools
 Increase accuracy of fixing network alarms with clear diagnostics using Alcatel Workstation
 Filter customer complaints tickets received from CC & HL, fix it technically using Alcatel Workstation

Education

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February 2009

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

at Al-Balqa' Applied University
Location : Jordan - Amman
Grade: 2.85 out of 4
August 2004

High school or equivalent, High School

at Pioneer Educational Schools
Location : Jordan - Amman
Grade: 91.2 out of 100

Specialties & Skills

Social Psychology

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

FINANCIAL

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

Protection mainstreaming and standalone protection

negotiation

Project Management

Gender Mainstreaming

Social Justice

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