Associate Director of Institutional Effectiveness
RIT Dubai
Total years of experience :20 years, 11 Months
The Institutional Effectiveness office at RIT Dubai responsible for all the coordination and communication with accreditation and licensure bodies as well as the collection and analysis of data that has impact on the quality and effectiveness of the university programs and operations. My accomplishments to date include:
• Developing and writing content for 9 accreditation proposals, all of which were approved by the UAE Ministry of Education.
• Enhancing relationship and communication with RIT global campuses (RIT New York, RIT Croatia, RIT Kosovo), KHDA and the UAE Ministry of Education.
• Appointed member of the University Assessment Council (Advisory Body) in RIT New York; RIT Dubai Senior Management Board; RIT Dubai Staff Council; RIT Dubai Academic Council; RIT Dubai Retention Committee.
• Increasing overall institutional survey participation by 166% within 1st year of employment.
• Successfully developing and implementing a Risk Management Framework for 12 company departments.
• Writing and developing content for all corporate handbooks and policy documentations to ensure adherence to government standards.
• Developing numerous statistical data sets for reporting data to various stake holders.
• Writing documentation for grant funding resulting in the award of $1 Million in funding for a lab.
• Continuously Exceeded Expectations on all employee Annual Performance Evaluations.
I was employed at a GEMS school in the position of Learning Support Assistant whereby I taught and assisted a child with special needs to understand and access the curriculum presented by aiding them to overcome learning barriers. Accomplishments included:
• Strategically planning and improving student’s social skills allowing him to overcome previous social challenges.
• Strategically planning and improving student’s time management skills to allow them to self-manage.
• Successfully liaising with student’s Educational Psychologist and Occupational Therapist to develop a program that would allow the student to progress both emotionally and educationally.
“Haytoug” is a quarterly magazine published by the Armenian Youth Federation. As part of my role, I was responsible for shaping and directing the progression of each issue, thereby ensuring that content included properly represented the Organization’s stance, both within print and web issue publications. Accomplishments included:
• Developing and writing content for the publication of 8 magazine issues.
• Creating marketing campaign resulting in the increase of content submission by 36%.
• Planning and Managing Fundraising campaigns resulting in a publication budget increase of 15%.
• Maintaining subscriber retention threshold of 93%
• Developing strategic Social Media campaigns and marketing strategies resulting in an increase of web-traffic by 68%
The AYF is a Non-Profit organization established to represent the political and socio-economic interests of a minority population within the United States. Accomplishments included:
• Managing 3000+ volunteers during various grassroots mobilization efforts.
• Managing Public Relations efforts of 14 Chapters across the western United States.
• Spearheading 35 political lobbying campaigns.
• Organizing multi-day Annual Conventions for the organization.
• Organizing and managing numerous fundraising events with the most successful yielding in $150, 000+ in cash donations.
• Writing and developing content for numerous non-profit grants.
• Organizing many successful fundraising and other item collection campaigns for various causes and charities.
• Developing and maintaining media relations with numerous large scale news and other media entities.
• Strategizing on and spearheading various digital marketing efforts.
• Writing numerous Press-Releases and participating in various media interviews (print and broadcast).
• Created and edit communications materials including speeches, newsletters, and social media content.
• Assisted local campaign teams with media requests and communications.
• Chairperson of the United Human Rights Council social justice task-force for 6 years.
Associate of Art in History
Associate of Art in Political Science