Business Development and Support Consultant
Freelance
Total years of experience :10 years, 7 Months
• Research markets, Analyze trends, and Uncover new business prospects for local organizations; and develop marketing strategies, explore partnerships, or enter new markets.
• Create strategic plans, develop actionable plans to achieve growth objectives. This includes defining target markets, crafting value propositions, and outlining sales and marketing strategies.
• Assist clients with various operational tasks, such as process improvement, project management, or training employees on new technologies.
• Established eficient processes for building capacity of local partner staf, creating policy and SOP manuals to ensure sustainability.
• Played a leading role in securing competitive 800k usd funding from UNOCHA for program activities by leading the proposal development process.
• Led the development of NUSANEDs 2022-2025 Strategy, prioritizing local ownership and long-term impact.
• Designed a tailored Gender and Soft Skills Curriculum, and contextualize the activities and energizers.
• Delivered trainings workshops to a Livelihoods Programs participants as part of the gender mainstreaming approach of the projects.
• Crafted training materials (tests, handouts, templates) and reported on outcomes, while supporting Livelihoods team with gender research and integration.
— Professional Experience —
Emergency Preparedness Plan, Empowered the ER Team, overviewed budgets and contributed to proposals development process.
• Guided a team of project managers, ensuring successful program implementation through strong partnerships with local actors.
• Fostered collaboration, addressed challenges, and facilitated communication to achieve program objectives.
• Built the capacity of CARE and local partners staf and volunteers on Emergency Response, Humanitarian Principles, Communication, Protection and Safety& Security Guidelines.
• Managed the Impact Unit: MEAL, IM, and Helpline & Accountability for 3 months and ensured high quality implementation.
• Led the launch of the OCHA-LHF Beirut Blast relief project, recruiting staf and building their emergency response capacity. Delivered outstanding reports, success stories and financial statements.
• Spearheaded community mobilization eforts, ensuring thorough understanding and prioritization of Participatory, Do No Harm, Protection, and Gender Mainstreaming approaches through comprehensive training and capacity building for staf, volunteers, partners, and beneficiaries.
• Contributed to partner identification, assessment, and selection; and Provided impactful training and technical support, fostering positive, equitable, and professional partnerships.
• Partnered with ABAAD to develop impactful PSEA materials, translated key messages, and disseminated them through the PSEA Network and working groups.
• Oversaw projects budget, reports and ensured its alignment with SFCG and donor regulations and policies
• Built capacity of governance leaders, religious and tribes focal points, youth and women through Non Violent Communication-NVC Guidance, and Common Ground Approach-CGA training.
• Implemented project activities, ensuring quality and timely achievement of projects outcomes and indicators.
• Established youth and women committees, enhanced their negotiations skills, conflicts management capabilities and financial & technical capacities.
• Mainstreamed protection and gender considerations throughout the project cycle, focusing on capacity development of local partners.
• Empowered NEF local partners to identify and address protection and gender-based violence (GBV) cases.
• Ensured that all internal and external documents, reports, concepts note and proposals are reviewed and adapted from a protection perspective.
• Assessed, Monitored, followed up and reported regular updates regarding protection trends, security incidents, tensions, armed conflicts and important context and safety situation trends occurring in Akkar.
• Acted as Security and Clearance Focal Point towards delegations departments: Water and sanitation, Health, Protection.
• Proactively created and maintained a centralized, up-to-date stakeholder contacts list, improving communication eficiency across departments. Implemented additional security measures for sensitive contacts related to Security and Government Authorities, providing controlled access to Senior Management.
• Established and built the capacity of conflict resolutions committees in the
Palestinians Refugee camps and rural areas in Akkar.
• Ensured the proper implementation and the development of impactful peace building and social stability programs.
• Revised, adapted and tailored Protection and Communication curriculums and activities based on the culture sensitivity and backgrounds of the project beneficiaries.
• Empowered community members, improved their knowledge and skills, and coached small committees to plan for and implement community initiatives that decreased tensions, conflicts and vulnerability.
• Supervised and provided technical support to the PSS Social Workers, developed work plans and joined the team in the field; Developed and drafted projects reports, curriculums and relevant tools.
• Collect, clean, organize and archive data.
• Collect, clean, organize and archive data.