Employment Officer
UNRWA
Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months
UNITED NATION (UNRWA) - Outreach & Placement Officer
July 2016 - November 2018
• Conduct local labor market analysis according to specific format.
• Seek for job vacancies and active labor programme opportunities (on-the-job/apprenticeship).
• Disseminate information about the legal status of Palestine refugees with regards to right to work to potential employers.
• Disseminate information on and administrative support in procedures entailed by the recruitment of Palestine refugees (upon requests of potential employers).
• Ensure, while interacting with potential employers, that job opportunities meet criteria of quality and decent work.
• Deliver in collaboration with Employment Officer and the Career and Guidance Unit (CGU) group informative sessions on sectors with high potential for recruitments in Greater Beirut, and application process; targeting various groups (UNRWA students, graduated youth, unskilled/low-skilled jobseekers etc.).
• Contact jobseekers and encourage their applications to job vacancies identified relevant to their profiles and skills.
• Prescreen applications and refer (with support letter from UNRWA) relevant candidates to job vacancies identified during the outreach visits.
• Ensure through specific monitoring tools that job placements are sustainable and that they meet criteria of quality and decent work.
• Refer jobseekers who are able and willing to open their own business to the micro credits unit in UNRWA after completing a short training (know about business, start and improve your business and generate your business) gradually.
• Finally, the Outreach and Placement officer is also responsible for identifying job opportunities in the region and in the Arab emirate states.
General Summary:
Manages sales of the company’s products and services in within a defined geographic area, province or country. Ensures consistent, profitable growth in sales revenues through positive planning, deployment and management of sales personnel. Identifies objectives, strategies and action plans to improve short- and long-term sales and earnings.
Core Functions:
1- Collaborates with General Manager in establishing and recommending the most realistic sales goals for the company.
2- Manages an assigned geographic sales area or product line to maximize sales revenues and meet corporate objectives.
3- Establishes and manages effective programs to compensate, coach, appraise and train sales personnel.
4- Performs sales activities on major accounts and negotiates sales price and discounts in consultation with General Manager
5- Manages personnel and develops sales and sales support staff.
6- Reviews progress of sales roles throughout the company.
7- Accurately forecasts annual, quarterly and monthly revenue streams.
8- Develops specific plans to ensure revenue growth in all company’s products.
9- Provides quarterly results assessments of sales staff’s productivity.
10- Coordinates proper company resources to ensure efficient and stable sales results.
11- Formulates all sales policies, practices and procedures.
12- Assists sales personnel in establishing personal contact and rapport with top echelon decision-makers.
13- Collaborates with General Manager to develop sales strategies to improve market share in all product lines.
14- Interprets short- and long-term effects on sales strategies in operating profit.
15- Educates sales team by establishing programs/seminars in the areas of new account sales and growth, sales of emerging products and multi-product sales, profitability, improved presentation strategies, competitive strategies, proper use and level of sales support, management of expenses and business/financial issues on contracts.
16- Collaborates with General Manager to establish and control budgets for sales promotion and trade show expenses.
17- Reviews expenses and recommends economies.
18- Holds regular meeting with sales staff.
Career Coacher - Recovery Dept.(Apprenticeship Project)
1- Assists in identifying graduate trainees of work based learning opportunities.
2- Counsels graduate trainees on career path choices and assist them in preparation for apprenticeship.
3- Assists in developing, explaining and implementing apprenticeship agreement that emphasizes both apprentice’s and entrepreneur’s responsibility to the work-based learning.
4- Ensures implementing measures that contribute to a conducive learning environment for the apprentices to gain practical skills.
5- Participates in assessing the needs of the businesses where the apprentices are placed, raise recommendation and follow up on the use of business incentive and payment of apprentices’ stipends.
6- Conducts regular field visits to the placement locations to monitor attendance, observe and evaluate apprentices work, monitor progress, address personal issues and provide suggestions for improvements;
7- Reports to project supervisor on apprentices’ progress, performance and other issues, while maintaining apprentices’ records.
8- Follows up employment and career success.
* Chairman Office (Main Duties) :
- Working as Chairman Assistant, and communicating between all the companies in the group with the Chairman.
- Prepare agendas and make arrangements for committee, board, and other meetings.
- Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees and boards of directors.
- Compile, transcribe, and distribute minutes of meetings.
- Attend meetings in order to record minutes.
- Read and analyze incoming memos, submissions, and reports in order to determine their significance and plan their distribution.
- Manage incoming correspondence.
- File and retrieve corporate documents, records, and reports.
- Prepare responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries.
- Perform general office duties such as ordering supplies, maintaining records management systems, and performing basic bookkeeping work.
- Make travel arrangements for executives.
- Coordinate and direct office services such as records and budget preparation and personnel in order to aid executives.
- Meet with individuals, special interest groups and others on behalf of executives, committees and boards of directors.
- Manage and maintain executives' schedules.
- Prepare reports, memos, letters and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet and/or presentation software.
- Set up and oversee administrative policies and procedures for offices and/or organizations.
- Supervise and train other clerical staff.
- Review operating practices and procedures in order to determine whether improvements can be made in areas such as workflow, reporting procedures, or expenditures.
- Interpret administrative and operating policies and procedures for employees.
• Human Resources department. (As Acting)
- Cover the absence of the Head Dept. and do all his duties.
• Treasury department.
- Handle all stock dealing in stock market.
1. Prospect for potential clients in order to generate more business.
2. Develop customer database & increase customer expenditure whilst maintaining existing accounts.
3. Recommend appropriate solutions to the clients.
4. Prepare and deliver sales presentations and proposals to new and existing customers in order to promote business.
5. Process all correspondence and paperwork related to customer accounts.
6. Follow up own portfolio sales collection.
7. Co-ordinates with the factories in Italy & Spain.
8. Responsibilities include prospecting, contacting, and securing new clients. Setting sales goals, selecting target clients, providing consulting services, presenting to CEOs, CFOs, and MDs, negotiating agreements, and servicing customers.
9. Recruit, train & supervise sales staff and develop marketing strategies and materials.
- Receiving, issue, shelving, picking, packing and dispatching of products, supplies and etc.
- Check and monitor the stock level on a daily basis, stock in a manner ensuring that the goods are available to meet the farm requirements.
- Prepare monthly stock summary, reconcile and ensure physical and book balances tally everyday.
- Feeding of delivery orders in On-line inventory system.
- Store and release supplies or equipments.
- Compile the records of the supplies.
- Checking the supplies from time to time.
- Record the number and the kinds of supplies.
- Encodes all material requisition with the corresponding documents.
- Disseminate the supply in its designated areas.
- Securing the status of each supply; Check inventory and the condition of stored items at regular intervals.
- Receives and inspects all incoming materials and reconciles with purchase orders; processes and distributes documentation with purchase orders; reports, documents and tracks damages and discrepancies on orders received.