Director of Relations and Development
Al Khawarizmi International College
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :22 years, 0 أشهر
The Director of Relations and Development (DRD) is the senior leader reports directly to the President.
Responsible for orchestrating activities related to the analysis, planning, execution, control, and evaluation of fund raising, alumni affairs, marketing and public relations, and governmental relations. In addition, provide the leadership and management for working with and through the President and the Board of Directors Representative for its philanthropic programs and activities.
The DRD shall:
- Provide administrative and executive staff support to KIC-UCC in all its activities.
- Supervise and monitor the marketing strategy to help achieving the assigned targets.
- Work with the President in analyzing the fundraising programs and planning for future activities.
- Act as liaison with faculty and staff to explore possible funding sources.
- Oversee and work with alumni and the alumni association in all of its activities.
- Work with campus, community, and legislative groups as appropriate.
- Serve as a member of the University Council.
- Assist the President with community relations as needed.
- Provide leadership and assistance to the Alumni Association.
- Oversee the creation and implementation of all University marketing efforts.
- Create appropriate record keeping system(s) for tracking donor participation, identification, and cultivation of prospects plus volunteer involvement in programs.
- Oversee training and supervision of paid and volunteer support personnel in establishing and maintaining the record keeping system(s).
- Analyse and implement general public relations programs, working with volunteer and staff committees, task forces, and recommend programs which will enhance and advance the mission, goals, and objectives of the University.
- Prepare detailed plans of actions for all approved fundraising and community relations programs including budgets to support their implementation.
The Director of Public & Community Relations -DPCR- job description could be summarized as follows:
* The roles and duties include many elements of marketing, but with more of an emphasis on building personal connections over the long term than on sales.
* Establishing a positive company image among internal and external audiences to enhance the brand.
* Work with government agencies, nonprofit organizations and private companies to manage the relationships necessary to the growth and success of the organization.
* Focus on raising public & community awareness of the organization and its work rather than on directly helping the enterprise grow.
* Maintain a relation with all the agency's contacts on an ongoing basis to ensure that referrals continued to come in.
* Organize promotional events, write and edit news releases and manage friendly contacts with businesses and government officials on behalf of the organization.
* Be the public image in the community and create, promotes and executes community event ideas.
* Manage all community relations related events; ensuring the organization messages and brand guidelines are communicated and implemented.
* Conduct research, generate ideas, develop messages, plan and implement marketing activities.
* Insuring that all internal and external correspondences and documents are in line with the organization messages.
* Support marketing, awareness, and education teams with facts, messages, and written materials.
* Oversee and manage Educational Counseling team and media monitoring agencies, ensuring that work is done on time, and in line with best-practices.
* Manage and foster relations with all media channels; Newspapers, radios to announce corporate news, events, and initiatives.
* Plan, write and edit news and information about the organization and its activities to the media, stakeholders, employees, key influences, business partners, and the public at large.
The roles of University Campus Manager could be summarized as follows:
* Provide high level organizational and administrative support to the President, Dean, Associate Deans and senior Faculty within the College.
* Provide high-level support to KIC's committees by ensuring that record keeping is consistent with University and College expectations/policies and action plans and follow-up action promptly executed.
* Coordinate the KIC's accreditation preparation, submission and follow-up processes in liaison with CAA accreditation authorities.
* Coordinate and participate in compiling the college information for the Catalog.
* Manage processes of KIC's Appraisal and promotion for faculty.
* Manage Student Evaluation processes in collaboration with the Institutional Research and Planning.
* Manage and organize all resources for continuing and visiting academics.
* Manage KIC's space usage in liaison with the Facilities Department.
* Manage examination processes in collaboration with the Registrar’s Office and ensure that all examination deadlines and policy compliance are met.
* Provide high level advice and support on KIC's policies and procedures to the faculty.
* Provide leadership to and supervision of college administration staff including the management of performance, development and career planning of administrative staff,
* Human Resource Management:
---Leading and supervising employees to fulfill the assigned objectives and goals of the organization’s.
---Maintain conducive learning environment that encourages all members including students to study/work in a healthy environment,
---Assure that staff professional development programs are well implemented.
---Provide connections with academic units within KIC to achieve the internal academic excellence.
* Training Management:
--- Supervise group projects and hands-on training for private and corporate.
--- Effective monitoring of the hospitality services.
--- Maintaining a database of trainees, performance reports and coordinating placements.
--- Effective monitoring of the instructors’ performance.
--- Coordinating with the business development manager on up-to-date IT training materials
--- Being updated with the new technologies relevant to staff members and trainees.
--- Representing the company in official meetings, seminars and annual occasions like GITEX.
--- As an MCT, signing certificates issued to the trainees attending Microsoft MOC courses.
--- As a CCAI, signing certificates issued to the trainees attending Cisco Academy Course-CCNA
---- Prepare course plan, organize workshops and field assignments.
* Consultancy and Training: Provide advanced training for corporate like:
--- ADNOC, ADMA, G.H.Q, Buroog, NDC, Police Dept., Purchase Department.
* Customer Satisfaction:
--- Effectively support training coordinators and training managers.
--- Maintain high student's satisfaction rate.
--- Meeting participants and corporate clients whenever required.
* Campus Appearance and Building Maintenance:
--- Effectively manage the administration supervisor in order to make sure that the building is
------ Clean,
------ Hygienic,
------ Well maintained,
------ Facilities are well organized to provide high standard learning environment.
* Public Relations:
--- Establishing business relations with corporate and individual clients.
--- Paying visits to key officers in the previous mentioned organizations at least once every month.
Manage the IT Services department and ensure that all computer hardware, software, website, network equipment audio/visual aids at the College in are maintained in a good working condition and recommend updating of these resources when necessary.
Roles & Duties:
* Ensuring that the computers used in training are adequately maintained
* Ensuring that the computer network is efficient and properly utilized
* Providing Technical support services and IT training.
* Responsible for the organizations network infrastructure (3 campuses)
* Maintaining the accessibility and availability of the Great Plain and CRM servers
* IT support and consultancy services to customers with contract.
* Installing company's software, Printer, Tapes and backup disks.
* Operating & maintaining the network consoles for mobile users and computer systems.
* Organizing and implementing seminars in new technologies and networking related issues.
* Teaching the Networking and IT technical support courses including: MCSE on Windows 2000 & 2003 (using original MOC Materials), Cisco CCNA, Structured Cabling design, Network Security, CompTIA A+, N+ and Server+
* Administration and support of a Windows 2k network with Microsoft ISA 2000/2004 and Exchange server 2000/2003.
* Maintain and administer the LAN, WLAN, WAN and workstation.
* Computer networks, installation and Operating System troubleshooting.
* Maintaining & Implementing network traffic and security monitoring software & server maintenance.
* Perform servers backup and recovery tasks.