Muhammad Zubair

Mississauga College of Technology, Ontario, Canada

The College has a decade's history in providing educational services in the private sector as High School graduating students programs and College level courses along with other professional government registered programs like IELTS, SAP, PSW/HSW, Early Childhood Education, Aesthetics, Web design, HTML, PHP, Oracle, C++, Java, Quality Assurance, and Project Management etc...
My role as Admission Officer and Coordinator to CA (Campus Administrator) is leading and managing teams related to student enrolment in all programs and courses of studies like student recruiters, marketing and social media handlers, and HR departments. Some of my job descriptions are:

* Working in teams to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of MCT operations.
* Teach IELTS 40hrs training program as Instructor.
* Recruitment of students and staff for business growth and needs.
* Conducting interviews and talent acquisition.

Al Anjal School was one of the oldest schools in the Jeddah region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Joined this institute as Academic Director in January 2020, My aim was to make this school one of the highest and top competitive educational providing institutes. In 3.5 years of my tenure, we have achieved many milestones, and proudly left for good. We had students from grades 1-12 in National and International streams with the addition of the Special Need Unit.
I was leading the teams at Al Anjal schools in the following areas:

• Achieved smooth running of day-to-day school operations.
• Taken data-driven decisions in the light of analysis with cause and effects, teams, timelines for the projects’ completion, and result-oriented goals measurements.
• Handled Schools Academic issues i.e. Curriculum Standards & Curriculum Mapping, Benchmark setting for success, Pacing Guides, Scheme of Works, Academic Plans, Exams & Assessments.
• Conducted teachers' evaluations and did proper follow-ups.
• Led the teams for Staff Recruitment, local and abroad.
• Led the steering committee of school Accreditation: Our school was Cognia (formerly AdvancED) accredited. School Engagement review was hosted in April 2021 and obtained full accreditation for 5 years.
• Achieved Digitalizing of several services.
• Organised Internal and External Professional Development Training.
• Conducted Book review and book selection for the next academic year.
• Taking all stakeholders on board especially parents and teachers to work out closely in students' progression
• Worked on enhancing Communication channels and their operational development.

Maarif Co. is the owner Company of Manarat & Green Hills Schools, where I have worked in the Academic team consist of Academic Director, myself as an Educational Coordinator, and Academic Operation Manager.
We were looking after the academics of all international schools under the umbrella of Maarif Co.

Being an experienced educator with more than 18 years of experience, amongst which 17 years are in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I was involved and achieved a series of goals as a school administrator and academic personal.

My professional duties / Job Descriptions at Maarif Co. Were the following:
• Looking after the international schools in terms of Ministry of Education formalities and Academic related issues like Curriculum Standards, Pacing Guides, Bench Marks, unification, and implementation of policies across all Maarif owned International schools.
• Accreditation proceedings of the international schools.
• Financial Budgeting for academic activities and worked closely with the Ministry of Education by getting our new branch licenses, day-to-day ruling policies, and implementing legal frame orders.
• Training for all academic school stakeholders like teachers, leaders, and support staff is also one of the main responsibilities.
• We traveled inside and outside the Kingdom to obtain professional development training like attending Cognia ( AdvancED) workshops, seminars to get up-to-date knowledge of standards and protocols of Cognia International Accreditation, and other educational conferences and seminars for interacting worldwide educators and leaders.
• Liaison and in charge person between Cognia (AdvancED) and Maarif Co.
• Achieved several awards and certificates for attending IRVs, ERVs, and getting full modular training of schools’ accreditation protocols and used to its implementation process.
• I have worked as a consultant for other organizations and schools' implementation plans as a practitioner in the educational industry.
• Member of the staff recruitment committee, responsible for the teachers' hiring from different parts of the world and their visa arrangements with coordination of HR department.
• Got abroad range of international recruiters in different countries, mainly in the UK, USA, Canada, South Africa, Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan.
• Conducted interviews locally, via Skype, and visited the UK, Egypt, etc.. for live face-to-face interviews.
• Working-out and manage book affairs. as a Project Manager of Books affairs, I was responsible for reviewing the Books through committees of Heads of Departments in all branches by involving different publishers and suppliers locally and internationally.
• We were required to choose the books as per International curriculum standards like Common Core States Standards, California State and NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards), etc…

Manarat Al-Riyadh International School (initially under the HRH Prince Mohammad Al-Faisal Al-Saud and later owned by Maarif for Education & Training Co.) Riyadh KSA. I was responsible for below:
• Lesion person between the Ministry of Education & Department of Foreign Education and school.
• Registrar British Council Exams (Cambridge and Edexcell boards).
• Member of the Steering Committee CITA & AdvancED Accreditation
• American Stream Exams Assistant Coordinator SAT Exams, AP Exams, and PSAT/NMSQ Exams.
• Student Counsellor for Enrolment of High School graduates in different universities of the US, UK and Canada and School Section Secretary, new admissions, Exams arrangements, Graduation ceremony procedures, dealing with the Ministry of Education, Conducting meeting with Heads of Departments, Supervisors, and Teachers.

As a CM / QA Analyst I was responsible for:
• Coordination of all Quality Assurance / Configuration Management
• Testing the development/conversion/migration effort for the Saudi Aramco & Ministry of Interior.
• Analyst House was a Borland based Software Co. I was working in this domain
• They were the only distributors and official provider of Borland Solutions in the Middle East, their main customers were Saudi Aramco & the Min. of Interior.
• They were providing solutions for e-business in Delphi using Borland Products and servers.

ICSM was a Software Consultant firm engaged in large ORACLE projects with prestigious clients like RSADF (Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces) in close co-ordination with United States Government.
As an assistant to CM / QA Manager, I was responsible for:
• Coordination of all Quality Assurance / Configuration Management and test activities
• It's a software development/conversion/migration effort for the Royal Saudi Air Defense Force (RSADF).
• ICSM had completed 18 years of growth in providing an effective business solution to their clients. ICSM was providing a solution to solve complex business problems by applying computer information technology and system engineering expertise. ICSM renders a full range of services and solutions to the government, commercial, and industrial services.

We (Myself and my business partner) initiated a school, Pakistan Public School and College in Sep. 1999 and I was the Principal until I moved to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The job descriptions of the post were:
• Initiated a brand new school with all the promotional and advertisement policies and made a wonderful inauguration
• Running the school on day to day basis
• Recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff
• Planning for all activities
• Administered teaching
• Communication with all stakeholders
• Forming and managing the students parent councils
• Looking after the Academic and Admin issues like Book choosing, curriculum Mapping, academic calendars, scheduling activities and competitions
• Arrangements and execution of Parent-Teacher Meetings
• Controlling finance etc...
It still persists and operating through my brothers and business partners.
I am playing the role of CEO (distanced) in all academic and administrative decisions and conducting training for staff whenever I travel to Pakistan.