Projects and Partnerships Manager
British Council
Total years of experience :11 years, 10 Months
Project management and delivery:
• Efficient and effective delivery of project activities in line with the EU and British Council standards.
• Be responsible for the planning, implementation and quality control of the agreed set of the Aswat Faeela project activities in Jordan and other projects
• Be responsible for procuring and managing internal and external resources for activities in Jordan.
• Contribute as required to the overall project design and delivery, in collaboration with the Project Director, Team Leader and project team including consortium partners, and with British Council regional colleagues and in the UK.
• Identify opportunities to support the British Council’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policy, and considers all seven areas of the EDI framework in planning and implementation of programme and project activities.
Client, stakeholders and relationship management:
• Communicate change requests and initiate ad-hoc project review discussions, feeding back to Team Leader to support planning and delivery in Jordan.
•Maintain and foster links with professionals and organisation, communities in Jordan and share relevant information with the Team Leader and project team.
• Contribute operationally towards building positive relationships with partners and key stakeholders through participation in meetings in accordance with strategic direction. Key relationships will include institutional donors (DFID, EU, FCO, USAID), UN Agencies and INGOs working on Syria Response on a multicountry basis. May include participation in the country and sector level working groups that coordinate the international Syria response.
Monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning:
• Ensure all aspects of the Aswat Faeela project and other projects in Jordan have a monitoring process embedded, that evaluations are conducted in line with the projects requirements and that lessons learned both feed into ongoing projects design and delivery and are more widely disseminated through agreed channels.
• Produce regular reports on projects activities and finances in Jordan- on a regular basis to the Team Leader.
• participate in wider project progress reporting meetings with Team Leader and the project team and partners.
• Provide feedback and contribute to drafting of major financial and technical reports to client and the Steering Committee.
• Act as a focal point in collecting activity data and information related to British Council Syria Response in Jordan; and regularly contribute to Syria Response newsletter.
Risk and compliance:
• Ensure that risks are identified and monitored in Jordan and agree actions to address risks. Escalate risks to Team Leader as appropriate.
• Ensure that the project in Jordan meets all relevant internal and external compliance and requirements (financial, HR, quality management, procurement, security etc.).
Financial and budget management:
• Plan, forecast and monitor spending in line with agreed projects budget and expenditure in Jordan including record keeping, e.g. petty cash.
• Provide consistent and effective support to the management in all aspects of the project’s finances, ensuring rigorous financial control and transparent audit trails, in line with the British Council and client requirements, relevant procedures and standards.
Responsible of Monitoring and Evaluation department in Save the Children-Jordan
• Lead the successful roll out and implementation of all design monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Provide guidelines and standards for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all projects
• Ensure compliance with relevant norms and policies
• Lead monitoring efforts at in projects to ensure full compliance with standards
• Ensure that M&E related activities are successfully implemented and that relevant learning is documented, disseminated to staff and used to inform future decisions
• Develop and promote the implementation and use of quality program monitoring framework (tools and processes) and reporting, formats and proposal review
• Facilitate implementation of key community based monitoring and evaluation of progress
• Establish a comprehensive and an updated data base for all projects
• Ensure that the assessment and evaluation tools are developed
• Ensure that projects reports are developed and submitted in a timely manner
• Prepare a monitoring and evaluation plan for the programs
• To provide timely and relevant analysis and recommendations to the program team
• To update the M&E tracking data base
• To provide strategic leadership in the collection, documentation and sharing of best practices for improvements in program implementation
• To facilitate the evaluation and documentation of qualitative and quantitative performance
• Reports directly to the Project Director based in Amman, and coordinates with the DC MENA team as necessary;
• Has direct financial and management responsibility for the Jordan office accounts, budget and expenditures;
• Assisting in the development of monitoring and Evaluation of the current and new projects and proposals
• Monitors all sub-grants of aforementioned projects including ensuring that sub grantees expenditures comply with the sub grant’s financial guidelines;
• Responsible for collected data, data analysis, reviewing and analyzing progress reports.
• Gathers all relevant financial documentation in accordance with USG rules and regulations from sub grantees;
• Coordinates closely with the Business Manager on all accounting and financial issues pertaining to the Jordan office and Internews rules and regulations;
• Liaises with sub grantees, partners, consultants, trainers as needed and in coordination with the Project Director;
• Maintains office expenses and submits monthly expense reports (including proper documentation) and wires;
• Completes PAR’s, bids, procurement, WTRs as needed;
• Draft complete budgets for proposals;
• Monitor project budget through JSRs;
• Monitor sub grants going through the Jordan office;
• Directly involved in meeting stakeholders, providing ideas for project initiatives and strategies;
• Directly involved in the process of recruiting local staff i.e. advertisement, screening applications, and interviews;
Major Responsibilities:
• Prepare financial statements, income, expense
• Prepare budgets for our office departments
• Assist in monthly expense report for the Regional Office
• Assist in Member Nations status (revenues/ expense report)
• Assist in manage bank relations
• Assist in preparing annual budget
• Data entry on accounting system - QuickBooks
• Monthly update travel log
• Manage procurement bidding and follow up on delivery with suppliers
• Issuance of payments, transfers and coordinate with suppliers.
• Contracting & contract follow up
• Support HR System
• E-Documentation
• Supports events manager
During my master study I've worked as a student consultant along with three classmates for ABB (an international company) addressing a problem concerning smart cities in France. The purpose of this project was to: Define the best go to market model. Access calls and positioning onto this smart cities market. partnering / business model innovation. partnerships communication. My thesis topic is "The relationship between Corporate Governance and firm Performance in Amman Stock Exchange Market"