Research And Development Manager
Queen Rania Foundation
Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months
• Manage design and construction projects.
• Supervise construction work.
• Initiate, plan, execute, control, monitor, and close projects.
• Identify project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks to determine required resources.
• Estimate costs and resources and accordingly calculate budget.
• Manage budget, scope, time, risks, and resources.
• Document project progress and prepare progress reports and presentations.
• Prepare technical reports and graphical representations.
• Assign contractors and sub-contractors and prepare required contracts.
• Analyze, assess, and monitor cash flow.
• Design and renovate residential buildings, cafes, restaurants, booths for exhibitions, and others.
• Collect data through qualitative research methods including intensive recorded interviews with Syrian refugees residing in the urban settings of Jordan and site visits to their homes and related NGO facilities.
• Manage and organize schedules for visits and interviews with targeted participants, and update the randomized sample excel sheets continuously.
• Write debrief notes, reflection notes, and other tracking sheets to simplify finding certain data out of long interviews.
• Conduct extensive analysis for the recorded interviews using qualitative analysis methods and tools like Dedoose online software.
• Assist in writing the research main report and other papers to be published.
• Engage with NGOs through meetings, business dinners, and other visits to their offices and support facilities.
Technical tasks:
• Perform advanced professional work related to variety of planning assignments.
• Manage, design, review and process complex comprehensive plan amendments, master plans, land use plans, zoning, annexations, and site plans.
• Conduct extensive research and prepare statistical reports on land use, physical, social and economic issues.
• Write and present formal and technical reports, proposals, working papers, and correspondences.
• Identify community problems, issues, and opportunities in particular neighborhoods that could be mitigated through better community planning.
• Develop strategies to promote economic and community development or efficient land use consistent with community goals.
• Evaluate adequacy of community facilities in meeting current and projected needs.
Management tasks:
• Manage, review and process complex comprehensive project amendments, including scope, budget, and time.
• Conduct extensive research for data collection, identify project requirements, and define and control scope.
• Advise technical teams on policies, procedures, and practices related to project and activity design, review, and approval.
• Coordinate each project and activity design from its inception to its completion, including development of a detailed design approach and schedule, and convening of design team meetings to review progress and resolve emerging issues.
• Prepare project and activity design documents, such as concept papers, work methodology, modifications to project design documents, analyses, project implementation justifications and waivers, activity scopes and program descriptions, and financial plans.
• Estimate costs, calculate project budget, and manage the budget function and project implementation.
• Identify problems, issues, and opportunities in particular projects that could be mitigated through better planning and risk management.
• Prepare work breakdown structure (WBS) and project schedule using one of the scheduling tools (MS Project or Primavera).
• Design and participate in in-depth technical, economic, financial, administrative, and social feasibility analyses related to the project in hand.
• Track, monitor and forecast progress of all activities and deliverable and analyze gaps between the planned and actual progress and highlight the areas of concern which require action of the associate task member.
• Ensure that documents and decisions are consistent with the company policies and practices, and ensure that documents are clearly and concisely written and meet high technical standards.
• Coordinate with other departments' managers and senior staff, donors, government officials, and private sector.
• Distribute relevant lessons learned found in reports and evaluations that might be useful for new activity development and mid-course corrections in ongoing activities.
• Lecture Bachelor first year students courses titled “Technical Graphics A and Technical Graphics B”
• Prepare course materials, home works, assignments and exams, and correct them
• Assist instructors of Bachelor second and third year students in “Architectural Design studios”
• Member of the International Committee - Communicate with German Universities
Master thesis: Towards Integrated Transport Planning Approach in Amman (Available upon request) Program's study fields: - Regional planning - Urban planning - Urban ecology - Informal areas upgrading - Sustainable urban design - Sustainable architecture - Construction and form - Policy and strategy making - Project management - Decision analysis - Geo-Design (GIS) - Communication skills Written papers: - Trash Becomes Cash (Project-base paper in urban development for informal areas in Cairo) - Integrated Public Transport in Amman. - Social Inclusion: Influential Urban Interventions in Amman. - Integrated Water Management and Wetland Restoration and Conservation in Azraq Oasis.