Sarah Takkoush

- Working with the Director and Assistant Director of the Writing Center to plan and manage the semester and daily work and meeting schedules, allocating the necessary personnel for each job, following up on the work accomplished, and finding substitutes when a tutor is ill or absent.
- Participating with the Director and Assistant Director in preparing the annual budget and other reporting documents. Includes compilation of data on both Writing Center usage and Writing in the Disciplines trainings, as well as other scheduled activities (MA Thesis Writing Workshops, service-learning opportunities, Lebanese Writing Centers Works-in-Progress sessions, etc.), checking previous expenditure figures, collecting information from past budgets and reports, preparing draft of reports, agendas and addenda for meetings, and archiving all documents.
- Monitoring budget expenditures. This includes ensuring availability of funds, recording proper code number, monitoring Writing Center Works Study tutors’ hours for payroll, initialing requisitions and sending same to the Director for approval, and maintaining Writing Center’s petty cash.
- Providing services for both the Writing Center and Writing in the Disciplines teams. This includes making appointments, communicating with tutors and other stakeholders, and managing resources by keeping inventory of supplies, communicating with physical plant, and tending to the Writing Center space and its setup, assisting with publicity and social media, and uploading material to the center website.
- Serving as primary point of contact for all phone and email communication with the Writing Center and Writing in the Disciplines, responding to and distributing incoming messages in accordance with the defined workflow process.

- Receive and process money when customers make deposits.
- Distribute money when customers write checks on their accounts or withdraw savings.
- Cash-in payroll checks, exchange foreign currency, receive loan payments, and issue banker’s checks.
- Validate, or check, the deposit slip and stamp it by machine to show that it was checked and accepted at that date and time.
- Promote products and loans to try to satisfy the sales targets.
- Work incoming and purchased checks.
- Handle daily NCR related tasks (mainly cash)

- Receive and process money when customers make deposits.
- Distribute money when customers write checks on their accounts or withdraw savings.
- Cash-in payroll checks, exchange foreign currency, receive loan payments, and issue banker’s checks.
- Validate, or check, the deposit slip and stamp it by machine to show that it was checked and accepted at that date and time.
- Promote products and loans to try to satisfy the sales targets.

- Approve loans within specified limits, and refer loan applications outside those limits to management for approval.
- Analyze applicants' financial status, credit, and property evaluations to determine feasibility of granting loans.
- Obtain and compile copies of loan applicants' credit histories, corporate financial statements, and other financial information.

- Providing administrative assistance to faculty and staff of the School.
- Performing School’s daily correspondence and filing.
- Maintaining processes and updates files, records and/or other documents.
- Performing daily routine tasks: typing, copying, phones backup, processing forms, mail duties and other office duties.
- Ordering stocks and office supplies.
- Answering queries concerning School’s activities and operations.
- Following up on School’s requests.
- Scheduling and arranging calendar items, appointments, interviews, meetings, conferences, and other School events.
- Performing data entry, editing, and proofreading documents.
- Coordinating with other departments/schools on administrative and/or operational matters.

- provide administrative support to 3 vice presidents (VPs) around the office. However, the bulk of my workload is with the VP of sales for the MENA region and his SRM team.
- Create documents and materials utilizing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Lotus Notes as well as other databases specific to the SRM unit (such as sales@sita).
- Follow procedures for tracking projects from the VP of sales to his sales team and ensure delivery of said projects within the stated deadlines. I also follow up on any of his questions/concerns that he may address to his team.
- Prepare simple analyses of requested information or data in addition to updating the sales plan every day.
- Follow up on customer debt and cash collection process with each account manager in the sales team. I consolidate the information and update our debt files. Moreover, I check for inaccuracies in the data or missing payments and report them to the parties involved in tracking any missing payment.
- Assist with meeting logistics and operations, which include minutes recording and distribution.
- Effectively research, collect, organize and disseminate information in a timely fashion.
- fill in medical documents for social security, arrange flights and hotel bookings, scanning, photocopying, and keeping records of all of the above.

- help and eventually replace the full-time supply office assistant when she had to go on maternity leave.
- The job description included:
a- processing "supply online requests" from different departments in the university
b- entering this data on IMS and i-procurement databases
c- filling in purchase requests (PRs), comparing purchase orders (POs) from different suppliers and seeing which offer fits to better with our requirements (better quality, quantity, and price)
c- invoice processing and documentation
d- All filing and organizing tasks around the office.