Adviser
king saud university
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :31 years, 5 أشهر
Overall role:
Advise the Vice Rectorate for Graduate Studies and Research on a wide range of strategic issues toward the realization of king Saud University (KSU) vision to become a world-class university.
Specific Tasks:
Propose initiatives and projects to translate KSU leadership vision into best practices.
Prepare initial concept and position papers on new initiatives and projects.
Draft reports, presentations, briefings and recommendations for the Vice Rector on a wide variety of issues
Keep abreast of leading-edge practices in world-class universities and their applicability at KSU
Develop and administer relations between the different academic, re-search and business units
Coordinate decision-making processes among different units for best performance
Track and review new initiative prospects and advise on needed resources, requirements and support to implement them
Carry-out additional tasks for the Vice Rectorate
Overall role:
Responsible for all aspects of management and leadership of the programme.
Specific Duties and Tasks:
- Developed the project approached and content, prepared and implemented work-plans and reports,
- Planned, budgeted and recruited a wide range of international short term experts to support the project.
- Implemented a sector-wide Training Needs for banking
- Defined training achievement criteria and ensured that learned skills were transferred to workplace
- Provided training, coaching and capacity development to local staff.
- Led the staff of the project
- Writen the end of Project report and other documentations
Responsible for implementing key parts of the Abu Dhabi Educational Holding Company (ADEHC) strategy & the realization of its vision in relation to identi-fying, researching, recommending & establishing new business ventures, initia-tives & opportunities. Identify strategic opportunities, analyze potential mar-kets, develops partnerships & manage key projects development activities & facilitation to exp& & grow existing Strategic Business Units. Contribute to & enhance the broader success of ADEHC & its profitability.
Specific Duties & Tasks:
- Translate the vision of the leadership of ADEHC & maximize the stake-holders’ benefits.
- Identify, track & review potential business prospects for ADEHC.
- Prepare initial concept & position papers vis-à-vis new business opportuni-ties.
- Initiate, track & manage the development cycle process for establishing new business opportunities in collaboration & coordination with internal & external subject matter experts.
- Support the development of full market research & business plans for the new ventures
- Prepare presentations, briefings & recommendation for the President (Chairman) & Chief Operation Officer on new business ventures
- Keep track & reviews of business prospects & solicit needed resources, requirements & support across the different business units
- Contribute & promote the overall position, visibility, responsibility, account-ability & impact for the whole organization.
- Develop & administer relations between the different business units, coor-dinate links with potential clients, & government agencies to promote ADEHC outreach to the larger community & constituencies.
- Contribute to the evolvement & growth of ADEHC organizational design & processes & support an organizational structure conducive to accomplish the organization's goals & objectives.
- Plays an active role in building processes & procedures necessary to en-hance the operation of ADEHC to maximize efficiency & effectiveness.
Duties include the following technical support in:
- Designing & implementing short, medium & long term strategies
- Building professional & organisational capacity for HIBA to serve as a Cen-tre of Excellence in management education & development
- Provision expert’s advice, management & support for the management edu-cation & development programmes (MBA & EMBA)
- Overseeing all faculty & management development activities for the Insti-tute
- Planning, budgeting & recruiting a wide range of international short term experts to support the project.
- Setting up a modern pedagogical support facilities to support academic & management training programmes
- Linking HIBA to the business community through executive education pro-grammes
- Planning, developing & implementing management development programmes for senior managers.
- Carrying out a wide range of activities & tasks required by the project.
Specific Activities. Duties include the leadership & direction of the fol-lowing activities:
- Academic & pedagogical logistics
- Executive development programmes
- Implementation of the MBA & EMBA programmes
- Links with the business community
- Quality control & assurance of programmes
Duties include the following:
- Advising partners on future strategy for the Institute
- Supporting the development & implantation of operation & business plans
- Coaching/leading a small number of professional staff & an extended in-ternational & local network of consultants & service providers.
- Advising on the overall operation of the Institute in Amman
- Ensuring future sustainability of EJABI through securing financial support & sponsorship
- Establishing strong corporate relations between EJABI & the Jordanian business community
- Creating a customer-focus culture through regular meetings & regular liaison with customers
- Supporting external relations & liaising with key partner organisations
- Ensuring that the Institute locally & internationally visible
Specific Activities
- Implementation of the Institute’s strategic & marketing plans
- Development & implementation of the Institute’s business & development plans.
- Management of the overall financial functions of the Institute, including the development of appropriate budgets (annual & programme budgets) & approval of all expenditures.
- Management of the day-to-day facilities & operations of the Institute, including the Institute’s learning resource centre.
- Liaising with key stakeholders to secure financial support for EJABI
- Establishing strong corporate relations between EJABI & the business community
- aising with the SME community for feedback on course & programme content & suitable services required of the Institute.
- nsulting with the key stakeholders of the Institute (EJADA & ACI) prior to the development of new initiatives/programmes.
- ovide EJADA with regular progress reports for evaluation & perform-ance review purposes
- eting with potential customers & providers of management training & development programmes
- rrying out tasks & assignment requested by the Executive Board of Directors.
Key responsibilities included:
- Provided the necessary vision & leadership for the newly established In-stitute
- Developed the Institute’s strategy & business/operation plans
- Officially launched the Institute to business leaders in the country.
- Directed the overall operation & day-to-day work of the Institute, includ-ing the Institute’s learning & development programmes.
- Directed the overall financial functions of the institute, including the de-velopment of appropriate budgets & approval of all expenditures.
- Established a formal advisory group for the Institute
- Led a small number of professional staff & liaised with local network of consultants & service providers.
- Liaised with key stakeholders to secure financial support for EJABI
- Advised on the future sustainability of EJABI through securing financial support & sponsorship
- Established strong corporate relations between EJABI & the Jordanian business community
- Designed the Institute’s learning & development programmes
- Wrote all Terms of References for the Institute’s programmes.
Overall role included providing:
- management & expert support services to the VT/HRD Component to es-tablish the Euro-Jordanian Advanced Business Institute (EJABI)
- expert advice & management support to other sub-component activities of the VT/HRD Component.
Specific tasks related to EJABI
- advised on future strategy for EJABI
- supported the developing of business/operational plans
- supported the overall operation of the new institute in Amman
- liaised with key stakeholders to secure financial support for EJABI
- established strong corporate relations between EJABI & the business community
- advised the management of EJABI on e-learning design & delivery of pro-grammes
- provided technical advice on the portfolio of programmes for EJABI
- met with potential customers & providers of management training & devel-opment programmes
- assisted in the development of external relations & liaising with key part-ner organisations
- provided the necessary vision & leadership for a virtual organisation oper-ating at a national level.
Tasks related to supporting the VT/HRD component
- assisted the component management team in all activities related to the component’s overall & annual work plans
- coordinated the technical assistance in training & development for the Enhanced Productivity Programme at the ministry of Planning
- developed the Terms of Reference & coordinated the feasibility study to establish a Centres of Excellence in Industrial Design
- overseen the operation of the Graduate Enterprise Programme.
- assisted in drafting Terms of References (ToRs) for both local & international technical assistance.
Overall role focused on establishing a number of sustainable capacity building schemes for individuals & institutions within the Technical & Vocational Educa-tion & Training (TVET) sector. All such schemes aim at the development & improvement of the competitiveness of Small & Medium Enterprises in the country.
In particular, expertise is provided in:
- the design, establishment & development of the Euro-Jordanian Ad-vanced Business Institute (EJABI)
- enhancing the capacities & development of training providers (EPP)
- the management of the Graduate Enterprise Programme (GEP);
- the feasibility to establish a second TVET Centres of Excellence (CoE).
Main responsibilities include the directorship of the Master of Management Learning & Development \[MMLD\] Programme & the Faculty Development & Governance Programme for Business & Management Schools.
- Directed, managed & co-ordinated all activities of the above programmes
- Led & co-ordinated the Accreditation process of the MMLD Programme
- Led the design, development & implementation of the MMLD Programmes.
- Designed & implemented a blended-learning solution for the delivery of MMLD Programme.
- Contracted international faculty, trainers & experts for the various man-agement development programmes.
- Designed & developed a variety of specialised management development programmes & train-the-trainers programmes.
- Carried out special projects requested by the management of the School & its governing bodies.
- Taught in a number of management training & development programmes
- Produced all programme learning processes & delivery documentation.
Main responsibilities include the Directorship of the School's three main programmes: the Master in Management Development Programme (MMDP), the Euro-Arab Management Diploma (EAMD) & the Network for Arab & European Exchange in Management Programme (NAEEM).
- Directed & managed the overall & day-to-day operation of all academic & training aspects of the school.
- Trained more than 80 international university faculty in electronic design & delivery of courses.
- Directed the design & development of multimedia resources throughout the School.
- Managed the operation of programmes delivered using Blended-learning solutions in a number of Arab & European countries.
- Supervised content creation & authoring of cross-cultural management material.
- Developed & overseen online courses in a variety of managerial subjects.
- Planned, organised & implemented the overall online distance learning net-work.
- Contracted high calibre external professors to lecture & teach in all EAMS programmes.
- Advised the management of the School & its governing bodies on academic aspects of EAMS programmes.
- Carried out special projects requested by the management of the School & its Academic Council.
Main responsibilities included:
- Managed the overall & day-to-day operation of all the Telematic aspects of the school's electronically based academic & training material.
- Supervised online content creation & authoring of cross-cultural manage-ment material.
- Developed a blended-learning delivery platform for the School pro-grammes.
- Managed & co-ordinated the work of the IT staffs in incorporating the input of the research team into the online training material.
- Provided expert advice to the management of the School, members of the Academic Council, & Partner Institutions on issues related to online train-ing delivery, software, hardware, network installation & connectivity.
- Taught, lectured & tutored both traditional face-to-face & virtual online courses in the area of Information Technologies, online learning strate-gies, effective use of instructional technologies & the use of knowledge & information networks (Internet) in learning/training programmes.
- Directed, supervised & advised the school's Master Programme partici-pants in their graduation case studies.
- Conducted training sessions & workshops on using IT-based electronic platforms for management development training.
Research
- Written more that 75 short research papers in cross-cultural material on various management subjects.
- Developed & carried out applied research in the area of Telecommunica-tions & IT.
- Conducted research related to implementing collaborative distance learn-ing/training.
- Taught introductory courses in micro & macroeconomics
- Served in a number of faculty committees & university development
Played multiple roles & carried out a wide range of responsibilities including:
- Designed & implemented pricing policy for Intelsat's satellite space seg-ment.
- Managed, updated & maintained costing & charging models.
- Applied econometric methods to estimate dem& parameters for INTELSAT services.
- Applied a broad set of tools of economic principles to estimate the long run marginal cost of different INTELSAT services.
- Estimated time-series models to forecast dem&, for INTELSAT services, including ARIMA & Vector Autoregression (VAR) models.
- Conducted other economic studies as requested by INTELSAT Management, including the measurement of total factor productivity.
- Estimated an econometric cost function for INTELSAT's marginal operating cost for different services.
Ph.D. Major in Industrial Organisation & Environmental and Natural Re-sources Economics Recipient of full scholarship. GPA 3.38
Master’s of Philosophy, International Trade and Finance Recipient of full scholarship. GPA 3.38
Bachelor in Economics and Statistics Full scholarship