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Halifax Regional Municipality, Ns, Ca

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Leading a dedicated team focused on providing comprehensive information, resources, and guidance to sponsorship groups across Nova Scotia Canada, fostering community engagement and awareness of refugee resettlement issues.• Supporting Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAHs) throughout the application process and settlement journey, ensuring a smooth and successful integration for refugees into their new communities.• Collaborating closely with relatives and community groups within Nova Scotia to facilitate successful sponsorship and settlement experiences for refugees, leveraging local networks and resources.• Overseeing the growth and development of the PSR Program at ISANS, driving remarkable increases in the number of sponsorship applications and empowering hundreds of Nova Scotians to contribute positively to the lives of refugees.• Providing leadership and strategic direction to ensure the continued success and expansion of the PSR Program, aligning with organizational goals and objectives.• Cultivating partnerships and collaborations with external stakeholders, government agencies, and community organizations to enhance support services and advocate for refugee rights and integration.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Leading and supporting team services to ensure efficient administration and supervision, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.• Spearheading temporary and permanent accommodation services, swiftly addressing any related issues to ensure the comfort and well-being of newcomers.• Overseeing transportation logistics, airport reception services, and the ISANS Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) Port of Entry activities, ensuring a seamless transition for refugees and immigrants.• Mentoring team members and proactively resolving client and staff issues, while fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture.• Coordinating with external partners and stakeholders to optimize operations and enhance service delivery for clients.• Assisting in policy development and implementation, ensuring compliance with regulations and standards, while also maintaining accurate data entry and supporting managers with reporting requirements.• Managing the recruitment process, including hiring, orientation, and training of staff, and providing backup coordination during absences, demonstrating adaptability and flexibility in work hours when necessary.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Provided settlement and integration services to more than 700 newcomers, including orientation, information, referral, and advocacy;• Assisted over 200 clients with accessing community resources and services, such as housing, health, education, and employment;• Conducted needs assessments and developed individualized service plans for over 50 newcomer families;

Kabul, Afghanistan

Daneshnamah, the Persian Economics and Management Encyclopaedia. The biggest Persian (Farsi) online encyclopaedia for Economics, Management sciences, Maths, Banking and all Economics related area of knowledge. Huge collection of related articles in Farsi, Books & Magazines in English and Farsi languages written by different authors, related softwares and much more... online!

Localization and translation of documents, articles and databases from English & Urdu to Dari (Persian) & Pashto and vice versa

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Manage & review accounting and finances of the projects. Prepare & analyze year-end financial reports.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Managed multiple sales teams to increase UstadMobile online and offline revenues. Oversaw client accounts, set sales targets and implemented sales strategies for 2021 & 2022. Provided office support and collaboration for sales team and the management. Enhanced project coordination efficiency by creating and introducing periodic system for all administrative and financial controls, including human resources, accounts, finance, and logistics and regular reporting. Conducted financial reporting and analysis for 2019 to 2022.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Enhanced project coordination efficiency by creating and introducing periodic system for all administrative and financial controls, including human resources, accounts, finance, procurement, and logistics as well as timely reporting and feedback for the USD 600 million World Bank project.• Boosted project communications and coordination by developing active platform to enable frequent employee follow-ups for deliverables.• Minimized minister’s administrative and financial documentation reviewal timeframe by utilizing screening and reviewing system.• Lead office documentation and database management while monitoring digital correspondence and document management system.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Championed development of electronic dashboard to ensure regular task communications and accurate documentation for office of the deputy minister.• Improved budget execution, monitoring and reporting processes by consolidating the AFMIS (Afg. Financial Management Information System) and HRMIS dashboards within the ministry. +95% budget execution in 5 consecutive years.• Improved daily operations by establishing innovative daily task completion system for deputy ministry.

Kabul

Executive Assistant to the President, Asian Zurkhaneh Sports Confederation and Vice President of World Zurkhaneh Sports Federation.

Afghanistan

 Translation of legal and financial documents from English to Dari (Farsi) and vice versa; Proof reading of the translated documents by other translators; Preparing general glossary of translations for various projects;

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Implemented various programs with CSOs (Civil Society Organizations), local media outlets, and government entities while serving as part of very first media advisory taskforce for Afghan Presidential Elections 2014 media coverage.• Successfully supervised up to 14 financial grants for media outlets for production of civil engagement, government support and election related programs in local TV, radio, and print/social media; USD 800 thousand in total.• Efficiently introduced and implemented programs for new graduates as interns across multiple media outlets, resulting in several becoming very successful media anchors/presenters. +110 interns mentored and introduced to the media industry.• Successfully conducted training and workshops with help from Kabul University and the Integrity Watch Afghanistan and developed policy briefs for CSOs.

Kunduz Provincial Government Office

• Developed and introduced provincial oversight activities to support provincial strategic objectives.• Assisted provincial governor with implementation of operations, communication, procurement, and financial strategies by establishing highly effective training courses.• Successfully served as acting Chief of Staff to the provincial governor office.• Assisted with the design of Kunduz new city and expansion of the Kunduz Airport.• Minimized published propaganda by designing government-to-community engagement initiatives and outreach programs.• Established media coverage group within office to propagate government outreach programs and counter anti-government elements propagations.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Spearheaded formulation, management, and coordination of all research and development programs within central bank’s financial supervision department.• Led budgeting, and reporting responsibilities for R&D department while monitoring product offerings.• Successfully conducted qualitative and quantitative research for financial projects within banking supervision division.• Served as core members of working group for design and development of Islamic Banking (IB) Law and Regulations in the central bank and guidelines for developments of IB products and services by the local banks. • Lead supervisor of the first supervision taskforce of these IB windows in the commercial banks to monitor their services in compliance with the IB and DAB laws and regulations. Successfully supervising seven during my tenure.

Kabul, Afghanistan

- Communications liaison between the project managers, supervisors, fund providers and employees;- Contact person for auditing, financials and communications between MPO Kabul and Sydney offices;- Supervising the Financials & Co-Administration of the organizations' Kabul office;- Internal Auditor and Financial Advisor to the CEO;- Overall supervision of the Projects run under the organization;- Monthly, quarterly and Annually reporting of the projects to the head office Australia;- Collecting of monthly reports from provincial offices, translating and sending to headquarters in Australia;

Afghanistan

• Generate economic and finance development plans for One Laptop per Child Project (OLPC).• Develop economic and financial development contents for OLPC laptops disseminated in Kabul and provinces via MoE e-learning initiatives.• Evaluate the pre and pro impacts of Economic Development contents over the OLPC kid family’s economic and financial status;• Develop economic ideas for low income and small enterprises owners implemented through USAID’s Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprises Development (ASMED) initiative.

 Community Building for OLPC Afghanistan, i.e community promotion of OLPC AF around the world, manage and update Facebook, Google & other related groups, send news mails, update blogs etc; Communications contact person of OLPC Afghanistan and OLPC Headquarters in USA; Update OLPC Afghanistan Website (http://www.olpc.af); Coordination and communication around OLPC forums (grassroots, wiki and other online related Medias...); Weekly report of the OLPC Afghanistan progress report to OLPC headquarters MIT Cambridge USA; Managing meetings and discussions between interested parties to OLPC Afghanistan; Preparing OLPC Deployment reports and coordinating between deployment teams; Communicating with news agencies and media coverage of OLPC Afghanistan;

 Contact person and communications manager between OLPC Pakistan and OLPC Headquarters MIT Cambridge USA; General manager and supervisor of Dari & Pashto languages translation over Pootle online translation system (http://translate.sugarlabs.org); Supervising daily and Weekly reports of the translation progress to OLPC Pakistan (OLPC Regional office for Central & South Asia, IIU Islamabad Pakistan); Weekly and Monthly reporting of the translation progress to OLPC headquarters, MIT Cambridge USA; Supervising the developing activities (Fully localized and integrated software specially designed for kids and children at schools); Collecting online translation from OLPC Pootle servers to the Main server at office for activities (programs) development; Monitoring, Evaluating, Supervising and Reporting the Content development team for content development.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance And Financial Management Services, 92%

Master of Business Administration in Financial Management and Public Finance

Post Graduate Diploma In Islamic Banking & Finance, Islamic Banking - Central Banking And Supervision, A

Post Graduate Diploma in Islamic Banking & Finance from Islamic Banking & Finance Institute Malaysia (IBFIM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

School; Bsc (Hon.), Economics; Economics, A

Economics, Banking, Finance, Islamic Banking, Mathematics, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Accounting, Management

Hssc, Science

1st Position (A Grade

High School, Science

Metric/SSC (Science) 1st Position (A Grade)