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• Received Brain Training license and started working on providing freelance brain training to improve attention and memory• Participated in events, created website, managed social media and created content postings• For more information visit www.cerebroegypt.com

• Took a course to become a certified relationship coach• Working on establishing a client base for my part time coaching career

• Managed events and ensured that space is prepared, catering is on point, clients are happy and payments are fulfilled• Worked with the marketing team to create and execute monthly marketing plan based on center needs• Oversaw all operational functions for center including studios, treatments, café, maintenance and garden• Handled HR for the whole team including salaries, hiring new people, solving staffing issues and scheduling • Spearheaded a smooth flow of center operations on a daily basis • Conducted weekly meetings with team to ensure development, communication and excellent work quality• Created job descriptions and performance evaluations• Improved staffing issues, maintenance issues, inventory, cleaning, and garden

• Handled several accounts such as KFC MENA, SODIC and Cleopatra Group• Managed teams for each account to ensure work is going smoothly and to clients’ satisfaction• Made sure that all projects are transitioned into and managed effectively by the agency; delivered on time, on brief and on budget• Ensured that all clients’ requests are communicated clearly and efficiently to all members of the team• Ensured that all work developed and presented is relevant, on brief and on target with clients’ objectives• Took all necessary measures to gain understanding of clients’ business, their issues, opportunitiesand objectives• Ensured that all necessary administrative paperwork, such as weekly status reports, contact reports and estimates are provided by agency• Work directly with CEO and Creative Director to maintain relations with old clients and develop newones with potential clients

• Worked on various pitches for clients based on event demands starting from creating the conceptuntil final execution• Insured that clients’ needs were met according to finalized deals• Took care of event accounts based on company needs• Helped with social media for the company and promoting different events• Worked on handling sponsors based on partnership deals

• Served as a liaison to over 40 invited filmmakers and special guests. • Responsibilities included, organizing travel schedules, itineraries and accommodation bookings for the attending guests.• Coordinated with multiple festival departments including operations, press, industry, screenings and programming and updating the relevant department heads with specific guest information.• Liaised with the publications team regarding all festival materials for the preparation of the festival catalogue, website and film guide.• Collected, maintained and tracked all information pertaining to invited guests in the festival’s central database.• Created detailed schedules for all attending guests and serving as a host during their stay at the festival. This included escorting filmmakers to their screenings, press interviews and festival events. • Arranged for interpreters for the guests and managed introductions plus Q&A sessions.• Prepared invitations prior to festival and thank you letters post festival.

• Organized and led ADFF master classes, workshops, and panel discussions• Developed strategy along with Communications team to ensure strong media coverage to support overall festival messaging and brand positioning • Developed social media strategy and content to promote and strengthen awareness around industry events• Created descriptions for all Industry events for ADFF publications and website• Met and briefed all participants beforehand to ensure they are comfortable being on stage• Ensured correct setup for each event and liaised with Production Department regarding technical requirements

• Ensured benefits outlined in sponsor’s contract were implemented in a timely and accurate manner e.g. branding and activation.• Liaised with all relevant departments, regarding terms of sponsorship agreements, including appropriate logo placement, crediting, on-stage acknowledgement; made efforts to ensure high level of satisfaction on sponsor’s part.• Managed sponsorship deadlines for artwork, overview of media schedule, marketing plan and festival activities.• Coordinated events where sponsors were present and ensured their benefits were met. In addition, helped sponsors with planning their events. • Worked on creation of presentations, compiling post meeting notes and media monitoring. • Created tailor made post event sponsorship analysis reports to be distributed to all sponsors• Co-produced the Emirates Film Competition and Shorts Awards Ceremony.

• Organized a themed series of screenings (i.e. Dickens).• Worked as a pre-screener with the programming team.• Assisted the Programming services team with the submission process, including film tracking, managing screeners and film materials, inputting data into festival database, performing database searches and running reports. • Translated documents from Arabic to English and vice versa. • Assisted the Executive Director with research on film industry, festivals, films and talent that might be of interest to ADFF.•Cleaned up and maintained the festival database to insure accurate information with respect to films in current and previous ADFF programs as well as films tracked for future editions of ADFF. • Ensured efficient communication between the office of the Executive director and all the other departments.• In addition to administrative duties required such as updating contacts and schedule, making travel and meeting arrangements, prepared reports and financial data, including per diem requests, credit card and expense reports.

• Updated the festival database to ensure accurate information regarding invited and accredited Industry. • Informed and assisted all Industry delegates with pertinent information regarding the festival.• Facilitated contact between Industry, filmmakers, and festival programmers present at the festival.• Kept a list of all invited guests and updated their statuses in addition to preparing their itineraries and greeting them upon arrival.