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London Area, United Kingdom

• Managed two SHM Foundation flagship projects, overseeing stakeholder communication, activities, impact and MEL, budgeting, proposal writing, and fundraising. Additionally, facilitated internal capacity building.
• Developed Ember and Project Noor's internal methodology, which involved creating projectdiagnostic tools, internal learning libraries, communication and… Show more Managed two SHM Foundation flagship projects.
• Developed Ember and Project Noor's internal methodology, which involved creating projectdiagnostic tools, internal learning libraries, communication and referral systems, and facilitating planning and capacity building.
• Carried out an internal assessment of the foundation team's ways of working and built an internaldevelopment plan based on the findings.
• Facilitating and managing Ember’s programme partnerships with 4 organisations working in Africaand Asia. Building the capacity of those organisations in the topics of bringing digital innovation,fundraising.
• Bringing Digital innovation into the Ember Programme by creating online Workshops and learningmodules on the ED App. Show less

United Kingdom

• Overall project management including design and implementation of activities, budget management, andmonitoring and evaluation, creation and dissemination of information sheets for UNITAR’s gender andyouth-related.
• Implemented gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment training in Lebanon and Jordan,including capacity-building for the National Commission of… Show more Overall project management including design and.
• Implemented gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment training in Lebanon and Jordan,including capacity-building for the National Commission of Women and ministries' gender focalpoints. This covered gender.
• Conducted needs assessment and executed a project in Afghanistan, collaborating with the Ministryof Communication and three technical universities to train 1,000 young Afghan women in digitaltechnology and social.
• Created two successful partnerships for UNITAR in a period of 8 months, which was utilized to workwith youth organisations in Central Asia and Eastern Europe on gender mainstreaming. Show less

Brighton, United Kingdom

• Institute of Development Studies (IDS) | Coalition for Religious Equality and InclusiveDevelopment (CREID)
• Provided research assistance and established a network for organisations distributed in Pakistan,India, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan. The research focused on gender relations in minoritycommunities and the.
• Liaised… Show more Institute of Development Studies (IDS) | Coalition for Religious Equality and InclusiveDevelopment (CREID)
• Liaised and facilitated CREID’s Heritage Preservation Programme for minorities in conflict-affectedcountries. Worked to establish a network of academics, NGOs and young activists to implement theproject and publish the.

Hiroshima, Japan

Iraq

Japan And Iraq

• Overall project management duties including programme needs assessment, development of trainingmaterials, workshop facilitation and participant mentoring, budget management, and data-gathering formonitoring and.
• Successfully executed Afghanistan's Women's Leadership Programme, training 25 Afghan womenon gender, SDGs, mainstreaming, equality, and leadership… Show more Overall project management duties including programme needs.
• Successfully executed Afghanistan's Women's Leadership Programme, training 25 Afghan womenon gender, SDGs, mainstreaming, equality, and leadership. Post-program, participants effectivelyimplemented gender projects in.
• The successful implementation of the Syrian Youth Empowerment programme. Training 25 youngSyrians on entrepreneurship and leadership. Following the end of the programme; participantssuccessfully implemented various.
• The successful Implementation of Transforming the Future of Youth Leaders for Iraq. Training 30young Iraqis on setting up and managing social projects. Following the end of the programme;participants successfully.
• Created and maintained partnerships with three international NGOs. Show less

Iraq

Organizer at Startup Weekend Baghdad

Iraq

• Overall follow-up of the programme’s activities and monitoring of output progress against theimplementation timeline and budget management. Additionally, I provided guidance for local implementing partners on issues.
• Facilitated communication amongst 8 local Iraqi women’s organisations and MADRE. The resultingpolicy recommendations were then communicated… Show more Overall follow-up of the programme’s activities and monitoring of.
• Facilitated communication amongst 8 local Iraqi women’s organisations and MADRE. The resultingpolicy recommendations were then communicated to the Iraqi government.
• Researched and documented the cases of Yezidi women survivors from ISIS in Iraq, providing datafor MADRE to present on national and international levels and to the International Criminal Court.
• Facilitated the referral and support of all the vulnerable cases until they reached safety in shelters.
• Updated MADRE’s local partner training guides to meet Iraq’s specific context on topics includinggender mainstreaming, safeguarding, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and reporting, andcase-referral, management and.

Iraq

• Conducted project needs assessment, managed implementation, monitoring, and budgeting. Facilitatedcollaboration among diverse alternative actor groups (young civil and political activists), enhancing theircapacities to.
• Conducted Iraq's first nationwide research on alternative youth civil society actors, investigating theiroperations, challenges, and opportunities.
• Developed… Show more Conducted project needs assessment, managed implementation, monitoring, and budgeting. Facilitatedcollaboration among diverse alternative actor groups (young civil and political activists).
• Developed an adaptable implementation strategy based on research for Mercy Corp's youth projects.Collaborated with consultants to train youth actors in gender mainstreaming, policy advocacy,citizen journalism, and.

Iraq

• Managed policy reform advocacy grants, overseeing proposal evaluation, organizing advocacytraining, and enhancing partner capacity in advocacy-related areas.
• Managed Iraqi Parliamentary Election Monitoring grants, including proposal assessment andcapacity-building for local partners in monitoring election campaigns, special voting days, andelection day. Supported successful.
• Managed Iraqi Parliamentary Election Monitoring grants, including proposal assessment andcapacity-building for local partners in monitoring election campaigns, special voting days, andelection day. Supported successful.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Development Studies

MA Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies - University of Sussex

Fellowship, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

6 months fellowship by UNITAR about entrepreneurship and project management including 2 trainings in Jordan and Japan.

Diploma, Organizational Leadership

Participated in the Young Leaders Visitors Programme in Sweden by the Swedish Institute. This Programme offered experience-based.

Bsc, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: BSc in Networking engineering

Education record