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Ramallah Palestine
Email: h_emad_e@yahoo.com Mobile: +972 597 862 661
Professional Experience
Program Manager, AMIDEAST, Ramallah, Palestine Feb2016 - Present
Objective: The objective of the masters scholarship program (MSP) is to provide 20 Palestinian professionals with
masters degree education at U.S. based institution, and to engage them after they return back home in the design and
implementation of community development/follow on activities.
Direct the MSP scholars in the design of their follow on activities: help the 20 MSP scholars identify follow
on activity ideas that they are passionate about, work with them on identifying the targeted beneficiaries and
organizations under their activities, and guide them in the development of their follow on activity proposals.
Establish partnerships with the targeted organizations under the MSP scholars follow on activities: contact
and facilitate meetings between the MSP scholars and the targeted organizations under their activities, discuss their
proposed follow on activities, and agree on the implementation timeline and requirements.
Guide the scholars during the implementation of their activities: conduct orientation meetings before the
scholars start executing their follow on activities, provide them with technical guidance during the implementation
of their activities, engage them in follow on activities progress review meetings, and review and approve the
outputs and results of their activities.
Financial and procurement management: Lead procurement of commodities and services under the scholars
activities such as recruitment of trainers and consultants, signing of agreements, purchase orders and contracts,
review and approval of deliverables, services and commodities, process payments, report expenditures, track
budgets and prepare monthly sub-award reports.
Monitoring, evaluation and reporting: conduct periodic field visits, update the MSP performance monitoring
plan and Geo-MIS webpages, and assist the scholars in the development of pre and post evaluations and data
analysis. Prepare periodic monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
Representation, and participation in the donor periodic meetings: update the donor on quarterly basis about
progress made under the MSP, join the donor during field visits, represent AMIDEST in meetings with
organizations targeted under the MSP scholars follow on activities, and participate in conferences and workshops
conducted by the donor and active organizations in the education sector.
Development of the follow on component management system: It consists of follow on activity development
approach, follow on activity implementation, procurement and financial management, monitoring, evaluation and
reporting, compliance and filling.
Accomplishments: 15 out of the 20 MSP scholars have designed and implemented their follow on activities that
focused on community development and knowledge transfer, four were out of the country and one was not
responsive.
Samples of completed follow on activities: under Gaza Freelance business team follow on activity, 20 ICT skilled
but unemployed youth were provided with a two month online freelance business training and engaged in online
freelance paid assignments. The English literacy skills development program targeted 20 9th grade students who
struggle in English reading and writing and provided them with a two month English training program. About 30
industrial engineering students were targeted under the lean manufacturing training program which lasted for four
days.
Fund Manager, NIRAS Natura AB, Ramallah, Palestine Jul2014 Jan 2016
Objective: lead the pre-solicitation, solicitation, administration and closeout phases of 13 million dollar fund in the
sector of human rights and international humanitarian law.
Strategy development: identify human rights priorities and intervention strategies through leading consultative
meetings with civil society organizations, focus group meetings with human rights donors and development
partners, and review of local and international human rights reports.
Partnership management: develop call for proposals, application/evaluation templates, lead pre-submission
workshops, lead application evaluation team, participate in the steering committee meetings, and work with the
team on finalization of successful project applications and signing of grant agreements with successful CSOs.
Oversee the implementation of grants according to implementation plans, budgets, and grant agreements and
ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations.
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Management of grant team day to day operations: lead the grant team which includes two Facilitator and
Capacity Building Advisors, Finance and Admin Manager, M&E Specialist, and two support staff. Provide them
with guidance and support them in problem solving and decision making.
Coordination and representation: conduct regular meetings with donors such as Diakonia, UNDP, and OHCR
to prevent duplication and ensure complementarity. Lead partners periodic meetings, participate in partner events,
and lead pre-application workshops, grant administration workshops, and donor coordination meetings.
Lead annual report development: prepare annual report development plan, coordinate between all staff, gather
staff contributions in one report and ensure availability of M&E data, no duplicationetc.
Accomplishments: Three calls for proposals were developed, one among them was a call for emergency proposals
in response to the war on Gaza in 2014, and the second was in response to recent escalation in east Jerusalem in
2015. Partnerships with 50 human rights and civil Soceity organizations were established, six grant orientation
and 6 grant administration workshops were conducted, several partners meetings and donor coordination
meetings were conducted .
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Program representation: represent Chemonics International in front of implementing partners, citizens, and
governmental organizations such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Public Works
and Housing.
Grant team management: supervise the grants team that consists of two Grants Coordinators and one M&E
officer, and liaise with the technical and financial staff. Prepare periodic weekly and quarterly progress reports.
Accomplishments: grant program annual implementation plan; grant management system and electronic filing
system were developed and implemented. Sixty civil society organizations were identified as potential grantees,
seventy concept papers and forty grant full applications were reviewed and evaluated, fourteen grant agreements
were signed and fourteen projects were supervised from start to finish. Two pre-bidding conferences and two
grant administration orientation meetings were conducted and attended by more than 60 local NGOs.
Sample of completed projects: Streamlining Relationship between the Farmers Sector and the PA Ministry of
Agriculture, Media Capacity Building for Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Education, Change
Management- Public Perspective for Government Response.
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Environmental management systems: develop, implement and audit environmental management systems that
include identification of environmental aspects and impacts, environmental objectives and programs,
environmental measurement and monitoring etc.
Training: develop and conduct technical training on environmental management, quality management and
process and product quality monitoring and evaluation systems.
Sample of completed Projects: Environmental Management System Project Pharmaceutical Sector in
West Bank. Emergency Credit Program for SMEs in West Bank and Gaza.
Teaching Assistant, Bir Zeit University, Bir Zeit, Palestine Aug2001 Oct2002
Sanitary lab teaching assistant civil engineering department. Participate as a wastewater analyst in the
WASCAPAL project. Prepare management development plan for the wastewater laboratory.
Education
The George Washington University, Washington D.C, U.S.A Dec2004Aug 2006
M.Sc. Environmental Engineering- Minor Focus on Project Management, GPA: 4.0/4.0, Grade: 1st
Training
1) Grants and Project Management, 21 days 2) Project Branding and Marking, 1 day.
2) Monitoring and evaluation and Geo-MIS, 1 day 4) Quality management (ISO9000), 1 day
5) Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA), 1 day. 6) Procurement Management, 1 day
6) Outcome mapping, 3 days
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