Experience

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  Mushtaha & hassouna company - general trading & contracting

  Jun 2004 - Jul 2008

  - Overall coordination between all engineering disciplines (i.e. structural, electrical, mechanical, and architectural engineering) .- Revise and approve the BOQ, project's specifications.- Coordinate with all concerned authorities and organizations for the design audit and approval.- Cost estimation for each project and reviewing BOQ list.- Maintain construction quality, time schedule, Cash flow and cost control.- Managing and advising on all procurement activities - Preparing of shop and as built drawings.- Preparing the projects monthly payments including the revision of all take off quantity sheets. - Attending all projects' progress meetings.- Drafting all projects' correspondences.- Suggest and recommend the various remedial actions with regard to rectify and / or to maintain project's quality with regard to material supplies as well as workmanship - Revise and approve the BOQ and project specifications.- Coordinate with all concerned authorities and organizations for the design audit and approval.- For Casting for project budget and preparing BOQ list.- Maintain construction quality, time schedule, Cash flow and cost control.- Managing and advising on all procurement activities.- Following up skilled workers, providing technical advices, solving problems and following up safety issues

  • Office Engineer

    Oct 2007 - Jul 2008

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2006 - Sept 2007

  • Site Engineer

    Jun 2004 - Oct 2006
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  Ma’an development center

  Aug 2008 - Dec 2008

  Project coordinator

  - Overall responsibility for effective and efficient management of the implementation of the project activities in the targeted areas. - Preparing and/or updating work plans and time schedules.- Preparing tenders and BOQ, selecting providers, signing contracts and making the suitable checks for materials and tools delivered by providers.- Preparing lists of beneficiaries in coordination with LC's and CBO's.- Conducting monitoring and evaluation activities.- Supervising the daily activities to ensure adequate implementation.- Following up skilled workers, providing technical advices, solving problems and following up safety issues.- Coordinating with government bodies, NGOs, International organizations and local authorities in order to reach better goals in shortest time.- Preparing regular reports for works in progress such as material received updating, photo reports, daily, weekly and final reports Show less

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  Ministry of public works & housing

  Jan 2009 - Feb 2009

  Area engineer

  Work for estimation and rehabilitation of damages houses as a result of the Gaza war - 2008

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  Ma’an development center

  Mar 2009 - Aug 2012

  - Directed planning, budgeting, vendor selection and quality assurance efforts.- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated them to other team members.- Monitored timelines and flagged potential issues to be addressed.- Monitor / follow up implementation progress to ensure the achievement of program / project deliverable in a quantitative, qualitative, and timely fashion- Assist in resolving any emerging operational problems arising at the program level, and proposing solutions and amendments to implementation plans and agreements as needed- Supervise the program cycle management starting from planning into implementation, evaluation and execution of remedial plans - Completely manage to program team members - Preparing the monthly technical and financial reports and following up on issues needing further clarifications or additional supporting documents- Overall monitoring and data base management Show less - Overall responsibility for effective and efficient management in the warehouses- Follow up the distribution process of vouchers for beneficiaries by local committees- Follow up the distribution process in the warehouses- Follow up stores keeper and their work in the warehouses- Follow up Ledgers registration according to distribution & receiving process- Making of reports for project manager agents the progress of work- Coordination between the field monitoring staff- Assigned employees to specific duties to best meet the needs of the store- Reported to the manager regarding all stores and staff issues Show less

  • Projects Manager

    Sept 2009 - Aug 2012

  • Warehouses Manager & Project Manager Assistant

    Mar 2009 - Aug 2009
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  Oxfam

  Sept 2012 - now

  • Lead and develop Oxfam’s humanitarian programme in OPT – covering Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem. • Provide strategic contributions to Oxfam's humanitarian work in OPT, including strategy development, OCS, fundraising, donor liaison, inter agency coordination, and partner coordination; • Contribute to the development and regular updating of the Oxfam OPT Contingency Plan (CP) and the development of Emergency Response Plans; • Monitor the rapidly changing humanitarian and security context in OPT analyse the impacts and opportunities for Oxfam and coordinate internal and external information sharing; • Effectively support the ongoing mandate of Local Humanitarian Leadership and partnership development; • Ensure integration of gender, youth, PWD and marginalised people aspects are integrated into humanitarian programming; • Ensure suitable modalities for capturing of learning and sharing amongst relevant stakeholders. • Oversee SL contribution to country office annual planning and quarterly reports• Represent Oxfam on relevant humanitarian working groups, clusters and coordination mechanisms in OPT, as well as towards donor agencies in country; • Manage the Saving Lives programme team under direct responsibility to ensure solid management of financial, and other resources, to deliver programmes in accordance with Oxfam procedures, values, donor requirements, and the OPT governmental stipulations. • Ensure the development and achievement of a high quality humanitarian programme in OPT consistent with Oxfam’s standards, values and codes with specific consideration to aid diversion policies and practices. • Manage the risk aspect of the programme with specific reference to Safe Programming, Safeguarding and Aid Diversion; • Ensure technical / sectoral integration of programmes Show less • Analysis of need, identification of programme objectives and activities and their relevance to community needs. • Develop a program partnership in the West Bank that supports Oxfam presence and makes Oxfam able to respond to – at least – any emergency situation in the WB. • Ensure an effective MEAL system in place that monitors programme activities to maintain and/or improve the quality, incorporating learning in the programme and ensuring achievement of desired impact including design and analysis of baseline/endline studies.• Responsible to produce high quality and timely donor reports requirements • Responsible to develop and draft high quality project proposals, budgets and funding applications• Overseeing WASH program budgets spending in line with agreed targets, milestones and deadlines • Lead the operational aspects of the WASH/public health programme cycle management. • Ensure a level of preparedness and the capacity to respond to WASH emergency cases • Providing advice, mentoring, technical support and capacity building to partner organization.• Manage partnership reviews.• Recruit and directly manage WASH team in line with Oxfam policies• Implement the Oxfam performance management system.• Develop and maintain a positive and inspiring environment for the team• Represent Oxfam WASH Programme at local and national level with local authorities, UN agencies, NGOs and donors in Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem.• Participating in the strategic planning of the Oxfam Strategy, related work and activities, including of advocacy policies and strategic approaches for the OPTI programme.• Support integrated WASH programmes through close coordination with other programmes and functions including gender, protection, gender, EFSVL and economic justice.• Lead the development of Emergency Preparedness and Response in WASH/Public Health Show less • Support project partners by providing technical assistance in all aspects of project cycle management through design, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation, narrative and financial reporting • Support contextual analysis and field assessments to feed into the development of the Oxfam strategy in Gaza, linking emergency response to the longer-term programmes and integrating with food security, gender justice, and Economic Justice programs.• Ensure that all technical work carried out as part of Oxfam programme meet the required standards and follows approved procedures.• Assist in collecting best practices, case studies which demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.• Supervise the data analysis and reporting of monitoring and evaluation studies with implementing partners and consultants.• Support partners to design and implement appropriate feedback mechanisms with communities that are contextual, effective, accessible and safe for beneficiaries, and ensure that feedback is recorded, reviewed and acted upon.• Working closely with the Funding team, ensure Oxfam partners are managing the project and grant according to agreements and Oxfam procedures.• Coordinate closely with other staff both within and across teams including close coordination with other programme teams supporting opportunities for synergies and added value in programme implementation.• Monitoring achievement of agreed partner milestones using agreed work-plans.• Making recommendations to improve qualitative performance of partners and monitoring implementation of these recommendations by partners. Show less - Monitor / follow up implementation progress to ensure the achievement of program / project deliverable in a quantitative, qualitative, and timely fashion.- Assist in resolving any emerging operational problems arising at the program level, and proposing solutions and amendments to implementation plans and agreements as needed- Supervise the program cycle management starting from planning into implementation, evaluation and execution of remedial plans.- Support development and implementation of policies and strategies at food security team level. - Short, medium and long term planning is required in the context of changing priorities- Contributing to project/ program budget planning and monitoring.- Ensures the effective planning and delivery of projects and / or defined areas of program, including working with partners- Analysis and internal communication of the locally relevant context to inform appropriate planning- - Supervises the work of partners in area of own specialism Show less - To supervise the programme cycle management of food security and livelihoods programmes including cash vouchers, unconditional cash grants and small scale livelihoods projects.- Analysis of need, identification of programme objectives and activities and their relevance to community needs. · - Ensure that all work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and promotes the full and equal participation of women.- Monitor and evaluate programme activities to maintain and/or improve the quality, incorporating learning in the programme and ensuring achievement of desired impact including design and analysis of baseline/endline studies and evaluations.- Joint planning with team and partners. - Responsible to produce high quality and timely donor reports that meet all donor reporting requirements and present these to the Programme Coordinator for technical review. - Responsible to develop and draft high quality project proposals and funding applications that meet all donor requirements - Delegated budget responsibility within set authority limits including financial management of the food security and livelihoods projects. - Overseeing budget dispersal in line with agreed targets, milestones and deadlines and in coordination with the finance team through Monthly Finance Reviews. - Developed and rolled out new policies.- Hired and trained the needed staff.- Implemented innovative programmes to increase employee loyalty and reduce turnover. Show less - Monitor / follow up implementation progress to ensure the achievement of program / project deliverable in a quantitative, qualitative, and timely fashion.- Assist in resolving any emerging operational problems arising at the program level, and proposing solutions and amendments to implementation plans and agreements as needed- Supervise the program cycle management starting from planning into implementation, evaluation and execution of remedial plans.- Support development and implementation of policies and strategies at food security team level. - Short, medium and long term planning is required in the context of changing priorities- Contributing to project/ program budget planning and monitoring.- Ensures the effective planning and delivery of projects and / or defined areas of program, including working with partners- Analysis and internal communication of the locally relevant context to inform appropriate planning- - Supervises the work of partners in area of own specialism Show less

  • Gaza Response Lead

    Nov 2023 - now

  • Saving Lives Program Manager

    Sept 2022 - Oct 2023

  • WASH Program Manager

    Feb 2018 - Sept 2022

  • Humantarian program officer

    Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

  • Food Security & Livelihoods Officer

    May 2015 - Mar 2017

  • Acting Food Security & Livelihoods Manager

    Oct 2014 - Apr 2015

  • Food Security & Livelihoods Officer

    Sept 2012 - Sept 2014