Olfat Khattar

Experience

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  Dar Al Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners)

  Jul 1999 - May 2002

  Executive Officer
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  American University of Beirut

  Jun 2003 - Nov 2010

  • Advised faculty members in preparing proposal applications and budgets while administering their grants. Flawlessly followed-up on the financial administration procedures of their projects and monitored project expenditures. • Tracked narrative and financial reporting and addressed their compliance concerns.• Collaboratively worked with comptroller’s office on financial issues and financial reporting to funding agencies. • Prepared consultancy sub-contract agreements documents as per the requirements. Handled general correspondence activities with funding agencies.• Provided assistance to the Associate Director in managing office website. Updated all the information and announcements. • Rendered assistance to the Associate Director in identifying new sources of funding for the faculty members. Aided Associate Director and the Director in preparing office reports and annual budgets. • Collaboratively worked with the team as the custodian of office petty cash and administered the cash.• Managed an array of activities including administering work-study students and handled all the roles as Administrative Assistant in the office.• Actively took part in the University Research Board Committee meetings and prepared documentation reports on the meeting held.• Prepared office workshops, conferences, presentations and open houses. Developed, maintained and updated the grants and contract database. عرض أقل • Meticulously organized office general file cabinets, closed projects and updated database.• Responsible for maintaining office mail, mailing list and e-mail addresses. Prepared forms/requests for leave, local and foreign travel activities.• Prepared payment vouchers, and monitored office budget expenditures. Assisted the Director in preparing annual budgets and office reports.• Served as a Secretary for the office meetings and acted as custodian for the office petty cash. • Astutely prepared monthly time reports. Consistently updated the information on the office webpage.• Supervised and assigned duties, studied students and part-time Research Assistants. Played a pivotal role in providing secretarial services to the Director. عرض أقل

  • Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC), Grants and Contracts Officer

    Mar 2008 - Nov 2010

  • Office of Grants And Contracts (OGC), Administrative Assistant / Administrative Officer

    Jun 2003 - Feb 2008
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  Nov 2010 - Nov 2016

  Office of Academic Research (OAR), Post Award Manager

  • Actively participated with the team in managing external and internal grants. Seamlessly reviewed contracts with funding agencies and sub-contracts with its collaborative including universities and hospitals among others. • Responsible for reviewing, approving and monitoring project expenditures.• Took the responsibility of preparing job offers and recruited research staff, Post Doctors, Research Assistants and Consultants among others for managing the projects.• Seamlessly managed narrative and financial reporting activities including compliance concerns.• Coordinated with Financial Department on financial issues and reported to the funding agencies.• Successfully managed general correspondence activities with funding agencies. • Effectively imparted training to the team and supervised office of Academic Research staff including research coordinators.• Received Intellectual Property disclosures, forwarded it to reviewers and participated in IP committee meetings. • Supported OAR Director in Pre-Award tasks. Reviewed internal and external proposals and budgets.• Initiated and implemented the OAR the Oracle Grants Accounting (OGA) and represented the office in their core committee. عرض أقل

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  American University of Beirut

  May 2017 - Jun 2017

  Research Consultant/ Fieldwork Coordinator

  Fieldwork coordinator on Research Project: “Assessment on child labor in agriculture in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon: The case of Syrian refugees” – Faculty of Health Scinces (FHS), The American University of Beirut (AUB) 1 May 2017 – 30 June 2017:The above mentioned project is Funded by: International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and ‪The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations‬ (FAO) As Fieldwork coordinator, I was responsible for:• Assisted in the planning and implementation of the training workshop that took place at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on 6-7 and 8-9 May 2017. In this workshop: 32 field workers were trained on the best practice of data collection: how to correctly use the study instruments without jeopardizing the safety, privacy and confidentiality of the respondents• Planning the management of the pilot study and the fieldwork activities in the Bekaa Valley• Liaising with stakeholders for the recruiting of the field workers involved in the data collection• Provided advise on the terms of contract between AUB and the entities in charge of data collection in the Bekaa• Assisted in planning the transfer of the data collected in Bekaa to AUB عرض أقل

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  Management Systems International

  Oct 2017 - Nov 2017

  Grants Manager
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  AUB Global Health Institute

  Nov 2017 - Jun 2018

  Grants Manager and Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
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  UNRWA

  Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

  Assistant Project Director

  "Theater play “Najme” by Shady Haber - Performance on Violence and Bullying Prevention". This project is Funded by: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) - UNRWA’s recreational programme supported by the EU MADAD Fund.The purpose of this project is to perform plays on violence and bullying prevention, targeting Palestine refugee students between the ages of 8-10. The main goal of the theatre performances is to increase awareness about: the negative consequences of violence and bullying and the importance of seeking support, and to help children identifying methods to prevent and respond to violence and bullying.• Assist in writing the content of the play;• Assist in training of students to participate in the play;• Participate as an actress in the play;• Assist in writing the final report of the project. عرض أقل

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  House of Peace (HOPe)

  Sept 2018 - Mar 2019

  Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

  • Act as part of the senior management team that is entrusted with supporting and overseeing HOPe activities;• Lead and support monitoring and evaluation activities (writing reports, field interviews, and focus groups);• Supervise the development of HOPe analysis papers and events;• Apply and develop internal monitoring procedures to ensure transparent and equal relationship with local partners (e.g. feedback and complains system);• Ensure proper and timely data collection and documentation of HOPe activities by all officers and managers as elaborated in the M&E plan;• Collect and archive reports delivered by officers and managers, and finalise HOPe narrative reports;• Ensure proper and timely application of evaluation activities as elaborated in the M&E plan;• Analyse baseline and end line assessments conducted by HOPe team;• Synthesize lessons learnt, success stories and recommendations of best practices developed by HOPe team and partners;• Lead team meetings to consolidate findings from conducted Social Peace workshops and conflict sensitivity trainings;• Assist in the development of HOPe papers with other consultants, researchers and designers (when needed);• Organize roundtable events to develop, discuss and disseminate HOPe papers; • Assist in contacting local and international partners, especially UN cluster meetings;• Provide all necessarily information to team members to produce internal and external materials such as media materials. عرض أقل

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  SAWI

  Apr 2019 - now

  • Regional Manager of "Support and Accelerate Women's Inclusion" (SAWI) Project

    Mar 2021 - now

  • Project Manager of KIP Index Project: A Comparison Of The Status Of Women In The Mena Economies

    Apr 2019 - now
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  American University of Beirut

  Mar 2021 - now

  Middle East and North Africa Manager | Support and Accelerate Women's Inclusion (SAWI) Project