Bashar Hobbi

Experience

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  Shabab

  Sept 2011 - Mar 2012

  Managerial Assistant

  - Part of the team that helped “Shabab”, a Syrian leading organization in youth labour skills, to triple youth outreach between 2010 and 2011 with 30% of the budget. At that time, I developed practical solutions to enhance program’s quality and reach out as based on bottom-up management approaches.- Coordinating “Business Awareness Programme” inside schools; training more than 400 students on 5 days business awareness program and supervise 5 other junior trainers- Intern at Programmes Development Department: responsible for coordinating between programs, monitoring plans’ implementation, detect the divergences and suggest solutions to fix them to improve the programs' quality- Organizing Training of trainers as part of Business Experience program.- Quality team member and administrative volunteer in Business Clinic Programme; responsible for coordinating workshops, evaluating activities and events and reach out to beneficiaries. Show less

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  مؤسسة جفرا للإغاثة والتنمية الشبابية | Jafra Foundation For Relief And Youth Development

  Aug 2012 - Feb 2013

  Logistics Coordinator

  Managing team member in Aloutamed bin Abbad IDPs center at Al-Yarmouk Camp (300 - 500 IDPs): (August - December 2012)- Responsible for managing warehousing and logistics in center, monitoring all inputs and outputs and prepare daily reports on all delivered, distributed and needed items - Responsible for building a warehousing and distribution system and procedures and continuously update it to ensure justice and equality - Managing immediate responses during peak workload periods and under pressure while meeting deadlines or under unexpected accidents and circumstances - Logistics team leader and responsible for following 5 volunteers and ensure good behavior while serving the IDPs - Coordinating with managing team and partners to ensure the continuous supply for food and non-food items needed for the IDPs Show less

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  Syrian Arab Red Crescent

  Oct 2012 - Jan 2013

  Trainer and health educator

  Team member of health education for children ,by interactive training techniques, Red Crescent team: The ICRC represented by Red crescent made a project funded by UNFPA to build a team of trainers that have good knowleadge of health issues and interactive training skills and have experince to work with children after they found the results of health problems that occured inside IDPs centers, the lack of awearness about general and personal health and the absence of any health preprations inside the centers.The team was responsible for giving children the main general good health practices to avoid sickness and infections for common diseases depending on making interactive activities, games, role actings and other active learning techniques.The project was in many schools in Damascus and suburbs and I was part of implementation in four different schools (IDPs centers) : Aiesh Alseedekah in AlZaheraa, Ma'moun Mansour in Al-Mazzah, Lobanah in Al-A'afeef and Almazzeh Almohdatheh in Al-Mazzah. Show less

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  مؤسسة جفرا للإغاثة والتنمية الشبابية | Jafra Foundation For Relief And Youth Development

  May 2013 - Sept 2013

  Psychosocial Support trainer

  Psychosocial Support methodology trainer: (May - November 2013) Haifaa IDPs center- In May 2012, had TOT on "I Deal" psychsocial support training program (In accordance with War child Holland)- From June - Sebtember 2012, trained 30 children on I Deal, the 50 hours training include sessions about identity and assessment, dealing with emotions, peer relations, adults relations, conflict and peace and the futureThe whole program is designed by War Child Holland organization aim to help the under war children to define their future, be creative and give them the skills to shape their lives even when they have experienced armed conflict and support the ideas of acceptance and dialogue with others and cope with diversity- On the other hand during and outside the training I was dealing with all kinds of children (from 10-15 years old) as case studies and give them counsels and advises to help them to identify theirs problems and find ways to solve them without violence- When we see the problems that children have, we started to coordinate between children, parents and managers of the IDPs center to provide safe environment for children ( physically, socially and psychologically), But unfortunately we didn't have the power or authority to make the managers accept our advises Show less

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  SFPA (Syrian Family Planning Association)

  Dec 2013 - Jan 2014

  Action Researcher

  Evaluating and reporting training projects; conducting assessment study, data analysis, and offering better practices. The Project: Intensive training on the methodology of Action research. A joint project between UNICEF and SFPA for IDPs aims to make assessment for their needs and empower them to start Initiatives to change their local and small society Action research is a research initiated to solve an immediate problem or a reflective process of progressive problem solving led by individuals working with others in teams or as part of a "community of practice" to improve the way they address issues and solve problems Show less

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  We Learn

  Nov 2014 - Oct 2016

  Co-Founder

  .An online interactive educational platform for online learning that aims to improve education, empower youth to expand their knowledge and advocate for improving higher education's outcomes.I was a cofounder and leader of the initiative, mainly responsible for relations, strategies and partnerships in We Learn and coordinate and manage the outreach team

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  Dansk Flygtningehjælp

  Nov 2014 - Aug 2015

  Social Worker

  • Initiating the Community Based Initiatives Programme (CBIs), Trained 30 volunteers who organized 9 community initiatives in 4 months.• Establishing a network of +20 organizations in two different communities to support community centers’ beneficiaries especially marginalized women.• Building new tools to evaluate beneficiaries’ vulnerabilities and assess needs.

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  World Food Programme

  Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

  Monitoring Assistant

  - Working in the United Nations World Food Programme's mission in Syria for two years.- Leading a team of field monitors to implement the monitoring and evaluation practices for the WFP operations in the Syrian southern region that covers the needs of 1.8 million beneficiaries a month.- Data collection, analysis, and reporting as part of the management and funders’ periodic reports.- Negotiation focal point for budgeting and 2017’s annual agreements with 10 different partners.- School feeding programme focal point in the southern region coordinating the operations while double the daily school snacks’ beneficiaries number to 200,000 in 800 schools as well as the expansion to distributing milk as well. Show less

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  Major Group for Children and Youth

  Jan 2016 - Oct 2017

  DRR Regional Focal point for MENA Region

  - Leading the advocacy for the youth and children’s participation in the policies of DRR in the region.- Coordination with UNISDR (UN Office to oversee the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction) to give youth a space in DRR negotiations.- Building a network of youth initiatives and organizations as well as professionals to foster youth inputs into DRR policies in different countries and in the regional platforms.

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  University of Oxford

  Oct 2018 - May 2019

  Research Assistant

  Part-time RA in Blavatnik School of Government, with Prof. Martin Williams, producing background papers using large data resources in order to investigate public service reforms in Africa over the last three decades.

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  SOAS University of London

  Jul 2019 - Nov 2019

  Research Assistant

  Part-time research assistant for a SOAS consulting project to a high-level international development organisation. The project focused on the effectiveness and impact of the organisation's counter-terrorism communication projects in the MENA region.

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  PwC

  Sept 2019 - Mar 2021

  Assurance Associate

  Banking and Capital Market, assurance.

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  Q5

  Apr 2021 - now

  • Senior Consultant

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Consultant

    Apr 2021 - Oct 2022