Mohamed Abbas

Experience

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  ChangeMakers

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2020

  Executive Officer

  ChangeMakers is a social enterprise that empowers youth through coding and communications capacity building.- Contribute to three annual workplans and resource mobilization based on customers’ needs and demands. - Manage a $25k fund and track the progress against the plan and budget. - Design and facilitate training courses for +50 youth on soft skills and entrepreneurship.- Managing seven events like meetups and hackathons for participants.- Analysis of the business performance and preparing regular reports for the key stakeholders. Show less

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  Ibtikar Advertising Agency, in association with TBWA

  Jan 2017 - Mar 2017

  Community Manager

  • Develop client-oriented e-marketing strategies aimed at increasing social media followers.• Prepare monthly social media plans for clients including content of posts, designs, and advertisements to promote the clients’ products in a customer-friendly manner.• Constantly monitor the performance of clients’ social media channels and track customer engagement to develop recommendations on best practices to maintain a strong client base.• Collect and analyse data from clients’ social media platforms to generate visual, synthesis reports on their various social media channels' performance and engagement levels. Show less

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  Danish Refugee Council / Dansk Flygtningehjælp

  Mar 2017 - Sept 2019

  • Contribute to the substantive and operational implementation of livelihoods programming, including drafting of workplans and support to procurement (e.g. evaluation of tenders and technical assessments of offers).• Conduct almost 220 tailored career and livelihoods counselling sessions for beneficiaries to support them in developing career development plans.• Organize 18 vocational and employability skills training, including liaison with trainers, training material development, logistics coordination, and financial management. Lead monitoring and evaluation of the impact of training on beneficiaries’ employability.• Improve the archiving system for the vocational and employability skills training unit. Show less • Conduct survey assessments and analyse data to identify and monitor social needs at the community level.• Development of plans and project proposals to address priority community needs in targeted localities.• Design trainings and other, innovate activities to build capacities of targeted youth beneficiaries on communication skills, teamwork, problem-solving, decision-making, leadership, and community work.• Provide almost 300 hours of life-skills training for more than 100 youth, adolescents, women and men.• Based on prior training, refer beneficiaries in need of psychosocial support to adequate social support services.• Monitoring and evaluation of training programs; drafting impact reports with recommendations on improvement. Show less

  • Economic Recovery Assistant

    Feb 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Soft skills Trainer

    Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
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  Karme Lemon

  Mar 2019 - Aug 2021

  Co-Founder & Executive Manager

  Karme Lemon is a family enterprise that aims to revive traditional Palestinian embroidery in a modern way. - Design the business model and conduct market research to specify the customer segments with their needs and demand. - Create and execute a social media strategy to increase brand awareness. - Establish four strategic partnerships which reflect in increasing the sales volume by 50% and expanding the geographic positioning to one new country.

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  UNDP

  Oct 2019 - Sept 2021

  - Research key social, economic, and development trends in Syria through data collection and analysis to generate regular market analysis reports and set recommendations for designing services.- Organise and facilitate eight context analysis workshops and focus groups in multiple locations.Establish and manage a community of observers to keep the market profile data up-to-date.- Produce four analytical products on specific issues relevant to economic recovery and resilience. - Support the design and execution of the Early Recovery and Livelihoods strategy and work plans.- Liaise and support partners and stakeholders in conducting the sector’s main activities, including needs analysis, planning, monitoring and evaluation.- Design of needs-based and demand-driven early recovery and livelihood services and interventions.

  • Market Analyst

    Mar 2021 - Sept 2021

  • Early Recovery & Livelihoods Coordinator

    Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
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  Warwick Enterprise (University of Warwick)

  Apr 2022 - Sept 2022

  Innovation Impact Coordinator

  - Creation of +10 new digital content and impact material designed to capture results and success stories.- Contribute to the design and implementation of eight innovation programmes and activities to achieve the expected delivery for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship among students.

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  University of Birmingham

  Oct 2022 - Feb 2023

  Entrepreneurial Development Officer

  - Designing various programmes to guide students through the innovation process, to experiment and develop start-up ideas.- Grow and maintain a pipeline of viable start-ups for the student and graduate at the University's incubator.- Empower students by advising and mentoring them on an individual basis to turn their ideas into sustainable businesses.- Build and maintain an entrepreneurial community to share expertise through reinforcing peer-to-peer learning.- Creation of an Entrepreneurial Library to support students' ambition in building startups Show less

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  Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

  Feb 2023 - now

  Business Engagment and Community Officer (Entrepreneurship)
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  PIM (Purpose in Motion)

  May 2023 - Dec 2023

  Startup Mentor