Associate

• 2023 - Present

Consultant

• 2020 - 2022

A global organization that helps entrepreneurs in developing countries in various aspects of business development and trade. The aim of the organization is to facilitate and help women-led businesses access economic opportunities through e-commerce and global trade. • Assisted in business development for more than 700 women entrepreneurs; helped to connect them with customers, investors, accelerators, government organizations, and partners. • Supported hundreds of women entrepreneurs in accessing new markets and partnered with over 15 trade support institutions. • Helped in building and maintaining partnerships with businesses, sponsors, and private and public sector institutions. • Assisted entrepreneurs in identifying new market opportunities by analyzing potential sectors. • Project managed various growth-oriented initiatives including B2B and trade shows. • Designed and implemented a communications plan, including social media to promote global events and conferences. • Developed training materials and delivered dozen of workshops and coaching sessions to entrepreneurs, in English, Arabic, and French on topics of digitalization, access to finance, and sustainability. • Analyzed and produced quarterly reports of the projects while tracking progress against work plan. Show less

Associate

• 2019 - 2020

• Provide support to ICRC operations and diplomatic outreach across the Middle East and with strategic partners around the world. • Liaise with states and multilateral organizations to promote compliance with international humanitarian law and incorporate humanitarian concerns into the Middle East's diplomatic discourse. • Contribute to developing ICRC policy on urbanization, climate change and counter terrorism • Provide support to ICRC operations and diplomatic outreach across the Middle East and with strategic partners around the world. • Liaise with states and multilateral organizations to promote compliance with international humanitarian law and incorporate humanitarian concerns into the Middle East's diplomatic discourse. • Contribute to developing ICRC policy on urbanization, climate change and counter terrorism

Consultant

• Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

• Developed a marketing strategy for an ICT crowdfunding platform • Produced a final report that included a cost-benefit analysis, product analysis, market research, and key performance indicator and recommendations. • Developed a marketing strategy for an ICT crowdfunding platform • Produced a final report that included a cost-benefit analysis, product analysis, market research, and key performance indicator and recommendations.

Communications Officer

• May 2017 - Jan 2018

• Collaborate for Social Impact (C4SI) is an 8-week program that engages students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds with challenges provided by leading international and development organizations based in Geneva (including ICRC, ITC, UNEP, and others) in order to find sustainable innovative solutions • Attended a number of workshops on human design thinking, ideation, prototyping, and visual presentation. • Worked with the communications team to promote the program, and develop the website and social media platform. Show less

Internship

• 2018 - 2018

• Assisted in the development of partnerships with local child protection organization. • Ran workshops and webinars for child protection specialists. • Researched and drafted action reports for child protection activities in emergency settings. • Assisted in the development of partnerships with local child protection organization. • Ran workshops and webinars for child protection specialists. • Researched and drafted action reports for child protection activities in emergency settings.

Intern

• Jul 2017 - Dec 2017

• Middle East and North Africa intern, working under the crisis response programme. • The main aim is to put forward agenda 1325 across the MENA region and give a gendered perspective to the disproportionate effect war has on women. • Middle East and North Africa intern, working under the crisis response programme. • The main aim is to put forward agenda 1325 across the MENA region and give a gendered perspective to the disproportionate effect war has on women.

Consultant

• Apr 2017 - Dec 2017

As a team of four students, we worked on analyzing, measuring and monitoring social cohesion in conflict and transition situations. We worked on developing a tool that can measure social cohesion in post-crisis context. As a pilot trip, I traveled to Burundi to test out the tool the team has been developing in two communities on the Tanzanian borders where forced returnees, internally displaced persons and hosts live together. The final developped tool was disseminated among IOM's field missions to measure the impact of their work Show less

Intern

• Jun 2015 - Jul 2015