Project & Operations Management
I bring 10 years of experience in project and operations management. I have constantly led teams whether as a staff member in organizations or as a social enterprise founder and director, or as a consultant bringing on board other people, or as an events organizer or as a community organizer. Some sample projects that I managed are below. However, all sample portfolio projects on this website count under my project and operations management experience as well.
Sample Assignments
Operations and Impact Consultant, Hippocampus Learning Centers
Hippocampus operates 200+ learning centers across India, with 500+ staff members on the field in different states, speaking different languages and following different state rules
Streamlined the organization’s operational procedures, created compliance measures and indicators, linking these procedures to employees’ performance, motivation strategies and the organization’s social impact
Led staff retreats to ensure organizational culture alignment among staff members
Operations Assistant, Ashoka Arab World
Designed and implemented a performance evaluation and monitoring system for 30+ employees
Led employee and interns recruitment processes
Created university partnerships for the Ashoka Internship Program, including with George Washington, Princeton, and Columbia for continuous recruitment of interns
Designed, maintained, and updated the organizations’ Knowledge Management System
Created media partnerships; co-designed and managed the launch of a new organization website
Designed and organized staff retreats for annual strategic planning and staff talent development
Ashoka Changemakers Schools: "Khaleek Makano" (Put Yourself in their Shoes)
Designed and launched a new initiative to teach public school children changemaking and empathy skills to build a new generation of future social innovations. The project is in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Egypt and Ashoka and its social entrepreneur fellows
I managed the full project and facilitated: curriculum co-creation, project prototyping in collaboration with teachers, principals and CSOs, as well as Ministry clearances and finally, debriefing and reflections between all involved stakeholders. The project moved on to next stages of implementation (after which I left its implementation and another team took over) as a scaled up program in public schools in Egypt
Other work includes:
- Managing the Ashoka Fellowship program on a regional Arab States scale, please see a full feature on the Social Entrepreneurship page
- Managing a project to create a child non-formal education program in an Egyptian squatter area in collaboration with El-Shehab organization, please see a full feature on the Learning Experience Design page
- Managing a full social enterprise for 4 years from vision and strategy setting, to prototyping projects, to fundraising and public relations, to recruiting, managing and assessing performance of staff members and volunteers (6-12 employees and volunteers). Please see a full feature on Mesahat: Liberating Learning Spaces on the Social Entrepreneurship page
Sample Frameworks & Tools Used
Frameworks used include: adaptive leadership, agile project management, human-centered organizational governance methods (teal methods) like decentralized decision making and holocracy techniques