MENNA ELSALHY, Social Engagement Specialist

MENNA ELSALHY

Social Engagement Specialist

ictQATAR

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Strategic Project Managment
Experience
14 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 3 Months

Social Engagement Specialist at ictQATAR
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since June 2015

Research ( benchmark reports and local data analysis) and project management

Researcher at Veryday
  • Sweden
  • May 2014 to March 2015

Assisted teams within service design and digital design projects. Extensively applied design thinking and customer experience principles for different industries.

Responsibilities:
- Developing market analysis, benchmark reports and business case studies
- Contributing to qualitative user research: interviews, workshops and brainstorming sessions
- Evaluating the patient experience in healthcare sector and UX on multiple digital platforms
- Identifying qualified prospective clients in Qatar
- Translation (Arabic-English)

Project managment intern at Visit Scotland
  • United Kingdom
  • December 2012 to February 2013

- Interviewed staff (Senior managers and employees)
- Analyzed the impact of training on employees performance
- Recommended new insights for employees development journey

Projects and Events Coordinator at British Council Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2012 to August 2012

This job focused on implementing the Cultural, Social and Art projects. The job had multiple challenges due to its nature of implementing of wide range of projects within a limited time frame.

Key Responsibilities:
- Managing the internal stakeholders (e.g Director, local and regional managers, other departments, colleagues).
- Managing partners and suppliers during project implementation.
- Responsible for the procurement process, in addition to issuing financial records on SAP.
- Developing scorecards for every project and reporting to the events manager.

Achievements:
- Increased the suppliers portfolio
- Introduced new potential partners’ for number of projects.
- Introduced new marketing tool for one of the projects that increased the profits by 20%.

Communications Advisor at World E-Business Initaiative
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2009 to December 2011

WEBI aims at empowering internet entrepreneurs and SMEs. As a co-founder, the responsibility focused on expanding the outreach of the initiative in media and within the society. This position was based online.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing the internal and external stakeholders (e.g CEO, team, and media partners).
- Preparing press releases, newsletter, and supervising the media coverage.
- Recruiting volunteers and reporting to the CEO.

Achievements:
- In 2012, I managed the media coverage to a conference organized in Gana, as WEBI was one of its media sponsors in
Middle East; despite I was studying abroad in Scotland.
- Launched the first episode of “Webidia Egypt” Podcast in Arabic.

Sales Associate at Qatar Promotion Board
  • Qatar - Doha
  • June 2011 to December 2011

This job focused on developing B2B sales plans for International Trade Exhibition. The plan identified new possible ways to attract partners and exhibitors on the local, regional and international levels to the exhibition.

Key Responsibilities:
- Developing new sales plan based on market and business intelligence to increases the success rate of the exhibition.
- Negotiating with internal and external stakeholders (e.g CEO, Colleagues, sponsors, and companies).
- Supervising the social media channels and reporting to CEO.

Achievements
- The plan succeeded in making partnerships with franchise associations, as well as chambers of trade and commerce on both levels the regional and international.
- The plan succeeded in acquiring the sponsorship of Ministry of Trade and Business in Qatar to the exhibition; moreover the exhibition was associated to a national conference.

Project Manager at Student In Free Enterprise (SIFE)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2008 to July 2010

SIFE is an international student run organization. This role focused on managing a project within Cairo University team
portfolio starting from the planning to close out.

Key Responsibilities:
- Conceptualizing the project idea, scope, plan.
- Design and manage the project budget.
- Managing internal and external stakeholders (e.g mangers, team members, project participants and external partners).
- Reporting to Enactus Cairo University President.

Achievements
The project consisted of 3 sub projects and it won the second position in the national competition in 2010.

Summer Intern at Gulf Egyptian Bank
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2009 to September 2009

I was a Trainee at the Visa and Credit department

Summer Intern at Suez Canal Bank
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2008 to August 2008

I was a summer trainee at Credit as well as Customer services Departments

Education

Master's degree, Strategic Project Managment
  • at Heriot Watt Univerty
  • January 2014
Master's degree, Project Management
  • at Umea University
  • January 2014
Master's degree, Project Management
  • at European Union Scholarship
  • January 2014

I was granted a Scholarship to study for a Masters degree in Strategic Project Management (European) at Heriot Watt University (Scotland), Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Umeå School of Business and Economics (Sweden) from 10th September 2012 study period 16 months.

Master's degree,
  • at MIP Politecnico Di Milano
  • July 2013
Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at faculty of economics and political science- cairo university
  • June 2011

1- Economics Bachelor degree from Faculty of Economics and Political Science, English department, Minor Management – Cairo University , Egypt 2- Stock market introductory diploma, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. 4-Internships : A.Egyptian gulf bank at Cairo, Egypt summer internship - visa department where I have been learning how to check the documents and entering the data into the bank network software. B.Abu Ghali Automotive at Cairo, Egypt, summer internship- finance department where I have been learning how to make accounting sheets & calculate the net profits of each car sold. C.Suez Canal bank Cairo, Egypt, summer internship - customer service department where I have been learning and practicing customer service and responding to customer needs.

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Office
ms office tools Word Excel PowerPoint...
MS Office MS Word MS Excel MS Power point
presentation
MS Office
Copy writing
Time Managment
Social Media interaction (FB , Twitter , Linkedin)
Quick learner
Result and people Oriented
Ability to work in Multi Cultural Environment
Business development
Project management
Communication
Customer Service
Budget and financials
Adminstration

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
Swedish
Beginner

Hobbies

  • Travelling, writing poetry and football