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Abdallah H

Manager community relations , educational marketing and outreach.student recruitment and Training & Development - 20 Years of Experience -

Occupation:

Training & Development Manager

Education Level:

Doctorate

Will Relocate:

YES

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To obtain a full-time opportunity, where I can apply my prior work experience in higher education leadership and managerial which I have gained throughout my career. For almost 24 years .

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SCHOOL MAJOR YEAR DEGREE

University of Lincoln UK Educational Leadership and management 2002 Doctorate Degree
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Management development program 1999 Certification Degree
Poona University Physics 1982 Master Degree
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Highlights:

• Founding member of higher colleges of technology. • initiating, developing and maintaining a very useful networks and collaborations with schools, parents, alumni, local community, international industry members, various government departments and other sister institutions. • Created, implemented and managed a five-year strategic marketing recruitment plan that increased student numbers at the HCT-Abu Dhabi Men’s Colleges from 560 students to 2640 students in four years. • Maintained open and effective communication pathways in a multicultural setting between various academic, managerial and departmental staff with 38 different nationalities. And utilized my bi-lingual ability (Arabic English) and a very good command of speaking Hindi. • Played a substantial role in planning and managing international student’s conferences. Such conferences included The Festival of Thinkers and Education without Borders. Those two international conferences have witnessed the participation of almost 50 Nobel Laureates, 300 world’s leading thinkers and thousands of students from more than 130 countries • Established a solid relationship with members of the local and international media outlets.

Companies I like:

Higher education organisation

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 Managed. Planned and overseen the creation and implementation of a cohesive integrated communication and marketing strategic plan to promote and increase the visibility of the institution both nationally and internationally.  Managed and Coordinated HCT relations with industries, businesses, government offices, schools, Alumni, and students’ parents etc.  Provided strategic advice to the Vice Chancellor of new partnership opportunities with the community.  Worked with the Vice Chancellor in creating the HCT foundation initiatives.  Played a substantial role in Identifying opportunities for fund raising and work with organizations to develop many new career and academic programs.  Implemented and managed a five years strategic marketing and recruitment plan that increased student numbers at Abu Dhabi Men’s Colleges from 560 in 2000 to 2640 in 2005. I have also been heavily involved in the management of system wide student recruitment campaigns since 2005 to date where student numbers have increased from 12,000 to 21,000  Plan the marketing for new training and community education academic programs.  Played a substantial role in planning, organizing and marketing International events with more than 1,000 students from across the world; such as Education without Borders (EWB)  Planned various HCT events such as graduation ceremonies and international conferences  Managed outreach, marketing and public relations activities  Approved all HCT publications and multimedia production  Approved publishing all English and Arabic articles in newspapers  Created a college media center and social media unit  Maintained an outstanding relationship with local and international media  Approved all colleges’ publications, multimedia productions and disseminations  Ensured that HCT community relations contacts database was up to date  During my years of experience in higher education I taught for business department courses like General mathematics, general Business, Marketing principles, business mathematics and Organizational Behavior. While for the engineering department I taught Physics, basic mathematics, calculus and applied physics. As for Curriculum developments I was involved in writing and modifying several courses outline.  Developed and delivered several presentations and seminars on Culture, leadership, quality and total quality management.
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