Rana Taha – Junior Advisor at GIZ

Work Experience

ITWorx Education

Dec 2020 - Present -4 yrs, 7 months

Egypt , Cairo

Job Details:• Builds, prioritizes, and refines backlog continuously to ensure Agile team has sufficient delivery. • Help contribute to creating a compelling vision, mission, and roadmap for product portfolio that builds momentum within the teams. • Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals • Communicate effectively with key stakeholders on product features and acting as the main point of contact for any inquiries. • Ensures Product's features' related documentations are available and accessible (release notes, features document, etc...). • Track data to make decisions around user growth and monetization. • Designing and running A/B experiments, testing key product assumptions • Interviews customers and identify their needs, and how the product should evolve. • Participate in the Go-to-Market plan for the product.

Senior Product OwnerFull Time
Sep 2019 - Present -5 yrs, 10 months
Egypt
- Job Details:• Helping define the product’s vision and direction. • Helping manage existing products and identifying ways to enhance those products based on public perception. • Knowing the consumer needs and translating those needs into new features for the different teams to design and develop. • Collaborating with cross-functional units/teams to coordinate and integrate product development processes. • Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities. • Researching the market in which the product will be sold to find product trends and try to gain a competitive edge on other designs. • Understanding the knowledge of the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
Product Development SpecialistFull Time
Mar 2018 - Present -7 yrs, 4 months
Egypt

GIZ

Mar 2017 - Present -8 yrs, 4 months

Egypt , Cairo

Job Details:Supporting the development and implementation of the Girls in ICT Day in Aswan. • Assisting in the development and delivery of capacity development measures to the civil society organizations concerned with the Girls in ICT Day & self-employment. • Develops a feasible monitoring system for component 3 • Supports all colleagues in component 3 with the monitoring and reporting • Assisting in the development and delivery of capacity development measures to the School- to Work Transition Unit in the Ministry of Education, related to monitoring • Carrying out research required for planning and implementing component activities • Developing communication and public relations material for the component

UNDP

May 2016 - Mar 2017 -10 months

Egypt , Cairo

Job Details:Lead the planning, management and implementation for Social innovation hub, Imagine Academy and ICT Trainings projects and Youth University Programmes. • Managing the implementations for the ICT Entrepreneurship initiative within the scope of trainings and field activities all over Egypt focusing on Technology, Computer Science and Youth. • Leading the implementation of the trainings activities, developing action plans. Also, responsible for coordinating, networking and soliciting the participation of all concerned parties, contributors, beneficiaries as well as all other relevant stakeholders to the project implementation activities. • Focusing on Empowering Women in technology through ICT & Entrepreneurship training programs. • Ensuring the deployment of all the inputs for the execution of the project activities and ensuring project effective relations with relevant stakeholders. • Handling the reporting of the project and the grant reports. • Supervising Trainers staff and executing all other general management functions. • Being responsible for internal M&E activities for the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Youth activities including, but not limited to collection of data, report writing, etc. • Track project deliverables using appropriate tools

MBA in Marketing
British University in Egypt (BUE)
Jan 2017 - Jan 2022 - 5 yr
Bachelor Degree in Informatics and Computer Science in Computer Networks
British University in Egypt (BUE)
Jan 2009 - Jan 2013 - 4 yr