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Hadeer Essam

Safeguarding Officer at Catholic Relief Services

Giza, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Safeguarding OfficerFull Time

    Catholic Relief Services

    Jul 2019 - Present -6 yrs

    • Job Details:As a safeguarding officer, I am responsible for ensuring that all CRS programming does no harm to beneficiaries through several safeguarding initiatives. • Training all staff, partner staff, volunteers and service providers on our safeguarding policy, code of conduct, reporting mechanisms and expected behavior. • Managing our feedback and complaint mechanism (and contributed in creating our sensitive feedback mechanism) and ensuring accurate and timely follow up. • Managing all internal and external referrals where beneficiaries are directed from partner organizations under the umbrella of UNHCR to us and vice versa. • Attending working groups and partner meetings to ensure updates are shared, services are not duplicated and the referral mechanism is being effectively used. • Contribute to business development and proposal writing through filling GAP analyses and protection and accountability portions. • Providing training to help staff perform better such as Psychological First Aid and De-escalation Strategies. • Submit donor and internal reports regarding accountability and referrals. • Managing a team of two staff members and five volunteers to ensure the completion of all the above tasks.
  • Field Officer, Accountability and ProtectionFull Time

    Catholic Relief Services

    Jan 2018 - Jun 2019 -1 yr, 5 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Monitor and report on the accountability system for the country program, and ensure that all follow up cases are assigned to the appropriate person and close in a timely manner. • Ensure that all feedback is documented in an accurately and timely manner. • Support in extracting reports to help other units with any necessary data for project implementation. • Create a monthly report on our feedback and complaint cases. • Coordinate with all teams to get constant updates on projects and provide timely response to all inquiries. • Monitor responding to all our feedback channels including hotlines and suggestion boxes. • Manage the country program’s Facebook page by posting project updates and responding to any inquiries and complaints. • Ensure the visibility of our channels by creating an accountability visibility package before our major activities. • Supervise hotline volunteers and provide on the job coaching and training. • Monitor protection mainstreaming across all projects
  • Project Assistant for GrantsFull Time

    Catholic Relief Services

    May 2017 - Dec 2017 -7 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Manage referrals concerning Syrian asylum seekers (internal and external) and manage the project’s Facebook page as a main channel for communication with the beneficiaries while answering inquiries and responding to complaints. • Take part in communicating with other organizations to raise awareness on grant start date, registration process, eligibility criteria and required documents. • Coordinate the procurement of brochures and posters to be hung in partner organizations as well as CRS. • Monitor registration process through data analysis leading to weekly division, sending SMS’s, and ensuring the process goes accurately and efficiently. • Responsible for analyzing no shows and ensuring reaching out to them to come receive the grant. • Manage the newcomers by collecting data, reporting to the donor, measuring the capacity and communicating with the beneficiaries to register with CRS. • Supervise two case workers and allocated tasks most suitable for their skills to help them develop. • Monitor grant disbursement interviews and handle difficult cases or angry applicants. • Advocate for difficult cases and request exceptions from donors. • Provided one-on-one training to volunteers to help them with their interviewing skills. • Took part in monthly, mid-year and yearly reports. • Lead after-action reviews and coordination meetings within the team and with other units.
  • Case Worker for GrantsFull Time

    Catholic Relief Services

    Apr 2016 - Apr 2017 -1 yr

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Case Worker in CRS (Catholic Relief Services) in the Education Project for Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers. - Conducted registration and grant interviews. - Acted as VC (Vulnerable Cases) coordinator - Took part in profiling Special Needs students. - Took part in monthly reports.
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Political Science

      Cairo University (CU)

      Jan 2007 - Jan 2011 - 4 yr

    • High School - IGCSE

      Ghana International School

      Jan 2007 

    Activities

    • Secretariat in Model of the United Nations at ALMUN

      Student Activity

      Oct 2007 - Mar 2011 -3 yrs, 5 months

    Skills

    • Internet
    • Microsoft Word
    • Microsoft Powerpoint
    • Research
    • Teaching
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Customer Service

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
    • French

      Intermediate

    Training & Certifications

    • Financial Planning Traning

      Commercial International Bank (CIB)·2008
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