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Basma Chaikh Karouch

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Tel: +961 804798
       +961 70003992
       +961 3550540                                                                                         
      
        Email: [email protected]

       Skype: basma.ck

 

Personal details

             Date of Birth       :  September 13, 1987

             Nationality           :  Syrian

             Marital Status     :  Single

objective      

To use my ability to work in a team environment. I am self-motivated and able to work both independently and as collaborative team member. To obtain a position where I can maximize my organizational and interpersonal skills and knowledge which will contribute my years of experience, which will allow me to grow personally and professionally.

Education     

  1. American University in Beirut
    • B.A in Economics

 

  1. Continuing Education Center ,AUB
    • Certificate in web design

 

  1. Venture consulting & Business development, Damascus
    • PMP Certified 2012

KEY PERSONAL TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

KEY SKILL

APPLICATION

 

Communication
  • Adapting reports, documents, memos and other written material to target audience.
  • Speaking effectively in different formal and informal contexts.

 

Organization
  • Identifying available resources and using them effectively.
  • Developing a flexible approach to time-management and work-in-progress.
  • Recognize the demands of multiple and related tasks.

 

Information Management
  • Gathering information (e.g. source data, statistics, market research) and developing effective storage/retrieval systems.
  • Interpreting, analyzing, and synthesizing information into valuable knowledge.

 

Technology
  • Creating, storing, sending, and retrieving data (e.g. word processing, e-mail, web sites, databases, spreadsheets, and graphics).
  • Making effective use of information from various sources.

 

Self-management
  • Showing initiative, self-motivation, and resourcefulness.
  • Decision-making and problem-solving autonomously.
  • Assessing progress, and monitoring, reviewing and learning from my own performance and achievements.

Team-working
  • Working co-operatively in teams, sharing decision-making and negotiating with others.
  • Listening to relevant opinions before reaching decisions and relating the ideas of others to the task in hand.
  • Adopting various roles in changing circumstances.
  • Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of group effectiveness and of my own performance within the group.

  

additional information

  1. Languages:
  • Arabic, native language
  • English, fluent written and spoken
  • French, beginner
  1. Interests:
  • Organizing events
  • Table Tennis

Piano 

Activities

  1. 2006:  Participated in the Cambridge MUN in the year 2006.
     
  2. 2008:  Active member of the Red Cross Club at AUB where I was engaged in  organizing many humanitarian and social events.
     
  3. 2009-2010: Secretary at the Syrian Cultural Club at AUB
     We had 200 members, my responsibility was to register the club with the Office of Student Affairs at the beginning of the fall semester, keep accurate minutes of all meetings, submit a report to the Office of Student Affairs at the end of each semester, handle all correspondence, notification, and maintain archives and keep copies of all proposals, reports, official letters, and e-mail printouts and well as organize social and cultural events with the rest of the committee.
     
  4. 2010-2011: President of the Syrian Cultural Club at AUB
    We  had 230 members. My responsibility was to represent the organization and preside over its meetings, call for regular and special meetings, and general assembly’s, contribute with other cabinet members to the planning of activities, authenticate by my signature all the acts, orders, and proceedings of the Organization, restrain the members when engaged in debate within the rules of order, sign jointly with the treasurer vouchers to withdraw money from the organization account, face responsibility for club actions that violate Office of Student Affairs guideline.
  5. 2011-2013 Fundraising
    Worked as an independent activist with other activists to raise funds for refugees in Lebanon and Syria (Homs, Damascus, Idleb) in need on various occasions. We organized Bazars, charity dinners and campaigns to raise the funds.
  6. 2011-2013 Field Work

Cofounder and coordinator of a youth movement called Syrian Relief Network, dedicated to help in raising funds from individuals to help the Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Also worked on providing jobs for the refugees and psychosocial support for the children of these families.

  1. 2011-2013 Meetings
    Helped organize and attended meetings with various NGOs in Lebanon to try and coordinate the work of these various organizations to make them more efficient.

Work EXPERIENCE

  1. Syrian Relief Network: Youth initiative for relief and psychosocial support of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Syria.
    Activist-part time        Aug-ongoing 2011/2013         Beirut, Lebanon
    • Relief: Working voluntarily in  raising funds and distributing aids for the most vulnerable Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Syria(Homs suburbs, Damascus country and suburbs , Idleb suburbs) and coordinate with the charity organizations to cover cases they haven’t covered yet.
    •  Civil society building.
         - Working on children development programs.
         - Working on development programs for young men who were subjected to violence by providing them psychological support to help them get over their fierceness.
         - Working with refugees of various religions and sects for many Bazaars organized by activists of this movement to encourage unity and self-dependency.
         - Working on opening a training center to help the refugees get skills and build a career.  
      -       Holding initiative programs to support the Syrian market by organizing Bazars and campaigns to encourage citizens to buy from the Syrian markets.
      - Holding cultural programs by organizing concerts and exhibitions to raise funds and encourage the innovative and brilliant artists who rose and established their names during the revolution despite all the painful and difficult circumstances they  passed through.

- Currently working on a proposal to raise funds for equipping a school in Tripoli area in Lebanon. 

  1. Integrity Research and Consultancy
    Research consultant-full time     Sep-Oct 2013          Beirut, Lebanon

    I have worked on a research about the Syrian refugees impact on Lebanon’s society, economics and politics where I:
     -  Assisted in the compilation of research documents.
    -  Mapped and identified key Syrian refugees stakeholders.
    - Assisted in instrument sensitization and translation
    -Contacted and arranged for interviews with Syrian refugees and Lebanese stakeholders and maintained interviews schedule.
    -Participated and conducted interviews at site locations.
    -Took notes and entered minutes of meetings.
    -Maintained working hours in the office.

     
  2. Bankers life assurance:
    Financial consultant                Oct-ongoing 2013                   Beirut, Lebanon
  • Do lists for prospective clients.
  • Contact and arrange meetings with clients and maintain meetings schedules.
  • Do financial analysis for the clients.
  • Use the financial analysis done for the clients to assist them and offer them the insurance programs that fit their needs.

References

  1. Will be provided upon request

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