Rand Qudsi

Team Composition -Analyse RFPs, RFAs, and ToRs to understand client requirements for roles, experience, and qualifications. -Lead the end-to-end process of identifying and finalising team structures for business development proposals. -Strategically select and assemble teams with the right mix of skills and expertise for each assignment. Expert Identification & Coordination - Coordinate with internal teams and external consultants to identify suitable candidates. -Build and maintain a talent database of sectoral experts, advisors, and field professionals. -Lead initial outreach and engagement with proposed candidates, including bio-data and CV alignment, daily rates negotiation etc. Vetting, Documentations and Process Improvements: -Review consultant capabilities and ensure alignment of team profiles with project needs. -Support the preparation of personnel-related annexes (CVs, biodata forms, position descriptions). -Customise and optimise CVs for researchers and consultants to align with the specific requirements of proposals. -Stay informed about key donor trends in staffing expectations (USAID, FCDO, BMGF, etc.) -Continuously assess and enhance expert identification strategies to increase efficiency and client satisfaction. -Representation and Subcontractor Engagement: Act as the face of Includovate when approaching potential consultants. -Virtual Team Coordination: Manage and coordinate teams in a virtual environment to ensure effective communication and collaboration.

• Support university students and fresh graduates in gaining career clarity, identifying suitable career paths, and preparing for entry-level roles • Design and deliver structured career readiness workshops (career clarity, personality assessment, CV writing, interview preparation, and job search strategies) • Provide 1:1 and small-group coaching focused on confidence building, self-awareness, and decision-making during career transitions • Guide new moms returning to work in redefining professional identity, rebuilding confidence, and navigating career re-entry after a break • Coach individuals through career uncertainty, burnout, and anxiety, using a mindful and practical approach • Support people with disabilities through inclusive career coaching, CV preparation, and interview readiness • Partner with universities, NGOs, and organizations to develop student employability and career development initiatives • Advise organizations on inclusive hiring practices and CSR-focused recruitment aligned with diversity and accessibility goals • Apply HR expertise to recruitment processes, candidate assessment, and interview preparation • Integrate mindfulness-based practices to enhance focus, resilience, and sustainable career growth

-Prepared documents, statistics, and reports both pro-actively and as required or requested. -Mentored all transactions related to positions, recruitment, hires, benefits, and separations. -Worked closely with cross-functional teams to design and integrate gender-sensitive recruitment, retention, and development strategies, improving organizational compliance with diversity and inclusion frameworks. -Tracked contract status, management, and administration of all NCE Unit’s interns and I/NPSAs both at headquarters and in the field, and act proactively to extend, or conclude, them in a timely manner; -Developed effective succession management and workforce planning through timely and accurate projection of vacancies. -Coordinated with NCE procurement support teams and/or BMS/CPU efforts to ensure optimal approach is adopted to contract external experts, including feeding rosters with identified recommended candidates. -Continuously developed successful implementation of policies, practices and procedures -Ensured a transparent and competitive recruitment and selections processes -Advised hiring managers on the best staffing modality and appropriate use of different contract types and recruitment methods. -facilitated competitive recruitment and selection processes including reviewing and provided guidance on development of job descriptions, screening of candidates, preparation of relevant assessment tools and reports, proper panel composition, writing of interview reports when necessary, and preparing submissions to the Appointment and Promotion Board/Panel in collaboration with HR Business Partners. -Obtained budget clearances, requesting updates or creation of positions, updated organigrammes, undertaking internal circulation and sending job descriptions to OHR for classification. -Provided staff trainings on briefs and debriefs on issues relating to areas of work.

Acting as a liaison between job-seekers and employers Job seekers / Beneficiaries: • Leading and conducting soft skills and employability trainings for job- seekers and registered beneficiaries • Developing a continuous career coaching content and program to beneficiaries • Career coaching and guiding beneficiaries • Providing a long-term career guidance tool kit for the beneficiaries • Placing and employing 80% of registered beneficiaries with contracted employers • Reaching out to qualified job-seekers by disseminating announcements thru new channels Employers: • Consulting Human Resources services to interested employers • Building a Human Resources system to contracted employers • Generating HR handbook, guidelines and internal policies to contracted employers • Creating Job descriptions ,needed templates and organization chart to contracted employers • Building a performance appraisal and evaluation system to contracted employers • Creating a leave tracker system with employees personal information • Announcing opportunities , screening , interviewing and recruiting qualified candidates to open vacancies • On-boarding and off-boarding employees for the contracted employers

• Ensured smooth operations of on-boarding new joiners while in correspondence with candidate experience • Coordinated with multiple stake holders to ensure internal process guidelines were managed correctly • Worked on special initiatives to properly engage employees with TATA Consultancy services • Recruited and Interviewed candidates

Learning and training about self-coaching, career coaching and organisational coaching techniques and philosophies

Screening,filtering and assessing profiles along with conducting phone and face to face interviews with candidates. During my Internship I heavily supported and assisted Recruitment Department in few interesting projects.

Built a whole new HR Department through multitasking in recruiting process, human resources policies, Legal matters, operations and administrative tasks, addressing employee matters and organizing work activities for the company Main Accomplishments: • Reduced turnover rate by 12% with the assistance of the CEO and operation manager thru addressing and solving employee’s matters • Introduced and implemented a successful HR system in order to keep personal records, sick-leaves, annual leaves, performance appraisals and other human resources functions that matters • Successfully implemented strategies to reduce expenses • Created a friendly working environment where employees felt comfortable through introducing flexible working hours, semi- causal dress, weekly on- formal get together outgoing and other similar activity • Introduced effective performance appraisal process that satisfies all parties • Created Human Resources appraiser, appraise and Human Resources forms • Created Company Handbook which provided clear guidance • Created templates and letters including off- boarding, on-boarding, welcoming new employees, applicants’ follow-ups and other important templates • Addressed employee matters , travel arrangements and organized work activities for the company. • Prepared and coordinated any functions pertaining to employment, compensation, labor negotiations, policies and employee relations at Jordan, UAE and Qatar which gave me the opportunity to have a wider scope and in-depth knowledge in the gulf are ( Qatar , UAE) and Jordan.

Assessment of MENA companies based on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors.Supporting investors to make better informed decisions through innovative sustainability analysis.

Human Resources Assistant

The programme is two-folded: it integrates different but closely interconnected disciplines: psychology, economics/ human resource management, educational studies and relies heavily on partners that offer a “real-life” insight into the profession.

A high honored Student and an admin in Model United Nations of princess sumaya university for technology