OMAR ALMAJDALAWI

Gaza
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Skype: omar.majdalawi
Cell: 00970599417860

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

With a Master in Public Health and over 20 years of management experience in humanitarian
relief and development programs Mr. Omar Almajdalawi has a passion for delivering results in
complex project environments. Omar is currently pursuing a PhD in Conflict and
Development/ Ghent University Belgium.
While managing large-scale programs and grants portfolios in partnership with sub-grantee
local organizations, he has consistently achieved project and program goals in the face of
extraordinary challenges. Budget management experience includes portfolios of 15M USD
annually through a total of 17 sub-grantee partner organizations, and donor experience
includes ECHO, USAID, Danida, UN agencies, AuSAid, EC, Arab donors and SIDA,
Managing teams in difficult environments, Omar is a passionate leader with an ability bring
people together, stay motivated, and achieve results. He has more than 16 years of
experience in training development and delivery, motivation, team building and leadership,
and has managed teams as large as 72 staffs. Omar also recognized as international trainer in
many topics like accountability in humanitarian setting and sphere standards
Whilst technically specialized in Humanitarian, resilience and Recovery Aid, Omars technical
skills span the range of development and relief sectors, including cash transfer programming,
nutrition, WASH, and sustainable development and peace-building. Omar has a unique talent
for fundraising, networking, and coordination, and has continuously succeeded in forging new
funding relationships on behalf of his organization. His project management specialties
including establishing and implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems,
including through the use of digital tools, as well as accountability and feedback mechanisms.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

PHD Ghent University (2013 Present)/ Faculty of Social and Political

Sscience Department of Conflict and Development
Ghent, Belgium/ Major (Humanitarian Studies)
MPH Al Quds University (2003)
School of Public Health/ Jerusalem
BSC Islamic University of Gaza (2000)
Physiotherapy/ Gaza City
Diploma UNRWA/ Gaza Center (1993)
Physiotherapy Department.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sep2016-present UNDP/ Gaza Reconstruction and Recovery

National Advisor: My duties include

Program oversighting and planning.

Coordination and information sharing.
Assessment, analysis and reporting.
 Fundraising, networking and coordination
Networking, communication and presentation.
Monitoring and knowledge management.
Capacity building and team motivation.

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Janury2016- Aug 2016 Center for Mind-Body Medicine

Country office/ Palestine.
Program Advisor/ Country level: My Duties included

Provide guidance on issues of program development, program quality, compliance,

and donor relations.
Contribute to strategic and organizational planning.
Working closely with the country director and program staff on the program
development process across all departments.
Develop monitoring, evaluation and learning system and tools for the organization in
Palestine and train the team on them
Strengthen and build the capacity of the team to develop creative, responsible,
competitive concepts and proposals.
Lead joint strategy development processes for annual planning cycles and updated
throughout the year.
Ensure that all relevant programmatic parts of CMBM are suitably aware and
engaged in the programming., and create synergy among deferent programmatic
components
Provide quality control duties on the team products.
Develop staff capacity building plan for the entire team.

September 2008 December2015 Dan Church Aid/ MENA Regional Office

Jerusalem

Program Manager (Humanitarian, livelihoods and community resilience,), Duties included:

Program oversight and risk Management
Program Development, Program quality and fund raising
Partnership management and partners liaison
Financial Management
Security Management
Grants and partnership Management, reporting and Donors compliance
Communication and Representation
Human resources and team management

2006 2008 John Snow, Inc. USA

Gaza & West Bank

Community mobilization-in health Program Manager Hanan Project (USAID's Contractor)

For maternal and child health and nutrition project, duties included:
Assessed the needs of community in term of the program's field of work and explored potential
partners.
Managed and monitored all program components to ensure that the program met proposed
objectives and targets.
 Carried out the overall responsibilities of the community activities and programs in Gaza
efficiently, effectively and ensured high quality standards were maintained (including
"Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation and Planning").
Managed partner relations in Gaza and contributed in developing the capacity of partners.
Conducted program outreach, including the provision of technical assistance and collaborated
with Hanan local partners to coordinate efforts and share program results.
Participated and conducted community research; participated in the projects planning,
development and evaluation;
Build and develop the capacities of the subordinate and local partners.
Was a member of the Project Senior Management committee, which was responsible for
steering the overall project.

2003 2006 Groningen- Jabalia municipalities/Holland's

joint Program /Gaza

Program Manager (This program was implemented with Jabalia municipality

Main duties included:

Managerial and supervisory tasks

Program development and policy advice and design.
Program coordination, management, and support to the projects implementation.
Support to strategic partnership development, donor relations and resource mobilization.
Staff capacity building and activities mentoring and evaluation; engaged in designing the
National Youth Policy.

2004 2005 European Commission

West Bank and Gaza

National Project Manager/Consultant Health Sector Review This was a joint project between the
World Bank, European Commission, Italian Cooperation, WHO, and DIFID with the aim of
evaluating and reviewing the entire Palestinian Health Sector for policy reform. Main duties included:
coordinated and provided technical consultation; conducted assessments and researched duties;
networked; managed the project; monitored and reported; conducted research on centralization of the
Palestinian health system.

2003 2004 The World Bank

West Bank and Gaza

Consultant Human Development Strategy Main duties included: coordinated with all parties;
designed the methodology and assessed the Palestinian needs in the social sector (health, education,
poverty, labor market, social protection, women and youth) including NGOs, Governmental, and
Private Providers; analyzed the gathered information; prioritized the needs and reporting; drew up the
strategy.

networked and liaised with other NGOs and care providers to provide psychosocial support and
community awareness; developed the capacity of the Centers staff.

2000 2002 World Vision International

West Bank and Gaza

Program Officer (Livelihood and community resilience) Duties included:

Oversaw program design process, including needs assessments, analysis, design, and proposal
writing, subagents awarding to local partners and evaluation and reporting.
 Oversaw and ensured high quality and timely program implementation.
Assessed program effectiveness and identified opportunities for new projects.
Assisted in program strategy and operational planning process; kept abreast with situation at
relief sites.
Understood needs and responded to inquiries for information.
Maintained quality through compliance with World Vision and international relief and
development standards; provided technical assistance to partners and reinforced their technical
capacity; reported on all programmatic activities to worldwide support offices.
Ensured and monitored the programs progress toward achievement of performance indicators,
goals, and objectives; managed multi-donor budgets and multi-sectoral projects.

1996 1999 NDI/Civic Forum Institute

Gaza

North Governorate Coordinator and Civic Education Moderator Duties included: conducted civic
education campaigns; designed adult education programs; organized advocacy campaigns; mobilized
the communities in civic action tracks; networked and coordinated leading the team; trained and
capacity building for local key actors in advocacy and civic action; acted as Gaza Civic Forum
General Coordinator for 40 days during the coordinators absence; acted as coordinator and organizer
for the Visibility Action held in Gaza by ECHO.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Arabic: Mother tongue
English: Excellent

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Basil Nasser (Direct Supervisor)

Director
UNDP office Gaza
Mobile: +972597500507
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Jamil A. Atti ( Line Manager)

Country Director
Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Mobile: +970598880212
Email: [email protected]

Malene Snderskov (Lead Manager of Regional Office)

DanChurchAid-Middle East and North Africa Region
Tel. +45 4841 3950
Mobile +45 311 80 999
Email:[email protected]
E: malene.sonderskov1
www.strategihuset.dk

Kumkum Amin (Direct Line Manager)

Director Associate, John Snow Institute. USA
Tel: 0016173853655
Email: [email protected]/ [email protected]