Abdullah A. Obeidat
Diplomat, Deputy Chief Of Mission / Jordanian Embassy In Algiers
Algiers
Summary
SUMMARY:
13 Years of Diverse Experience in Public Policy, International relations, Government Development Cooperation and multi-stakeholders Programmes and projects. Looking forward for a dynamic and challenging opportunity in field on Development cooperation, Political Affairs, Political/ Economic Governance via International, Regional settings.
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure desired position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
U.S Relations Officer/North America's Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
Amman
08.2022 - Current
- Provide analysis to political updates on Jordanian – U.S relations
- To coordinate and evaluate MOU and sectoral funds provided accordingly by U.S government
- Support Strategic communication of within concerned partners of Jordanian – U.S relations
- Provide Structural Departmental development plans in relation to Embassies and Ministry
- Report on strategic manners impacting bilateral relations
- Liaise with Minister’s office on technical, legal and security cooperation
- Attend USAID and U.S Embassy’s meeting with Jordanian official stakeholders.
Diplomat-Foreign Affairs Coordinator
Ministry of Foreign affairs and Expatriates
Amman
01.2016 - Current
- International organizations & relations department
- International candidature division
- Member of international humanitarian cross-boarded committee (MOFA+UN actors)
- Liaise and coordinate with Humanitarian Actors of UN Agencies in Jordan
- Support strategic liaison with Jordan UN permanent missions in Geneva & New York.
Deputy Chief of Mission
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Nairobi
04.2021 - 08.2022
- Management and analysis of Bilateral relations (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda)
- Overall Management and workflow of Embassy’s staff
- Political and international relations reporting
- Sustaining Jordanian National interests within accredited UN Organizations in Kenya
- Ensuring Managerial and financial practices and SOPs of the Ministry at the Embassy
- Development Cooperation & political affairs Officer (Diplomatic Staff Embassy of
Diplomat - 3rd Secretary (Political & UN Affairs)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates
Nairobi
07.2018 - 04.2021
- Embassy's Focal point to UNEP & UN-Habitat
- Support in-line stakeholders (Ministry of Environment, Urban development corporation) with necessary inputs of UN member states and committee of committee of permanent representatives' meetings
- Drafting technical and political concept notes, talking points, and potential areas of development in Environmental, development, and urbanization related matter
- Liaise, Coordinate and prepare required inputs for United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-4) through participative and engagement approach.
- Support development of Result-Based Matrixes for Coordination matters and Assist in extracting development areas cooperation with international Missions in Nairobi
- Coordination of national and regional positions on work and budget strategic programming of UNEP and UN-Habitat
- Conducting Research and Reporting political bilateral related issues
- Conveying environmental policy priorities in Jordan in coordination with UNEP regional office
- Policy recommendations on bilateral development measures
- Political reporting and strategic analysis
- Diplomat /
Regional Programme Coordinator
FAO
Amman
07.2015 - 01.2016
- Focal Point & Coordinator (Jordan Component)/Regional Food Security Analysis Network (RFSAN) /Food and agriculture Organization of United Nations (, Support the development of food security, livelihoods and vulnerability analysis tools, as well as the development of vulnerability and livelihood profiles and food security monitoring indicators, as required;
- Contribute to the preparation of regular and ad-hoc food security situation reports, bulletins, policy briefs, and other technical products;
- Contribute to the programme’s capacity needs assessment exercise, preparation of training programmes for government and non-government partners as required, contribute to or facilitate training of trainers courses;
- Assist in the efforts of establishing/strengthening national-level food security coordination mechanisms;
- Support creating monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and performance indicators guidelines for food security information management systems
- Help in the establishment of strong partnerships with pertinent government and non-government actors, and work closely with partners on food security data collection, assessment, analysis, reporting and dissemination;
- Support stakeholders’ consultations meetings and workshops on the findings of the different project assessments and reviews as well as policy dialogues;
- Assist in networking with different government and non-government led technical coordination forums and working groups for better integration of food security activities;
- Assist in the preparation of the different project progress reports as required by the donor and in line with the rules and regulations of FAO;
Programme Assistant-Case worker/Resettlement
05.2015 - 07.2015
- Support center-MENA, International Organization for Migration(IOM), Conducting interviews with refugees for resettlement support purposes
- Liaise with resettlement support center seniors to ensure proper mechanism of resettlement
- Translate and support reporting to both resettlement support center, and UCSIC at department of state
- Advice on case work details, and proper evaluation of cases.
Project Management Consultant
International Trade Center
Amman
12.2014 - 02.2015
- Short term assignment) “International Trade Center” (ITC)-Project Management Unit, Part of United Nations System; Development of SMEs exports through virtual market places project in cooperation with Jordan Economic Enterprises Development Corporation (JEDCO), Initiate proposal for both technical and steering committees
- SMEs Capacity building in Virtual markets mechanisms
- Support multi-stakeholder decisions for e-commerce in Jordan
- Support legislative framework reform to facilitate e-commerce operations in Jordan
- Conduct impact studies of banking sector development in parallel to e-commerce development
- Create monitoring and evaluation plans for results enhancements of stakeholders
- Support inter-governmental liaison paradigm, to create a dynamic environment for e-business environment in Jordan.
Project Management Officer
UNDP
Amman
08.2013 - 08.2014
- Manager in Charge) SC-9 Level “United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)” Amman, Jordan /Socio-Economic portfolio/Food & Nutrition Security Towards poverty alleviation project, Support Government development in institutional capacity building and organizational development
- Resolve financial concerns of the project activities and implementing partner, in addition to verifying the implementation of resource allocation
- Monitoring & evaluation to ensure proper implementation and least diversion between planning and implementation
- Undertake all necessary financial arrangements, processes, requests for authorization, and payments in a view to ensure financial accountability
- Support decision making of multi stakeholder procurement, to ensure mandate of project(Procurement dynamics)
- Liaison with local officials, ministries, and directorates and both northern and southern governorates
- In close coordination and guidance from UNDP, coordinate the mobilization and management of necessary input to achieve project outputs according to the AWP” annual work plan”
- This would include development of concept notes and Terms of Reference, recruitment of consultants, organization of workshops and conferences and production of manuals and knowledge product
- Coordinate the preparation of project’s quarterly narrative and financial reports, annual progress reports, and the final review report, including follow up of implemented intervention through national partner(M&E)
- Drafting correspondence to national and international partners and stakeholders in relation to project implementation
- Impact analysis for agricultural growth in eco-regions, and identifying dilemmas encountering value chain cycle
- Coordination of sectoral draft strategy, and higher committee of food security.
Trade Research associate” Intern
World Trade Center, Ministry of Finance
San Diego, Amman
02.2012 - 09.2012
- Developed a country brief outlining trade and cultural information on Jordan
- Researched and identified existing trade models for identifying prospective export markets
- Identified U.S
- Or foreign channels of distribution of different products
- Identified foreign tariff and non-tariff barriers to exporting U.S
- Products
- Communicated to members and clients about trade events relevant to projects and found recent trade leads for distribution to members and clients
- Economist/USAID, Fiscal Reform Project II/, - Studies and Economic Policies Directorate
Economic Researcher
USAID, Fiscal Reform
Amman
06.2010 - 07.2011
- Conducted government finance bulletin which includes major Economic, financial, monetary and national accounts indicators, then joined Economic Polices analysis department
- Analyzed reports for International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Economic Forum, Oxford Business Group, European Investment Bank and Institute of International Finance
- Economic impact assessment for different social and economic conditions including severe
- Evaluation of economic performance in accordance to macro-economic national plans and strategies
- Monitoring Jordan position in international reports such as: doing business, global competitiveness index, and financial development report
- Ministry of finance representative for delegation mission of International Monetary Fund (IMF) for several ministries and public institutions to debate improvement and development over critical public financial contribution
- Economic analysis and research for current dilemmas, and impact analysis regarding artificial population growth
- Expenditure management forecasting model preparation specialized in labor sector data analysis.
Administrative Officer
German Development Bank- KFW
Amman
11.2009 - 05.2010
- Handling day to day operations, filing, facilitation, endowments management, and contracts monitoring
- Managing endowments from German government to those capacity building and development projects such as basic school construction and water & irrigation projects that are funded by the German government
- Managing communication channels with German donors and in charge entities.
Education
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) - Business Administration& Management, Global Management
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SAN
09.2011 - 05.2013
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS - ECONOMICS
UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
Amman, Jordan 02.2006 - 05.2009
Customer Relation Management Course (145 hours) -
Maharat Pioneers(USAID)
Amman 06.2009 - 08.2009
USAID funded training courses for recent graduate (Time management, critical thinking, service -
Public Administration Institute
Amman Advanced Level in German Language) The European Language Certificate (TELC) - undefined
IELTS English Language Certificate - undefined
01.2011 - 04.2014
Basic Security in the field (UNDP - undefined
Skills
Strategic communication
undefinedAccomplishments
- Advanced Security in the field (UNDP) 2013
- Basics of Anti-Corruption (UNDP) 2013
- Addressing stakeholders conflict (UNDP)2013
- Executive innovation (UNDP)2014
- A member of The National Society of Consumer Protection
- SMEs development and export promotion through Virtual Market places (International Trade Center) 2015
- FAO representative at the Discussions of MDGs Millennium development goals
- Food Security & Livelihoods Taskforce member of Jordan response platform for the Syria crisis 2016-2018 (JRP) 2015
- Cultural Orientation course for international migration-(IOM) 2015
- Member of international cross-border committee for humanitarian assistance, Ministry of foreign affairs & UN agencies (2016)
- Self-Sufficiency economy and sustainable development goals (SDGs) Thailand's MOFA and Institute of International Relations, Feb-Mar 2018,Bangkok, Thailand
- Migration and Sustainable Development (SDGs)- IOM & ESCWA, Cairo, Egypt – July 2018
- Introduction to International Environmental Governance – UNEP- October 2019
Timeline
U.S Relations Officer/North America's Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
08.2022 - Current
Deputy Chief of Mission
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
04.2021 - 08.2022
Diplomat - 3rd Secretary (Political & UN Affairs)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates
07.2018 - 04.2021
Diplomat-Foreign Affairs Coordinator
Ministry of Foreign affairs and Expatriates
01.2016 - Current
Regional Programme Coordinator
FAO
07.2015 - 01.2016
Programme Assistant-Case worker/Resettlement
05.2015 - 07.2015
Project Management Consultant
International Trade Center
12.2014 - 02.2015
Project Management Officer
UNDP
08.2013 - 08.2014
Trade Research associate” Intern
World Trade Center, Ministry of Finance
02.2012 - 09.2012
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) - Business Administration& Management, Global Management
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SAN
09.2011 - 05.2013
IELTS English Language Certificate - undefined
01.2011 - 04.2014
Economic Researcher
USAID, Fiscal Reform
06.2010 - 07.2011
Administrative Officer
German Development Bank- KFW
11.2009 - 05.2010
Customer Relation Management Course (145 hours) -
Maharat Pioneers(USAID)
06.2009 - 08.2009
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS - ECONOMICS
UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
02.2006 - 05.2009
USAID funded training courses for recent graduate (Time management, critical thinking, service -
Public Administration Institute
Advanced Level in German Language) The European Language Certificate (TELC) - undefined
Basic Security in the field (UNDP - undefined
Similar Profiles
Khuzama HanoonKhuzama Hanoon
Legal Adviser- Diplomat at Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ExpatriatesLegal Adviser- Diplomat at Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
Jayathry GunaratneJayathry Gunaratne
NA at UN, Human Rights and Multilateral Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri LankaNA at UN, Human Rights and Multilateral Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka
Rachmadea AisyahRachmadea Aisyah
Junior Diplomat at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of IndonesiaJunior Diplomat at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia