Quality Assurance Data
Resume:
Owais Khan
Nationality: Pakistani
Religion: Islam (sunni)
CNIC # 16101-1242888-7
Present Address: Sector H,Street No 1,House 53,Sheikh Maltoon Town Mardan Pakistan.
Mobile: +923*********; +92-937-******
Email: ************@*****.***, ************@*****.***
PROFILE & OBJECTIVE
I am an accomplished professional with 3 years of diverse experience in administrative /support roles in higher education as well as in the development sector. Advanced expertise in reviewing existing practices for further refinement to ensure compliance with various standards. I desire a position, with an organization of good repute to experience new challenges and allow myself to learn new skills & be extremely committed to its goals and objectives.
EDUCATION
University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom
MSC in International Business & Management, July 2010
Iqra University –Karachi, Peshawar campus, KPK, Pakistan
Bachelor’s of Business Administration (Honors), Dec 2007
LANGUAGES
Pashto – Mother tongue
Urdu – Good reading, writing and speaking
English – Good reading, writing and speaking
SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Administrative support
Assessment & Supervision
Reporting
Presentation
Capacity Building
Data collection
Information technology
High level of team playing
Multi-tasking
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MIS / Reporting Officer, BRAC Country Office, Islamabad, Pakistan (April 2016 – Till date)
BRAC, an international development organization based in Bangladesh, is the largest non-governmental development organization in the world.
Role Details
Assisting the Country Head of Monitoring & Investigation as MIS Officer to help manage the flow/ collection of data of Health, education and Microfinance projects.
Key Responsibilities
Providing support in the preparation of Project Progress Reports on monthly and quarterly basis using MIS System.
Following a standardized reporting system based on MIS that included reliable and accurate information for all the ongoing projects.
Ensuring a smooth flow of data and its submission from the Field Teams as per desired/standard format.
Preparation and Compilation of weekly/monthly progress reports for evaluation and better decision making.
Field visits to all offices on behalf of seniors to ensure actual progress and resolve any issues, if any.
Facilitating proper training sessions to assist the field officers on data collection.
Assisting in the investigation process.
Assistant Director (QEC), GIK Institute of Engineering Science & Technology (Dec 2012 – Sep 2014)
GIK is the top Engineering Institute in private sector known for its research and studies in the field of modern Engineering sciences located in Topi, KPK province, Pakistan
Role Details
Assisted the Pro-rector (Academics)/ Director, Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) as AD QEC to strengthen the quality of programs offered at the Institute.
Key Responsibilities
Provided administrative support to all the teaching faculties. Assessment of degree programs through a supervision and evaluation tool ‘Self Assessment Report (SAR) Manual’ that required generating Self Assessment Reports (SARS) for every program offered at BS, Ms and PhD Levels as per Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan guidelines to ensure adherence to the International best practices
Maintained internal communication with all the faculties through the Dean’s office of faculties for ensuring compliance. Emails/ letters to meet deadlines were dispatched on Director`s behalf.
Arranged awareness seminars and meetings with in the faculties of the Institute on Quality assurance & Self Assessment. Relevant resource materials were provided to the faculty members for building their capacity for its adoption for improving the existing learning and teaching systems
Arranged and scheduled meetings of the Program Teams (PTs) and Assessment Teams (ATs) visits with the Director QEC on the pending as well as completed Self Assessment Reports (SARs) generated on the basis of (SAR MANUAL). Minutes of the meetings and its circulation to all the concerned
Ensured follow up on the Implementation plans/Corrective measures after Assessment/evaluation visits
Attended video conferencing/meetings and made presentations on Quality assurance at HEC Islamabad. Also attended a seminar on “Strengthening Program Self Assessment” at HEC center Lahore on behalf of the Director
Alumni, Employer and Surveys of graduating students for two years 2013 and 2014 were collected, analyzed and reported faculty wise
Also collected, maintained and reported Course Files and Course Evaluation Reports for the year 2013/14
Regularly coordinated with all the other departments such as Establishment, Finance, HR as well as Industry relations (ORIC) through email, telephone etc. for ensuring timely collection and submission of data
Made travel arrangements for all the officials in participation of meetings in other universities. Also maintained and ordered office supplies regularly (hard ware/chairs/stationary/minor works).
Ensured rigorous document control/record of the all the activities/reports being the Institutes confidential data.
Assisted in availing free memberships of the two prominent International quality assurance agencies i.e.; QA Islamic (Malaysia) and Tallories network (USA) for the Institute
Prepared annual budgets for the QEC office. Adoption of Pakistan Engineering Council’s (PEC) newly developed Objective Based Assessment/Education (OBA) manual of Accreditation 2014 and HEC`s Institutional Performance Evaluation (IPE) has remained two main domains of this position
Prepared draft material on all activities to be uploaded on the QEC section of the website
Prepared Quarterly/Yearly Progress Reports (QPRs & YPR) on all the QEC related activates of GIK for submission to the Quality Assurance Agency, HEC Islamabad
Raised the score of Institute in National Quantitative based rankings of QECs from 61 to 94 percent
House Hold Interviewer, Basic Education for Awareness, Reforms and Empowerment / Basic Education for Afghan Refugees (BEFARE) (June 2011 – Dec 2011)
BEFARE is one of renowned Non for profit organization working in areas of education, health, human rights and emergency response in Peshawar, KPK province, Pakistan
Role Details
Collection of data through already identified and assigned households to be interviewed in a group of two.
Key responsibilities
Assisted with the collection of data as defined by United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Pakistan funded project on “Population Profiling & Verification” to collect information about all members of identified Afghan households/communities residing in Afghan Refugee camps, urban localities and rural villages.
This was the world’s largest census exercise in terms of profiling ever conducted for refugees. Data collected and entered in the field through laptop computers and GPS devices. A tailored Interactive Data Entry System (IDES) was developed for this purpose.
Worked in close coordination with and report to the Field Supervisor on daily basis to conduct interviews of Afghan household members in rural, urban and camp communities according to a standard format/template of the household questionnaire.
Made daily field trips to the already identified afghan refugees under the supervision of Field Supervisor to collect data through interviewing refuges based on the standardized questionnaire developed as per UNHCR requirements.
Worked to collect data in pairs as with female colleagues in the teams to obtain their part of completed questions and its answers to be synchronized through IDES. The synchronized data was later on shared with the Data validators to be considered as being a single House hold/family Interviewed.
Demonstration of high level of team playing with in the group as well as with the refugees in order remain clear about the questionnaire.
Maintained the validity, accuracy, completeness and reliability of the data collected. Re-collected any data that was found to be inaccurate, incomplete or unreliable, as directed.
Regular field trips to one of the hardest terrains of KPK under `Field Team Supervisor` and `Data Validators` on a daily basis to inform of any security concerns, in the field of any kind, and the progress made.
Successfully completed the UNHCRs training of “International Protection Induction Program” as mandatory for working and serving BEFARe as an employee.
Lecturer (Business Admin.), Mardan Institute of Info. Tech & Management Sciences (MIT/MS) (Aug 2010 – May 2011)
MIT/MS Mardan, is the one of the famous private Institute offered degree programs in business and engineering diplomas located in Mardan, KPK, Pakistan
Key Responsibilities
Worked as Lecturer and taught subjects of Business Research, International Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Strategic Management & Marketing Management. Also supervised a number of under graduate level research projects for the final year students of Business administration.
OTHER INTERESTS
Watching global news, learning about management strategies, music, jogging, watching football
REFERENCES
Dr. Zahid Halim – Coordinator QEC/Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Faculty at GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Pakistan
Mobile: +92.321-***-****
Email: **********@*****.***
Dr. Vincent Ong – Senior Lecturer and MBA course manager at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton,
United Kingdom
Land Line: +44.0.1582743495
Email: *******.***@****.**.**
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