A passionate Learning & Development leader with 15+ years of experience. Successfully navigating learning during COVID-19 and ensuring an uninterrupted learning journey was one of my greatest professional challenges and achievements. I aim to transform Learning & Development into a strategic Training Academy that serves both internal employees and external customers, while creating sustainable revenue streams through public training programs and strategic partnerships.
Overview
2
2
Languages
1
1
Certification
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - Learning, Development and Conferences
Oman Environmental Services Holding Company"be'ah"
05.2024 - Current
Learning & Development Strategy: Lead the development and execution of the organization’s Learning & Development strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, workforce capability needs and organizational priorities.
Training Needs Analysis (TNA) & Individual Development Plans (IDPs): Lead the TNA and IDP processes, ensuring learning priorities address current and future competency and capability requirements.
Annual Learning & Development Portfolio: Oversee the annual learning and development portfolio, including leadership development, professional development, technical training, certifications and strategic capability-building initiatives.
L&D Policies, Frameworks & Governance: Develop, review, and enhance L&D policies, frameworks, processes and governance standards to ensure consistency, compliance and operational effectiveness.
L&D Budget & Resource Allocation: Manage the L&D budget and resource allocation, ensuring effective utilization of approved budgets and maximizing return on learning investments.
Delivery of Training Solutions: Lead the development and delivery of customized learning solutions for internal and external stakeholders based on identified capability and business requirements, while overseeing the selection and management of training providers and consultants.
Learning Effectiveness & Employee Satisfaction: Monitor and evaluate learning effectiveness, program quality, participant satisfaction, knowledge gained and business impact through short- and long-term assessments, ensuring targeted satisfaction and learning outcomes are achieved and using insights to drive continuous improvement.
Learning Management System (LMS) & Performance Reporting: Oversee learning systems, reporting and performance indicators, ensuring accurate monitoring of L&D activities, outcomes and organizational KPIs.
Revenue Generation & Business Development: Drive revenue generation and business development through the promotion and delivery of commercial training programs and professional development solutions for external organizations.
Commercial Learning Opportunities: Identify and develop new commercial learning opportunities, partnerships and market-driven programs that strengthen the organization’s external training portfolio and revenue streams.
Strategic Partnerships: Build and manage strategic partnerships with training providers, academic institutions, professional bodies, industry experts and other external stakeholders to enhance learning offerings and support organizational objectives.
Conferences & Professional Events: Lead the planning and delivery of conferences, forums, symposiums, and professional events, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and stakeholder expectations. Oversee the selection and management of speakers and conference partners, ensuring quality, value and effective delivery.
Internship & Student Development Programs: Oversee the organization’s internship and student development programs, ensuring effective planning, placement, development and monitoring in alignment with organizational priorities and talent development objectives.
L&D Reporting & Dashboards: Oversee the preparation and presentation of L&D reports and dashboards to the Management Team and relevant stakeholders, providing insights on training activities, budgets, KPIs, learning outcomes and overall performance to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
Team Leadership & Development: Lead and develop the Learning, Development & Conferences team, ensuring effective performance, capability development and achievement of departmental objectives.
Risk Management, Compliance & Governance: Ensure effective risk management, compliance and governance across learning, development, conferences and external training activities.
Learning and Development Specialist
Oman Environmental Services Holding Company"be'ah"
06.2020 - 05.2024
Annual Training Plan & Development Needs: Managed the end-to-end annual training plan, including training needs and competency gap assessment, identification of appropriate learning solutions, employee and line manager engagement, budget alignment and progress monitoring.
Learning Program Design & Delivery: Designed, developed, and coordinated learning programs, curricula, training materials and development solutions, including the delivery of selected training sessions using appropriate learning methodologies.
Leadership & Talent Development: Coordinated development plans and learning interventions for high-potential employees and emerging leaders, supporting their professional and leadership development.
Training Providers & Program Quality: Evaluated and coordinated training providers and learning solutions, ensuring program quality, relevance, effectiveness and alignment with identified development needs.
Learning Effectiveness: Monitored and evaluated training effectiveness, participant satisfaction, knowledge gained and learning outcomes to support continuous improvement and return on training investment.
Budget, Reporting & Training Records: Monitored training expenditure against the approved budget, coordinated related financial requirements, prepared management reports and maintained training dashboards and records.
Training Operations & Processes: Coordinated training logistics, enrolment, attendance, learning systems and program completion while maintaining effective and updated L&D processes and documentation.
External Training Programs & Revenue: Coordinated and promoted commercial training programs for external organizations and the public, identifying market-relevant topics, supporting participant acquisition and contributing to targeted revenue achievement.
L&D & Industry Trends: Maintained awareness of emerging learning practices, training methodologies, sustainability developments and industry trends to support relevant and effective learning solutions.
Compliance & QHSE: Ensured L&D activities complied with relevant organizational policies, procedures, quality standards and QHSE requirements.
Internship Programs: Managed internship and student development programs, coordinating placements with relevant departments and educational institutions and monitoring interns’ progress and overall program effectiveness.
Specialist - Learning
Ooredoo Oman
06.2011 - 06.2020
Training Needs Analysis & Planning: Partnered with department management to identify training and competency needs, recommend appropriate learning solutions and ensure identified development gaps were addressed.
Learning Programs & Projects: Managed the end-to-end coordination and delivery of training programs and learning projects, working with internal stakeholders and external training providers to ensure effective implementation.
Learning Effectiveness & Reporting: Monitored training effectiveness and program performance, providing regular progress and performance reports to management.
Employee Development & Awareness: Coordinated learning and awareness initiatives aimed at enhancing employee knowledge, skills and organizational capabilities.
Organizational Development Initiatives: Contributed to major HR and organizational development initiatives, including job description reviews, organizational restructuring and HR process improvement.
Customer Service Representative
Ooredoo Oman
11.2007 - 06.2011
· Answering calls and Customer inquiries.
· Submitting call reasons and reports on a daily basis.
· Providing presentations and briefings.
· Providing Projects and surveys.
· Coordinating with other departments to solve customers' issues.
Education
Avado learning
Ajyal HR Solutions
01-2018
University of Technology and Applied Science
01-2008
Hail Al Awamer Secondary School
01-2002
Skills
Leadership and team Developmnet
Planning and Organisational Skills
Budget Management
Project and Program Management
Risk Management and Compliance
Strategic Planning and Execution
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Individual Development Plan
Training Needs Analysis
Training Evaluation Method
Learning Effectiveness and Impact Evaluation
Learning Management system (LMS)
L&D Analytics, Reporting and Dashboards
Learning and Development Strategy
Training Delivery
Instructional Design
L&D policies, framework and Governance
Event Management
Stakeholder Management
Market and Learning Trends Analysis
Languages
Arabic
Proficient
C2
English
Advanced
C1
Certification
· 2025 – BPS/EFPA Occupational Test User Certification (Levels 1 & 2) - Institution/Awarding Body: British Psychological Society (BPS) / European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA)
· Competencies - Design, Development and Implementation - London Premier Centre – Istanbul
· Certified Instructional Design Practitioner - Meirc Training and Consulting – Dubai
· Certified Professional Trainer - Arabian Global Academy – Muscat
References
· Moza Al Battashi: 95103103
· Said Al Kamyani: 94560605
Timeline
Manager - Learning, Development and Conferences
Oman Environmental Services Holding Company"be'ah"
05.2024 - Current
Learning and Development Specialist
Oman Environmental Services Holding Company"be'ah"
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