Alaa SELIM
Strategic Partnerships Officer
Summary
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills, dedicated to helping the team achieve their goals. Seeking a full-time role that offers professional challenges and allows for leveraging interpersonal skills, effective time management, and problem-solving expertise. Known for being organized and dependable, excels at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Always willing to take on additional responsibilities to meet the team\'s goals.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
2032
2032
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Strategic Partnerships Officer
United Nations, World Food Programme- WFP
04.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: WFP's expansion of strategic engagement with National Governments and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) is part of a broader corporate effort to diversify partnerships and funding sources, particularly around the Changing Lives agenda.
- To ensure effective and coherent support for Country Offices (COs) seeking to engage in the tripartite process with national governments and IFIs, I work with the IFI focal points to ensure that hands-on field support is available to WFP Country & Regional Offices that require it, providing the unique bridge between program design and partnership development.
- Explore viable opportunities and new approaches for WFP's strategic engagement in the development space with the Government and other development actors, such as IFIs, particularly in rural transformation, sustainable infrastructure, and human capital development.
- Provide and ensure direct support for Country Office engagement with Governments and IFIs, including developing projects and proposals related to IFI and domestic resource mobilization.
- Support the design and negotiation of large/complex partnership proposals, joint strategies and/or MOUs in line with corporate norms, processes, and external regulations.
- Coordinate with IFI focal points, capturing lessons learned, and integrate these to ensure a robust engagement with the IFIs.
- Maintain an overview of trends, opportunities, and modalities of partnering with diverse Development actors at the Regional/Global level practices to provide advice, guidance and support to HQ relevant units, Regional Bureaux and Country Offices.
- Analyze the national development plan, sectoral priorities, budgeting and spending priorities to determine how WFP could support the Government by furthering its priorities and closing the resources gap.
- Identify and support follow-up on strategic and funding opportunities to partner to advance countries' development agendas and support achieving relevant goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda, the SDGs, WFP's Country Strategic Plans, and SSTC.
- Identify thematic areas of engagement related to WFP work, seek partnerships with strategic stakeholders, and develop proposals involving relevant HQ units, RB and Cos.
- Provide strategic advice to Senior management for engagement with governmental authorities (local, subnational, and national) and other development actors, including International Financial Institutions.
- WFP's expansion of strategic engagement with National Governments and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) is part of a broader corporate effort to diversify partnerships and funding sources, particularly around the Changing Lives agenda.
Head of Partnerships, Innovations, and Resource Mobilization
United Nations, World Food Programme- Egypt Country Office
01.2020 - 03.2023
- Company Overview: The WFP globally contributes to SDG2 (END OF HUNGER) and SDG17 (PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS).
- Under the direct supervision of the Country Director of the WFP in Egypt, my role was to lead the WFP's partnerships and innovation team to implement its country's strategic plan and achieve the SDG 17 'PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS,' which aims to strengthen the means of implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs), including the development of a robust Government Engagement, Capacity strengthening, Digitalization and Innovation, Diversified Resources Mobilization, knowledge sharing, and South-South Cooperation.
- Responsible for identifying and developing the WFP's engagement with the Government at all levels (highest level, ministerial level, and gov. level).
- Develop and implement a Partnership Strategy for the WFP Egypt to support its Country's Strategic Plan under the direct supervision of the CD and in close collaboration with other teams, Regional and at the HQ.
- Maintain effective relationships with the WFP's partners from the Egyptian Government and keep them informed on strategic operational updates.
- Responsible for identifying, negotiating, developing, and closing the WFP partnership agreements that drive new partners and funds to WFP Egypt.
- Set up and led the partnerships team, working on a strategy that follows a 3-pillar approach, building on WFP's strong relationship with the Government of Egypt (GoE) and the key donors.
- Lead the partnerships team to identify potential funding opportunities and provide inputs to develop solid technical proposals.
- Support the management in positioning WFP by proactively highlighting strategic opportunities and issues, preparing a quality brief, and supporting the preparation of external events.
- Work on diversifying the WFP donor base through innovative financing and debt-for-development swaps.
- Responsible for identifying the Government partner and developing the related innovative initiatives aligning with WFP's working areas such as School feeding, social protection, nutrition, and resilience.
- Provide institutional capacity strengthening to the Government's partners and develop innovative solutions to enhance social protection and resilience-building systems.
- Identify, develop, and implement innovative digital solutions in close collaboration with government partners to support the overall implementation of the WFP's programmes.
- The WFP globally contributes to SDG2 (END OF HUNGER) and SDG17 (PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS).
Government Partnerships Officer
United Nations, World Food Programme- Egypt Country Office
01.2017 - 12.2019
- Under the direct supervision of the WFP's CD, I had the great opportunity to lead partnerships, establishing strategic relationships with key government entities at different levels.
- Develop and Maintain effective relationships with the host government, UN agencies, NGOs, and other partners to keep them informed on essential and strategic operational WFP issues.
- Contribute ideas for opportunities to develop new and existing synergies with different partners to support a more effective and efficient approach to food assistance.
- Leading capacity building and development activities (Technical work) with various WFP government partners and stockholders.
Senior VAM Associate
United Nations, World Food Programme, Egypt Office
09.2011 - 12.2016
- Manage and coordinate the establishment of the CAPMAS Geoportal for food security and nutrition data.
- Support the development of the WFP Country Strategic Plan (CSP 2018-2023) by coordinating with different government counterparts on the country review task force.
- Create and maintain cooperate databases to track WFP CO activities.
- Facilitate establishing the information management system for the Ministry of Social Solidarity.
- Support the production of the food security and vulnerability report using the National Household Income & Expenditure Survey.
- Plan and conduct field surveys and assessments to help plan and determine the priorities for different development and food assistance projects.
- Provide capacity-building training on Emergency Preparedness and risk register apart from TOT teacher-training components as needed.
- Assist in maintaining records on WFP's activities from formulation stage through completion by extracting relevant information from reports, project committees, budget records, beneficiaries counting, and other documentation.
- Contribute to strengthening relevant partners' technical capacities through organizing customized technical capacity training.
Technical Project Manager
United Nations, UNDP
01.2009 - 09.2011
- Company Overview: Strengthen the Technical Capacity of Ministry of Social Solidarity (MSS).
- Manage the MSS enterprise-wide databases project (social database- supply database).
- Establish the Ministry's reporting portal, which includes an online application to show the different social services distributions.
- Provide inputs and develop technical proposals for several projects and partners.
- Set standards and coordinate data sharing among users, partner agencies, and different departments.
- Develop a complete and comprehensive dynamic database application including data collection, revision, entry, editing, and analysis for different types of data in the Ministry.
- Strengthen the Technical Capacity of Ministry of Social Solidarity (MSS).
Team leader
Institute of National Planning, Ministry of Planning
04.2006 - 12.2008
- Support establishing the information management department in the Ministry of Planning (MOP).
- Work with the MOP team to create and update data for different Ministry sectors.
- Develop the statistical Atlas for the Egypt Governorates with high-quality cartography maps.
- Collaborate with the minister advisors in developing MOP projects such as the targeting project - ration cards project – pensions project.
- Build the technical capacity of MOP staff by providing basic and advanced training courses.
Urban planning Engineer
Information & Decision Support Center, General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP)
08.2001 - 03.2006
- Designed and developed the database schema for GOPP departments.
- Create an Inventory system application for the Hardware and software using Oracle software.
- Worked on a project (Village planning) as a GIS and urban planner engineer.
- Worked on the mega project of enhancing Greater Cairo slum areas in close collaboration with the UN-Habitat urban observatory unit.
Education
Ph.D. - Human Development
Swiss School of Management
12-2025
Master of Science - Information Technology
Lund University
Sweden 04.2015 - 12.2015
Post Graduate Diploma - Geographical Information System (GIS)
Information Technology Institute (ITI)
07.2001 - 07.2001
B.Sc. - Urban Planning Engineering
Cairo University
01.1995 - 12.2000
Skills
Management & team leading skills
Awards
- Excellence Award, For the Egy-GeoInfo portal, the joint CAPMAS/WFP Geoportal., 2016
- Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award, Best intelligent E-Gov. Application., 2016
- Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award, 2017
International Experience
- Supported WFP in the Iraq office for three months TDY, leading the external relations unit., Led the implementation of the Iraq Partnership Action Plan., Developed several funding proposals.
- Supported WFP's County & regional offices in successful funding opportunities with the IFIs., Worked with the WFP Malawi office to submit a proposal to the Government for World Bank funding.
Timeline
Strategic Partnerships Officer
United Nations, World Food Programme- WFP
04.2023 - Current
Head of Partnerships, Innovations, and Resource Mobilization
United Nations, World Food Programme- Egypt Country Office
01.2020 - 03.2023
Government Partnerships Officer
United Nations, World Food Programme- Egypt Country Office
01.2017 - 12.2019
Master of Science - Information Technology
Lund University
04.2015 - 12.2015
Senior VAM Associate
United Nations, World Food Programme, Egypt Office
09.2011 - 12.2016
Technical Project Manager
United Nations, UNDP
01.2009 - 09.2011
Team leader
Institute of National Planning, Ministry of Planning
04.2006 - 12.2008
Urban planning Engineer
Information & Decision Support Center, General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP)
08.2001 - 03.2006
Post Graduate Diploma - Geographical Information System (GIS)
Information Technology Institute (ITI)
07.2001 - 07.2001
B.Sc. - Urban Planning Engineering
Cairo University
01.1995 - 12.2000
Ph.D. - Human Development
Swiss School of Management
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