AMMAR AHMED SAEED

[email protected] +967-774234333 Aden, Yemen

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Project Manager with over 7 years of expertise in leading and coordinating humanitarian and development projects across Yemen. Proven track record in managing multi-sectoral teams, ensuring compliance with donor requirements, and delivering impactful results in challenging environments. Skilled in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and resource optimization to drive project success and community resilience.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Protection Project Manager
11/2024 - 09/2025
FMF , Aden, Yemen
Manage the implementation of the project in accordance with the proposal, donor agreement and FMF's policies and guidelines, and ensure projects are implemented to a high quality, on time and against agreed work plans and achieve desired results, and ensure accurate delivery of the definition of project scope and objectives to all project staff, and ensuring technical feasibility.
Ensure resource availability and allocation for smooth and timely implementation of activities within budget and scope.
integrated accountability findings into monthly M&E reports and management meetings, supporting adaptive programming and risk mitigation.
Strengthened community awareness on available feedback channels, beneficiary rights, and code of conduct through outreach sessions, posters, and community meetings.
Monitored compliance with donor and organizational accountability standards, ensuring CFM systems met humanitarian best practices.
Undertake responsibility for motivating and lead a diverse and a high number of project staff, develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with all project staff and appropriate monitoring tools and strategy to monitor the progress and quality and impact of the project and its implementation.
Perform risk management to minimize project risks, and proactively create urgent solutions and contingency plans for problems that may affect the progress of work, and keep project staff committed, motivated, and productive through the duration of the project.
Undertake to prepare and submit accurate, informative and quality monthly, quarterly and annual reports and work plans, as per the set out scheduled in accordance to the donor’s regulations and requirements.
Maintain and foster good relationships and strong external and internal representation with other INGOs, national NGOs, relevant clusters and local authorities in the implementation sites.
Collaborate with the finance, programs and logistics teams to ensure that the project is effectively monitored against approved outputs and budgets and ensure the preparation and regular updating of activity plans, the project budget and procurement plans.
Attend cluster, conferences and training as required to maintain proficiency.
CCCM Team leader and area-based approach coordinator
04/2022 - 10/2024
DRC , Lahj, Yemen
Lead and facilitate monthly Area-Based Coordination Meetings to strengthen collaboration among partners, ensure strategic alignment, and systematically follow up on the implementation of agreed action points.
Identify critical needs and service gaps across targeted sites in Lahj Governorate, and actively coordinate with relevant NGOs and humanitarian actors to mobilize timely and effective responses.
Established and monitored multi-channel feedback systems (complaint boxes, hotlines, helpdesks, community focal points) to capture beneficiary concerns, inquiries, and suggestions in a timely manner.
Ensured timely referral and resolution of complaints through coordination with program, protection, and management teams, maintaining clear response timelines and documentation trails.
Develop and maintain up-to-date 4Ws and service mapping tools for Lahj area, with monthly updates to support coordination, referrals, and strategic planning.
Train and build the capacity of the local authorities and partners in CCCM by conducting a CCCM training in regular basis
Daily supervision and management of CCCM team (CCCM Officers and Assistants)
Indicator tracking responsibilities in order to meet agreed CCCM targets
Budget tracking responsibilities
Development of workplans for the CCCM team
Receipt and review of CCCM staff reports such as: (weekly reports, Assessment reports, distribution reports, and all the normal CCCM usual tools as: Service Mapping, Facility monitoring)
Ensuring high quality CCCM programming interventions from the CCCM team
Represent DRC at Sub-National CCCM, Shelter/NFIs, WASH Clusters coordination meetings and other relevant coordination forums
Lead the engagement with the EXU (Governorate, district and Site levels) and other relevant local authorities such as: district directors and other directors of the main government offices in Lahj such as: health, education offices) to ensure a strong and collaborative working relationship to facilitate implementation of DRC CCCM programming
Represent DRC with IDP communities, host communities, and other community stakeholders, ensuring a positive two-way relationship and acceptance of DRC CCCM programming
Develop strong and collaborative working relationships with NGO and other service providers operating in DRC managed IDP hosting sites, in order to facilitate smooth site coordination of humanitarian service provision
Protection Deputy project manager
12/2021 - 03/2022
FMF , Aden, Yemen
With the Project Officers and Assistants, provide ongoing oversight, leadership, and guidance to the field teams to ensure that the project activities meet high quality and best practice standards and prioritize the safety and security of
Regular field visits to all areas of interventions to support and assess project implementation, identify any concerns and obtain beneficiary feedback; and develop and maintain effective working relationships with other INGOs, community leaders and service providers and other key stakeholders to ensure active coordination, collaboration, and information dissemination.
Contribute to the provision of technical management and support for the implementation of the protection activities in areas of intervention, and prepare capacity materials for relevant protection activities.
With the support of data management and reporting staff, regularly review project data, ensuring accurate data collection, and analyze the data to ensure the meeting of donor targets, and protection key trends for further reporting and analysis.
Assist to review and finalize the protection reports on protection assessments and incidents, for evidence-based referrals and advocacy for the protection gaps and needs of IDPs and other conflict-affected Persons of Concern (PoCs).
Maintain effective working relationships with other INGOs, community leaders and service providers and other key stakeholders to ensure active coordination, collaboration, and information dissemination.
Liaise with logistic and finance departments to ensure protection activities have the required resources at time, and complete and keep records of the necessary paperwork.
Attend cluster, conferences and training as required to maintain proficiency.
CCCM Officer (Site Management and Coordination)
09/2020 - 11/2021
DRC , West Coast, Yemen
Represent DRC with communities, local authorities, site partners, and other stakeholders.
Attend and facilitate meetings with stakeholders, such as local authorities, Clusters, NGOs, INGOs, UN and IDPs.
Participate in coordinating and strengthening of an effective and transparent coordination system in the camp.
Support site planning in order to ensure that IDP site residents are able to live in dignified conditions.
Assist in ensuring that infrastructural improvement, repair and rehabilitation of site infrastructure are made according to relevant standards and guidelines.
Monitor sites to identify needs, gaps in service provision, and duplication of efforts at IDP sites.
Ensure the timely registration of IDPs, including identification of protection related needs.
Draft weekly situation reports and provide other relevant information on site conditions and services.
Provide, document, and track timely referrals and service requests to key partners.
Assist other DRC teams with conducting assessments, distributions, and sectorial activities.
Protection Monitor
10/2018 - 05/2019
INTERSOS , Lahj, Yemen
Conduct Field Visits on weekly bases to villages, urban areas, and informal settlements to meet with persons of concern conducting Focus Group Discussion, Household assessment and KII.
Utilize data collection tools and participate to training on data collection systems (KOBO system).
Produce Monthly and weekly work plan to share with supervisor.
Produce weekly report to share with the supervisor with main findings collect through FGD, HH and KII.
Auditor
10/2013 - 03/2015
Yemen Cement Company , Lahj, Yemen
Evaluating the company's compliance program
Evaluating how well risk management is being handled within a company - evaluating information security and risk exposures
Reporting on risk management issues
Performing an analysis on how the company will perform in the case of business interruption
Providing continued education and advice to different business units and teams regarding compliance and risk assessment
Anticipating emerging issues through data and assessment
Communicating with a variety of stakeholders

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in Financial Accounting
01/2010 - 01/2012
University of Science and Technology , Aden, Yemen
Diploma in Financial Accounting
01/2008 - 01/2010
University of Aden , Aden, Yemen
Diploma in English Language
01/2008 - 01/2010
MALI Institute , Aden, Yemen
Highschool degree
01/2006 - 01/2007
Aden Highschool , Aden, Yemen

SKILLS

Technical Skills: Project Management, Budget Management, Report Writing, Donor Compliance
Soft Skills: Leadership, Teamwork, Communication, Motivation, Stress Management
Tools: Microsoft Office
Other: Donor Relations, Protection Sector Knowledge

CERTIFICATIONS

Projects Management (Dpro)
FMF
Proposal writing skills training
FMF
House, Lands and properties HLP training
DRC
Minimum standard of SPHERE
DRC
Protection mainstreaming training
DRC
Camp coordination and camp management (CCCM
IOM
Training of trainer (TOT)
IOM
Advanced EXCEL course
New Horizons Institute

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