Ebtesam Al Shehhi

• Responsibilities included to build research and studies that shapes in depth characteristics of Abu Dhabi Community, analyze results to project future indicators, support insightfully strategies of the department, develop policies on department level and on its operational entities, and provide consultancy on research, policies and data analysis.
• Develop policies and assess its impact on targeted population, disseminate reports and papers based on concluded research results, provide further research and statistical analysis as upon request.
• Provide consultation on research methodology, sample, data collection, data analysis, research report and policy design.
• Contribute with social innovation plans and executions.
• Test reliability of data using Cronbach Alpha, inter-rater reliability, timeseries and other analysis measures
• International indices report and statistics

Listing of assignments as Research Senior Specialist:

• Established root cause analysis and prioritize social challenges related to youth.
• Created research agenda of 2020-2021.
• Created social observatory activation business plan.
• Contributed in analysis, presentation and interpretation of Abu Dhabi Family Study 2020.
• Currently assigned to lead monitoring international indices project.
• Created models to forecast and predict quantitative and comparative evaluations of various business solutions.
• Presented results of mathematical modeling and data analysis to management or other end users.
• Developed program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones for evaluating and measuring effectiveness of operations.
• Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.
• Designed complete systems, including data, pre-processing, optimization, post-processing, and interfaces for user interaction.
• Performed validation and testing of models to promote adequacy and reformulate models as necessary.

• Responsibilities included to define information requirements and provide relevant design specifications for survey planning, designing and processing and administrative data collection.
• Benchmarking with superior experiences in building methodologies and sampling.
• Calculate weights and survey errors after survey to represent population.
• Designing and selecting survey samples based on scientific basis in order to assure representation of targeted survey or study population.
• Designing questionnaires that accomplishes optimum of study objectives with minimum budget, number of field work enumerators.
• Provide alternative sample whenever required.

Listing of Assignments as Methodology and Sampling Analyst:

• Participate in designing and selecting samples of following surveys: Labour Force Survey, Household Income and Expenditure Survey, Foreign Trade Survey, Research and Development Survey.
• Designing and updating methodologies of Data collection, Sampling, and Processing of each assigned survey.
• Harmonizing Classifications and methodologies on national level in alignment with reference practices
• Providing consultancy whenever needed to government entities, private sector and to individual customers.
• Collaborated with clients to develop and shape budgets, processes, business intelligence and strategies.

• Responsibilities included producing population estimates and other demographic variables, preparation of reports and departmental publications, and management of demographic consultancy projects to private and public sector clients.
• Duties included independently managing projects, providing specialist advice for regional planning, representation in inter-departmental committees, liaison and consultation with planners and focal points across Abu Dhabi Entities.
• Apply internal and external consistency checks to micro- and macro-data compiled/collected from relevant sources.
• Identify potential problems, errors, discrepancies and missing values in micro-data and define rules and guidelines to edit or impute erroneous or missing data.
• Document information concerning data compilation and manipulation, processing and analysis.
• Calculate, analyze and explain statistical indicators, indices and population projections, and provide descriptive analysis in statistical reports.
• Contribute towards development and improvement of systems, processes and practices, in order to improve effectiveness and efficiency of processes.
• Develop and produce required indicators and time series using project management techniques and GSBPM.
• Empowered level of technical knowledge in demographic characteristics and trends, population estimates methodologies, statistical analysis, and official population and housing data was required.
• Responsibilities include mostly projects while actively working for SCAD committees.
• Projects mainly involved demographic analysis and population projections, use of databases, GIS, statistical- and demographic computer applications.
• However, some projects also involved analyzing historical trends, specific population characteristics (such as gender and age) and policy issues.
• Prepared statistical analysis plans and provided statistical interpretation for graphs, tables and charts.

Listing of Assignments as Population and Social Statistician:

• Population Estimates publication 2014, 2015.
• Leading and Executing register based census 2020 variables focus group.
• Co planned Population Register strategic plan.
• Marriage and Divorce Statistics.
• Deaths Statistics 2015 Publication.
• Culture Statistics Publication 2016.
• Setting validation rules for data quality purposes.
• Cofounder of statistical awareness initiative “How to Read Statistics?” in Reading Year 2016.
• Share knowledge thru multiple sessions: population estimates, register based census, read statistics initiative, Abu Dhabi excellence award, and attended external workshops.
• Monitor statistical magazine.
• Strategic plan for register based census 2020 project.
• Providing consultations on estimates and projections.
• Focal point with 5 different entities and work closely and collaboratively with.
• Founder and manager of statistical quarterly reports project.
• Participate in publishing Emirati woman between yesterday and today book
• Participating in updating SCAD main publications: Abu Dhabi in figures, explore Abu Dhabi, statistical year book.
• Youth Survey.
• Evaluated statistical techniques and extracted information from research data to provide different ways to assess robustness of research outputs.
• Coordinated statistical activities for 5 projects and created, maintained and updated data dictionaries and coding guides.
• Developed integrated spreadsheet and database templates for accumulating, formatting and organizing program data and presented findings to management.
• Evaluated statistical techniques and extracted 381 indicators from research data to provide different ways to assess robustness of research outputs.
• Developed data tables and databases to create relation between tables to allow efficient data retrieval.
• Performed data cleaning and data preparation to support high-quality data and catch errors before processing.
• Conducted quality checks on data sources to check for inconsistencies and perform data cleaning activities.
• Handled day-to-day running of major national project Abu Dhabi Census 2020, ensuring high levels of productivity and progression.
• Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
• Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results.

• Duties included planning, preparing and delivering lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active learning.
• Develop schemes of work, lesson plans and tests that are in accordance with established procedures.
• Instruct and monitor students in use of learning materials and equipment.
• Use relevant technology to support and differentiate instruction. Manage student behavior in classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures.
• Maintain discipline in accordance with rules and disciplinary systems of school.
• Provide appropriate feedback on work. Encourage and monitor progress of individual students and use information to adjust teaching strategies.
• Maintain accurate and complete records of students' progress and development. Update all necessary records accurately and completely as required by laws, district policies and school regulations.
• Prepare required reports on students and activities. Participate in department, school, district and parent meetings.
• Provide variety of learning materials and resources for use in educational activities. Observe and evaluate student's performance and development.
• Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Demonstrated positive and effective classroom management skills.
• Planned and escorted student field trips relevant to current science course work.
• Diversified teaching techniques and learning tools help students with differing ability levels and varied learning modalities.
• Fostered student academic success by clearly outlining course objectives and expectations, monitoring progress and offering additional assistance.