Leen Samara

as someone with a multiple years of experience interning and working with international public and diplomatic organizations mainly German ones like Ghorfa-German Arab Chamber for Commerce and Industry, the Goethe Institute of Amman, the German Embassy of Amman, the German Jordanian university (GJU), German Agency for international Cooperation (GIZ) and Berlitz.

I have undertaken roles in the fields of administration, marketing, public relations, communications, social media marketing, events’ planning, in addition to teaching and freelance master life coaching.

In the roles that I undertook, I have demonstrated strong communication skills and organization skills.

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss the role’s objectives and show you how my successful past experience in supporting the work of many programs can translate into the growth of your organization.

Experience____________________________________________________________________ 

Berlitz—Amman, Jordan 8/20 – Present

German Teacher

• Through my teaching techniques students were able to achieve remarkable performance and progress throughout the courses in different levels
• Supporting special educational needs

Goethe Institut—Amman, Jordan 8/2018 – 2/2020

Language Courses’ Coordinator

• Managed to distribute a large number of courses to teachers and in relatively small number of rooms and to organize the courses’ schedule every month
• Responsible for managing all educational supplies and resources as well as scheduling institute programs and classrooms’ use.
• Managed, organized and followed up on a comprehensive academic support program that aimed at expanding the German language to be taught in schools and creating a curriculum even for children at schools and organizing summer camps for students at schools and for outstanding institutes’ students in Germany.
• Provided guidance to students on academic goals and educational issues.
• Was the designated councilor responsible for providing student support/guidance on course selection, study habits, and career selection.

German AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION (GIZ)—Amman, Jordan 3/2016 – 3/2017

Administrative Assistant to the Portfolio Manager 

• Provided back up support to managers and co-workers during their absence efficiently
• Took over an initiative of welcoming each new employee on board and found a nice unique way of introducing the new employee to all office and projects’ employees
• Responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing all company events. Managed to reduce event related expenditure via strong negotiation with vendors.
• Supported task execution at overloaded departments when and as needed to insure company met targets/goals on time. 
• Coordinated and managed the organization’s database centralization project across all departments. 
• Demonstrated excellent customer service skills by assisting the marketing department in promotional activities and campaigns. 

German Jordanian university—Amman, Jordan 2/2015 – 4/2016

Communications and Public Relations Officer (month year- month year). Summary statement of job description 1-2 lines

• Created marketing campaigns at selective schools to encourage esteemed schools’ graduates to enroll at the university. This campaign increased the university’s new attendees by 35%
• 2. Developed webpages for the university and utilized the latest SEO principles to achieve optimal ranking on Google.
• 3. Created university’s pages on different social media platforms and managed the pages though posting interesting and engaging content to university’s students
• 4. Designed and produced press packets and distributed them among local news organizations. 
• 5. Established media contacts across variety of channels. This helped in making the university’s presence on newspapers, TV. and radio programs stronger. Thus the university’s reputation was getting more popular.

German Embassy—Amman, Jordan 10/2013 – 10/2014

Visa Officer. Summary statement of job description 1-2 lines

• Was appointed as the first point of contact for embassy visitors requiring consular services as a result of exceptional customer service.
• Trusted to process and check visa applications 
• Provided special assistance to German speakers who required assistance in their native tongue.
• Represented the embassy at meetings with stakeholders of relevance to the administrative/consular work of the embassy. Stakeholders included other embassies as well as local authorities among others.
• Developed expert knowledge in embassy management procedures. 

Education_____________________________________________________________________ 

Bachelor of Arts in Translation German-English-Arabic (BA) June/2013

School of languages | Amman

Certifications__________________________________________________________________ 

Life coaching and master life coaching—Robert Simic Coaching Institute, Dubai

Neurolinguistic Programing— Ithraa Training Center, Amman

Social Media Marketing— German Jordanian university, Amman

Project Management participation—Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai

Communications—Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai

Languages____________________________________________________________________ 

Arabic (native), English (proficient), German (proficient), French (Beginner)

Additional Information___________________________________________________________ 

Hobbies: Tennis, scuba diving, swimming, bridge and reading about psychology, universe, coaching and