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Fatima Alnuwais

London,ENG

Summary

Bilingual graduate with great people skills and a skill for organised, independent work with strong time-management. Versatile, able to adapt, and willing to learn.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Digital External Communications Officer

ADNOC Group
Abu Dhabi
01.2022 - 09.2024
  • Content creation and reiteration for ADNOC's external website.
  • Alignment with both internal and external stakeholders for purposes of website updates.
  • Keeping up to date with company's brand guidelines and keeping website content consistent with ADNOC's brand messaging and language.
  • Full working knowledge of website content management system.
  • Consistent alignment with ADNOC's IT department for smooth business continuation.
  • Verifying content with internal and external individuals before posting to digital channels.
  • Assisted senior staff with setting up and managing work-related social media channels.
  • Worked with staff and partners in crafting and enforcing digital communication strategies.

Attachment, Strategic Relations Management

ADNOC Group, The Executive Office
Abu Dhabi
08.2021 - 12.2021
  • Act as conduit between external and internal stakeholders, including directing external stakeholders to appropriate internal counterparts.
  • Fully arrange visits to Headquarters, including all relevant communications and preparations with external stakeholders, as well as working collaboratively with protocol, health and safety, and control room departments.
  • Drafting correspondences, talking points, and external emails, for department, CEO, and upper management.

Attachment, Internal Communications

ADNOC Group
Abu Dhabi
01.2021 - 07.2021

In tandem with Culture and Change department.

  • Worked alongside internal and external teams to create strategic multi-channel communication plans.
  • Compiled content for various communication channels.
  • Maintained consistent brand voice and style across content.
  • Wrote compelling content for use across platforms, leveraging purpose-specific voice and style.

Senior Communications Officer, Culture and Change

ADNOC Group
Abu Dhabi
09.2020 - 07.2021
  • Support research and analytics related to culture and change management.
  • Contribute to other departments’ deliverables, including internal communications.
  • Learning and continuing to improve upon company’s intranet system, including website back end, posting stories, and updating microsites.
  • Supporting on coding and bucketing raw research data for group-wide projects, such as Employee Engagement survey, COVID pulse survey.
  • Develop and implement consistent and realistic operational plans for teams in line with department’s objectives and strategy, working closely with Manager of Culture & Change.
  • Contribute to development of messaging and content for culture and change management communications and ensuring integration and alignment with overarching Group Communication strategy.
  • Work closely with appropriate internal stakeholders to implement communication plans and activities to deliver culture and change strategy.
  • Analyse, develop, and deliver new functionalities and enhancements to development and execution of consistent and achievable long and short-term culture and change management strategies.

Intern in the Ambassador's office

UAE Embassy in London
London
07.2017 - 10.2017
  • Drafting letters in English and Arabic
  • Using Foreign Commonwealth forms TX-9, TX-2 for Diplomats’ registration
  • Research into different topics and reporting back
  • Making internal calls within embassy to pass on messages to Ambassador and heads of departments
  • Sitting in on and taking minutes at meetings concerning important issues such as counterterrorism research and International Maritime Organisation
  • Sitting in on meetings and briefs with press and journalists.
  • Assisting with creating different databases, labels, and invitations.

Intern

UNESCO
Paris
06.2015 - 09.2015
  • Mostly administrative duties
  • Taking minutes of meeting
  • Composing written communications

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - Sociology

University of Warwick
Coventry

Master of Arts - Strategic Communications

King's College London
London
09.2024 -

M.Sc. - Politics

University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
2017

Bachelor of Science - International Relations

Zayed University
Abu Dhabi
2016

Skills

  • Fluent in English
  • Creative thinker
  • TOEFL iBT score - 112, IELTS UKVI score - 85
  • Fluent in Arabic (first language)
  • Developed social skills
  • Always updated on current events
  • Comfortable with public speaking and conference presentation
  • Skilled in writing, professionally and creatively
  • Communications strategy evaluation
  • Copywriting
  • Internal communications
  • Social media management and digital communications
  • Corporate communications
  • Strategic communications

Interests

  • Politics
  • Current Events
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Sociology
  • Video Games

Timeline

Master of Arts - Strategic Communications

King's College London
09.2024 -

Senior Digital External Communications Officer

ADNOC Group
01.2022 - 09.2024

Attachment, Strategic Relations Management

ADNOC Group, The Executive Office
08.2021 - 12.2021

Attachment, Internal Communications

ADNOC Group
01.2021 - 07.2021

Senior Communications Officer, Culture and Change

ADNOC Group
09.2020 - 07.2021

Intern in the Ambassador's office

UAE Embassy in London
07.2017 - 10.2017

Intern

UNESCO
06.2015 - 09.2015

Bachelor of Science - International Relations

Zayed University

Doctor of Philosophy - Sociology

University of Warwick

M.Sc. - Politics

University of Surrey
Fatima Alnuwais