SARAH LOUISE PLANK

Working across all areas of JESS Dubai to monitor compliance with current data protection laws in the UAE. Overseeing the school's data protection processes and advising on best practices whilst reporting directly to both the Director and the Head of IT.

Working in a busy school environment, overseeing the smooth operation of the administration department whilst also providing a confidential and personal service to the Headteacher and support to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

Administrative duties included, but were not limited to:

• Managing the Headteacher's and SLT's diaries
• Coordinating bi-weekly SLT meetings
• Providing confidential secretarial services to SLT
• Maintaining and monitoring department budgets allocated to the primary school.
• Coordination of the weekly newsletter sent to parents.

Personnel duties included, but were not limited to:

• Assisting with the organisation of interviews for recruitment
• Maintaining staff attendance registers with monthly staff absences for payroll.
• Coordination of staff course bookings
• Coordination of Professional Development interviews for teaching staff.

Responsible for the running of a Rainbows unit for 20 girls aged between 5-7 years old. On a monthly basis this involves managing and keeping the Girlguiding database up to date and ensuring that all of the details held about the girls are correct at all times. Other responsibilities include managing spaces on the ‘waiting list’ and finding spaces for those girls transferring onto Brownies, along with budgeting the accounts, communicating with parents, ordering uniform, badges and craft supplies and planning weekly meetings that are all aimed at working toward a Girlguiding badge. Also responsible for mentoring 2 adult volunteers in order for them to achieve their Leadership qualification.

Involved in the initial setup of an online clothing website selling clothes to a worldwide audience. Initial setup required loading data of stock into the database and designing graphics for use on the homepage of the website. Following the launch of the website daily duties include database maintenance, stock control and ensuring that the website is update to date at all times thus relying heavily on organisational skills to keep both the shop and website sales in line with each other. Other duties include the design and deliverance of e-mail marketing campaigns to a worldwide client list of over 3,000 customers.

Working within Dubai Civil Aviation to provide support and problem solving to the newly implemented Oracle HRMS System. Independently responsible for the planning and organising of the rollout of training in Oracle HRMS Self Service to all employees within Dubai Civil Aviation over a short period of time.

Working with a team as a Functional/Technical Consultant defining a Unified Model comprising of Oracle HRMS, Payroll and Financials & Logistics to implement across the Dubai Government Departments.

Working with a team as a Functional/Technical Consultant to Implement Oracle HRMS (Release 11i Versions 11.5.6 & 11.5.7) into a local Council, bringing together three existing HR systems into one. Duties included delivering the design concept of all aspects of HRMS, including core processes, absence, recruitment, training, payroll, compensation and benefits, security, responsibilities and taskflows to all levels of employees, along with the design, build and implementation of the system.

Working within the Oracle Applications HR/Payroll department involved in the design, development and implementation of Oracle HRMS (Release 11i Versions 11.5.1, 11.5.5 & 11.5.6) to a user base of 200 users holding information on 16,000 employees, followed by implementation of Oracle Payroll (Release 11i).

Involved in the development of bespoke applications to increase the efficiency of the PoS application used by House of Fraser. This included using PL/SQL to write interfaces between the PoS software and other systems.

Provided support and advice to all levels of users and undertook in depth analysis of any issues arising with the PoS software.