Motivation Letter Dear MSSA Family, It’s my pleasure and honor to introduce my candidature for the position MSSA President for the term 2014-2015. I would like to take you through the Journey with MSSA from the Start; It all started 4 years ago, when a friend told me about a concert for Hamza Namira in Alexandria, I didn’t take much time to deicide. On our way, he told me that this is one of the national events held by IFMSA-Egypt, a great family which we as MSSA are part of; I didn’t pay much attention to what he said except to one remarkable thing; he mentioned that this was The International Peace Day Celebration; and there I was, completely surprised and impressed. Imagine that you are in a new country and for the first time you are meeting people who speak your language; that was me in that event, and this was my starting point with MSSA & IFMSA. When you decide to be part of a students’ organization, you should know exactly what your target is and if this organization with its vision and mission serves the same target. I didn’t take time to realize that MSSA is the perfect place, MY PLACE! 6 Different Standing Committees; that was my challenge to figure out which one I fit in, Should I be a SCOMEdo; someone who cares for our educational system and try to fix it, a SCOPHero; who works not only for the students but also for the community, a SCORPion; one of the peace makers of the world, what about being a SCORAngle; these are really angles, you should see them do Cicikore ;) or one of the Exchange members; the gates of Menofia to the whole world. After working for some time in all the Standing Committees, I figured out that I belong to all of them. That is what made me think of a way to show people what we do for the world as medical students, that is when we started establishing a new Support Division in MSSA, offering good marketing for its events/projects and that was my new start, a whole new world that fulfilled the passion I always had for technology, design & Marketing. Being the Publications Director, you literally work on each event in MSSA and don’t miss a single team meeting; that was m family time. They are my real family; we spend more than 15 hours together weekly. We work together, have fun together, care for each other, even after you leave your position and graduate they will be the friends you’ll always have.
After serving MSSA as its Publications Director for 2 years, I was honored to hold the position of its Secretary General and Treasurer for another 2 years, working mainly on representing the organization externally and working on the financial stability. MSSA always supports me; whenever needed, and on both National and International levels. I’m now IFMSA Publications EMR DA and IFMSA-Egypt Publications Director, and I will always be serving my mother LC. Now let me take you through the motives behind my decision to serve MSSA as President for the next term; After these 4 years with MSSA ; I’ve got the required experience for being president, this experience covers various critical points; for example, the external representation , I think after all these years in MSSA I’ll be able to handle all MSSA’s external relations with its EB and establish a new connections with other NGOs that have a related mission and vision to MSSA’s . Another point is, dreaming about MSSA Strategy, vision and Mission. MSSA shall have a stable and clear strategy to follow for the next 3 years, and by their end, the EB of MSSA shall update the goals of this strategy. Enforcing MSSA Team of Officials and MSSA members and supporting them on the National and International levels as well as the local level. We should start our international initiatives on our own . Finally, For me we are not just an ordinary students’ organization that serves medical students, I think we are the change that the world needs just like Mahatma Gandhi said in his famous quote: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”. To make this change seen and heard worldwide we are in need of leaders who know exactly what to do. So please take a step and support me to make this dream come true. Ibrahim A. Kandeel
Candidate for MSSA Presidency 2014-2015
Plan Of Action
My Priorities for the term 2014-2015
Handover
Enforce MSSA Bylaws
External Representation
MSSA Strategy
Professionalism
Financial Stability
MSSA Reform
Teamwork & Capacity building
MSSA Supervisor & Alumni
1.Handover:
Starting the term with a strong handover process for all the TO and conducting the “New TO training” with the help of the old TO; it’s a 3 day training including all the recommendations and tips they need for their new term.
2.MSSA Strategic planning
2.1. It’s the main point in my plan of action, creating a strategy with the team of officials for everyone to follow during the whole term. All MSSA events and work will be included in this plan with a detailed description directed to MSSA members 2 weeks after the handover to officially start our term. 2.2.Updating MSSA strategy for the next 3 years by creating a task force responsible for updating MSSA strategy from 2014 to 2017.
3. MSSA Reform :
We all know the old structure of MSSA and that IFMSA is going to change the main structure of the TO for the next term. So, I’ll work with MSSA TO on this topic to modify MSSA structure in a way that would help us improve it and also be much closer to IFMSA new structure.
4. Enforce MSSA Bylaws :
After Updating MSSA bylaws the last term, we’re looking forward to following all the instructions within these bylaws, but regarding that this is our first experience with the updated version, there will be a permanent Constitution Credential Committee “CCC” .
5. Professionalism:
5.1. We’re leading a huge organization with a great history, considering this the base of everything we do; we should be more professional in our work. Regarding this issue, we’ll open our office with the start of the term and we’ll manage to have it opened daily on a regular basis. 5.2. Official Adoption of our bylaws by the Faculty & University, this will be a huge step in the history of MSSA. 5.3. The Official routes of Communication: I’ll work on this with the Publications Director and Secretary General.
6.Teamwork and Capacity Building:
I’ll work with the TO on our Annual membership recruitment campaign and I’ll work on the interviews and orientation; this is regarding the new members. For all the Members, we’ll Work more on training sessions that will help them know more about the process of our projects and events.
7. External Representation:
I’ll work with the EB on Representing MSSA on all 3 levels: • Locally: with our Partners, sponsors & Faculty Administration • Nationally: with IFMSA-Egypt and the other National NGOs • Internationally: by Supporting our members to be part of IFMSA meetings and Teams •
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Financial Stability:
I’ll be working with the Treasurer on the new financial system of MSSA, and making sure that it’s effective. Also, we’ll start dealing with the “Annual Sponsor” for the whole term and this will be a new step that will give us more stability.
9.MSSA Supervisor & Alumni:
9.1.Regular Meeting with MSSA Supervisors and Also We’ll start to work on the structure of the Supervisory Board. 9.2.Working with MSSA Alumni team to create the first Alumni Reunion and contact our Alumni for the Support in MSSA events.
Personal info:
Conducted Training S. • • • • •
Group Dynamics Team building Presentation skills New Technologies 101 Publications [EMR 10 NMO Management session , 5th winter camp , AM14] • How to use Corporate Identity [EMR 10 President Session]
Computer Skills • Microsoft Office [ Word , Excel , Power point .. etc ] • Adobe [ Photoshop , AfterEffect , Indesign , Dreamweaver & Lightroom ] • Web designing and development • Social Media [ Facebook , Twitter , Google + …. Etc ] • Sony vegas & other Video Editing programs
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Name : Ibrahim Ahmed Kandil Address : Shebin El-kom - Menofia -Egypt Date of Birth : 25/10/1992 Nationality : Egyptian cellular : +2 0109 3709 663 E-mail : Ibrahim.kandeel@gmail.com Skype : Ibrahim.kandeel2
Educational History • Menofia Faculty of medicine from 2009 till present • Wali Al-ahd secondary school 2006 - 2009 (KSA) • Al-haramin preparatory school 2005 - 2006 (KSA) • Shohda’a 6 OCT. preparatory school 2003 -2005 (EGYPT) • Othman Ebn Afan Primary School 1998 2003 (KSA
Positions • EMR Publications and Communication Developmental Assistant 2013-2014 • IFMSA-Egypt Publications & IT Coordinator 2013-2014 • MSSA-Menofia Secretary General and Treasure 2012-2013 • Publication support division director – MSSA menofia 2010-2012 • Layout designer – SCOPH publications team 2011-2012 • Layout designer - international team of publications 2011-2012
IFMSA & IFMSA-Egypt Meetings • 63th IFMSA August Meeting GA , Taiwan • EMR10 in Kuwait 2014 • Pre-EMR10 TNT workshop 2014 • Attended 12 IFMSA-Egypt GAs • 3rd, 4th & 5th IFMSA-Egypt winter camp . • IFMSA-Egypt SCORA summer Camp • 5 SC national meetings
Attended Training sessions • TNT Workshop , EMR10 in Kuwait • ASk training • time management • How to make gold out mud with guerilla marketing ?? - fund raising • Team building training • Advocacy • Advanced Project management workshop conducted byMr. Phillip Choa former IFMSA PSDD • project management training • presentation skills • Mind mapping • Thinking outside the box [ creative thinking ] • problems dissolving & decision making • LC management session by Mr. Hatem Alaa • Corporate identity Session , During SCORA National meeting
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