Victoria Svirin

Vice Chair - Department of Music

As vice-chair of the department, my responsibilities included seeing the big picture of the department at all times, lead the staff members and take care of the students' ongoing needs. I also organized the academic schedule, taking into account all staff members' needs and restrictions. During my time with the department, we achieved the certificate of excellence 3 times.

As part of my work, I was chosen to support a development team to build and apply a new Main Frame system for the whole organization. As a team member, I prepared characteristics of the new system, tested the first versions, liaised with key stakeholders and was responsible to support other users since the first release. Furthermore, I was responsible for the department's documentation, working with ERP, MF, different academic and financial programs and systems.

Additionally, I was responsible for the ongoing functioning of the office and its workers (total of 6 workers). I also took care of all financial issues in the department and sometimes with very challenging time schedules and tight organizational restrictions. Moreover, I was in charge of the department's site, updating the content and checking for copyright issues.

Department Coordinator - Department of Classical Studies

As a department coordinator, I took care of all the financial issues of the department and organized the department's conferences. I also organized the academic schedule and took care of staff members' needs. Likewise, I took care of the students, giving them academic advice and helping to solve ongoing problems. I took care of all the documentation of the department (academic, financial and legal). I worked with different software programs and systems, such as ERP/Oracle, Main Frame, etc. After 1.5 years of work I was promoted to the position of vice-chair in a much bigger and important department, the department of music.

Senior Project Manager

As a project manager in an international foundation, I was responsible mostly for the financial and administrative management of the projects supported by the foundation. As part of my job I performed ongoing monitoring and analyzing of project implementation of the projects in Israel and abroad, including preparation of implementation and examination reports. I also took part in the evaluation team that examined new projects and recommended the CEO to support them.

Coordinator and Program Manager

As a program manager, I was responsible for the organization and coordination of short- term programs of the Jewish Agency in Israel. That included mostly programs for volunteering in IDF bases and professional seminars for non-Israeli citizens. At the same time, I coordinated and organized "Information days" and "Information forums" for different kinds of the target audience.

An organizational work included logistic orders, content preparation, partnership with tour guides and group counselors, and also cooperation with IDF, Israeli authorities, and numerous Jewish Agency branches in Israel and abroad. I was also in charge of documentation preparation based on different programs and systems including ERP, CMS, MS and Office programs.