Samir Cheriaa

Increase the visibility of UNDP Cambodia in the Internet:
• Regularly updating the content of the website www.un.org.kh/undp (Stories, Publications,Press Releases, etc.)
• Participating in refreshing the website’s Home Page design in order to improve its ergonomy
• Presence in social network website Facebook: Creating the official page of UNDP in Cambodia; regularly updating it by sharing the latest news, links to UNDP Cambodia's Website, pictures, videos (UNDP Youtube channel)

Public relations tasks:
• Editing and sending press releases and media advisories
• Writing stories and producing videos about field projects

Other tasks:
• Interviewing all UNDP’s heads in order to produce and disseminate internally a 35 minutes video
• Translating documents like press releases, media advisories, etc. (English/French)

Administrating the organization’s website www.france-terre-asile.org:
• Updating its content and constantly improving its design and usability
• Improving and following the organisation’s visibility in the Internet

Public relations tasks:
• Editing and sending press releases
• Permanently in relation with journalists and updating the journalists database
• Review of local and international papers

Communications officer in charge of the conference “Unaccompanied children: What protection at the European level?” held in the Council of Europe at Strasbourg (250 participants):
• Contacts database administrator - sending invitations -registering answer coupons
• Editing the conference’s schedule program, creating the PowerPoint presentation broadcasted
during the conference
• Spreading the event’s visibility in the Internet

Consolidation of Environment and Education Ministries’ databases:
• Updating the databases with key contacts: 115 contacts
• Following up with clients and updating their subscriptions: 100% subscription renewal

Launch of a new communication tool “Sarbacane”:
• Initiating and managing the implementation of Sarbacane
• Organizing the first Sarbacane mass-mailing campaign for 850 new contacts: 30% response rate of new subscribers and improvement in the estimation of the campaign’s global performance

Assist the IT team in designing the new subscription system for the Forestry Department website:
• Introduced an online automated subscription service

Protocol Aide to the Mauritanian delegation during the World Summit on Food Security 2009:
• Managing and establishing the delegation’s agenda and reacting to unexpected situations

Co-founder of the VIFAO (Volunteers and Interns of FAO association):
• Administrating the association’s blog and mentoring new arrivals

Primary task: Organized Campaign for the 5th “Fundamentals of Investment” International Conference at Skhirat - Morocco(1,500 participants):
• Team of four PR consultants
• Client: Department of Investment of Morocco
• PR communication: Focused on 6 markets in Europe and in Canada
>Press coverage: 70 articles, total audience 67 million in 3 months
• Prospection of speakers and moderators for the conference
>Results: 39 speakers; 5 moderators

Updated the client and journalist contact database (more than 700 contacts) and the company’s website

Provided support on PR and commercial actions to the UK and to the Canada