Name: Aamenah Hassan
Rap: A54 Class: Math 9
Name of your host: Muneeza Hassan Relationship to you: Mother
Research Program Manager
2.What is your job description?
The Program Manager assists the Office of Applied Research and Graduate Studies in all financial matters related to daily operations, contract negotiations and monitoring financial tracking and reporting.
3.What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?
Managing budgets, preparing unique reports, liaising with the finance department, monitoring financial variances and preparing financial projections.
4.What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
- Training? It was all on the job training.
- Education? She had a CPA designation.
- Experience? She had no previous experience with this job, but she did have previous experience with the institution.
- Skills and attributes (personal qualities)? She is good with numbers, enjoys solving problems for others and is good at interpreting guidelines.
5.What are some of the things you like about the job?
She likes helping researchers with managing funding as they do not specialize in it.
6.What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
She dislikes any paper filing/physical organization.
7.How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?
She anticipates the financial management will become a principal-based system as opposed to the present rule-based system.
Other question (s):
What are the differences between the rule-based and principal-based systems?
A rule-based system requires that any changes to a project must be approved by the funder, but a principal-based system accepts changes in spending if the reason behind it is valid.
Student Reflections:
1.Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
- I enjoy managing money.
- There is a possibility of company paid travel.
- I am given the opportunity to help people who would end up struggling with it.
2.Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
- It requires being in a certain position for an extended period of time.
- The terminology used by researchers is hard to understand for a person with a financial background.
- A rule-based system could be a lot more frustrating depending on the funder.
3.Is this job for you? Why or why not?
I think it is because, like my mother, I am good with numbers and organization. Also, I enjoy helping others whenever I can.
4.Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?).
I get to understand how specific some jobs are and how many different jobs there are. This helps with realizing that after finding out what I would like to pursue as education, I need to do more research into the specific jobs that would follow my choice of education.