International education nonprofit operating across MENA region with 70+ years of impact
Amideast is a U.S.-based nonprofit delivering education, training, and development programs across the Middle East and North Africa. The organization runs a distributed operations model—hiring across nine countries and managing field offices in eleven territories—while maintaining a legacy tech stack (Moodle, SQL Server, PHP) that reflects the nonprofit sector's budget constraints. Active pain points around compliance, administrative process optimization, and reporting delays, paired with concurrent work on disaster recovery and incident response planning, signal infrastructure modernization pressures in a security-conscious, grant-funded operating environment.
Notable leadership hires: Grants Project Lead
Founded in 1951, Amideast is the leading U.S. nonprofit focused on international education and development in the Middle East and North Africa. The organization operates field and project offices in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen. Service areas include English language training, workforce skills development, academic advising, entrepreneurship training, and institutional capacity building. With 501–1,000 employees headquartered in Washington, DC, the organization balances grant-funded project delivery with internal operations spanning administration, education programming, and technical support. Current hiring activity reflects scaled operations requirements, particularly in grant management and administrative roles.
Amideast actively recruits across Egypt, Ghana, Qatar, United States, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia—aligned with its regional footprint in MENA.
Core systems include Moodle (learning management), SQL Server and MySQL (data), Microsoft Office suite, Active Directory (identity), and web technologies (PHP, JavaScript, HTML5). Deltek Costpoint handles project accounting.
Active initiatives include grant project implementation, disaster recovery and incident response planning, penetration testing oversight, system testing for new releases, and workforce development programs like the ECRAIL initiative.
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