The Qatar Press Center (QPC) has launched a new training course, “Media Project Management”, as part of the co-operation with the Qatar Media Corporation (QMC)’s Media Development Department.
The four-day course, presented by Dr Jassim al-Jazza, focuses on developing the media skills of young cadres at the QMC, providing them with the necessary expertise to learn about the types of media projects, their paths, and the pillars of their success, and introducing them to the techniques and tools that enable them to plan for this type of project.
“Co-operation between the Development Department at the QMC and the QPC continues in organising advanced training courses that include the largest number of employees of the corporation, especially young cadres,” said QMC Development Department director HE Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulaziz al-Thani. “(The courses) cover various areas of media work.”
“We aim to support young cadres working in the media field, attract them and encourage them to innovate, manage and sustain emerging media projects,” he said. “This course motivates them to develop media project plans on an ongoing and sustainable basis, and to identify the problems that they may face while managing this type of project.”
Dr al-Jazza stressed that the most important objectives of this course are to provide trainees with project management skills and determine their paths.
The trainees will learn how to develop strategic plans, vision and mission, and how to formulate the values of their success components, in addition to being able to manage work teams within media projects, classify departments, as well as calculate project budgets, spending schedules, total expenses and possible returns.
They will improve their negotiation and communication skills, and ensure the validity of procedures so that the project steps are carried out correctly.
“We are pleased at the QPC to organise this training course, through which we seek to provide media workers with the knowledge tools and administrative keys that enable them to perform their work and develop it to the fullest extent,” said QPC director-general Sadiq Mohamad al-Amari. “The centre works to contribute to the development of journalistic and media work at various levels and in all areas of media work, most notably managing media projects currently existing in media and press institutions.”
