More responsibilities

I guess it's a good thing. It started out as something that is quite straightforward but I can see that my job responsibilities are getting more and in terms of the direction of my job, it is going somewhere.

I started out as an Officer, Finance and Administration - handling pretty much 80% of my department's finance and administrative paper work. Those important things that are beyond my pay grade are all being handled by my manager. It was simple enough, liaising a lot with the Finance and Procurement Department, and a few of our monuments' stakeholders.

Then I got promoted to Senior Officer - got my asking pay, plus all the benefits.

Subsequently, I became involved in programming under my 'Research, Education and Programming' subdivision while I was still a contract staff. With COVID-19 happening all around the world, I became more involved in the digital aspect of our programming which was considered brand new for our department, as we do not have an online presence prior to this.

I got appointed as the Business Continuity Management representative - which is basically me sitting in for weekly meetings to get updates about the entire COVID-19 situation and all the protocols, to be disseminate to my department. Honestly, 75% of the time, it's just repeating the same points at every meeting - forcing us to know everything by the tips of our hand.

Then after my first appraisal, my director wanted me to be more involved in other things - so now I'm assisting the 'Architectural and Inspectorate' subdivision with certain projects, administratively only, since some things are meant to be secret.

As the company is planning to kick-start a company-wide digitization exercise, I have to physically sort out all our department's past files - which is around 1,000 files from 2007 till present. It's taking quite some time since I can only come back to office on Thursdays & Fridays, and some Saturdays I will drop by for a couple of hours. And it also involves liaising a lot with HQ Administrative Department, which at times confuses me.

Last Friday, within a couple of hours - I got assigned as the KPI representative and Data Domain Steward of my department. And I have no idea what does both roles demand out of me? I guess we shall wait and see.

I can feel myself being slightly stretched out but not to the point of me getting worried or stressed out about my work. And that's a good thing. 

Alhamdulillah for the opportunities given for me to grow.

In Shaa' Allah, I can do well.