Experienced Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit sector. Strong professional skilled in Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Stakeholder Management, Risk Assessment , Strategy, Operational Management, and Fundraising and Donor Management.
AKES operates over 200 schools and advanced educational programs that provide quality preschool, primary, secondary, and higher secondary education services to more than 85,000 students in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, and Mozambique My job description in AKESP Team is as under.
• Developed the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning System in AKESP
• Led and managed organisational activities pertaining to monitoring and evaluation (M&E), resource mobilization and strategic partnerships
• Developed M&E frameworks and tools and coordinated with field teams to track project indicators on access and quality to education
• Secured grants from National and International donors and agencies
• Managed and synthesised data through research and field visits fulfilling reporting requirements
• Documented best practices, success stories and baseline indicators through extensive field visits
• Conducted capacity building training sessions on M&E and data management
• Led the risk assessment and compliance activities
• Managed a team of 9 staff members in various locations
• Managed projects funded by donors included preparing reports; programme planning and design; developing work plans; budgets; monitoring and evaluation (performance reviews, indicator monitoring); coordination with donors and partners, liaison with stakeholders; collection of data; project implementation and oversight; and developing contextually appropriate strategies
Bridges Development Consortium works in fragile states like Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Middle East. It provided services to implement projects of its partner organization. As Program Manager, my responsibilities are appended below
• Innovating for increased donor/client retention and expansion of the donor pool
• Coordinating with different departments to collate data for reporting and/or proposal development
• Grant and Project Management
• Wrote project and grant proposals to client and other stakeholders
• Develop monitoring frameworks for gauging progress against strategic objectives.
• Provide technical support to the local and international partners
• Create linkages, networking, and partnerships between donors and recipients in fragile countries
• Presentation and writing monitoring reports.
• Created and delivered program impact studies
• Conducted project assessment.
• Formulated M&E System and Structure
• Conducted case studies, success stories, and research studies
• Coordinate activities related to budget and funding (program/project proposals preparation, submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepare related documents/reports (pledge, work program, budget, etc.)
I have worked as a field monitoring Officer as a third-party monitor for UNICEF Pakistan. I was responsible to monitor projects of the Health, Education, and Nutrition programs of UNICEF which were in Lahore, Faisalabad, Kasur Layyah, and Bhakkar. My job responsibilities were as follows.
• Monitor Health Projects, Nutrition Projects, Child-Friendly Schools, Brick Kiln Projects, and Young Champion projects.
• Development of monitoring Plans
• Meeting with Implementing Partners.
• To scrutinize the difference between the dispatched supplies with that in the stock.
• To monitor the documentation of health and education project
• To observe and report corporal punishment in school
• To identify child labor cases
• To observe whether the food nutrition (CMAM program) reaches the beneficiaries
• Monitor the inflow and outflow of information for the UNICEF program
• To go into Community and take feedback
• Weekly reporting my observation and analysis back to Lahore
• Arrange Logistics for the field
• Maintained the database
• Mobilization for UNICEF emergency programs in the project area
• Presented my Finding to UNICEF program department
I have worked as a Program Assistant in BLSO for one year; I was responsible for program related activities for Skill Development and Educational Project for the people living in Biar area of Chitral. Specifically, I had undertaken the following responsibilities.
• Report writing
• Monitor data collection from the community, data entry and analysis
• Youth Mobilization
• Poverty and Project Impact assessment
• Gathering information by directing or carrying out fieldwork
• Designing questionnaires
• Offering research-based briefings and advice, which involves writing action plans;
• Preparing and presenting my research
• Project impact evaluation.
• Training Need Assessment(TNA