As Senior Emergency Response Manager, I am responsible for leading emergency response in all floods affected districts of Balochistan province. I am responsible to manage workloads, define deliverables, mentor resources, conduct performance review, ensure transparency and accountability at all levels, and ensure compliance with organizational SOPs for flood response project funded by different donors including but not limited to ECHO, FCDO, SIDA, Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and Malala Fund. I provide technical backstopping to implementing partners to ensure smooth implementation of the project activities. To avoid duplication, and engage different stakeholders, I regularly coordinate with provincial and district authorities. The current response includes activities around Education in Emergency, Primary Health Care, WASH, CASH distribution and livelihood and Protection activities. I am also responsible for preparing quality reports for these donors and supporting program development teams in new project designs by sharing learnings and data from the field. I am responsible for the preparation of budget spending plan and support HR section in staff Hiring.

As Senior Education Manager, I was responsible for overall project management at the provincial level and led the project in two districts of Balochistan. During this engagement, I provided technical backstopping in teachers training, students assessment and classrooms management to the partners to ensure efficient and effective implementation of the project. To ensure transparency and accountability at all levels, I regularly coordinated with stakeholders, communities and partners and conducted periodic reviews of the project progress. During this project, we have not only achieved the overall project targets but also successfully mainstreamed 3000 out of school’s refugee and host children to Pakistani schools. In addition, through participatory approaches, sessions regarding protection, life skills, safeguarding and MHPSS were conducted in the targeted women and men communities. I represented IRC at different forums and shared the project’s progress with other partner organizations to avoid duplication of efforts and build synergies with other actors. To ensure sustainability of the project and to retain the mainstreamed students, schools’ improvement plans were successfully implemented in close consultation with the department of education and communities. During project tenure, I advocated with the education department for provision of annual development budgets to these schools and linked parent teacher committees with education department for future coordination. I was responsible for working closely and collaboratively with internal colleagues and partners to collect, analyze and share information on implementation issues. Teachers were trained in pedagogy, social emotional learning, and classrooms management in both districts. I was responsible to monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative, and other assets), verify compliance with approved allocation, organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity.