Summary

I am a development sector professional with more than 10 years of experience in the social development sector, with hands-on knowledge in protection mainstreaming, gender-based violence (GBV), child protection (CP), safe referral pathways development, disaster risk reduction management (DRR/M), building community resilience through training, and building the human capacity of communities, along with project planning, monitoring, and reporting skills.

I also offer a good knowledge of the program and project management processes, including budgeting, project planning, tracking project activities, engaging partners and other stakeholders, preparing operational reports, and proficiency in monitoring compliance. I am looking for ways to improve operations and better methods to achieve more reliable and faster results.

Currently, I am working as an assistant director of protection, gender, inclusion (PGI), and community engagement accountability with the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) at the national headquarters office in Islamabad. As head of the department, I am responsible for overall protection and community engagement SOP development and ensure the implementation of these policies at the field level during cash and voucher, health and wash, livelihood and DRR activities, and community awareness sessions and trainings. I am responsible for monitoring field activities, keeping track of the progress of every activity, and ensuring that the data is properly maintained, along with building organizational linkages with other peer organizations, international donors, other civil society organizations, and different government departments.

Experience

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Assistant Director Protection, Gender, Inclusion (PGI), Community Engagement & Accountability (CEA)
Pakistan Red Crescent Society
Nov 2023 - Present | Islamabad, Pakistan

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Program Officer
Inspire Pakistan
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023 | Islamabad, Pakistan

▪  Maintain and update required reporting formats for all project activities
▪  Effective implementation of the project’s activities and tasks assigned to attain the goals and objectives of the projects
▪  Project monitoring and overseeing project work-plan performance and participation in project planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and program development
▪  Supervise all logistic and operational arrangements related to field operations
▪  Develop project proposals and project documentation
▪  Establish monitoring and evaluation systems including indicators
▪  Gap identifications in project interventions, evaluating the impact & suggesting corrective measures
▪  Facilitate community action planning workshops, distribution events, sports events, etc for the community as and when required
▪  Liaise and maintain close coordination with all relevant stakeholders including UN agencies (UNHCR, UNODC), GIZ, government departments, and local civil society organizations
▪  Process volunteers’ payment requests, part of the procurement and bidding team
▪  Prepare monthly, quarterly & annual reports
Participate in the project review meetings

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Project Officer
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Pakistan
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022 | Islamabad, Pakistan

▪   Reviewed/edited & modified project activities and documents
▪   Collected and analyzed progress reports of implementing partners
▪   Coordinated with implementing partners (PRDS, PCHR, and AWAZ) for issues related to implementation and progress reporting 
▪   Drafted concept notes, reports, working papers, and information collection working with the public and private sector organizations, and research think tanks (SDPI)
▪   Participated in periodic progress review meetings of implementing partners (PRDS) 
▪   Kept track of and archived the documentation related to the award, implementation, and closeout of the subgrants
▪   Assisted in managing the training activities of Volunteers, Youth Group, and partner staff as advised by the project coordinator
▪   Developed and regularly maintained IPs progress tracking sheet against the targets
▪   Provided training and facilitation to local partners as required  
▪   Contributed to writing monthly, quarterly, and annual operational reports and other program reports
Conducted monitoring field visits as and when required

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Field Supervisor
International Catholic Migration Commission
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021 | Islamabad, Pakistan

• Planning all the field visits, meetings, and monitoring visits in consultation with the program manager
• Take the lead in the delivery of effective workshops for the field staff.
• Carry out the Due Diligence process for all project partners, field activities, and the organization.
• Communicate with different stakeholders under the direction of Project Managers for smooth field operations.
• Identification of cases, and drafting concept notes for approval from senior management for the cases.
• Compiling reports from field and drafting the monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Providing a helping hand in administrative work for field arrangements, travel plans and budget utilization and monitoring to the management.

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Training Officer
Aga Khan Planning & Building Services, Pakistan
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021 | Chitral, Pakistan

▪ Arranged the training needs assessments (TNA).
▪ Maintained vital networking with other partners and local support organizations (LSOs) that strengthened the connection and helped the organization for successful project implementation.
▪ Provided support to Emergency Management (EM) Head District Chitral in disaster preparedness and response-related activities. Specifically, in disaster risks/vulnerability and capacity assessments, disaster alerts, situation reports/updates, tools and templates development, etc.
▪ Managed Information and database management of humanitarian/response projects
▪ Performed administrative management of the Community Emergency Disaster Response Team (CERT), Disaster Assessment Response Team (DART), and deployment tracking
▪ Gathered and consolidated feedback and learnings from CERT, DART training, and community sessions.
▪ Worked on training modules, presentations, and handouts for the training sessions
▪ Produced, assisted/supported in producing quality training, event, and project progress reports for the line managers and the donor.
▪ Helped, and performed emergency response training, evacuation drills, and shakeout drills.
▪ Liaised and coordinated will all community emergency response teams for training, refreshers, drills and monitoring of disaster preparedness programs.
▪ Maintained data of CERTs, DARTs, Rescue Team, Stock Pile, and WMP staff across the region.
▪ Ensured project milestones were achieved with proper monitoring and field visits.
▪ Supported in administrative arrangements and travel for training, meetings, conferences etc.

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Community Based Protection Officer
International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
May 2019 - Oct 2019 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Customer Satisfaction
Case identification
Field Visits
Monitoring

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Training Officer
Aga Khan Planning & Building Services, Pakistan
May 2018 - Jan 2019 | Chitral, Pakistan

Training
Need Assessment
Field Visits
Monitoring Visit
Reporting

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Social Organizer-Health and Hygiene Promotion Officer
International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018 | Chitral, Pakistan

Social Mobilization
Selection of training participants
training
evaluation
monitoring

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Training officer School safety
Aga Khan Planning & Building Services Pakistan
May 2017 - Dec 2017 | Chitral, Pakistan

Implemented the school safety project in Chitral District with the following achievements:
1. Hazard and vulnerability assessments of 21 AKES facilities
2. Training needs assessments for the safety officers, school safety committees 
3. Selection of School Safety Officers and training provision on basic first aid, rescue, and evacuation
4. Formation of School Safety Committees for the 21 AKES facilities
5. Assessments, Procurement, and delivery of safety items for each facility.

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Programme Officer –Programme Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation
Aga Khan Council Islamabad
Jul 2014 - Jan 2017 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Programme Implementation
Programme Monitoring
Evaluation

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Programme Officer-Community development
Aga Khan Council Central Region
Jul 2014 - Jan 2017 | Islamabad, Pakistan

worked as a program officer with the responsibility to monitor the Education, Health, Youth and Sports board portfolios of the Aga Khan Council of Central Punjab, KP, and the Federal Capital

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Audit Officer
Bank Alfalah Limited
Sep 2013 - Apr 2014 | Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Branch Audit
Full Audit
Spot Audit
Compliance check

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General Banking Officer
Soneri Bank Limited
Jul 2011 - Aug 2013 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Core Banking
Clearing
Remittance
Account Opening
Credit and trade

Education

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
M-Phill, ‎
Environmental Economics
Completed
2017
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Masters, MSc, ‎
Development Economics
2010

Skills

Expert Quality Assurance
Intermediate Agile Project Management
Expert Analytical Skills
Expert Annual Planning
Intermediate Budget Monitoring
Expert C Problem Solving
Intermediate C++
Expert Capacity Building
Expert CCA Training
Expert Child Protection
Intermediate Climate Change Management
Expert Communiation Skills
Expert Compliance Management
Expert Configuration Switches
Expert Consensus Building And Negotiating Skills
Intermediate Cooordination Skills
Expert Customer Handling Skills
Expert Customer Relationship Management
Expert Data Analysis
Expert Disaster Risk Reduction
Intermediate ERP Command
Intermediate Event Coordination
Expert Government Department Liaising Skills
Expert Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment
Expert Hygiene Promotion Techniques
Intermediate International Humanitarian Law
Expert Interpersonal Skills
Expert Knowledge of Bending Machine
Expert Leadership Management
Expert Leadership Skills
Expert Manage Client Bookings
Expert Management Skills
Expert Mobilization Skills
Intermediate Ms Office
Expert Multitasking
Expert Operations Coordination
Expert People Management
Expert Persuasion Customer
Intermediate Policy Analysis
Expert Presentation Skills
Expert Program Coordination
Expert Project Development
Expert Project Implementation
Expert Quality Control Cutting
Expert Record Keeping1
Expert Record Management
Expert Report Writing
Expert Reporting Skills
Expert Reporting Skills
Expert Risk Management

Languages

Intermediate Pashto
Expert Urdu
Expert English