divpSeasoned ME professional with 13 years of demonstrated experience. The major thrust of my experience has been in project monitoring and evaluation, conducting case studies, remote management, and staff capacity building. Managed six cross functional teams, comprised of more than 100 employees. Conducted 5 studies in ex-FATA/KP on GoP perception, TDP issues, living conditions of returning communities of Ex-FATA and issues faced by the host communities. Have a significant experience in developing material related to developing case studies, capturing success stories, best practices and lessons learning for the program in ex-FATA/KP./p
pI have worked in development sector with 13 years of demonstrated experience, in three provinces of Pakistan, on various positions, ranging from team lead to MEAL Coordinator and ME officer etc. . The major thrust of my experience has been in project management, monitoring and evaluation, remote management, and staff capacity building. Managed six cross functional teams, comprised of 150 employees. Conducted 7 studies in ex-FATA/KP on GoP perception its governance and rule of law, TDP issues, living conditions of returning communities of Ex-FATA and issues faced by the youth in Sindh and South Punjab. Have a significant experience in developing material related to ME frameworks, workplans, ME tools for different program activities in health education, TVET, economic development, livelihood projects for displaced, poor and disaster affected communitiesetc. Developed qualitative and quantitative ME reports, conducted case studies, FGDs, captured success stories, best practices and lessons learning for the program in ex-FATA/KP, South Punjab and Sindh./p
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• Supervising third party monitoring and evaluation activities for USAID/OTI funded projects, implemented in the areas of FATA/KP.
• Managing the operations of mobile field teams.
• Managing cross functional teams to ensure that project oversight and evaluation activities are carried out accurately and in a timely fashion.
• Supervised data collection of three evaluations in consortium with MSI for the USAID/OTI.
• Ensure processes are implemented consistently across by the field teams.
• Maintaining close communication via emails and weekly meetings with USAID/OTI staff on monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Providing M&E team and report writing team with on job trainings and guidance to ensure that data collection is carried out as per defined SOPs and that facts are reflected accurately and completely in the submitted reports.
• Keeping liaison with USAID/OTI, USAID/OTI Implementing partners, and grantees in regard to smooth execution of real time monitoring visits.
• Reviewing monitoring and evaluation reports from all USAID/OTI projects implemented in FATA/KP and document lessons learned and/or suggest corrective action where required.
• Managed six cross functional teams, comprised of 101 employees in the areas of FATA/KP, Karachi and South Punjab. • Remotely managed and provided assistance to the teams in Karachi and South Punjab in order to smoothly perform their tasks within stipulated time. • Reviewed and submitted more than 60 reports on a monthly basis that included Engineering Assessments, Real time monitoring reports, Observation and FGD reports and final evaluation reports. • Worked closely with Survey Experts and Deputy Coordinators in review and finalization of M&E plans and weekly work plans. • Weekly follow up with concerned teams to ensure regularly data collection, verification and timely data entry in project’s online database. • Supervised database team by providing regular guidance in designing RDBMS (Relationship Database Mgt System) in order to meet the complex data extraction requirements of USAID/OTI. • Responded to staff training needs in order to overcome their deficiencies by providing sufficient guidance via arranging trainings on regular basis. • Coordinate and lead assigned schemes to be monitored, ensuring the timely completion of reports. • Provided input to the Chief Executive and Deputy Country Representative(DCR) of USAID/OTI regarding project progress, staff’s training needs and project progress updates respectively. • Kept active liaison with security manager and field staff to ward off any potential security threats and to ensure that preventive measures are well taken care of. • Organized, lead and facilitated project-related meetings and team building events. • Successfully closed out a three year project by designing a robust close out plan and handed over all required final deliverables to USAID/OTI
• Assisted in coordinating and following up on the assigned task from the field staff to ensure timely completion of data verification on grant sites.
• Provided input to the Project coordinator regarding team members performance and reports status.
• Carried out desk review with the field staff in order to ensure in depth review of the available grant documents and grant locations.
• Worked closely with Project Coordinator in drafting and finalizing project findings, lessons learnt and best practices to collaborators and others involved.
• Prepared and tailored presentations by reviewing the requirements of participants.
Program Assistant(April 2010- Nov 2010)
Basic Education for Awareness, Reforms and Empowerment (BEFARe)
Independent Monitoring Unit(IMU)
• Assisted in gathering of baseline data and all additional data needed for monitoring and evaluation.
• Coordinate and ensure timely feedback of the field activities.
• Reviewed field data submitted by the M&E teams to ensure data integrity collected at field level.
• Reviewed English transcription of the qualitative data in order to keep the data integrity maintained.
• Prepared and submitted more than 80 grant’s evaluation reports from the data collected by the field teams.
Monitored +40 Afghan refugee schools on monthly basis located in 10 districts of KP.
Prepared comprehensive monitoring visit reports on weekly basis to pass on the achievements of project teams along with the deficiencies and gaps identified during those visits.
Field visits and meetings with school staff to identify areas of improvement and other administrative needs of the schools.
Monitored real time activities like examination process, competitions and routine school proceedings.
Assisted M&E manager in developing M&E tools, processes and systems.
Monitored fundraising meetings of field staff with the afghan refugee community.
Preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports of the program.
Conducted weekly monitoring visits to seven union Councils of Mansehra.
Designed and developed a database in MS access for the data entry of need assessment survey.
Part of the internal evaluation team of the project. Generated statistical reports for the evaluation survey conducted in seven union councils of Mansehra.