Lekha Pillai, Corporate Training Coordinator

Lekha Pillai

Corporate Training Coordinator

Eton Institute

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Social Work
Experience
12 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 6 Months

Corporate Training Coordinator at Eton Institute
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2016

• Create and edit end of course reports for clients including detailed analysis of course objectives, participant progress and feedback.
• Prepare and submit monthly sales reports and submit to management.
• Communicate effectively with all key stakeholders in relation to upcoming and on-going corporate training courses.
• Support the sales department in all corporate training logistics and to deliver training quality standards.
• Maintain strong relationships with existing corporate clients and proactively assist on account management.
• Actively support business relationships for renewals of contracts and expansion of opportunities.
• Liaise with the participants and instructors to coordinate the corporate training courses and ensure customized solutions are provided to the clients.
• Coordinate across all departments and ensure there is synchronization for course delivery primarily among the learning & development, accounts and sales department.
• Assist the corporate sales team to ensure targets are met.
• Maintain positive, professional relationships with both internal and external customers

Project Officer- Communication at Butterflies
  • India
  • February 2012 to February 2013

• Developed a detailed internal and external communication strategy on advocacy for the South Asian Alliance for grassroots NGOs (SAAGN) formed by 139 partner organizations in five South Asian countries including; Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and India.
• Plan, edit and write content for a variety of internal communications mediums, such as a staff intranet, quarterly newsletter and regular email bulletin.
• Use social media to communicate with staff internally and advise management of developments throughout the organisation, either face to face or through regular written communication.
• Developed newsletters, handled media relations and prepared reports to substantiate philanthropy efforts throughout South Asia.
• Ensure organisational initiatives and projects are successfully communicated to employees and stakeholders. Prepare presentation for employees in written or spoken form in order to ensure the same.
• Carried out stakeholder management to ensure production of quality reports across project areas and donors.
• Conceptualized and developed all external communication tools including; creative collaterals for campaigns as well as content management for project websites, blogs and other social media handles.
• Organised a multi-stakeholder regional conference with a footfall of 180 participants in Kathmandu, Nepal to identify and collaborate on issues concerning children in South Asia.
• Facilitated delivery of two most important outcomes of the project- A five-nation South Asian Campaign on Every child has a right to Family and assisted in the research on “Situation of Children in South Asia.”

Project Coordinator at Mahila Jan Adhikar Samiti
  • India
  • November 2010 to January 2012

•Anchored the project, ensuring compliance of all project activities.
•Spearheaded social engagement of a diverse range of stakeholders including project partners, project team, government officials, funding agencies and beneficiaries.
•Acted as the focal point for programmmatic, academic and financial reports including aspects of project monitoring and evaluation.
•Researched and documented reports based on findings and assessment of the situation of child rights and varied issues pertaining to women’s rights.
•Oversaw the creation of funding ideas, identification of suitable donors, partners, development of concept notes and drafting fund raising proposals for prospective donor agencies.
•Assisted in the research and co-authored a chapter in the report entitled, “State of Panchayats Report (2010-11); Rajasthan chapter” published by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India.

Research Associate at Institute for Human Development
  • India - Delhi
  • April 2010 to October 2010

• Organised a regional consultation on Work and Livelihoods of the Poor in the National Capital Region (NCR) of India, for an in-depth discussion to identify the sectoral and occupational issues concerning the informal sector in the region.
•Identified and contacted over 100 organisations and forged partnerships to develop a database of those working on the said issues in the NCR.
•Presented a paper entitled, “Social action interventions in response to the needs of the poor: Current perspectives from the NCT/NCR”, during the consultation organized for the project.

Programme Associate at Aagaz Foundation
  • India - Delhi
  • January 2009 to January 2010

•Networked with stakeholders for facilitating achievement of project deliverables in the Indian political system of governance in rural India.
•Organised leadership-training workshops for elected women representatives.
•Prepared training material and assisted in coordination of various academic reports and other publications.

Programme Associate at Centre for Public Policy Research
  • India - Delhi
  • July 2008 to January 2009

•Organised a South Asia Youth summit for 100 youths to provide them a platform for deliberations upon issues confronting the region, focal point for information dissemination, fund raising and media coordination for the summit.
•Developed and provided content for regular updates for the organization’s website.

Education

Master's degree, Social Work
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences
  • January 2008

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Bachelor's degree, Sociology
  • at University of Delhi, Miranda House College
  • January 2006

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High school or equivalent, Commerce
  • at St. Francis De Sales School
  • January 2003

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Specialties & Skills

Research Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Web Content Management
Communications
Project Coordination
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