Head of Programmes
Human Appeal
Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months
Responsible for strategic guidance and programs’ implementation all over Pakistan and AJK through a team of program managers, alongside ensuring capacity building of staff and visibility. Job involves extensive travelling to program areas, development of policies and guidance, concept notes and proposals development and contribution in country management team.
• Ensuring that program departments has relevant customized strategies and policies to guide the program implementation in achieving the organizational goal aligned with the global strategies.
• Ensuring that all programs are well planned, budgeted, implemented and updated according to field requirements through monitoring and mentoring.
• Conception of new ideas/projects, and proposal writing and program integration with organizational core commitments.
• Ensuring reporting and documentation according to donor's requirement and formats that shows the change in the lives of people.
• Liaison and collaboration with networks for wider sharing and opportunities to collaborate around common interests.
• Ensuring that staff is motivated and skilled to initiate the required change through formal training, workshops and mentoring.
• Ensuring that organizational polices are implemented and understood by the team members.
• Represent Human Appeal on different forums and serve in the core Management team for overall implementation of organizational policies and strategies
Working in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas, Plan aims to reach as many children as possible, particularly those who are excluded or marginalized with high quality programs that deliver long lasting benefits by increasing its income, working in partnership with others and operating effectively. In Pakistan working in 5 districts through regular sponsorship program and 24 districts through Grants .
Being Manager:
• led the District Islamabad and Rawalpindi program with 25 people in a team.
• Provided an overall technical, programmatic and strategic leadership in five thematic areas including good governance(Child protection, gender mainstreaming, CSOs strengthening), inclusive education (Early Child Education, Mainstreaming out of school, teachers’ training, Collaboration with government for missing facilities in school), health (Mother and child nutrition, Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health) WASH (Drinking water, Community Led total Sanitation), disaster risk management (Building capacities of in resilient living, preparedness Plan, emergency relief) and Livelihood (Vocational training for girls and boys, entrepreneurship, small grants and production houses at community level).
• Ensured that annual operational plan and budget were aligned with the Country Strategic Plan and program cycle management.
• Ensured timely reports to management and donors.
• Programs were conceived through learning of completed programs, community reviews and translated into proposals.
• Ensured that Partners for implementation are assessed according to criteria and followed to ensure the implementation of projects as per agreed framework.
• Ensured the documentation of the organizational learning and reflection in programs through reports, case studies, video documentaries, testimonials and project end reports (including budget) for the donors as per requirements.
• Ensured the close collaboration with line department through signing an MOU/letter of agreement and pursuing the agreed frameworks and built partnerships for collaborative actions.
• Facilitated partnerships for achieving the agreed objectives and their capacity building.
• Being certified facilitator of Plan Academy, Facilitated online courses for staff and outsiders on Child Centered Community Development, Child protection, Tackling exclusion etc.
Short term assignment completed being an Alumni of Ausaid scholarship.
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Duty Station I have been engaged with World Vision Australia as an intern during my studies in Australia and evaluated their urban program.
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Position was based in Islamabad with extensive travelling (70%) to field areas in all provinces and Gilgit Baltistan. The main responsibility was to build partnerships with national NGOs and their capacities through training on areas identified
• I assessed and appraised the NGOs for the partnership under the capacity building support and carried out strategic reviews and need assessments. I also assisted Partner Organizations in reviewing & developing social mobilization and capacity building strategies.
• Developed proposals and budgets for the NGOs and monitored and evaluated them against their work plans.
• Coordinated and conducted capacity building programme of the Partner NGOs according to their need assessment plans especially on topics social Mobilization, Conflict resolution and management, Situation Analysis, PRA tools and gender sensitization.
• Assisted other units like credit, education & health and water management in carrying out different tasks, especially building capacities of partner staff in understanding PPAF’s policies and strategies.
• Actively participated in the immersion of the new areas along with World Bank team and produced reports.
Position was based in Haripur with extensive travelling to field areas of district Haripur, Abbottabad and Mansehra. Main role was to ensure women participation in all activities especially in income generation activities
• I supervised and coordinated the activities of the Local NGO (SRSP) in developing policies and plans to ensure the female participation in the development process and with the line departments for timely execution of the work plans.
• Developed liaison with technical institutes of the government and private institutions and facilitated the skill training for the males and females of the communities.
• Developed training modules and delivered training for the capacity building of males and females of the village organizations and for the staff of the line departments on social Mobilization, PRA tools, Conflict resolution and management, CMSTs.
• Facilitated the NGO in preparing annual work plans and budgets for the Social Sector activities along with minutes writing and circulation to all partners. and also facilitated the natural resource management activities with line agencies and ensured timely release of funds and activity reports
Tasks/Duties Performed
•Supervised and supported the team of social mobilizers in mobilization and execution of different projects of education, health, WASH and livelihood.
•Managed community projects along with budgets and work plans, ensured the implementation of the activities, and monitored them for quality purpose.
•Prepared annual budgets, their monthly/quarterly reviews and analyses and reported.
•Coordinated with line agencies for training programs in the communities.
•Managed and implemented sponsorship work of assigned communities, and actively participated in activities at district Mansehra like organization of the International Children Day at the district level, negotiation and execution of the hard projects like household latrines and boreholes and school constructions.
Note: Worked with Action Aid as Research and reporting coordinator from
Completed MA in Development studies from Australia.
MSC(Hons) completed which is equal to Mphill, and secured Bronze medal.
This was 4 years degree program after higher secondary school and secured Bronze medal.
