Subashkaran  Kurunathan, ASSOCIATE

Subashkaran Kurunathan

ASSOCIATE

United Nations Development Programme

Location
Sri Lanka
Education
High school or equivalent, Commerce Stream
Experience
7 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 10 Months

ASSOCIATE at United Nations Development Programme
  • Sri Lanka
  • November 2013 to February 2013

Governance for Local Economic Development Programme (GLED

PROGRAMME MANAGER
  • Sri Lanka
  • May 2012 to August 2012

Monitoring project implementation, progress, and impact against work plan and log frame
* Submission of final narrative reporting and financial reporting according to donor requirements
* Ensure contract compliance to organizational, Oxfam, and EU standards
* Support higher level advocacy, meetings with provincial officials
* Management of administrative and programme project staff - including ensuring conceptual
understanding of the project objective
* Monitoring and checking expenditure against budget (ensuring expenditure is against the correct
budget lines and narrative justifications for expenditure given as appropriate)
* Liaise with government officials on approvals and supply progress reports where needed
* Contribute to the contract management
* Attend coordination meetings with various stakeholders at district level

PROJECT COORDINATOR
  • August 2011 to January 2011

Srilanka Red Cross, Batticaloa District
* Be the overall in charge for the project of Community Based Health and First Aid program in
Batticaloa District.
* Contribute in developing strategy plan and implementation of the project
* Managing staff and contribute to volunteer management
* Budget management and ensure the physical progress along with the financial progress
* Liaise with government stake holders, divisional Red Cross societies and other relevant partners to
share the collective information
* Conduct monitoring and evaluation and reporting

DISTRICT OFFICER at DSO
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2008 to January 2011

Strong Places and LoGoPro - Programme
UNDP - Batticaloa District
* Be the information focal point at the district level to implement small grant disbursement, facilitate
training programme implementation, and monitor the project initiatives.
* Accessing information and data, maintaining consistent records and providing information between
and/or to three main units - Government Agent’s office, stakeholders and the district advisory
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committee.
* Assist the district advisory committee in decision making regarding revising project activities for the
extended project period and provide necessary information to the District Advisory Committee.
* Support Community Service Organizations (CSO) in writing financial as well as physical progress and
prepare project final report.
* Handling district level financial and administrative activities related to the project at the district level.
* Facilitate activities related to capacity development training of CSOs in coordination with
Government and implementing partners.
* Guide social mobilizers in day to day monitoring and facilitation of CSO activities.
* Provide long-term mentoring and support to the CSOs funded under the project on direct capacity
building needs.
* Coordinating the District advisory committee to establishes and sustain the networking systems
within DS and district level.

PROGRAMME SUPERVISOR
  • June 2006 to December 2007
FIELD ASSISTANT at UNDP
  • Sri Lanka
  • April 2005 to May 2006

Conduct regular supervision of implementing partners.
* Mobilize and support implementing partners
* Representing the project meetings
* Liaise with NGOs and Government sector
* Collect data from the Field and Government Institutions.
* Organize and facilitate the training programmes for implementing partners and beneficiaries
* Collect implementing partners reports and conducting regular meetings
* Prepare and submit monthly progress reports
* Assist program planning and development
* Prepare onthly Monitoring Report (MMR) for both projects

PROGRAMME OFFICER at Water & Sanitation, Food Security Programme Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
  • Sri Lanka
  • August 2003 to March 2005

Participate in data collection in the field (assessment, monitoring, supplier identification)
* Participate in the section of livelihood assistance and infrastructures to be rehabilitated / provided
according to the criteria and methodology
* Be responsible for the implementation of activities
* Explain to implementers as well as beneficiaries or community members the work to carried out
* Conducting water analyses in the several villages
* Liaise with NGOs and government sector
* Prepare and Submit of weekly and monthly progress reports
* Assist Programme Manager in conducting final evaluation after completion of works
* Conducting workshop and training programme session or assisting resource persons in coordinating
these sessions
* Represent the meetings of community, and local authorities
* Conduct needs assessment in the emergency phase
* Program definition for the tsunami response.
* Prepare the Monitoring and Evaluation reports to the management unit,
* Provision / construction of water supply systems, sanitation, water waste treatment, drainage facilities,
hygiene promotion and solid waste management for the populations displaced by the tsunami in
Batticaloa district.

Education

High school or equivalent, Commerce Stream
  • at Methodist Central College
  • September 2018

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Bachelor's degree, Computer System Engineering
  • at International Academy of Business Managemen
  • September 2018

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Master's degree, Computer System Engineering
  • at Rajarata University of Sri
  • September 2018

- First Year 2016 /2017

Bachelor's degree, Social Science
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University
  • September 2018

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Specialties & Skills

GOVERNMENT
MEETING FACILITATION
NEEDS ANALYSIS
PROGRESS
ADMINISTRATION
DATA COLLECTION
FINANCIAL
MICROSOFT OFFICE
MICROSOFT WORKS

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