Professional Experience

State Coordinator, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Duration: 2022-07-01 to 2024-03-08
Program area: Public Policy, Welfare Schemes and Monitoring
Key Responsibilities:
• Monitoring and Evaluation of the performance of over 150 civil society organisations receiving grant-in-aid from the Ministry • Led the execution, real-time monitoring, and impact assessment of departmental schemes, resulting in enhanced program outcomes and resource allocation. • Strengthened partnerships between Central government and six State governments through field visits, improving policy alignment and program effectiveness. • Proficiently managed project budgets and financial accounts, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost-efficiency. • Implement Results-Based Management methodologies to drive performance, optimize outcomes, and achieve measurable results in project execution • Innovate adapted and sustainable projects as per mandates of the Ministry. • Consolidate feedback and updates for officials at the Ministry. • Spearheaded the organisation of Master Volunteer Training under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, training over 500 prominent social workers in the North-Eastern states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and state of Karnataka. • Coordinated logistics for staff of the project, including air travel, per diem arrangements, and accommodations while adeptly resolving booking and logistical challenges. • Undergone extensive classroom and field training to conduct Social Audit of the schemes implemented by the ministry.

Consultant- Documentation, Jhpiego
Duration: 2022-04-01 to 2022-06-21
Program area: Covid 19
Key Responsibilities:
• Support in developing/compiling reports, concept notes, presentations, success stories and other documents for submission to the donors, and key stakeholders including regulatory bodies, various ministries, and partner agencies. • Ensure reports, success stories, other collaterals, etc. are branded as per program guidelines. • Provided comprehensive administrative support to the staff, including scheduling meetings, maintaining calendars, and taking and distributing meeting notes. • Organizing donor specific events like launches/workshops/high profile visits etc. • Manage a team of more than 25 remotely from all across the country.

Consultant, Centre for Health and Social Justice
Duration: 2021-05-01 to 2022-03-31
Program area: Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, Gender, Public Health
Key Responsibilities:
• Generating high quality donor reports and tracking financial progress inclusive of providing inputs for course correction and budget re-allocations. • Coordination and follow-up with Field Level partners across the project sites for strengthening women

Project coordinator, Action India
Duration: 2020-11-25 to 2021-04-30
Program area: Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, Gender, Public Health
Key Responsibilities:
Conducted baseline research. The work responsibilities included: • Health Resource Mapping and Community profiling of the seven informal settlements in Delhi through extensive field visits. • Undertaking maternal health-related research tasks including tool making, pilot study, sampling, data collection, data analysis and reporting and other technical tasks of the project. • Studying various policies and programmes for pregnant women in India. • Providing technical assistance and training to the field staff as required. • Keeping routine communication with the stakeholders of the project. Other work responsibilities included: • Researched and curated information related to women

Assistant Program Officer, Society For Participatory Research in Asia
Duration: 2019-07-17 to 2020-07-17
Program area: Maternal Health, Gender, Panchayati Raj
Key Responsibilities:
• Project planning and implementation related to the local governance, maternal health and sanitation in Urban and Rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar. • Designed and executed strategies to engage local communities, particularly women, in the project