Professional Experience

Consultant, CSRBOX
Duration: 2023-12-11 to 2024-03-01
Program area: Impact Assessment and CSR
Key Responsibilities:
Funding and Stakeholder Management: Demonstrating expertise in financial resource management and acquisition. Adept at developing and implementing comprehensive funding strategies including grant application fundraising and partnership. Project Assessment of Stakeholder: Assessment of the project of various CSR firms and Ngo stakeholders and providing them with innovative solutions for various CSR and community-related activities. Impact Assessment: Completed Impact assessment of CSR activities of DCM Shriram and Kansai Nerolac for Bharuch location and Hero MotoCorp for Biodiversity Park, Aravali.

Consultant, ICRISAT
Duration: 2015-06-01 to 2023-10-19
Program area: Agriculture, Watershed, Livelihood , Rural Development, Sustainable Developmment and watershed Development.
Key Responsibilities:
• Funding and Stakeholder Management: Overseeing livelihood development projects for tribal farmers, funded by the Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Foundation in Palghar Dist. Of Maharashtra, within the purview of a Consultative Group of International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) daughter group. • Data Collection and Management: Collecting and meticulously recording high-quality data sets essential for scientific research, ensuring accurate and reliable information for project analysis. • Training and Technical Support: Training farmers and farm facilitators while providing ongoing technical support to maintain and enhance innovative interventions at benchmark locations. • Nutrition Assessment and Promotion: Proactively assessing nutrition development in collaboration with the JSW Team and Rural Communes, implementing cutting-edge agricultural methods and collective marketing strategies. • Value Addition and Collective Farming: Encouraging farmers to add value to their produce through grading and promoting the concept of collective farming and self-help groups (SHGs) to boost income generation and marketing capabilities. • Rural Communes Coordination: Coordinating and guiding the rural communes team in various activities, including horticulture plantation, watershed management, soil and water conservation, and improved crop management practices. • Export Program Management: Playing a pivotal role in managing on-ground activities and collaborating with the Del Monte group for the successful execution of a vegetable export program involving various farmers in the designated region. • Yield Recordkeeping: Collecting crucial information from farmers and conducting crop-cutting experiments to meticulously record yields and other benefits of demonstration plots, ensuring data accuracy. • Diversification and Income Enhancement: Actively participating in the introduction of new and diverse crop varieties on an annual basis, aimed at reducing migration and augmenting farmers

Assistant Project Coordinator, Nageshwara Charitable Trust
Duration: 2013-09-01 to 2015-05-29
Program area: Sanitation, Agriculture, Livelihood and Wasteland Development.
Key Responsibilities:
• Project Leadership: Headed a team of field staff across 16 project locations, ensuring the timely completion of activities and regular monitoring in Seoni and Chhindwara Districts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh, and Amravati and Gadchiroli Districts of Maharashtra. • NABARD-Funded WADI Projects: Pioneered transformative NABARD-funded WADI projects, galvanizing tribal farmers to uplift their livelihoods, elevate living standards, and catalyze the cultivation of horticultural marvels on once-neglected wastelands. • Reporting and Documentation: Prepared success stories, monitored project reports, and collaborated with various project teams to rectify weak spots, ensuring a healthy and positive project outcome. • Government Collaboration: Liaised closely with government agriculture departments and research institutions, including Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Agriculture Department, and Forestry Department, to promote their programs and schemes for the welfare of farmers. • Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs): Contributed to the formation of Farmer Producer Organizations in the specified locations and authored proposals for NABARD support. • Work Plan Management: Planned and monitored the work plan for its successful execution, maintaining quarterly, half-yearly, and annual project management for all 16 locations. • Sanitation Project Oversight: Managed a sanitation project funded by NABARD, operating on a revolving fund model, and facilitated the construction of 18,000 toilets in close association with self-help groups (SHGs). • Geographic Reach: Covered diverse regions, including Seoni and Chhindwara Districts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh, and Amravati and Gadchiroli Districts of Maharashtra. • Community Empowerment: Empowered tribal communities to enhance their livelihoods and living standards through sustainable agricultural practices. • Impactful CSR: Played a key role in corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the agriculture and livelihood development sector, positively impacting the lives of tribal farmers and the community.