Ali Mirza is a senior development professional with 14 years of experience of working with NGOs and INGOs. He has sound knowledge and in-depth understanding of social mobilization, advocacy & partnership-based approaches to relief and development. His experience includes the Implementation, overseeing and management of, emergency relief, rehabilitation and development projects.
Ali has managed emergency projects during (1) Pakistan Floods 2010/ 2022, (2) Peaceful development with in Pakistan.
Ali has excellent leadership and management skills. He is an expert in building motivated teams of professionals for effective delivery of human project and programme implementation. As a person, he is a self-starter, creative, humorous, respectful, good listener, assertive, mature and decisive.
Ali’s key skills and experiences summarized in the following;
i. Excellent leadership and management skills and strategic thinking capability
ii. Excellent Advocacy and presentation, communication, negotiation, networking skills and experience
iii. Excellent crisis management and conflict resolution, planning, organization, time management and coordination, implementation skills
iv. Experience of working in coordination with government agencies, media, NGOs and other social entities
v. Experience of working and leading various research studies (qualitative and quantitative) including baseline, midline and end-line of education, WASH, nutrition, family planning, small/ medium industries, healthcare providers and capacity assessment of CSOs and CBOs projects
vi. Formal education and excellent experience of rights based programming and project cycle management.
vii. Experience of managing large scale advocacy campaigns on health sector projects at district & provincial level
viii. Experience of managing large scale poverty alleviation/ livelihoods development programme in rural settings
ix. Experience of managing large scale sustainable & climate smart cotton production programme in rural settings
x. Experience of working and managing programmes/ projects in both rural/ urban sectors
xi. He has extensive knowledge and hands on experience of working with people of diverse culture/ background in all four provinces of Pakistan especially with the rural settlements
• Ensure that Project adheres to the Timeline of Better Cotton Assurance Activities.
• Mentor and monitor the progress and quality of the project and provide inspiration and leadership to the project team to work.
• Lead the project team for execution as per approved strategy of the project.
• Facilitates a process, within project, based on a participatory approach with field staff and farmers to develop the natural resource plans and time-bound plans required under the Better Cotton Principles and Criteria (i.e. Integrated Pest Management Plan, soil management plan and soil profiling, water stewardship plan, biodiversity plan and mapping, child labour prevention, Improving position of disadvantaged groups).
• Develop close collaboration with Agriculture Extension Department, Research Institutions and other stakeholders • Ensure timely submission of project reports and deliverables to the BCI and WWFPakistan’s FOOD & MARKETS PROGRAMME Management
• Implement an effective data management system for improving quality of project data. • Conduct regular project site visits to monitor project activities and ensure data quality. • Develop and maintain a centralized database for the project • Ensure Credibility of Field Data of the project
• Assess the quality of collected data for the indicators and manage tools and methods for assessing data quality for all indicators of the project log frame and field implementation data.
• Organize the planning for project data quality audits and monitor routine data quality audits, compile results.
• Coordinate data gathering and data management of population-based surveys and surveillance activities.
• Collect the progress of the project against targets of Work Plan and Indicators of Logical Framework on a quarterly basis.
• Conduct or organize baseline, progress assessments and end line evaluation based on project objectives and focus areas for the use of current and future project activities as well as for reporting
• Establish basic learning systems within the project that incorporate project studies’ findings, lessons learnt, achievements and gaps, and develop all the tools required to support learning practices.
• Ensure after-action reviews and lessons learned exercises.
• Ensure that the internal feedback systems recommendations for project teams are adequately addressed and utilized to influence the design, the re-design of project implementation strategies.
Travel in assigned district for field monitoring visits of health facilities as per plan provided by the supervisor.
Collect, maintain and update PHC Global monitoring checklist over hard and soft forms as instructed.
Timely report good practices and bottlenecks being observed during campaign to the supervisor.
Conduct Rapid Convenience Assessment (RCA) using prescribed tool during Measles campaign as per guideline.
Monitor quality of MR campaign (including Vaccination status, ACSM activities, AEFI management, data management etc.) conducted at district, tehsil and UC level using prescribed tools and share the findings on behalf of PHC Global in daily evening meetings planned at district level.
Preparation and timely submission of data and reports of completed activities at the end of the assignment Including hard and soft forms and complete MR Campaign report.
·Directly supervise enumerators, supervisors and district team leaders and responsible for field planning, maintaining their leave record, time in and time out, attendance sheet.
·Maintain regular coordination with research managers at Germany & Pakistan office
·Allocating weekly targets and follow up for completion of targets within agreed time span
·Provision of on spot/ off spot technical assistance in data collection application
·Preparation of progress sheets for each teams by weekly/ bi monthly and monthly basis to analyze the target VS achievement scenario
·Oversee the collection and maintenance of data at district, regional and head office level for evaluations purposes as per the confidentiality/privacy policy of the organization.
·Looking after field movement/ logistics of data collection teams.
·Conduct spot check and surprise visit at each field team
·Ensures field team adheres to COVID-19 SoPs.
·Keep record of all tablet devices handed over to the team
§ Planning and execution of the social mobilization plan of team to support the TCV campaign in target union councils
§ Liaise with district health department to share progress and findings of field teams regarding micro planning of respective UCMOs
§ Coordination with partners (WHO, UNICEF, CTC, COMNet and NGOs/CSOs) to devise strategy to identification and coverage of high risk mobile population.
§ Development of social profiling of all target UCs through field teams and tally with micro plans developed concerned by government staff
§ Participation in DPEC meetings to share observations and recommendations to achieve 100% target of vaccination
§ Monitoring and provision of technical support to field teams on order to boost up the social mobilization activities
§ Desk and field validation of micro plans of target UCs and facilitate respective UCMOs in improvement
§ Provision of technical support in pre-campaign, intra-campaign and post campaign to health department
AS Programme Officer I am serving as the planner and executer of “ILMPOSSIBLE- Take A Child To School”. I am responsible for implementation of the program activities in South Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Close coordination with CMs, developing work plans and look their execution
Daily, weekly and monthly reporting
Work in close coordination with implementing partners in identification and selection of community mobilizers.
Mentor and motivate community mobilizers at all tiers of the programme.
Plan, organize, manage and execute capacity building workshops of CMs and MCs
Accumulate and analyze monthly progress reports from Regional Manager and District Coordinators and share
the progress of programme activities to Programme Director.
Collect success stories/ case studies from the field and share with Programme Manager.
Develop monthly work plan for respective region and follow up on its execution.
Ensure that continuous support is being provided to all the MCs in each target district.
Ensure timely reporting from Community mobilizers.
Provide technical support to community Mobilizers and Mohalla Committee members in developing their annual
plans and their execution.
Keep tracking the SAPs (Social Action Projects) designed and implemented by MCs.
Conduct oversight visits to Mohalla Committees.
Provide technical support to Mohalla Committees in Liaoning with relevant departments
Ensure daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting to PM.
Ensure timely submission of data/ reporting by CMs through MIS.
Analyze the reporting of CMs on MIS.
Develop IEC material dissemination plans for respective region.
Provide required information to the Programme Manager over the current status of the program.
Any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor/senior management.
Baseline study of Ilm Ideas schools of Rahimyarkhan (funded by DFID/UKAid)
Supervision of a team of 8 individuals
Liasion with relevant school authorities to develop working relationship
Monitoring of survey teams
QC of questionnaire/ survey tools
Field visit to ensure quality of work
Reporting
Cost of Diet and Optifood Analysis Study- UNICEF funded
Supervision of a team of 8 individuals working in 4 teams
Field visit to
• Monitoring of HH interviews, FGDs, optifood survey and market research
• Provision of on site technical support to field teams on focused group discussions, household surveys and market research
• Develop strong liaison with district line departments and coordinate with team members and management to meet the project objectives and targets in target areas.
• Monitoring of multiple ongoing Census of Brick-klin and Manufacturing industries in district
• Regular meetings with State Bank of Pakistan, Punjab bureau of Statistics and other relevant line departments for smooth operations of progress/ constraints sharing
• To make daily, weekly and monthly progress reports of ongoing projects
• Provide time to time facilitation/ technical support to field teams
Supervision of Punjab Healthcare Establishment census team.
Monitoring/ spot-checking of enumerators/ surveyors.
Coordination with District Health Department/ Punjab Healthcare Commission teams.
Weekly/ Monthly reporting to PHC/ UU
· Develop strong liaison with district line departments and coordinate with team members and management to meet the project objectives and targets in target areas.
· Plan and implement training sessions for staff &CIGs/LSOs/COs/VOs
· Situation analysis of program area
· Identification of ultra-poor household through poverty score card/ wealth ranking form
Follow ups of livelihood investment plans, skills development trainings
Provision of technical support to LSOs in identifying/ establishment of skill development training centers for youth groups
Provision of technical support to LSOs in smooth operations of Community Livelihood Fund (revolving) program
Monitoring & evaluation of loan process, disbursements and timey recovery of loan amount for further disbursement
Organize/ strengthen community groups and facilitate them in developing/implementing village development plans
Technical support and counseling visits for effective utilization of assets
· Manage and Provide facilitation to all other members/ consultants who are working with time to time
· To make monthly progress report and quarterly progress report and share with project manager
Training of polling staff for General Elections 2013
• Managing/ monitoring of NFBE centers
• Managing linkages with line departments/ NGOs/CBOs/ Media etc
• Develop progress & analytical reports, case studies & presentations; participate in monitoring/ evaluation exercises • Facilitate field team/ teachers to ensure the quality of work/ project objectives