I hold six years of diversified experience in advocacy, grants management, project management, communications, campaigning, and have played an instrumental management role in implementing various national-level projects. Led an innovative multi-component behavioral change advocacy-focused project on COVID-19 and its vaccination awareness in Pakistan. Currently, working on development of a comprehensive mission communication and visibility strategy and action plan. The donors I have worked with include EU, FCDO, USAID, ECHO, DEC, GAC, BMGF, CDCS, WFP, and SIDA.
Successfully developed a comprehensive mission communication and Visibility strategy action plan
• Coordinated communication and reporting for more than ten flood assistance projects in Sindh and Balochistan, expanding my knowledge on emergency response and local contextual sensitization.
• Supported capacity development of field staff related to communication and visibility across all projects
• Provided relevant training and orientation to field teams and partners on implementation of communication and Visibility guidelines, including training on content development, case studies, and human-interest stories.
• Expertly coordinating with a wide range of stakeholders for arranging meetings / consultative sessions.
• Prepared, promoted, coordinated, and ensured the smooth running of large-scale events and workshops.
• Supporting program teams in finalization of narrative and financial donor and HQ, APRs, CRFU, quarterly and annual reports.
Technical review and editing of the
annual reports of HelpageInternational's BMZ FATA projects for the years 2021 and 2022 forsharing with the relevant project stakeholders.
Conducted an extensive desk review of the reports available for theyears 2021 and 2022.
Developed a well-structured and outlined framework for the finalreport.
Reports were standardized in accordance with donor requests andfeedback from HAI.
Worked on developing a comprehensive communication and advocacy strategy, which defines outreach mechanisms, community response channels, visibility products, content plans, branding, and merchandizing priorities for strategic and project-specific initiatives.
• Led national-level COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy project in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan.
• Managed project activities including detailed implementation Plan, external stakeholder engagement, project kickoff meetings, regional coordination and national social media campaign launch.
• Developed communications strategy and advocacy plans for multiple projects including COVID-19 broader communications strategy.
• Implemented various communications and advocacy on-ground activities and projects such as Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition campaign, global advocacy campaigns (Nutrition Cannot Wait), Safe back to school, Red Alert on Climate Change, ARTivism on Climate, and others.
• Developed situational reports, visibility plan, risk management, and contingency plans, RACI matrix, stakeholder mapping & other country-specific publications, monitored social and print media coverage, and dissemination of visibility products among donors, in country missions, and stakeholders.
Involved in budget preparation, issue reports, development of subgrant manual, and close coordination with implementing partners.
- Upload and maintain the relevant project database on Save the Children's Internal awards management portal (AMS).
- Involved in Pre Award assessment, partner report verification, correspondence with donors and partners.
- Preparation of partner agreements and verification of partners
Coordination with foreign independent clients/ international organizations to write convincing narratives for the proposals of various projects.
Brainstorming and writing creative content for the bi-annual magazine publication of the organization.
Conducted literature searches, data management, maintaining data collection files, assisting with data analysis, and generating correspondence, reports, and graphics.
Developed and managed the budget for each project working with the program manager, meeting manager, and meeting planner.
- Managed and facilitated the flow of essential information among company team members.
- Maintain project calendar and milestones.
- Established a quantitative staffing model used by foundation strategy leaders to describe staffing resource level to execute strategies given their specific execution choices.
- Developed an insightful analytical tool used by strategy owners to inform resource requests, execution decisions, strategy choices, and potential tradeoff needs.
Assisted in foundation leadership to adopt an analytical approach to establish resource needs and thoroughly examine alternative execution choices.
- Coordinated with foreign independent clients/ international organizations to write convincing narratives for the proposals of various projects.