Skilled project management professional with demonstrate expertise in leading emergency humanitarian responses during humanitarian crises especially floods and facilitating teams across Pakistan. Focused teams on project objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results. Knowledge and experience in scaling of agile projects and teams. Experience to manage filed level teams, program operations and coordination with state actors. Serve 17 years development sector through different capacities from Social Organizer to sector head, having multidisciplinary experience around Pakistan experience to managed 135 team members directly at a time, currently working as District Manager in SRSO at Sanghar managing PKR.1.3 (district Share) billion budget in Peoples Poverty Reduction Program funded by Government of Sindh.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
District Manager is overall In-charge officer for SRSO operations at District level, being the operational head the DM is responsible for Implementation & operations of Programs/Projects with four Taluka & one district office including 54 staff members and programme cost worth estimated ONE Billion, Working closely with Community Institutions, Maintaining liaison with Public Sector institutions & service delivery & development stakeholders for the overall poverty reduction. Supervises CIF, IGG, VTP & provide technical assistance.
Provide leadership to district establishment in carrying forward the programs/ project, maintain effective record of all transactions and comply with financial, HR, Procurement & other rules and regulations of the organization.
Provide regular reports to Head Office on ongoing programs/ Projects and undertake troubleshooting for smooth and professional management at district level.
Achievements:
• Established District & four Unit offices& complete procurement process & vendor selection
• Complete HR hiring process & managing 54 team members including District professionals & Unit staff
• Taken on board all concern stakeholders
• Form 3702 Community Organizations, organized 64648 Households having 442850 rupees as saving
• Form 530 village organization (VOs)& 24 Local Support Organizations (LSOs)
• Organized managerial trainings events such as CMST, VMST, CIF A&M and CIF bookkeeping & LMST trained 8325 Community leaders
• Established technical & Vocational Trainings Centre where certified 1067 candidates
• Provided CIF to 8598 beneficiaries disbursed and managed 11.5 million portfolio
• Provided income generation grants to 756 households amount 5.7 millions
• Constructed 234 Low Cost Houses with the cost of 22.1 millions
PSC Coordinator Is responsible to conduct censes through computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) directly at the household level using the Android Tablets system for real-time reporting. Organized formal orientation training for newly hired enumerators in different phases, prior to the starting of data collection at household level in the field. Further PSC ensure to quality assurance of data collection methods and responsible for timely reporting & logistic arrangements.
Achievements:
• Manage & supervise team of 150 members
• Conduct PSC Survey in whole district’s 73 rural UCs
• Ensure real time & post verification of Data
• Manage logistic arrangement at four operational bases
• Coordinate & onboard all concern stakeholders
• 2,05,000 households surveyed
• Timely data updating & reporting
Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Manage team & activities of mobilization component in district & provide technical support to team & LHW program on SGM methodology, Liaison with stakeholders at district level and coordination for the MNCH Services project activities, Prepare monthly /quarterly work plan for community mobilization activities, ensure timely implementation of planed activities under MNCH services project in target District. Ensure monitoring of Support group meetings in LHW’s covered and share feedback report at all level, arrange MNCH related trainings at District/ facility level in appropriate approach, Provide technical support and ensure the quality of PDQ implementation and formation of QITs/CSGs, celebrate international days & organize mobilization/ advocacy events, responsible to develop & strengthen transportation & referral mechanism in district. Prepare and share regular progress reports and other project reports as per requirement.
Achievements:
• Conduct PDQs activities around 23 MNCH centers & formed 19 QITs
• Organized 54 facility based LHWs monthly meeting regarding reporting & Support group meetings
• Facilitate to M & E team in pre testing of Mother’s booklet.
• Maintain close coordination with MNCH partners such a Health department specially focal person of National Program/LHWs, MNCH & PPHI
• Ensure 10% real time monitoring of support group meetings
• Organized trainings of 561 LHWs on Support group methodologies,
• 175 transporters trained to safe transportation for pregnant women & having referral slips & mechanism & interlink with AMAN Telehealth
• Organized trainings for 647 LHWs on Misoprostol & CHX
• Provided referral slips to 647 LHWs & 20 Health facilities have referral box / mechanism, produced district facilities Public/ Private referral map and distribution of IEEC material & utilization has been ensured
• Ensure advance distribution of CHX & MISO in community through LHWs
• Organized Mobilization events to aware communities on MNCH massages
• Ensure timely reporting & compliance on queries.
• Provide assistance to technical team & facilities to improve health services & demand
• Managing Community Mobilization team & component activities in MCHIP program
Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Management and supervision of programmes in the area implemented directly SCOPE, including human resources, logistics and finance, Budget control and follow-up, and processing of related administrative duties. Regular narrative, financial and statistical reporting to Management, Bioclimate & Scottish Government, Perform other related duties as requested, including ad hoc -support and gap-filling for colleagues. Plan & Manage day by day field operations, Monitor & facilitate to team & support sectors in delivery of project inputs and community physical infrastructure Schemes. Provide technical support and guidelines to on formation of Village Women’s committees, Water Management Committees, gardening Groups, Plantation task groups. Manage & facilitate horticultural activities e.g. kitchen gardening, guggulan nurseries establishment and monitoring and guggulan plantation, Manage and facilitate performance base payments ( payment for ecosystem-a type of CCT), Facilitate to community in Village Saving & Loan Associations (VSLA) and enterprise activities, Plan capacity building programs for the stakeholders and ensure their implementation, Plan and supervise research initiatives under TWP, Manage the process of implementing trainings in identified gaps. Assist and provide input to Project road map and strategy, Assist to design an M&E tools for TWP. Ensure monitoring and evaluation systems are in place to correctly assess progress of TWP interventions to meet their intended results. Ensure close coordination with all stakeholders, community, line department, development organizations.
Achievements:
• Lead and Manage the Thari Women’s Project (HR, DIP, Budget and timeframe, logistics, monitoring and reporting)ensure timely reporting, coordination & compliance on queries
• Formed 13 Women’s Village Committees & 13 Water Management Committees & gardening committees
• Conduct and analysis socio-economic assessment on Food security, Hunger, Food production and women’s income.
• Constructed and distributed 975 Bio sand filters and trained 975 hh on f bio sand filter usage
• Constructed 292 under-ground rain water storage tanks with twin champers
• Provided 292 kitchen gardening kits and trained 292 beneficiaries/ households regarding kitchen gardening
• Planted 45000 gugglu gum plants ( Commiphora wightii ) in project villages
• Disbursed PKR.5300000 in 975 households on performance bases, build transpired monitoring & payment mechanism in all project villages
• Finalized sites for gugglan nurseries with the consultation of community leaders and forest department
Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Management and supervision of livelihood programmes implemented directly by IFRC and PRCS, including human resources, logistics and finance. Ensure monitoring and evaluation systems are in place to correctly assess progress of livelihood interventions to meet their intended results. Budget control and follow-up, and processing of related administrative duties. Monitor Income generating activities (IGA) cash transfer processes & utilization. Provide technical input and guidelines to senior Technical Officer Livelihood’s in field. Plan, capacity building programs for the stakeholders, field teams & partners staff and ensure their implementation. Plan and supervise research initiatives under IRP Livelihood. Manage the process of implementing trainings in identified districts from three provinces of Pakistan. Assist to design M&E tools for IGA .Manage MIS and information system, providing liaison support between hub/provincial offices and delegation office, regular narrative, financial and statistical reporting. Perform other related duties as requested, including ad hoc -support and gap-filling for colleagues.
Achievements:
• Manage the day by day operations of livelihood program (HR, Budget and timeframe, monitoring and reporting)
• Deliver 4412 Cash Grants for Income generation activities to Flood affected communities within agreed timeline
• Provided two days Entrepreneur Development Training to 5000 Beneficiaries
• Provided Technical assistance to Partner Organization and field staff on program activities & orientations
• Manage online data base (MIS) and complete data entry of all beneficiaries
• Lead the program impact review study of IGA-Livelihood program
• Participated in End line assessment of integrated recovery program as team leader
Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Develop a strong understanding of EFSL (CTP/CFW) activities, particularly in cash transfer programming (CTP), to build the capacity of Partner teams (particularly in field offices) in CTP (CFW) and Provide technical assistance to field teams of implementation partner, along with the Oxfam EFSL Team Leader, develop a work plan to document and disseminate learning and processes about CTP. Participate in EFSL program activities such as registration, distribution, verification and monitoring as EFSL Program. Facilitate to Partner team regarding Accountability & Transpiration time to time. Conduct frequently field visits of Cash for Work groups & Community Conditional Cash Grant (skilled & un-skilled labor) groups of community in different villages and different community projects. Represent Oxfam GB to external factors, such as the DCO, EDO, line agencies, cluster meetings and other NGOs working in the area, making any necessary recommendations to the Oxfam EFSL Team Leader. Use a strong problem-solving attitude to resolve any blockages or obstacles to smooth running of the EFSL program. This includes being a focal point for program support issues, such as office management and human resources. Reporting on expenditure against budget on a weekly basis, and ensure that the EFSL program is adequately resourced. Implement FSL interventions at household and community level that meet the recovery needs of the flood, affected population using participatory planning tools and other tools and approaches developed. Management and supervision of FSL projects (Cash Transfer programming and different modalities distributions in kind/NFIs as well) implemented by Partners, including human resources, logistics and finance. Ensure monitoring and evaluation systems are in place to correctly assess progress of FSL interventions to meet their intended results. Providing liaison support between hub offices and implementation Partner..
Achievements:
• Provide technical assistance to Implementing partner
• Distributed 5000 un-conditional grants to flood affected district Sanghar
• Distributed 2000 (three time=6000) conditional cash grants (Cash for work, quilt making, smoke less stove, handicraft etc) Completed 145 rehabilitation schemes through cash for work. Distributed 2200 kitchen sets,
• Distributed 1750 fodder packages. Distributed250 cash grants for Small business
• Distributed agri-inputs (seed and fertilizer) in 3500 Flood affected formers
• 6000 animals vaccinated including de-worming
Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Manage and supervision of livelihood programs in seven district of Sindh province, implemented directly by IFRC and PRCS, including human resources, logistics and finance. Ensure monitoring and evaluation systems are in place to correctly assess progress of livelihood interventions to meet their intended results. Work closely with other technical delegates and PRCS counterparts promoting the provision of integrated and harmonized recovery assistance. Follow-up, facilitation, problem-solving, monitoring and control of the programs implemented by external partners, including Collection and analysis of additional household and community survey data from the flood affected populations to further inform relevant and appropriate livelihood interventions to support the recovery process. Design and plan detailed livelihood interventions in line with the agreed Plan of Action and recovery framework. Implement livelihood interventions at household and community level that meet the recovery needs of the flood affected population using participatory planning tools (such as VCA) and other tools and approaches developed within the RCRC movement, regularly narrative, financial and statistical reporting. Perform other related duties as requested, including ad hoc -support and gap-filling for colleagues.
Achievements:
• Provide technical assistance to Partner and conducting staff and volunteers orientation sessions
• Distributed winter vegetable seed in 2000 flood affected families
• Work as a team member in cash grant pilot project Thatta and distributed 42 IGA grants
• Distributed 15240 agr-inputs packages in 7 district of Sindh
• Facilitate in technical training to 16743 Former regarding Rice cropping
• Conduct Post Distribution and post harvesting monitoring
Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Develop strong understand and provide technical assistance to Implementation partner on EFSL and cash transfer programming, gender sensitivity and transparency requirements. Participate in activities such as registration, verification, distribution, and monitoring, facilitate to Partner team regarding Accountability & Transpiration time to time. Frequently field visits of Cash for Work (Quilt making) groups & Community Conditional Cash Grant (skilled & un-skilled labor) groups of community in different villages and different community projects. Represent Oxfam GB to external factors such as the DCO, EDO, line agencies, cluster and other NGOs working in the area. Use a strong problem-solving attitude to resolve any blockages or obstacles to smooth running of the EFSL program. This includes being a focal point for program support issues, such as office management, logistic and human resources. Reporting on expenditure against budget on a weekly basis and ensure that the EFSL program is adequately resourced.
Achievement:
• Managing team of 35 members
• Distribute 7000 un-conditional grants in flood affected families
• Distributed 12000 conditional grants of CFW
• Construction of 400 community rehabilitation schemes
• Distributed NFIs in 13000 Families
Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Working as focal point at field level of different project/ sectors such as CED, HID, CPI, MER, ED, H&H HD, Manage administration including HR, finance/budget and logistics at station level, Facilitate the team and team capacity building -Planning and implementation of project activities, Formation of community organizations, village organization (sensitization, realization& mobilization), CO, VO, LSO and staff capacity building and services to other organization sectors. Monitoring and ensuring quality of activities. To set out the member development plan. Conduct PCDD (Participatory Community Development Dialogue). Organize trainings material and conduct community management skill trainings. To arrange the exposure visits for community organizations & village organization. Raise awareness among the community basic Rights & Networking. Conduct advocacy seminar, workshops and rallies on different issues regarding education, health, climate change & agriculture. To make reports on seminars, workshops and rallies. Conduct PRA tools in different communities (Interview, Focus Group Discussion “FGD”, Social Mapping & Transit Walk). Supervise community physical Infrastructures schemes of water & sanitation extension program, street pavement, culverts, and installation of hand pumps, reporting to higher management and coordination with line agencies.
Achievement:
• Managing team of 16 members, Office management including HR and Budget
• Form 424 community organization , 13 Village organization and 2 LSOs
• Conducted 78 CMST and 12 Community Exposures and 12 different workshops
• Monitoring and facilitation of 145 community infrastructure schemes
• Managing 2 health centers, Organized t 110 different community training event and exposures
• Support and facilitate to other service delivery sectors like education, Health, CPI, HID etc
• Promoting community Saving and initiate internal lending in 14 COs
• Collect more the PKR.500000 (cash and In-kind) donation for flood response
• Compile project and annual progress reports
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Community meetings & Introduction of Bank with Product, Selection of client and formation of Group, Loan appraisal ,cash flow making& Client and business verification, Loan process documentation, Loan disbursement, Loan monitoring & Reporting.
Achievements:
• From 54 groups
• Disbursed 312 loans
• Ensure 100% recovery
Work on below projects: Acceleration of girls Education (AGE) supported by UNICEF. Water Environment & Sanitation (WES) project and CLTS project (UNICEF). Drought Mitigation and Preparedness Program (DMPP) supported by PPAF/USDA. Sindh Flood Relief Project 2006 (CRS-Project). Sindh Emergency Flood Relief Project 2006 (UNICEF Project). Flood Response in Pakistan 2006 Food Support (Oxfam GB Project). Flood Response in Pakistan 2006 Agricultural Inputs (Oxfam GB Project).
Achievements:
• Form 40 Village Development Organization
• Conducted different training e.g ODP, Health & hygiene, and exposure visits
• Identification of TNA and CPI schemes
• Capability building of VDOs in record keeping, saving, presentation , coordination and linkage development
• Monitor and facilitate 10 CPI schemes.
• Organize donor visits. Conduct Household survey in taluka 29000 household
• Need assessment and situational analysis of 873 primary schools (boys and Girls)
• Enrolled more than 1300 girls in three years in taluka and ensure retention
• Conducting more than 5000 community meetings regarding girls education in three years
• Facilitate and monitor constriction of latrines and installation of Hand pumps
• Distribution of interim support in 132 schools of taluka
• Developed EFA plan and approval from UC, Taluka and district Council
• Monitor and facilitate temporary schools and teachers
• Distributed hygiene kits & NFI in 2400 families. Distributed Agri inputs in 3000 formers
• Distributed food parcels in 1300 families. Organized 8 medical camps and mobile medical camp
• Organize vaccination of 11350 animals. Organize 22 awareness workshops on different topics
Irshad is unfazed by challenges. Always prepared to take on anything encountered.