Professional Experience:
Passionate, persuasive and outcome driven development professional with a proven ability to identify & analyse opportunities, develop strategies & ensure smooth execution with a track record of fueling accelerated replicable scale, impact, systemic change and thought leadership in a multi-location/cultural environment.
Front-led multiple impact creating initiatives:
Enhancing the quality of Education & learning outcomes
Initiatives driving access to education & basic literacy skills, enhancement of quality of learning outcomes required for future by mainstreaming digital learning systems, engaging content & training of teachers using innovative pedagogy & collaborating with various stakeholders – Education department of Government, Govt & Private schools, Community/Parents & Expert institutions.
Jobs & Livelihood opportunities through TVET & 21st century skills initiatives
Skills for Jobs & Entrepreneurship (School Dropouts, Undergraduates & Graduates)
Upskilling/Reskilling for career advancement, reemployment & redeployment in different roles
Strategic partnerships / Collaboration / Engagement for co-creation & execution with/for
Government: Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, National Skill Development Corporation, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Rural Development, and several other relevant State Governments & ministries
Industry Linkage/ Employers: Large, Medium & Small-Scale Employers across 20 + sectors / 100+ Job roles
Community/ Parents: Non-Government Organisations/ Not for Profit organisations working for development of Youth & with communities in general.
Funding/Investment: From Corporates (Under CSR), Government (Sponsorship/ Grants) and Learners/Employers
Building Digital Jobs & learning Platform
Identifying the core issues/problems,
conceptualizing & finalizing the goal, objectives as well as initiatives to address the problems, building the core team, collaborating with product, technology, business & support teams to ensure research, design, user feedback & run pilots & experiments required to scale the impact.
CSR conceptualization & implementation for Corporates/Foundations – Driving
-Income enhancement initiatives for Farm & Non-farm sector
-Access to basic education, digital literacy, 21st century skills and ICT in primary and secondary education.
-Job readiness, career counselling/guidance & skilling/upskilling initiatives leading to jobs & self-employment opportunities.
-Access to basic Healthcare & Health improvement as well as environment & area development initiatives
Driving End to End management of Govt, multilateral agencies and CSR funds from planning utilization, allocating & managing the utilisation same, submitting the utilisation reports.
Healthcare – Implementation of Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV aids through CSR funding in addition to initiatives leading to general well-being of needy people.
Economic Development and growth through Cluster Development Initiatives
- Working with Industrial clusters with a focus on SMEs to help enhance their revenue, productivity, technology & infrastructure upgradation, cost reduction & capacity building initiatives using United Nations approach on Cluster Development resulting in to jobs & livelihood creation as well as overall economic development.
Part of formal/informal groups for policy advocacy for youth development, jobs & livelihood creation & digital skilling platforms.
Experience in internal audit for identified SOPs/SLAs & ensuring compliance & reporting for exceptions, if any with plans for improvement