Wasima Chowdhury

Director of Quality Management , New York based non-profit agency

New York, United States

Quality Management Professional with over 15 years of experience in data analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and ongoing quality improvement for not-for-profit organizations. I am an experienced manager and supervisor with excellent skills in client relationships. I have experience with US government data management systems like CONNECTION, PROMIS, DYCD Connect, Foothold, and DAISY.

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Area of Expertise:
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
Professional Experience:

Rising Ground Inc., New York
Director of Quality Management for Housing and Community Based Program, Performance Evaluation and Management Department 05/01/2023 – 7/3/2024
• Lead the Quality Management process for the Housing & Community Services Programs to ensure programs meet the goals and outcomes.
• Lead development and implementation of instruments used to track program performance.
• Oversee internal audit and Collaborative Quality Improvement process to ensure programs met compliance standards.
• Serve as liaison with DYCD, OCFS, and other oversight agencies.
• Supervise Quality Management Analysts.

Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services, New York
Quality Improvement Manager 03/2019 – 04/30/2023
• Responsible for developing, implementing, and providing oversight for agency-wide continuous quality improvement program to ensure high quality and client satisfaction across all programs.
• Collaborate with program leadership to develop program performance measures.
• Develop strategies for program evaluation and outcome measurement.
• Use data and tracking systems to assess, monitor, and report program performance and determine ongoing improvement needs.
• Produce monthly, quarterly, annual. and “as requested” reports and trend analysis for internal and external performance monitoring.
• Supervise QI Coordinators.

Friends in Village Development Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Program Manager, Policy Planning and Research 01/2006 - 06/2016
• Lead project evaluations to improve the organization's ability to achieve organizational mission using various qualitative and quantitative techniques.
• Coordinate planning, design, and implementation of evaluative activities to identify gaps and best practices.
• Create and deliver presentations of findings for internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead data collection, and management activities including development of data collection tools, sampling design, questionnaire development, quality control, data analysis, and report processing for continuous improvement of the services.
• Designed courses and conducted training for more than 100 staff members on data management, monitoring and evaluation, participatory rural appraisal, and gender equity.
• Provide technical leadership to 15 Policy, Planning, and Research team members.

Education:

Master of Arts (MA), Development Studies (Poverty, Population and Social Development)
International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

Bachelors of Social Science, Economics
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Affiliations and Achievements:

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate 2023

Software Testing and QA Methodology 2017
PeopleNTech Institution of Information Technology, USA

Available for:

  • Job opportunities

Years of Experience:

10-15 years

Highest Qualification:

Masters

Languages:

English, Bengali

Nationality:

United States