Assignment Third Party field monitoring in Punjab.

Major Responsibilities:


 Training of third party Monitoring of UNICEF programmes and facilitating the field monitoring staff regarding the feedback on report, progress review formats and development of their monthly field plans
Undertaking and facilitating others to implement the field plan, regularly revising and updating performance questions, methods, formats and analytical process
Development of Programme monitoring checklist with the discussion with UNICEF Programme focal persons, design the formats and procedures for real time monitoring
Asses field teams to determine possible implications for implementation and agree on corrective actions with appropriate decision-makers
Coordination with UNICEF concerned focal person of Health, Nutrition, Education, WASH and Child Protection sectors, IPs field managers, APEX monitoring staff and with report expert/consultant
Sharing critical reports / findings / monitoring highlights / loopholes on a weekly / need basis which can be corrected by concern departments
Assist field coordinator in designing M&E formats and databases.
Providing technical assistance in data analysis and ensuring adequate feedback to field monitors
Develop and share a detailed monitoring analysis on monthly basis with report writer and management, cross check the final report with the analysis sheets and further sharing with UNICEF on monthly basis
Planning and coordinating with field staff for conducting specific studies / urgent assignments, like Large Scale Assessment under education sector, monitoring of National Nutrition survey under Nutrition sector as and when needed
Analyze progress report against the monthly work plan and designing the formats (Tables, Annex, graphs) for such progress report
Planning and coordinating with field staff for conducting specific studies / urgent assignments, like Large Scale Assessment under education sector, monitoring of NNS.

Assignment Name: Survey on the Social and Economic Wellbeing of Women with Bureau of Statistics Punjab.
 

Major Responsibilities:


Planning and preparation of Assignment, Tools and manual development with Recruitment and training.
Hire and train enumerators for listing as well as for the main survey under the guidance of Bureau of Statistics and PCSW.
Planning of preparation of Field manual for enumerators (listing).
Conduct and supervision of household listing in which clearly limit the cluster maps, identifications of cluster boundary with the help of community notables and accordance with the available geographical maps which were committed by the Pakistan bureau of statistics.
Identification as well as verification of cluster route plan.
Development of initial data entry application Cspro under the direct supervision of data manager.
Assign codes for each District, tehsils, Union councils, villages, PSUS.
Directly supervision on 14 districts, teams in which more than 112 staff were under the direct supervision (1 team Supervisor, 1 Female Observer, 05 Female enumerators and 01 Male enumerators).
Close coordination with field teams regarding the successful completion of daily targets. 
Liaison with field manager regarding the day to day progress and instructions for field teams.
Participation in refresher training.
Statistical analysis and report writing.
Ensure transparency, accountability, and strict compliance with company’s procedures.
Providing technical assistance in data analysis and ensuring adequate feedback to field manager.
Conduct field visits to ensure quality and to provide for job assistance to field teams.
Ensure proper systems for project documentation and inspection procedure.

Assignment Name: Third Party Field Monitoring of UNICEF Sanitation Program at Scale in Pakistan (SPSP-Rural-II and SPSP Urban-Phase-II)
 
Achievements in this Project: I worked on UNICEF third party monitoring project as an Assistant National Coordinator in Rural/Urban and Technical monitoring of sanitation Programme at scale in Pakistan. After successful progress of the assignment in WASH, I was promoted as Assistant National Coordinator to oversee the Programme from national level.

Major Responsibilities:


Coordination with UNICEF concerned focal person, IPs field staff, APEX Provincial coordinators, monitoring staff and with WASH consultant/expert.
Collect work plan, progress matrix and field monitoring reports to draw analysis and based on field report\'s findings develop monthly cumulative reports.
Ensure regular and timely reporting to UNICEF and other stakeholders.
Hire, train, and supervise teams of field monitoring staff across all the provinces.
Ensure proper systems for project documentation and review process.
Identify potential risks in project implementation and suggest ways to reduce risks to acceptable levels. Provide support in development of contingency plans.
Provide support to partner organizations at the project location for smooth operation of the project and ensure compliance with all donor requirements as stated in the project document.
Statistical analysis and report writing
Ensure transparency, accountability, and strict compliance of procedures.
Providing technical assistance in data analysis and ensuring adequate feedback to field monitors.
Conduct field visits to ensure quality and to provide on job assistance to field monitors.

Achievements in this Project: Supervised 14 teams working across the Pakistan (Punjab, KP/FATA, Sindh and Baluchistan). In addition to this, assisted the National Monitoring Coordinator for monthly analysis and report writing task. Furthermore, I was also responsible to establish and manage a comprehensive M&E training program for field teams. 

Major Responsibilities:


Technical, programmatic and administrative support for the National coordinator APEX consulting Pakistan head office.
Hired, trained, and supervised teams of field monitoring staff across all the provinces.
Coordinated monthly meetings, calls, and meeting arrangements.
Assist field Monitoring team and oversee all interventions of WASH projects such as health surveys, hygiene promotion campaigns, PATS Approach, CLTS, Pre-Triggering, Triggering, post Triggering, SLTS in School, Hygiene Session in Community, Linkages between CRP’s VSC’s and Entrepreneur; Mobilization of IP’s work, soak pits, Community latrines, Demo Latrines, water filtration and solid waste management.
Systematic planning of monitoring, data collection, processing, entry, verification, and cleaning then developing reports on weekly and monthly basis.
Participation in monthly review meeting with UNICEF & WASH Partners of UNICEF Punjab, also make presentation of last month achievements/issues in the field and the proper debriefing/suggestions to IPs for effective project deliverables.

Achievements in this Project:
APEX Consulting Pakistan (APEX) was given the task of third party monitoring of the Training of Lead Trainers (TOLT), Training of Master Trainers (TOMT) and training of polling staff in Sindh, Baluchistan, KPK and FATA. These trainings were delivered by a private sector consortium. APEX monitored these trainings both by collecting written feedback of the participants as well as through checklists filled by the monitors. I supervised monitoring task from all over the Sind Province (18 sampled Districts of Sindh). During this assignment, I managed and monitored 1118 workshops by deploying 120 Field Monitors at constituency level of 18 targeted districts of Sindh, selection of field staff, their training arrangements and overall leading person to complete this assignment with due course of time and given awards from APEX head office for efficiently completed task well in time.
Major Responsibilities:

Recruitment of field staff in 18 selected / targeted districts of Sindh (North, South and Karachi).
Work as a lead trainer for capacity development of field staff.
Keeping a close liaison with supervisor, and divisional coordinator.
Leading an internal project monitoring to ensure maximum quality of survey.
Attend staff meetings and training sessions.
Follow outlined policies and procedures for dealing with client /HH.
Carry out detailed analysis of cost-effectiveness of project and prepare a detailed plan for staff mobility, orientation etc.
Perform other appropriate tasks as assigned by head office.
Manage to compile M&E tools (Pre-& Post Assessment of Master/Lead Trainers, Master/Lead Trainers Recruitment Tool, Participants Perceptions Tool and M&E checklist for Master/Lead Trainers).
Responsible for managing field activities regarding the work plan of Trainings coordination with Field teams.
Preparing daily Spot Monitoring reports of trainings and share with higher management.

Assignment Name: Field Monitors and Reporters in Sindh
Major Responsibilities:


Responsible for managing field activities regarding work plan, PCAs distributions, coordination with Program Officers of UNICEF.
Responsible for preparing and maintaining financial disbursement ledger for monitoring and controlling of expenditures in line with the financial management procedures.
Preparing biweekly Monitoring reports for UNICEF 5 programs, Health, Nutrition, Child Protection, WASH and Education.
Preparing weekly Monitoring reports for UNICEF emergency (2012) programs in NORTH Sindh.
Special assignment to Monitor Polio campaign in Sindh and preparing 3rd party Monitoring reports for UNICEF

 
I was responsible for managing field activities regarding Monitoring and evaluation and Knowledge Management Strategy of Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects in 07 Flood Affected districts of Sindh (Ghotki, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Kambar Shadad Kot, Khairpur, Thatta and Hyderabad) Supervision of whole team regarding their Work plan and daily monitoring reports. My core responsibilities were listed below.

Major Responsibilities:


Oversee and manages all monitoring and evaluation activities of the project in the Province/s following the M&E and Knowledge Management Strategy, and as communicated during the orientation workshop.
Collect monthly work plans from all Field Monitors within the respective province and ensure that the work plans are implemented accordingly. Develop my own study plan based on the consolidated work plan shared by the field monitors.
Ensure to receive the required data/information from the field monitors both in hard and soft form – Make sure that clean, valid, and reliable data is provided by the field monitors.
Consolidate all data (Form 1 – 5 as well as other relevant data, e.g. Human Interest Stories, photographs) provided by the field monitors, and provide one single file in the database to the respective M&E officer.
Work closely with M&E officers in data analysis/ report writing and presenting the findings.
Build on job capacity of field monitors on the project, M&E and KM Strategy, tools, database and any other skills needed.
Assist with field Monitoring team and oversee all interventions of IP staff of WASH projects such as health surveys, hygiene promotion campaigns, PATS Approach, CLTS, Pre-Triggering, Triggering, post Triggering, SLTS in School, Hygiene Session in Community, Linkages between VSC’s and Entrepreneur; Follow up for Action Agree, Mobilization of IP’s work, soak pits, Community latrines, Demo Latrines, water filtration and solid waste management.

Assistant Manager Admin & Reporting
As an Assistant Manager Admin & Reporting I was responsible to handle projects specifically maintenance project of U-Fone. Moreover, my core responsibilities were as under
Major Responsibilities:


Maintaining Complete Record of U-Fone Project Managed Services.
Directly report all issues to the Project Manager and Regional Manager.
Maintaining and verifications of Field Survey reports (FSR’s) Preventive Maintenance (PM), Corrective Maintenance (CM) of Diesel Generator.
Maintaining and verifications of Field Survey reports (FSR’s) Preventive Maintenance (PM), Corrective Maintenance (CM) of AC.
Maintaining all Records related to Admin Department, HR Department and Finance Department.
Maintain logistic support, hiring of vehicles, vehicle fuelling for field teams who were moving to the U-Fone sites for the purpose of corrective maintenance and fuelling of generators.
Also Make Presentations Related to the Project.
Reporting issues and makes arrangement for resolution of them.
Controlling 05 Regional Centers (Islamabad, Chakwal, AJK, and Peshawar & Abbottabad) of the Project.
Also Looking Company’s Invoicing Software (North Region) 

Poverty Scorecard Survey (LOT N8) District Khushab
Short summary of Project:
 APEX Consulting Pakistan has mobilized and trained 27 field teams where each team consisted of 9 enumerators with experience in community development and social research, 27 forward campaigners, 27 supervisors, 36 editors and 3 tehsils managers and 1 district manager. Field teams used checklist, guidelines, and observations to collect information on score card. APEX Conducted small scale pre-test of the questionnaire, prepared field procedures for data collection and plans for data validation procedures. We collected data of 186,361 households on score card together with the Family Roster in Khushab, Noor Pur Thal and Quaidabad Tehsils of District Khushab which was assigned for this purpose.
 

Major Responsibilities:


Recruitment of field staff in 5 Union Councils of tehsil Noor Pur Thal of district Khushab.
Work as a master trainer for the capacity development of field staff.
Provide methodological guidance for data collection.
Collection of UC and Moza maps from revenue department for the smooth implementation of census.
Keeping a close liaison with supervisor and field teams.
Liaison with BISP officials, EDO CD, EDO Education, EDO Literacy and other district stakeholders.
Provide technical support to use GPS apparatus in training sessions and in field
Build the capacity of field staff on different structured survey formats.
Regular field visit to ensure quality and on job field training.
Maintaining project records and Bookkeeping.
Logistic management and office operation management.
Supervisory check / Cross Check on data editors regarding accuracy in poverty score card.

Major Responsibilities:



Teach F. Sc (I, II) Subject Statistics, Practical, Paper setting and Paper checking, as an extra duty I was also managing college Examination department, making effective time table, marking and compiling Collage results.
During the time duration as a lecturer, I was also responsible for Course Coordinator and Subject Supervisor
Arranged after school sessions to facilitate weak students.
Maintained order and discipline in classrooms of 20-25 students.
Set up student tutoring sessions and parental conferences.
Volunteered to work track and field events

I was appointed as Statistical Officer (In-charge) at the Federal Bureau of Statistics Field office Mianwali under the supervision of Regional office Sargodha. I had completed RNA’s projects and transferred to Regional Office Rawalpindi on need basis of FBS R/O Rawalpindi.
As a Statistical Officer (Rebasing of National Accounts, RNA Project) I was responsible to conduct different surveys and also administration responsibilities were also allocated to me as an extra responsibility. Total 8 Statistical Officers and more than 80 Statistical Assistants were appointed in FBS R/O Rawalpindi and I was responsible to manage all project activities as an Admin Officer and responsible to conduct trainings, Field work plan, technical and administrative support to my other 7 colleagues (SO’s) on their work. Moreover, my core responsibilities were as under.
 

Major Responsibilities:


Supervision of different studies of RNA projects.
Imparting training on mapping, listing of area, data collection, with the field Enumerators.
Checking / verification of listing of Urban and Rural areas as per statistical procedures and rules.
Collection and review of Primary and Secondary data, Qualitative and Quantitative Field data collection.
Data collection, monitoring, supervision of field teams during field data collection.
Maintaining all Project Record & administration as an extra duty assign by a Chief Statistical Officer (In charge).
Supervision and monitoring check on field staff regarding their employment.
Direct reporting to the Chief Statistical Officer (In-charge) regarding monitoring visits and preparing reports on field visits.
Responsible for preparing and maintaining financial disbursement ledger for field staff and controlling of expenditures in line with the financial management procedures.

Statistical Assistant (Bps-11)-(Contract Basis)
Major Responsibilities:

 

Listing of household units/establishments
Collection of data regarding various surveys under RNA Project i.e. Family Budget Survey, Whole Sale and Retail Trade Survey (WRT), Rent Survey and Small Household manufacturing industry (SHMI)
Feidl Visits for Household listing and after teh verification of field listing conduct Household / establishment surveys.
Data collection / face to face Interview 
Maintaining Files/Official Records, Editing and coding in the Head Office Islamabad.