I am an accomplished professional credited with 14+ years’ experience developing and delivering highly valued projects and programs with INGOs, NGOs, and government agencies in diverse areas including boarder areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Proven success developing and executing natural resource management, agriculture, and livelihoods assessment tools. Expertise in market promotion, strengthening and promotion of farming development services, formation and capacitating farmer clusters, liaison development with government, non-government and private sector organization. Adept at documenting and sharing lessons for maximising impact of the interventions being carried out for planning. Skilled in offering capacity building and training for agriculture, natural resource management, or livelihood interventions. Proficient in creating training modules along with information education and communication materials, assessing training need, and submitting training report.
My key skills include Program Development & Implementation | Project Management & Reporting | Budget Management | Technical Guidance | Agriculture/Livelihood Promotion Capacities | Social Mobilisation | Capacity Building | Risk Assessment & Mitigation | Cost Reduction | Team Building & Leadership | Policies & Procedures Compliance | Innovation & Outreach Program
My professional background and great industrial exposure coupled with an excellent track record makes me an ideal candidate for executive roles. As such I would welcome a discussion regarding opportunities with your organization that fit my background.
Achieved desired results by leading the identification and registration of beneficiaries for food for work and training program. Offered robust assistance to field staff in managing and executing various field tasks. Held full accountability for recording progress, challenges, achievements, and lessons for project implementation tasks.
Played an integral role in executing food for assets activities under the recovery response.
Identified needs in various sectors of agriculture, livestock, skills development, social capital generation via close collaboration with high performing team members.
Skilfully recognised and registered beneficiary households for livelihood program to assure timely execution of livelihood activities at field level while coordinating with staff members. Directed field visits to deliver technical guidance and oversee project interventions in the targeted areas. Assumed and maintained full responsibility for recording all progress challenges for future implementation. Led monthly, quarterly and yearly planning for program development and implementation. Designed and maintained work plans, periodic reports, feedbacks of meetings/field visits, and accurate records related to the project’s development. Aided field staff in the selection and supervision of farmers for trainings.
Built synergies with the line department to analyse training needs of the target beneficiaries and produce IEC material and success stories of the project periodically.
Strengthened long term working relations with government, private sector counterparts, program manager, agriculture extension, communities, and staff members to assure smooth and effective implementation.
Created materials as well as presented training to target communities to improve their skills and capacities.
Succeeded in avoiding duplication and building synergies while coordinating with stakeholders
Identified and resolved issues in the program implementation phase as well as shared progress reports while participating in progress review meetings.
Determined issues at community level in liaison with stakeholders. Developed and managed help desk for local farming communities. Presented first-rate assistance to LR assistants in delivering latest agri. techniques to farming communities of the area. Rendered keen eye for details to uphold a mechanism for the issuance of inputs to the farmers. Helped the management in building networks with stakeholders, including farmers, suppliers, and traders.
Guaranteed seamless implementation of activities via close collaboration with communities, program manager, Agriculture Research Institute Tarnab, and staff and in line with organisation polices.
Achieved bottom line results by interacting with CBO\'s, regional stakeholders, and TVET management.
Presented first-rate assistance in developing training farms and financial plans for the established training farms in FR Peshawar. Spearheaded the procurement of machinery, materials, and agricultural inputs.
Developed and retained relations with regional stakeholders, CBO\'s and TVET management in various villages.
Significantly raised visibility of training farms to farmers and stakeholders by recognising sites for small and robust water harvesting sites in the project area.
Identified and assessed location and developed training/demonstration farms while coordinating with programme partners. Administered training farms in the production, marketing and financial management processes. Developed and retained contact with regional stakeholders, CBOs, and TVET management in villages. Offered information on important issues and developments to the programme management.
Spearheaded the procurement and supervision of machinery, materials and agricultural inputs.
Created and retained periodical reports regarding the financial and productive status of training farms.
Raised visibility of the training farms to farmers and stakeholders.
Set a benchmark of excellence by promoting organic practice and reducing usage of chemicals in agriculture.
Steered surveys and data acquisition process while cooperating with farming communities, educational, business and labour sectors to facilitate project partners.
Assured conversion from subsistence agriculture to sustainable agriculture.
Built synergies with the PEI staff in the region to offer effective extension services to the Potato growers.
Significantly raised the number of Potato growers by developing relations with all stakeholders in the region.
Rendered keen eye for details to lead selection and nomination of candidates for capacity building trainings.
Assumed and maintained full accountability for creating training schedule, plans, and curriculum (modules) and producing PC-1’s for various agriculture activities.
Achieved desired results by coordinating with training imparting institutes, agencies, and departments.
Achieved project targets while coordinating with green sector (line agencies).
Delivered strategic direction and technical advice to District Director of BADP-II DIU Hangu on project activities, undertaken by the lice agencies for the purpose of monitoring.
Created, compiled, and submitted monthly, quarterly and yearly progress reports and annual work plan to the Project Liaison Unit Peshawar.
Presented robust support to the field staff in the cultivation, propagation, and management of medicinal plants.
Examined and collected high valued medicinal plants for cultivation, preservation, and photochemical analysis.
Facilitated high performing field staff on everyday affairs of the farm management, such as crop cultivation, fertilization, harvesting, and disease prevention.
Guided farmers on crop cultivation, fertilization, harvesting, disease prevention, and farm management.
Created and presented research reports by conducting research and assessing agricultural data.