Experienced program director with a proven track record in managing projects related to sustainable development, food security, climate-smart agriculture, rural development, child protection, and women\'s empowerment. Strong leadership, communication, and coordination skills. Demonstrated success in project management, monitoring, and evaluation. Proactive in identifying opportunities and challenges. Effective in securing international projects and managing them with high standards. Design, maintain, and finalize partners and vendor agreements, project proposals, budget documents, project M & E plan, stakeholder engagement plan, communication plan, risk assessment, financial forecast, and grants management. Effectively manage the project on sustainable agriculture, farmers’ business program, climate-smart school, farmers’ field school, child protection, working opportunities for women, and women in agriculture. Admirably leading team with the example, managing program with high standard and meeting project deadline.  Function in close collaboration with the international client organization and local vendors to examine opportunities for future interventions. Excellent skills in coordination with government departments and other development sector stakeholders for proper engagement in project success. Oversee overall planning, development, and administration of the program. Produce and deliver client reports as per the agreed deadlines to the donor. Render keen eye for details to streamline and supervise finance and administration tasks of the program. 
Responsibilities:
Program Management:

Design, finalize, and manage partners and vendor agreements.
Develop project proposals, budget documents, project M & E plan, stakeholder engagement plan, communication plan, risk assessment, financial forecast, and grants management.
Successfully manage diverse projects, including sustainable agriculture, farmers’ business programs, climate-smart schools, child protection initiatives, and women in agriculture.
Lead and motivate teams to meet project deadlines and maintain high standards.
Collaborate with international client organizations and local vendors to explore future intervention opportunities.
Efficiently manage government department and development sector partnerships.
Oversee project planning, development, and administration.
Produce and deliver client reports in accordance with donor requirements.
Maintain precise financial and administrative oversight.
Utilize SPSS software for project tracking and reporting.
Evaluate policies, operations, team management, and resource allocation.
Analyze and supervise field activities to achieve program objectives.
Foster networking and coordination with various government institutions and NGOs.
Manage projects in sustainable development, food security, and climate-smart agriculture.
Coordinate Climate Smart Agriculture activities.
Promote technologies and practices to enhance smallholder farmers\' resilience and capacity building.
Monitor project progress, evaluate performance, and conduct learning assessments.

Administrations & Finance:

Lead and manage a diverse team to ensure project success.
Review team performance and implement improvement plans.
Promptly recruit highly skilled field teams.
Review and manage local partners to meet organization and donor standards.
Arrange emergency stockpile for field requirements.
Build synergies with local departments, government officials, and stakeholders.
Develop accurate financial forecasts and budgets.
Oversee and lead 80 staff members as program director.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning:

Educate and lead staff on software packages and reporting structures.
Oversee and conduct comprehensive project monitoring and provide actionable recommendations.
Develop case studies based on program implementation.
Prepare high-level reports for donors and clients.
Facilitate coordination between MEAL and the Operations department.

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA):
·         Created and put into practice climate-smart agriculture solutions to help farmers adapt to and lessen the effects of climate change.
·         Developed new crop types and farming practices to help farmers become more adaptable.
·         Advocated for conservation agriculture, effective water management techniques, and agroforestry.
·         Conducted climate-smart agriculture capacity-building seminars, enabling farmers to make defensible decisions based on weather patterns and climate projections.
·         Worked with meteorological divisions to provide services for farmers that provide climatic information and early warning systems.
·         Successfully carried out CSA initiatives, leading to better resiliency to climate shocks, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, and increased agricultural production.
Environmental Standards and Achievements:
·         Throughout all programme operations, strictly enforced compliance with environmental standards and legislation.
·         Agricultural project environmental impact analyses were created and put into practice.
·         Encouraged sustainable land management techniques, such as replanting and erosion prevention.
·         Encouraged agrobiodiversity and supported the protection of biodiversity through preserving natural environments.
·         Regularly updated stakeholders on accomplishments and progress while monitoring and evaluating the program\'s environmental performance.
·         Adopted sustainable agriculture practices, which successfully resulted in a major reduction in the usage of chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
·         Put policies into place to lessen water use and encourage water conservation in agriculture.
·         Worked with neighbourhood groups and other stakeholders to promote environmental preservation and sustainable farming
Child Protection & Women Empowerment:

Establish a Child Protection Committee to safeguard child rights and promote child education.
Implement a Women Empowerment program and business module to enhance women\'s livelihoods.
Create employment opportunities for rural women and improve their entrepreneurial skills.
Enforce a \"do no harm\" policy at the organizational and field levels.
Develop IEC and training materials for staff, women beneficiaries, and community leaders.
Focus on child protection, sustainable development education, youth empowerment, and women\'s rights.
Promote women\'s skills development.

Achievements:

Lead and manage 80 staff members, fostering a strong team dynamic.
Establish robust linkages with internal and external stakeholders.
Successfully train 15,100 male and 10,000 female household members.
Formed 2 farmer producer organizations for sustainable farming practices.
Efficiently manage three projects focused on regenerative agriculture, sustainable livelihoods, Farmer Business management, and women empowerment.
Developed 75 women self-help groups for local business promotion.
Improved farmers\' profitability by 10-12% annually while reducing input costs by 10-15%.
Achieved 100% procurement success, ensuring project success from farm to ginners.
Skills:


Proficiency in technical specifications and contract adjustments.
Strong grantee/contractor performance assessment.
Effective examination of contract deliverables and bills.
Promotion of Climate Smart Agriculture technologies and practices.
Facilitation of public and private sector investment in research and innovation systems.
Multilingual communication with government and third-country colleagues.
Establishment and maintenance of key government relationships.
Proficiency in MS Office tools for report creation, program and project management, and data analysis.
Strong organizational, team-leading, and project/program management abilities.

Primarily responsibility to develop, engage in and lead high quality research projects that are aligned with the Pakistan research focus areas i.e rural economy, poverty reduction, food security and mall nutrition, rural development, women empowerment, sustainable agriculture, term of trade, SME, value chain development, entrepreneurship and rural infrastructure development.  Development of working paper on local industries promotion, women entrepreneurship skills, linkages with large markets, traders. Developed Monitoring strategy for all infrastructure and development project in all over Pakistan in supervision of M/O PD&R.   Being Senior Research Fellows have expected to engage in high quality research on projects, to achieve success in attracting research funding and to produce high quality reports. Design, maintain, and finalize partners and vendor agreement, project proposal, budget documents, project M & E plan and a working plan of the projects for large projects as per agreed policy. Overall verified social protection and poverty reduction projects with various public and private sector organisations across country. Function in close collaboration with international client organization and local vendors to examine opportunities for future interventions on SDGs. Oversee overall planning, development and administration private sector engagement in Pakistan.
programme administration and research development
„  Developed Gap analysis report for project team, and follow-up plan on the activities improvement as per M&E reports.
„  Research Studies on challenges faced by SME sector and way forward of SME revival in Pakistan.
„  Policy research briefs on different aspects of Rural Economy submitted to Ministry of Planning and Development and Special Initiatives. Support in Policy related issue of Pakistan rural economy
„  The conduct desk research review of secondary data and Prepare policy documents on rural economy.
„  Collection of data from various departments on current rural economy issues.
„  Conducted field-based research on major issue or challenges of rural areas of Pakistan.
„  Measure the successful the project through smart tools of project management and reporting.
„  Ensured capacity building of staff members and partners on various issues while retaining excellent knowledge of food security and livelihood in rural communities.
„  Capacity building development plan for Stakeholder, Stakeholder analysis and mapping.
„  Led and managed 10 staff members
„  Developed Poverty score card the central government and mapping lagging areas in Pakistan.
Project Monitoring and Evaluation
„  Prepared the Monthly basis Monitoring plan for current project of M/O PD&R in all provinces of Pakistan.
„  Monitoring progress of the project updated in PMES system software and generates report for future further improvements and gap analysis in the projects.
„  Developed Gap analysis report for project team, and follow-up plan on the activities improvement as per M&E reports.
„  Developed Result based monitoring system for rural economy projects funded government of Pakistan.
„  Compared the Target Plan with actual plan and report shortcoming in the project through Effective monitoring and evaluation.
„  Efficiently supervised and compared baseline surveys with the final evaluation survey.
Partnership & Linkages
„  Discussed partner’s budget and agreements with partners while promoting SMEs and Social entrepreneurship in rural areas for agriculture production and value addition.
„  Developed stakeholder mapping strategy and engagement plan as per organisation as per need of program.
„  Developed training programs, manuals, and deliveries for stakeholder related project and program.
„  Ensured capacity building for Local partners on various issues to while retaining excellent knowledge of food security and livelihood in rural communities.
„  100 Start-up for entrepreneurships in various locations of Pakistan and financial support for increase financial viability of entrepreneur in Pakistan.
„  Developed 83 Value added commodities of agriculture of various crops for promotion SME and local trades in Pakistan
Social protection and Enterprise development
„  Mapping and finalised the list of poverty lagging districts of Pakistan.
„  Developed the successful rural development program case studies and success factor of programs.
„  Conducted consultative workshops on the social protection issues and poverty reduction strategy for rural and semi-urban areas.
„  Conducted policy dialogue on enterprise development in for rural and semi-urban areas of Pakistan.
„  Conducted workshop on enabling environment of MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise) in Pakistan.
„  Ensured capacity building for Local partners on Social protection issues to while retaining excellent knowledge on poverty reduction and income generation in rural communities.
„  Consultative discussion with stakeholders on green energy traders and enterprises in Pakistan.
„  100 Start-up for entrepreneurships in various locations of Pakistan and financial support for increase financial viability of entrepreneur in Pakistan.
„  Developed 9 Agro Economic zone in Various locations of Pakistan  through CPEC to promote sustainable  agriculture of various crops for promotion SME and local trades in Pakistan
Other program activities to be done
„  Coordination between inter ministries and Provincial departments and Coordination with UN and other International organization in Pakistan.
„  Workshop on opportunities and emerging issues of rural sector in Pakistan, Workshop on Role of women in rural development.
„  Seminar on Successful Rural development Model in Pakistan, Seminar on Rural Transformation in Pakistan.
„  Provincial stake holder workshops in on Rural decent work with the Collaboration of ILO.
„  Coordination UN and INGO funding and donor agencies in Pakistan.
„  Collection of data from various departments on current rural economy issues.
„  Developed policy and recommendation on Green energy through consultative discussion with various stakeholders for Pakistan less developed areas.
Achievements:
ü  100 Entrepreneurship unites successfully established in various location of Pakistan.
ü  Completed feasibility studies on 83 agriculture value addition in various crops of Pakistan
ü  Conduct 8 Seminars on various topics in 4 provinces related with rural economy conducted by CRE.
ü  Evaluate and developed successful rural development of Pakistan.
ü  Organised 2 Capacity Building and cluster meetings in Sindh and Baluchistan on Rural Agri. Value Chain.
ü  Developed policy research on successful rural development model in Pakistan.
ü  Developed list of poverty lagging direct and ranking according poverty score.
ü  Formed two international cooperation and linkages with international countries.
ü  Managed 4 Provincial stake holder workshops in on rural decent work with the Collaboration of ILO.
ü  Conducted 2 Research Studies on Transformation of Rural development in Pakistan with
ü  Developed 6 Policy research briefs on different aspects of Rural Economy
ü  Organised 2 Conferences on Successful Rural development and Role of Women in Rural development in Islamabad with all relevant stakeholders of Public and private sector.

Select partners and finalize budgets while coordinating with the partners to achieve desired results. Direct a team of highly skilled field members in Cottonconnect and Plan International Pakistan and timely accomplish all assigned business objectives through strict conformance to business policies, rules, and regulations. Design, maintain, and finalize partners and vendor agreement, project proposal, case studies, success stories, LFA and a working plan of the projects for sustainable livelihood and sustainable agriculture program as per the organization agreed on policy. Function in close collaboration with international donor organization and brands to examine funds for future interventions. Oversee overall planning, development and administration as well as private sector analysis and mapping processes of the country prograDesign, maintain, and finalize project agreement, project proposal, case studies, leading and managing team, success stories, LFA and a working plan of the projects for sustainable livelihood and sustainable agriculture program as per the organization vision and goals. Proper implementation of the Climate smart agriculture, mitigation and reduced carbon footing at local level. Function in close collaboration with international donor organization and brands to examine funds for future interventions in sustainable agriculture. Oversee overall planning, development and administration as well as private sector analysis and mapping resources for the country program in Pakistan. Produce and deliver donor reports as per the agreed deadlines. Render keen eye for details to streamline and supervise finance and administration tasks of the country program. Examine and evaluate policies and operations and presented leadership to professional, official, and program staff. Generate and deliver complex information to BCI on project information, famers list, and RiR reports. Analyse and supervise field activities as per the agreed program objectives. Task in close collaboration with government the institution at ministry food security & research, provincial/federal level, central cotton committee, local government, social welfare/provincial agriculture department, Pakistan agriculture research council.
Program Management
„  Identified, analysed, and tracked opportunities and challenges in the implementation of the program in the field while following anti-bribery and corruption policies.
„  Succeeded in winning three projects within two years from different donor organizations by executing effective plans and delivering international brands project in Pakistan.
„  Delivered strategic direction and guidelines to team members on child labour and protection and educated Partners staff on BCSS and CottonConnect training modules.
„  Successfully managed local partners for proper implementation of the project at field level.
„  Developed project proposal for upcoming call for proposal as per donor requirements.
Administrations & Finance
„  Efficiently directed country program in agreed budget for an annual basis, designed office/partners budget as per given targets of field implementation, and presented financial report of the country program at UK office.
„  Hiring and training of newly recruited staff members on project management.
„  Managed 120 staff members, including project coordinator, Finance Officer, admin officer, Training expert and DRR expert, Monitoring officer and procurement officers
„  Regular basis need assessment of staff capacity building and arranged the training on Gaps identified.
Training & Capacity Building
„  Organized ToT for partner’s staff and lead farmers on BCSSS, sustainable crop, and supply chain management.
„  Delivered strategic direction, training, and guidelines to partner staff on water stewardship, biodiversity, better cotton standard assurance, and enhanced livelihood program.
„   Successfully completed three training of trainer module program for partner staff.
„  Educated trained the community on the climate smart agriculture and reduced the carbon footing level at community level and enhanced the awareness in the community on carbon footing level.
„  Educated, trained, and led high performing staff members on decent work standards to prepare CAP as BSCC.
Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting
„  Educated and spearheaded staff on BCI monitoring standards and reporting structure while supervising program and project as per the BCI standards.
„  Best skills in assessment like baseline, midterm evaluation and final evaluation of the project.
„  Conducted baseline survey, analysis and compare with final evaluation survey.
„  Obtained BCI License for farmers producer organisation for meet credibility and  compliance requirement
„  Set a benchmark of excellence by overseeing and conducting second party check of PU as per BCI requirement and presenting CAP to partners in a timely manner.
„  Conducted data validation of project data through third party to see the actual project impacts on community.
„  Collected and analysed the baseline and end line data to see the project impacts.
Partnership & Linkages
„  Discussed partner’s budget and agreements with partners while promoting SMEs and Social entrepreneurship in rural areas for agriculture production and value addition.
„  Conducted SWOT analysis and IP engrossment before selection of Local partner for program.
„  Developed training programs, manuals, and deliveries for local partner staff via close collaboration with partners on the field implementation program objectives.
„  Ensured capacity building of local partners on various issues while retaining excellent knowledge of food security and livelihood in rural communities.
„  Developed and managed stakeholder engagement plan for rural economy of Pakistan.
Supply Chain Management
„  Identified and resolved all supply chain issues while overseeing process mapping of supply chain.
„  Managed traceability and tracking requirement of sustainable cotton program for effective procurement.
„  Directed ginners for project standards and importance of BCI supply chain in liaison with farmers.
„  Developed and managed sustainable cotton supply chain.
Achievement:
ü  Leading and managing three implementing partners with 20 core team members.
ü  Successfully obtained funding on three project proposals from different donors.
ü  Trained 47000 smallholder framers on sustainable crop management in Sindh and Punjab.
ü  Developed 200 child rights committee in community and schools.
ü  Delivered program framers business program 12600 male and female house hold in Punjab.
ü  Trained 12000 Women on Sustainable lives program and women skills promotion.
ü  Developed 75 women self-help group for business promotion at community level.
ü  Provided 4500 Kitchen gardening facility to rural Households communities.
ü  20600 small farmers trained on BCI program.
ü  Livestock training provided 7500 rural Household.
ü  Provided certified seed to 2000 farmers.m in Pakistan. Produce and deliver donor reports as per the agreed deadlines. Render keen eye for details to streamline and supervise finance and administration tasks of the country program. Examine and evaluate policies and operations and presented leadership to professional, official, and program staff. Generate and deliver complex information to BCI on project information, famers list, and RiR reports. Analyze and supervise field activities as per the agreed program objectives. Function in close collaboration with government the institution at ministry food security & research, provincial/federal level, central cotton committee, local government, social welfare/provincial agriculture department, Pakistan agriculture research council, and commercialized & microfinance banks.
Program Management
·          Identified, analyzed, and tracked opportunities and challenges in the implementation of the program in the field while following anti-bribery and corruption policies.
·          Succeeded in winning four projects within two years from different donor organizations by executing effective plans and delivering international brands project in Pakistan.
·          Delivered strategic direction and guidelines to team members on child labor and protection and educated Partners staff on BCSS and CottonConnect training modules.
Administrations & Finance
·          Efficiently directed country program in agreed budget for an annual basis, designed office/partners budget as per given targets of field implementation, and presented financial report of the country program to the UK office.
·          Built synergies with local department, government official, and stakeholders to produce transaction reports and finalize the budget with partners and negotiations on all project budgets.
Training & Capacity Building
·          Organized ToT for partner’s staff and lead farmers on BCSSS, sustainable crop, and supply chain management.
·          Delivered strategic direction, training, and guidelines to partner staff on water stewardship, biodiversity, better cotton standard assurance, and enhanced livelihood program.
·          Obtained BCI License for prodder units and completed three training of trainer module program for partner staff.
·          Educated, trained, and led high performing staff members on decent work standards to prepare CAP as BSCC.
Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting
·          Educated and spearheaded staff on BCI monitoring standards and reporting structure while supervising program and project as per the BCI standards.
·          Set a benchmark of excellence by overseeing and conducting second party check of PU as per BCI requirement and presenting CAP to partners in a timely manner.
Partnership & Linkages
·          Discussed partner’s budget and agreements with partners while promoting SMEs and Social entrepreneurship in rural areas for agriculture production and value addition.
·          Developed training programs, manuals, and deliveries for partner staff via close collaboration with partners on the field implementation program objectives.
·          Ensured capacity building of staff members and partners on various issues while retaining excellent knowledge of food security and livelihood in rural communities.
·          Efficiently supervised and compared baseline surveys with the final evaluation survey.
Supply Chain Management
·          Identified and resolved all supply chain issues while overseeing process mapping of supply chain as per the need.
·          Directed ginners for project standards and importance of BCI supply chain in liaison with farmers

Led the development, administration, and execution of all sector projects of flood affected the population of lower Sindh as a Team Leader and Project Manager. Created, managed, and executed flood response program in Southern Sindh while offering training to staff members on enterprise development and value chain development. Assumed and maintained full accountability for completing Baseline the survey, identification, and selection of beneficiaries, in Badin. Led the development and implementation of child-centered /friendly awareness materials and campaigns. Actively contributed in scheduling, revising in monthly reviews and planning workshops of partners to prepare monitoring and evaluation plans for the implementation of the activities. Supervised and delivered project through compliance with monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning expectations. Supported and spearheaded human resources in creating annual targets and presenting feedback on their performances. Coordinated with the management to conduct emergency market management analysis after disaster areas
·          Planned, supervised, and accomplished child protection, WASH, food security, NFI, shelters, and in-emergency intervention project of UNICEF according to strict deadlines while complying with budget.
·          Successfully supervised short intervention of cash program of WFP with 5000 HH and promoted agriculture commodities through effective market linkages with farmers.
·          Generated and submitted weekly situation and project reports to donor and country office while completing two mega distributions of Agri inputs items of FAO.
·          Oversaw recovery, response, and rehabilitation activities in the disaster-prone areas of direct Badin while coordinating with local and international stakeholders.
·          Steered the UN Cluster of Food Security in an emergency in southern Sindh and District Badin.