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Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

I manage several projects funded by multilateral organizations, including the USD 137 million World Bank-funded Financial Inclusion and Infrastructure Project, the USD 150 million Resilient and Accessible Microfinance Project, and the USD 70 million Women Inclusive Finance Program funded by the Asian Development Bank. These projects play a pivotal role in alleviating liquidity constraints in the microfinance sector to support MSME growth, mobilizing resources for financial literacy initiatives, and enhancing the payment infrastructure in Pakistan to promote financial inclusion.

Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Work closely with the team at the provincial and district level to design the M&E interventions and toolsDevelop professional relationships with IMU (EMA) and earned a trusted data advisor statusAssist in developing district rankings for performance assessmentCollaborate with district teams to improve our data intensive processes and tools as the subject matter expert on data analysis, M&E, and data processing for educationGather and analyze data from concerned teams at the provincial and district level and consolidate it for district rankingsDevelop and deploy M&E tools, methods, and databases for data collection and analysisSupervise, mentor and train field staff to ensure monitoring field visits capture data effectivelyLiaise and follow-up with TA delivery teams on programmatic and project aspectsFoster learning within the program through sharing lessons learnt and evaluation resultsDevelop concept notes for surveys, focus group discussions and researchDesign studies and surveys as required to inform the log frame and other planned activitiesIdentify teams for data collection and train them on surveys and interviewing skills tailored to the questionnairePrepare data analysis plans including questions, hypotheses, tabulation, data collection, data entry and data cleaningConsolidated disarrayed Excel sheets into a clean Stata data format for comprehensive analysis. Automate the reports, charts, tabulation, and data cleaning through Stata programmingConduct research on student cohort modelling, implemented the model, and trained IMU official on the Excel template to automate cohort modelling in Annual School Census report (ASC) 2017-18 and onwardAssist the Directorate of Education on developing new SNEs for hiring of new teachers Clean data, segment, and label data points, codify strings columns, remove redundant columns and rows, treat missing values within analysis, develop linkages between data-tables for across-the-board analysis

Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Use econometric methods to evaluate the impact of CPD, Induction, assessments, and Conditional GrantsAnalyzed socio-economic issues faced by students through Out-of-School-Children (OOSC) surveysUse Stata to automate data cleaning, management, data updates, and analysisUse education specific knowledge and insights to spot and scope scalable solutions from OOSCImplement a variety of statistical tests (regressions, t-test, Anova, chi-square, Cronbach alpha) on assessmentsDeveloped disaggregated targets for school enrolment campaign and budget forecastsTrain officials on data cleaning, processing, and filtering protocolsDevelop predictive model in Excel to forecast teacher salaries till 2023Draw random samples of Grade 2, 5, 8, TCS, TCK, and CPD assessmentsLed a qualitative research study to find reason for inaccuracy, non-completeness, and inconsistency in dataAct as s custodian of datasets, maintain data repositories, entertain ad-hoc data requests, avoid duplication of data, and provide consistent results to District Education Offices (DEO)Wrote concept notes on early childhood education, up-gradation of schools, Induction, and TVET

Lahore

Assist teachers in getting materials ready and setting up equipment for classRevise lesson material with students individually or in small groups during office hoursDocument student progress and liaise among 80 students and a teacherTrack student attendance and class schedulesAssist teachers with grading assignments and organizing mid-term examsMarked paper, entered marks in online portal, and calculated grades

Lahore

Summarized UNICEF's reports on Out-of-School-ChildrenShortlisted journals to publish research paperWrote executive summary of a research paper on mechanization of brick Kiln in LahoreSupporting administrative tasks as necessary in the day-to-day operation of officeTranslating publications, papers, web content and other materials from English to Urdu and vice-versaProviding support in organizing meetings and events and photo-taking

Pakistan Secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan

Wrote summaries of health initiatives in Pakistan by the World Bank, UNICEF, and WHOMaintain and update a proper computerized information of campaign dataTrained health staff on usage of Microsoft office for presentationsIdentify problems/inaccuracy in data files and inform the supervisor to enable timely corrections

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics

BSc. Economics

Undergraduate Cultural Exchange Program, Economics And Political Science