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• Co-founder of the first girls’ school in a rural and conservative village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. • Managed budget and construction of a school building to accommodate more than 200 children.• Integrated eLearning content to improve current curriculum and for future distant learning alternatives. • Establish an annual budget through donor cultivation, community engagement, grant writing, strategic partnerships, and fundraising campaigns and events.• Recruit, mentor and train, a team of volunteers within the community, leveraging their professional expertise to in-turn mentor the mothers and women of the community.

• Created a strong network of close relationships with schools, school districts and organizational partners to increase our membership and expand opportunities for our artisans. • Ensure the organization's sustainability by converting our in-person training modules to hybrid and online instruction so our trainers can feel empowered while working with artisans and community members. • Provide long-term and strategic day-to-day operational leadership of the organization under the direction of, and in collaboration with, the founder/CEO and Board of Directors. • Hire and assess trainee progress and provide feedback to trainees regarding areas of improvement and development.• Work closely with artisans and trainers to ensure clear communication, and artisans feel supported and empowered. • Design, implement, and evaluate new and existing programming to ensure alignment with organizational values and goals.

● Contributed to USAID’s Education Resilience Activity Grant by conducting field-based research on inclusive education in flood-affected areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan in Pakistan.● Researched local organizations aimed at enhancing Pakistan’s education ecosystem to ensure inclusive, sustained access to quality education for marginalized children, including those with disabilities, girls, and rural children.● Provided expertise and guidance on local organizations advocating for the safety and support of marginalized populations, such as girls and children with disabilities, within schools and the broader community, fostering greater classroom inclusion.● Identified and collaborated with existing community organizations to establish new networks, facilitating improved collaboration between schools and local communities, promoting gender equality, social inclusion, and sustained education for girls and children with disabilities.

Work closely with the LitWorld and Global G.L.O.W. teams to revise, improve, and create new curricula for the HerStory Campaign by incorporating feedback from mentors and team members, and integrating stronger advocacy components so that girls can take an active role in shaping the future of their lives.

Provide critical administrative support to the President while making the New York office an effective, efficient and pleasant place for all team members to work. Support the President’s workflow and priorities by managing her schedule, arranging her travel, and researching and producing materials for internal and external meetings. • Lead and curate weekly All-Team calls, including providing input on topics, scheduling guests, communicating with staff and facilitating calls.• Work with Board meeting preparation team to help arrange logistics, prepare materials and support senior managers.

Worked directly with CEO to support girls’ education in Pakistan’s most remote communities. Identified new sources of funding and provided CEO with support for awareness-raising efforts and helped to raise over half of our annual budget in fundraising events and through Crowdrise campaigns. Organized quarterly volunteer meetings and managed volunteers during fundraising events.• Successfully conducted field visits to remote project sites to consult with Village Education Committees, Mother Support Groups, teachers and field staff.• Supported and worked alongside field staff, teachers, students, and community members in collecting accurate data to report on activities and impact to donors.• Worked closely with field staff to identify spotlight students who could be strong advocates for girls’ education.• Successfully created presentations, reports, informational brochures and other promotional materials to share with donors and Iqra Fund supporters.• Improved efficiency of data collection by working with Pakistan team to determine accurate outcomes and realistic targets.• Developed a more efficient system for evaluating project proposals in a timely and orderly fashion.• Implemented and executed creative marketing and social media strategies, tracked grant and donor communications

• Perform weekly outreach to TSC alumni to provide personal/professional support, linkage to needed/desired services and assistance obtaining continued education/training • Document, in real time, all alumni contact, activities and outcomes into Salesforce case management system• Further market alumni services to the 800+ TSC alumni community by developing monthly alumni e-newsletter articles. • Managing TSC Alumni Web Pages and Social Network Pages. Initiating, recommending, and implementing enhancements to Alumni Community website/social network pages with registrations, event and information updates and reporting.• Develop new program initiatives and strategies designed to maximizing alumni engagement• Involved in alumni training by assisting job developer with career club activities• Work with TSC Management in planning and scheduling Graduate Exit meetings.• Organization of Npower Mentorship Program• Work with development team to organize and implement graduation ceremonies and other events and identify potential candidates for distinction awards.

Operational disaster response: Provided onsite assistance to communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines Collaborated with local government and other organizations on communication and logistical support • Successfully managed challenging logistics for several shipments of aid and deployment of volunteers.• Enabled strategic collaboration, research, donor outreach and community activation by creating organizational partnerships and international affiliations.

• Covered briefings, workshops, prepared and edited reports. • Conducted background research on different issues to help advance Pakistan's interest at the United Nations.• Worked extensively in the sixth committee by attending workshops such as Law of the Sea and UNCITRAL. Worked in the Security Council covering West African issues and assisted Second Secretary in conducting briefings and documenting important meetings on Pakistan’s presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan’s position in West Africa. Worked in the Second Committee covering Sustainable Development Goals and on the International Conference on Population and Development where I took notes of key issues in writing a finalized report. Helped the Mission in preparation and organization of the General Assembly by assisting at receptions and events, organization of guest lists, and hosting high-level guests at receptions held my the Pakistan Mission and the General Assembly.

• Worked with press, special events, finance, and archive department. • Managed data and contacts on Sales Force; contacted donors, researched new potential donors, and helped monitor ticket sales.• Worked intensively with staff to prepare for “The Big Bang” fundraising by coordinating with artists, managing seating charts, compilation of final guest list, assembling of gift bags and organization of the venue in the Hamptons.