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Ontario, Canada

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Lead proposal development for complex and strategic opportunities, including capture strategy, management of proposal teams, calendars, and deadlines; strategy development with technical staff; partner identification and negotiations; recruiting; writing; production; and after-action reviews.• Identify and shares public funding opportunities with relevant Technical Units and Country/Regional Leads.• Advise Program and Policy & Advocacy Teams and Country Teams on strategic approaches for funding opportunities, guiding a robust and evidence driven Bid/No Bid process• Support Business Development and Fundraising team in partnership with Program and Policy & Advocacy team to offer pitches to prospective partners to secure the most competitive consortia possible.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Successfully developed GBP 8.5 million, 4-year project with SDC on local governance and climate change for water and waste management. • Successfully developed GBP 4.5 million, 5-year project with Sida for urban WASH. • Successfully led multi-year corporate partnerships with Unilever, CocaCola, HSBC, Kimberly-Clark, H&M and other local private sector raising over GBP 2.5 million over the last 3 years.• Lead in developing the WaterAid Bangladesh’s next Country Programme Strategy for the next 5 years.• Lead in development of the country programme’s private sector engagement strategy• Track potential funding opportunities and collect donor and opportunity related information in advance for preparation and making bid/no bid decision. • Lead in the preparation of concept notes and project proposals for both competitive and unsolicited opportunities for USAID, FCDO, BGF, GAC, SDC and other multilateral organisations• Register new opportunity, follow up approval and update grants data in Restricted Income System (RIS) as maintained by WaterAid globally.• Maintain important grants related documents such as proposal, contract document, approval evidence etc. in RIS as well as in paper.• Lead preparation of narrative donor reports and follow up with programme and finance team for managing submission within deadline.• Support in implementing and managing response programme of WaterAid Bangladesh in line with the approved plan and budget, including closely monitor progress of activities in relation to providing compliance guidance

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Lead in designing and implementing all knowledge products for Flood Resilience Program under Zurich Alliance in collaboration with UK knowledge team.• Lead in implementing DRR project in the Rohingya camps focusing on disseminating awareness through innovative technological platform.• Content manager for creating the new Bangladesh portal for flood resilience under Zurich Alliance.• Perform leadership roles in managing short-term projects on DRR in Humanitarian Response• Managing partners and fields staff for implementing all field level activities.• Support in the implementation of Climate Resilient Agriculture projects focusing on resilient agriculture such as Sack gardening, aquageophonics and others.• Support in operationalizing meteorological and agricultural information and advisory services through weather information boards, agromet advisory services and Krishi Call Centers.• Involved in design of the new phase of the flagship project of Sandbar Cropping, focusing on nutrition for landless farmers through creating a cooperative solution for commerce.• Implement the new phase of the Flood Resilience Management Tool and develop relevant strategy.

Dhaka

• Assess market system problems, opportunities, scope of innovation and systemic change issues around Practical Action’s change ambition of agriculture, market development, agriculture extension, WASH, Energy and Disaster Risk Reduction• Lead in developing all knowledge material for Humanitarian projects.• Lead in implementing market system and livelihood project empowering women's non-farm enterprises to benefit from markets as well as upgrading technologies for rural entrepreneurs.• Facilitated training on Participatory Market Systems Development (PMSD) for development professionals designed to introduce an inclusive, functional and sustainable market system approach developed and improved in the last decade by Practical Action’s teams in Latin America, Africa and South Asia.• Support in implementing projects under IOM and UNICEF focusing on WASH and Energy activities in the Rohingyacamps.• Developed actions for proposal and bid planning including teaming, bid strategy, development of win-themes, contribution to technical design, drafting management and other sections of the proposal in advance of the solicitation.• Involved in the designing of WASH activities, especially FSM for the Rohingya crisis along with the lead in all documentation and reporting for our work there.• Lead in implementing WASH activities for IOM project at Leda makeshift settlement for old Rohingya camp.• Involved in the design and implementation of climate resilient agricultural and energy technologies.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsibilities included holistic data analysis using various statistical software like STATA to comprehensively clean and merge data (1,500 sample size) for a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) conducted in Vietnam.• Assisted in developing and managing the baseline report for Employability and Financial capability of the RCT.• Developed the Monitoring & Evaluation toolkit and framework for the country offices.• Worked on finalization of the administrator and data management handbooks for the Employability Skills Assessment Tool.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Implementing strategies and advocating relevant policies for ICT, Media and other agriculture sectors under Katalyst portfolio to benefit pro poor farmers• Advising private and public sector actors (such as DAE, DoF, DLS, Banglalink, LalTeer, Dhaka University, and others) on effective business strategies that could also lead to inclusive growth• Designed strategies and interventions of agriculture extension activities with special focus on systemic changes.• Managed co-facilitators (team of 25 staff) in implementing all groundwork and data collection in the field offices.• Designed questionnaires for various baseline and interim studies to measure the impact of interventions.• Involved in extensive data analysis of the impact measurement of all interventions.• Developed a gamut of M&E related documents (e.g. concept notes, impact logics, intervention plan, etc.).• Maintained compliance with DCED standards for all M&E documents and successfully passed a DCED audit.• Prepared and presented sector budgets, business plans and periodic progress reports.• Extensively worked with government officials and ministries; Facilitated in providing training on “Sustainable Delivery of Public-Private Partnership in Agriculture Service” to government extension officials from three departments.• Created requests for proposals, terms of reference and contracts associated with different interventions.

•Worked on a content management platform to combine, create and manage tools with a premium network of publishers and freelance creators to provide content directly to brands for content marketing.•Created and managed user stories using project management software JIRA, to maintain an agile framework.•Provided smooth coordination and effective communication between the Dhaka and New York team to ensure all deadlines were met.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Global Development Economics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics