Technical and operational head of CVE program in Pakistan. Managing multiple commissiined research projects in understanding the landscape of community based residence to violent extremism. In this role I am also responsible for managing research grants to Univeristy Facukties across various regions in Pakisstan. I am also ensure quality assurance of the research, training and handholding of young researchers, and convening research conferences. Presenting findings if the research to the policy elites is also part of my responsibility.

Epsilon is a media, and entertainment management and consulting firm specializing producing high end media content, providing consulting services to diverse clients (both public and private sector) and supports and leverages young and talented performers to produce and showcase their artistic talent at national and international level. As Programs Director at Epsilon I was responsible for:▪ Identifying new business opportunities, developing business plans, and negotiating business deals▪ Supervising proposal development team▪ Coordination with state authorities for getting various kinds of approvals, NoCs, and certifications▪ Managing pool of consultants ▪ Managing finance team▪ Key focal point for delivering on contracts

EVA-BHN was a DFID funded program for supporting citizens in raising voice and influencing policies for improved service delivery from health facilities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces. As a provincial lead for Advocacy and Accountability component I had the follow tasks to handle:▪ Lobbying with policy makers including civil bureaucracy and political leadership at provincial level for health sector reform towards including citizen demands in making decisions▪ Providing technical assistance to the health department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in developing policy briefs and technical concept notes▪ Assisted citizen forums at provincial and district level to strategize their policy asks and find appropriate channels for to communicate these asks to the forums making policy decisions. ▪ Engaging with media for making health as an agenda for journalists and media outlets ▪ Organizing key events where policy makers and citizen representatives could candidly discuss issues related to health service delivery from hospitals.

Azm-e-Paksitan program was the brand name of USAID-OTI funded project for supporting diverse actors in Pakistan for countering violent extremism and promoting peace and tolerance in Pakistan. As Deputy Chief of Party I led program and ops of the PERSI program in Punjab Province. In this position I had the following achievements: ▪ Led Program Development Officers to identify innovative and effective strategies for CVE interventions in the complex situation of South Punjab ▪ Managed implementation of an elaborate process of identification, development, award and implementation of grants. Managed activity development process, and supervised 80+ awards of grants. ▪ Developed effective working relationship with program's key stakeholders including government officials, community leaders and Civil Society Actors ▪ Despite challenging political security situations, and against many bureaucratic hurdles managed to launch and implement 80 plus grants in the districts of South Punjab. ▪ Effectively managed quick pace grants cycle as per an elaborate activity programming criteria. ▪ Leading team of 30+ persons; and has managed a grant funds of USD 7.8 million till date since inception of the prgoram. ▪ Directly supervising Security Coordinator; Operations Manager; Procurement Manager; and Admin Manager.

Under DFID funded Sub-national Governance Prgramme (SNG), the District Delivery Challenge Fund (DDCF) was a GBP 2.7 million fund designed to identify and scale new ways of delivering services, especially to marginalized people, based on the citizens' needs in select district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As a Challenge Fund (CF) Manager I was responsible for: ▪ Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with the Provincial Working Group (PWG) and providing advocacy on the purpose and outputs of the SNG CF amongst key stakeholders. Showing visible leadership at key SNG CF communications events▪ Identifying capacity needs of the grantee organizations and providing capacity building support in developing operational and programmatic systems for the effective implementation of the awards▪ Preparing grant contracts; amendments; notifications and clarifications as required.▪ Quality assurance of the grant interventions▪ Identifying and delivering grant funded projects▪ Actively working with the government counterparts and SNG team to incorporate their inputs to the project design;▪ Conducting due diligence and leading negotiations with potential grantee, reviewing and signing off grant application documentation. ▪ Monitoring of grant funded projects. This will include conducting regular district visits to observe project implementation

The Pakistan Enhanced Democratic Accountability and Civil Engagement was a Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) cross-sector project designed to bring together a wide variety of stakeholders including those responsible for governance, access to justice, and provision of security to ensure that Pakistani citizen rights and the democratic processes are strengthened at provincial and local levels. As Governance and Rule of Law Expert I • Developed Theory of Change for the programmatic interventions• Developed grants award manual • Wrote guidelines to identify, select and manage a portfolio of interventions through implementing partners • Devised Quality Management tools for the programme interventions• Designed programme M&E structure and Logframe• Lead and designed EDACE’s approach to delivering citizen engagement interventions and increased government responsiveness through state institutions capacity building at provincial and district level. • Identified, engaged and selected suitable implementing partners for citizen engagement and state institutions capacity building outputs across focus districts. • Supported selected partners to implement interventions to deliver sustainably increased citizen engagement in civic life and increased district -level responsiveness to communities. • Developed inception report, and project implementation plan• Designed and provided capacity building and technical assistance inputs to selected organisations • In collaboration with the Fund’s M&E Consultant, established a baseline for citizen engagement activities. • Contributed to regular updates to the contextual analysis processes. • Wrote and submitted high quality reports to the donors on interventions concepts, policies, progress and planning.

ROL Programme is a UNDP implemented initiative for addressing the law and order issues identified in the Post Conflict Need Assessment (PCNA). I as ADR Specialist have the following responsibilities:• Building relations with the partner civil society and public sector organizations for identifying opportunities for the peace building interventions• Developing work plans, tracking activities implementation, and M&E of the activities carried out by the implementing partners.• Developing Community Policing framework in Malakand Division and southern district of KPK• Developing blueprint for the FIR Automation Framework and Automated Complaint Management portal for the Police Department• Managing capacity building of the police, prosecution, and prisons departments for effective and efficient service delivery towards the marginalized members of the communities in Khyber Pkhtunkhwa• Lead the network of the Paralegals for spreading know how among communities about the human rights and especially rights of the women• Develop curricula and training manuls, and train the CSOs on the Alternative Dispute Resolutions Laws and techniques. • Coordinate with the partner organizations for developing work plans, progress reports, and monitoring of the activities• Devise communication strategy for internal and external relations• Developing M&E Framework, Indicative Matrices, plans, and reports.

Raabta Consultants specializes in research in Communicative Ecology and designing and implementing Two-Way Communication for Engagement Projects focusing on areas having experienced violent conflict or are prone to natural or manmade disasters. Raabta Consultants has implemented BHC, USIP, and CAFOD funded projects across Pakistan. Being Program Manager and Chief Executive I was responsible for:• Contribute to the development of Research Design, project proposals and budgets• Managing the Research Team for the implementation of the social research projects related to governance, media, and public perceptions. • Building relations with the partner civil society and public sector organizations• Donor Relationship and business development• Developing policies, manuals and systems for facilitation and smooth functioning of the projects• Devise communication strategy for internal and external relations• Performance monitoring of all the projects for course correction • Supervising Radio Production team, supervision of the radio content production and broadcasting, supervision of the Magazine Publication Team, and supervision of the production and publication of a Monthly trilingual Magazine • Managing HR and HRD• Supervision of the procurement staff• Financial management

GJTMAP was a UNDP funded project for the establishment and strengthening of community based alternative dispute resolution mechanism at the Union Council level for the redress of the gender based conflicts and violence. As a provincial head of the project I had the following responsibilities:• Develop productive working relationships with Government, Non-Governmental institutions and other project partners for strengthening the the Alternate Dispute Resolution through Musalihat Jirgas;• Devise and implement strategic communication for the attainment of project goals and objectives; • Collaborate with partners on identifying priority activities for support by the project in such areas as capacity building support and advocacy;• Undertake monitoring, evaluation and reporting on activities supported by the project, including activities undertaken by partners organizations, and implementing partners (district administration and Local Government and Rural Development Department), and undertake troubleshooting and suggest corrective action where necessary;• Based on results of planning and monitoring, make suggestions to the implementing partners and undertake arrangements for provision of technical assistance to implementing partners;• Conduct regular meetings with partners to discuss and document lessons learned.• Planning and implementation of the program activities at provincial, district and union council level.• Budgeting, Planning and Financial Administration.• Monitoring and Evaluation of the Project activities. • General administration and HRM

FSSP was a USAID/OTI funded project, under the Pakistan Transition Initiative, and is implemented by Creative Associates International Inc. FSSP was entrusted with the task to provide rapid response to the demands of the people belonging to the areas affected by the militancy related violence. Its core activity was to carry out projects of infrastructure rehabilitation and development so as to facilitate the confidence building among the communities and the government. I headed the project's operations at the agency level, and had the following responsibilities:• Community Mobilization for identification of grants of general interest and benefit.• Coordination with the Political Administration for preparation and implementation of grants.• Developing Grants Ideas and writing project proposals.• Implementation of grants involving Clean Drinking Water Supply, Sanitation, Roads, Flood Protection, Irrigation, Rehabilitation of Schools and Hospital, Youth Engagement, Conflict Mitigation through Media, and Strengthening the government offices. • Monitoring and supervision of the implementation of grants.• Managing Cash for Work grants in the conflict affected communities. • Procuring and distribution of non-food items among the conflict affected communities.• HRM, General Administration.

PPHI was a public sector development organization, dedicated to the rehabilitation and revitalization of the First Level Health Facilities all around the country. PPHI worked for the improvement of the physical infrastructure of FLHFs, community mobilization for health and hygiene awareness, systemic readjustment of the health institutions enabling them to become responsive to the needs of the community, and enhanced coordination between the preventive and curative initiatives of the health department at the gross root level. I headed the district level operations of the project. I was responsible for:• Planning of the primary healthcare activities in the basic health units.• Developing close liaison with district government’s line departments for the improved delivery of various primary healthcare services like vaccination, epidemic control etc.• Developing monitoring strategies and ensuring their methodical implementation.• Spearhead social mobilization campaigns and laying down detailed strategies for community support to the basic health units.• Planning and implementation of the Rehabilitation of the Primary Healthcare Infrastructure. • Procurement of medicines and equipments. • HRM, Finance ad General administration.

NCHD is public sector Development organization dedicated to the attainment of Millennium Development Goals in the area of Education, Primary Health, and Community Empowerment. I was head of the district level operations. I was responsible for:• Supervision of the five distinct programs: Capacity Development Program for the capacity building of the local government officers and the elected representatives; Voluntarism for Community Development; Universal Primary Education; National ORS campaign; and Mass Adult Literacy Campaign • Coordination with the main stakeholders i.e., line departments, political leadership, influential etc for the successful implementation of the above mentioned programs. • Planning and monitoring of the field operations.• HRM, General administration, Finance

From July 2003 until May 2005, I remained Probationer getting trainings at Civil Services Academy and Directorate of Tax Training and Research). From May 2005 until April 2006, I served as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax at Islamabad Zone. My responsibilities included the following: • Administration of tax administration of major non-company businesses in Islamabad. • Establishing of close coordination with key business community leaders and mobilizing them for payment of income tax• Management of HR• Preparation and submission of Various regular and need based reports• Coordination on behalf of Central Board of Revenue, with Auditor General of Pakistan office for the taxation of salary income