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New Delhi, Dl, In

New Delhi, Delhi, India

- Drive the implementation of the Inclusive Financial Systems (IFS) India strategy, advancing financial inclusion.- Oversee grants, contracts, and initiatives to promote IFS goals in India and globally.- Identify risks, foster cross-learning among partners, engage with grantees, review deliverables, and ensure strategic alignment for achieving outcomes.- Contribute to the development of new projects in BC agent networks, digital merchant payments, productive credit, DFS usage, and financial services for women.- Support in impact assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing IFS initiatives.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Responsible for facilitating successful implementation of enterprise financing and credit risk guarantee fund under NRETP across all 13 states. Analyzing and bring forward implementation issues to the MoRD leadership and ensuring that project specific inputs and outputs are on track and corresponding to reasonable disbursement;• Working closely with senior leadership and senior MoRD staff on developing pragmatic simple implementation strategies for achieving annual plan outputs and outcomes as defined in the AAP;• Facilitate partnership by convening key WB strategic partners at the national level and ensure that shared strategies are implemented at the state level. Shall facilitate partnerships with service providers, buyers to strengthen enterprise financing initiatives. • Ensure that quality technical support and knowledge is provided to financial inclusion initiatives in design, systems development, and implementation. This entails review of relevant guidelines, operational manuals etc. and providing regular feedback to the implementation team;• Timely analyze and share the technical gaps of the client with WB task team members, and nurture client relationship by regularly meeting senior bureaucrats of related departments. • Help connect the SRLMs to the task team members for inputs/guidance as and when needed;• Support the SRLMs to prepare various manuals, guidelines and reports as necessary for the project implementation.

Guwahati, Assam, India

• Responsible for facilitating successful implementation of NRETP in the states by analyzing and bringing forward implementation issues from the ground to the knowledge of leadership and ensure that project specific inputs and outputs are on track;• Working closely with ASRLM & WBSRLM leadership and senior staff on developing pragmatic simple implementation strategies for achieving annual plan outputs and outcomes as defined in the AAP;• Ensure that quality technical support and knowledge is provided on both farm and non-farm sectors’ initiatives in design, systems development and implementation. This would entail review of relevant guidelines, operational manuals etc. and providing regular feedback to the implementation team;• Timely analyze and share the technical gaps in different thematic areas and requirements of the projects for successful and quality implementation;• Help connect the SRLMs to the task team members for inputs/guidance as and when needed;• Support the SRLMs to prepare various manuals, guidelines and reports as necessary for the project implementation;• Ensure coordinated approach through information, knowledge and learning exchange between both the projects.

Guwahati, India

• Provide coordination with strategic guidance and advisory to the project team to effectively implement a National CSR award winning project. • Program design, implementation and assessment. Data analysis and providing insights to fine tune the interventions; identifying and managing implementation partners; supervisory role to ensure timely implementation of the project;• Carrying out impact assessment, define impact assessment metric, theory of change for the project; advisory role in designing monitoring framework and indicators; triangulating it with regular field visits/surprise visits to check if the implementation process is going on as per plan and has the desired outcome being achieved, coupled with regular review meetings with all the implementing partners to provide feedback;• Networking with various stakeholders including non-profit organization, local financial service providers, government departments and any relevant organization where there is scope of developing synergy.

Lucknow

• Support the thematic leads and UPSRLM state anchors in strategy development, refinement & actual implementation. Review literature & undertake field visits to highlight gaps in implementation;• Assist in activities such as development of UPSRLM strategy plan, new proposals, community outreach material, and stakeholders’ information material development; • Coordinate with respective government departments in UP at state, district and block level as required;• Support in fostering linkages at field level with the local government departments;• Scouting village level best practice around quality institution building and dissemination among team members;• Support in the promotion and capacity development of FPOs and Producer Groups to strengthen the value chain of the identified commodity.• Undertaking extensive field visits to ensure quality implementation of the Mission’s activities;• Support in developing new training modules/manuals and improvising the old one, and imparting trainings to the field staffs, community cadre, SHGs and federations;• Assist in identification and preparation of villages, for CRP mobilization rounds, and accompanying them during the rounds;• Monitor field team, for working with PRPs, in developing community cadres like bookkeepers, Community Mobilizers, Krishi Sakhis, Pashu Sakhis, internal CRPs, internal PRPs, etc.• Build Partnership with other organizations and integrate interventions associated with sanitation, health and nutrition, to the SHGs and federations.

Gonda Area, India

• Extensively networked, with Govt. departments, district administration grass root level NGOs, Steel Authority of India Limited, and The Country Program Manager, GEF UNDP SGP CEE Delhi and various other stakeholders. • Developed network of local level institutions to ensure micro implementation of project activities. • Formation and capacity building, training, development and strengthening of village institutions which also manages post installation services. • Developed strategic village implementation plans for dissemination of solar home lighting systems and smokeless cook stoves, village sewing centers and bio gas plants.• Program planning by involving various stakeholders’ interests based on the regional needs. • Implemented effectively all the project interventions at ground level by troubleshooting various obstacles to ensure sustainability• Established women self help groups (SHGs) under National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) • Conducted stakeholders meet workshops• Developed various communication materials in paper, audio visual like short movies and other electronic media • Designed the layout of Bio Diversity Haat in COP 11 – (Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity), Hyderabad, India and Green Haat of MoEFCC and CEE annual exhibition on Dilli Haat. • Networked with secretaries and joint secretaries of MoEFCC during internships• Maintained the international database of GEF UNDP SGP on intranet and brought it to 5th position on database management in 1 month time, earlier it was way behind• Networked with more than 100 grass root NGOs and guided the compliance of GEF UNDP SGP projects.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Post Graduate Diploma In Forestry Mangement, Environmental Management

Activities and Societies: Member and active participant in cultural club and its events.

Higher Secondary, Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Bio Chemistry