Preksha Golchha Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, WC, ZA

Cape Town, South Africa

• Team leader
• national social protection strategy for Iraq, UNICEF
• IDPOOR expansion study, GIZ
• SRSP chapter in NSPS, Jordan
• Social protection policy framework, Oman
• Social protection specialist, ADB's support for developing national SP strategy in PNG

Cape Town

Biratnagar, Nepal

• Restructured the organization of the education department, including workforce roles and responsibility reallocation for efficient pedagogical delivery and management.
• Designed and implemented performance management, monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Achieved 96% improvement in stakeholder satisfaction through a comprehensive needs assessment and improved strategic and operational management.
• Lead and managed the Heads of Department to encourage, support and challenge them to raise the already high academic standards to achieve 99% distinction at annual national examinations.
• Engaged extensively with the education ministry of Nepal to convince them and successfully adopted a local government school with 300 children - a first initiative of its kind in Nepal.
• Initiated curriculum sharing, training of their academic and administrative staff and sharing of financial and management system.

Biratnagar, Nepal

• Interpreted financial information, predicted and planned future cash flows, and change to advise the board.
• Attained break-even by June 2013 from a steady 6-year negative balance sheet and continued a steady profit generation trend thereafter through cost reduction analyses and action.
• Reduced monthly credit burden by 40% through reallocation of the credit portfolio to minimize cost and financial risk.
• Achieved 68% increase in fee collections within six months and designed and enforced alternative mechanisms to meet operational and capital investment requirements.
• Reduced (35%) and reallocated human resources to increase efficiency and reduce cost burden by 28%.

• Consultant and Project Manager for a background study for the adoption of government schools by private schools as a part of a “quality education for all” initiative for the Ministry of Education and Sports, Nepal.
• Consultant and Project Manager for a situational analysis of government schools in 3 cities in Morang district for the Ministry of Education and Sports, Nepal.
• Consultant and Project Manager for developing financial and budgeting proposals for adoption of three government schools for the Ministry of Education and Sports, Nepal.

Biratnagar, Nepal

• Set up and led the installation of a new rolling mill with a view to expand the company's production from wires and sheets to additional construction materials.
• Strategically planned and developed an efficient process design to buffer against economic instability of the local market (hedging for foreign exchange fluctuations, and cumulative raw material purchase planning.
• Identified, formulated and implemented differentiated growth strategies through long-term contractual client agreements and confirmed minimum annual sales.
• Lead the company's existing business system transformation process by introduction of new management and reporting systems and new performance measurements across all departments.
• Controlled and managed finances, including remarkable improvement in banking relationships, credit portfolio management, operational and capital investments.
• Negotiated and signed the first agreement with a private bank for ATMs inside factory premises to provide daily-wage workers with bank accounts, credit facilities and easy access to their funds.

Bath, United Kingdom

M.Sc, Management, Distinction

B.Sc(Hons), Economics; International Development

Undergraduate Thesis: “Education as a Risk to Young People: Perspectives from Youth Suicide in India,” evaluated the role of educational.