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Jharkhand, India

As a Team Member implementing the Rural Transformation program focusing on Advancing Sustainable Agriculture and Livelihood in Jharkhand through knowledge dissemination and community engagement to empower small and marginal farmers.● Conducting need assessment and understanding the challenges in achieving improved agriculture crop yield and adaption of improved practices.● Networks and Partnership - Building up partnership with Government Institution (Knowledge Partners) like State Agriculture University, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, State Agriculture University or Grassroot partners - leverage expertise & services.● Develop "Locally customized and situationally" responsive intervention for improvement in agriculture crop yield and management practices.● Implement the program in alignment with annual operating plans (AOPs).● Organize phygital programmes to address the challenges / queries of the target groups.● Support in conducting various surveys for specific intervention.

Giridih, Jharkhand, India

As a Program Manager implemented the project on community Based Malnutrition Management program, Sustainable Agriculture and Livelihood in Giridih District of Jharkhand and leads a multidisciplinary team of experts from the field of nutrition, agriculture, rural development and data analysts.● Program Management - As a team leader facilitating the overall program planning, implementation and monitoring of the project activities and providing supportive supervision to the project team.● State and district level lobby and advocacy on food and nutrition security-focused interventions. Liaising with the government department and CSOs for accomplishing project activities. ● Provide strategic oversight to the Program operations in the designated location and be responsible for achieving program deliverable and leads a multidisciplinary team of experts from the field of Nutrition, Agriculture and WASH etc.● Team management for ensuring capacity building, productivity and effectiveness through timely communication and feedback.● Organize various training programs for farmers & partner organizations and Trained development practitioners from various national-level organizations on sustainable Agriculture, sustainable Integrated Farming System, Linking Agriculture, Natural Resources towards Nutrition Security (LANN) - PLA, Nutrition Sensitive Micro Planning. ● Conducted and documented result-based research to support project implementation, execution and budget analysis.● Develop and designing of survey for monitoring and evaluation through digital survey tools like KOBO Toolbox, Google form, AKVO Flow.● Representing the organization at various platforms.

Giridih, Jharkhand, India

As an Agriculture expert facilitated and implemented sustainable agriculture program in the remote locations of Giridih, Jharkhand and Provided technical support to the project team and cross-team on improve POP and management of sustainable agriculture, Climate adaptation measures to increase farm productivity and production diversity.● Facilitating the overall program planning, implementation and monitoring of the project activities and providing supportive supervision to the project team.● Provide technical support to the BRLPS Team on the execution of Nutrition sensitive Integrated gaming system concept in the field as well as provide training to the state & district team on NSIFS PLA.● Master trainer in the organization and trained various development practitioner from state, National level organization and farmers on Nutrition-Sensitive Integrated farming system and Nutrition sensitive Mico planning tool kit.● Successfully implemented Nutrition sensitive integrated farming with 1000 malnourished children's families. Enhancing food diversity and build up a community-based food basket model.● Preparing preliminary weather forecast with agro advisory and disseminate the information among 1000 farmers.● Successfully completed the Research project - "Prevalence of Agro technique in tribal community and its impact on their economic development"

Giridih, Jharkhand, India

As Project Coordinator facilitated and implemented Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture project in Bihar and Provide technical support to BRLPS team to rollout the Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Approach in Purnea under "SWABHIMAN" Program in collaboration with UNICEF & BRLPS.● As a team lead facilitated overall program planning, monitoring, implementation and planning of the project and regular handholding of the project team.● Provide technical support to the BRLPS blocks team on execution of Participatory Learning and Action module on Nutrition-Sensitive Integrated Farming System and demonstration of the integrated model under SWABHIMAN program.● Trained District & Block Level Resource persons of BRLPS on PLA module of “Nutrition-Sensitive Integrated Farming System”.● Successfully Implemented a Nutrition-Sensitive Integrated farming system with 200 farmers in Purnea District of Bihar. Setting up different nutrition-based model with farmers and enhance food diversity.

Deoghar, India

As a project coordinator facilitated & implemented a sustainable agriculture and livelihood program in the Deoghar District of Jharkhand to improve livelihood of 1500 small and marginal farmers. Role & Responsibilities - Leading & facilitating the project team on execution of the program as well as project management, reporting and documentation etc.

Post Graduate Program, Development Management

PGPDM programme aims to enable development sector professionals to contextualise and apply management principles to the social sector.

Integrated M.Sc, Agriculture & Rural Development