Shikhar Agarwal Email & Phone Number

India

Singapore

Fundraising Team- Building and maintaining relationships with Foundations and Institutional Funders- Applying for grants - Managing a team of fundraising volunteers- Supporting grant disbursement and grantee reporting People Service Team (HR)- Organizing digital social events and team relationship-building activities - Facilitating discussions and enabling co-creation in meetings- Maintaining 1-1 relationships with all members and supporting personal development journeys- Advising team leads on ways to improve morale and ownership.- Designing pathways for more fulfilling participation by members, partners and collaborators.

• Rebuilt project management and communication structures• Managed onboarding for digital and physical employees• Liaised with internal and external stakeholders• Conducted market research, budgeting, and financial forecasting• Facilitated workshops and managed team morale

Caernarfon, Wales, United Kingdom

Joined this initiative to redevelop a chapel into a rural innovation and wellbeing centre for Caernarfon. Supported with:- Recruiting volunteers and stakeholders- Managing grant activities- Writing and winning grant applications- Running social media marketing- Organising workshops- Conducting feasibility study- Local coalition building

India

• Preliminary actor mapping and desk research on support providers in the field of safety and holistic risk mitigation (physical, digital, wellbeing, legal, narrative/media, crisis response).• Scheduling, preparing for, and conducting interviews (initial screening + furtherscoping) with partners.• Inputting data and contributing analysis to support resource hub design.• Designing, scheduling, preparing for, and conducting interviews and facilitating workshops.• Researching local security risks to extend existing risk analysis through desk-based research and consultations.• Reporting on research outputs from consultations, desk-research of localised risk and YCM needs to inform the team's efforts in developing the localised holistic support framework.• Contribute to proposed resource hub design based on the research conducted.• Support in coordination of support providers.

Global

Took an idea for global mobilisation of community-led planetary governance from a research brief to a go-to-market strategy through:- Designing a structure, campaigns and roll-out strategy- Researching movements, strategies and policies- Surveying, mapping and onboarding global stakeholders- Prototyping mobilisation tactics across 4 countries- Launching a pilot in India

Founded and grew the Strategic Partnerships team supporting local climate groups around the world in building coalitions and effective partnerships. Work involved:- Grant writing and administration- Team recruitment, onboarding and integration- Campaign design and management- Research, content creation and workshop delivery- Budget management - 1-1 consulting with representatives from 24+ countries

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Worked on helping set-up the Amsterdam branch of the startup, primarily focused on engaging new leads and onboarding them onto the Choco platform.- Delivered an average of 3 leads per week, with a 25% conversion rate in a highly competitive market.- Set-up the back-end to optimize operational efficiency.- Communicated with 70+ vendors, with more than 50% call-backs.

Singapore

Responsible for collaborating with businesses to pool our resources, and affect positive change in our customers and employees lives - provision of cheap, healthy food nearby that saves time, energy, money, and helps maintain an active lifestyle.- Developed strategic relationships with 16+ partners, including sponsored events, office subscriptions and online deals.- Consistently overachieved monthly targets, helping grow the subscription rate by 30%- Created effective databases for outreach and research that optimised the contacting process and increased scope of reach, via adoption of a more humanistic and emotions driven approach.

Singapore

Mumbai Area, India

Reaching out to potential clients and pitching to them our product via calls, mails and meetings.Telling them about our international internships and the perks of associating with AIESEC, which are numerous.Negotiate the details and once the the client was satisfied, discuss legal details and get contracts signed.Thereon, matching the the clients needs via our the international EXPA portal, shortlisting potential candidates, contacting them and setting up interviews.Once the candidate is selected, arranging for them to have a comfortable stay in Mumbai, doing their visa and other paperwork, receiving and acquainting them to the city.

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Studies, 3.94

Activities and Societies: President (YNDUS - South Asian Society) Community Lead (I'dECO - Sustainability Society) Community Lead (YNC.

Exchange

Activities and Societies: - Taught Ballroom as part of DanceCo - Founded UCU ACT, the climate action club on campus - Won.

Bachelors Of Management Studies, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Was part of Social Service Club and multiple fests including Malhar (Overall Cultural - Literary Arts), Janfest.