Simran Singh Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia

• Responsible for ensuring the excellence, financial viability and impact of CARE Canada’s global program portfolio (a 55-person team) and the humanitarian response capacity of CARE Canada, through oversight and.
• Responsible for the line management of CARE’s presence in Cuba and management of the Country Director for CARE Cuba. Responsible for the CARE Canada hosted Rapid Response Team, a deployable humanitarian that supports.

• Responsible for day-to-day management of CARE Canada program portfolio (45 people & 50M program) ensuring compliance with programmatic and financial objectives, ensuring consistently high program quality and measurable.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Led on government relationship and policy engagement with Global Affairs Canada.
• Provided significant guidance and advice to CEO and VPs on strategic positioning, government relationships and policy. Briefed senior management on critical issues related to international development and humanitarian.
• Managed and provided oversight and guidance to Senior Gender; Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability & Learning; and Policy and Influence Advisors.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Led on Gender in Emergencies work (GiE). Member of Global Gender in Emergencies Team and lead on policy and gender budgeting initiatives. With fellow CARE gender advisers, innovated, piloted and test new gender.
• Led development of high-quality concept papers and proposals in collaboration with Country Offices and Program Team for both unsolicited proposals and competitive bids, including submission to key donors in.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed CARE Canada’s Global Affairs Canada (GAC) humanitarian funding and UN Programs (worth approximately $25-30M per year) to ensure program quality, successful implementation and impact of CARE’s humanitarian.
• Developed concept notes, proposals and oversaw the implementation and financial management of emergency projects. I led the development of over 100 proposals and under my leadership, we increased our portfolio by over.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Led on the West Bank and Gaza file which includes developing and identifying projects in security sector reform and providing input into briefing notes and presentations for Senior management on the future of Canadian.
• Member of the Iraq team, which included: developing, identifying and managing projects on sexual and gender-based violence; producing and providing input into briefing notes, speeches, and high-level messaging on.

Manila

• Led on the Protection Portfolio which included: monitoring and reporting on the Protection Cluster; working with UNFPA & UNHCR to review, modify and finalize their project proposals; reviewing other UN project.
• Supported the Deputy Team Lead on Programming issues, which included: negotiating reporting requirements with partners and supporting DFID HQ on the MOU processes.

Addis, Ethiopia

• DFID secondee to UNHCR tasked with establishing, developing and improving reporting systems within UNHCR Ethiopia.
• The focal point on multi-year funding provided by DFID, which included reporting internally, and externally on the status of DFID funding (midterm report), identifying and highlighting potential issues and providing.

Ottawa, Ontario

Nairobi

• Provided input and or drafted a variety of information products such as situation reports, e-grams, oral questions and briefing notes.
• Led on the overall results portion of the Humanitarian response for both Somalia and Kenya. Designed and implemented a real-time results reporting matrix for DFID partners.
• Advised DFID and other departments on appropriate and accurate humanitarian information to include in submissions, replies to Parliamentary Questions, speeches, Ministerial Briefs, and letters from the public.

Islamabad, Pakistan

• Produced weekly situation reports providing analysis on the current situation, trends and gaps in the humanitarian response. The situation reports were read by multiple Government departments in the UK, including Prime.
• Advised DFID and other departments on appropriate and accurate humanitarian information to include in submissions, replies to Parliamentary Questions, speeches, Ministerial Briefs, and letters from the public.
• Represented DFID at meetings with Government of Pakistan officials, NGOs and other key stakeholders

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed multiple portfolios on the Pakistan Program: women’s economic empowerment and governance projects in Pakistan (April 2012 to February 2013), Health (Polio & health systems strengthening) and Women’s economic.
• Responsible for the day-to-day project management of the portfolio which included managing budgets, contracts, monitoring projects, reviewing proposals and developing projects. Responsible for developing and providing.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History & Political Science

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Gender And Development