Coordinating the activities connected to the psycho-social support programme of the Office National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR).

Recent Accomplishments: Translation of Women’s Economic Empowerment: A Literature Review (ICES Paper) by Ranmini VithanagamaTranslation of New Buddhist Extremism and the Challenges to Ethno-Religious Coexistence in Sri Lanka (Sept. 2016)Translation of Conflict, Displacement and Post-War Recovery: A Community Profile of Passaiyoor East in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, a working paper series of International Centre for Ethnic Studies (1 January to 30th June, 2016).Media Monitoring on Parliamentary Election, Sri Lanka Press Institute (13 July to 27 August, 2015).Project Proposal Writing, Creating an online source in Tamil for tertiary level students (June/July 2014). An Independent Political & Economic Analysis for Civil Society Organizations (Dec. 2013 to Dec. 2014). Job description (Political and Economic Analysis):  conducting research, both independently and collaboratively; interviewing high-ranking officials and experts; analyzing policies and their implications; presentation of research findings and writing reports; interpreting surveys and election results; predicting economic, social and political trends; recommendation for courses of action; identifying new areas of research.Job description (Media Monitoring):  selecting research methods appropriate to pre-defined client criteria; reading press releases/broadcast coverage and assessing them; analysing campaign performance and research results; summarising and finalising data at the end of projects; entering data into client databases; making presentations and writing reports; attending information sessions; networking with media houses.

Accomplishments (Editing):Edited over 200 scholarly articles (Please refer to the annexe 1);Improved readability with the creation of clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent copy;Produced copies free of errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax;Improved the layout, appearance, and content of features;Introduced new style to eliminate design-fatigue;Introduced “TAM” and “TAB” encryption for the use of Tamil fonts;Raised the profile of the magazine;Undertook a whole lot of pre-press work.Accomplishments (Translation): Revision of translation of voluminous literature;Translation of Policy Planning and Implementation, module for the Commonwealth Diploma Programme in Youth Development, a publication of the Open University of Sri Lanka; Translation of sheer volumes of articles on the Peace Process of Aceh, Indonesia;Translation of the modules for TOT Training Programme sponsored by UNICEF, VSO, CENT and the Department of Probation and Child Care Services. Job description (Editing): generating ideas for features with writers and commissioning articles from them;managing writing staff and freelance feature writers;overseeing artwork, design, layout, and photographs for the magazine;proofreading all pages for correcting spelling, punctuation, grammar, terminology, and semantics before going to press;improving formatting, style, and accuracy of text with attention to detail; adding headlines, graphs, tables, figures, headers and footers, and pull-quotes;acting as the publication's last line of defence.Job description (Translation):converting concepts in the source language to equivalent concepts in the target language;checking original texts to ensure that translations retain the content, meaning, and tone of the original material; proofreading, editing, and revising translated materials.

Accomplishments Started up Advanced Level classes at Mutwal Hindu College in 2000;  Teaching Economics for Advanced Level classes;  Prepared students for their undergraduate/professional courses;  Provided student counselling guidance service;  Introduced intensive reading and creative writing; Attended seminars, educational conferences and workshops etc.;

 Covered duties in office management and supervision; Dealt with voluminous official correspondence;  Acted as the virtual Project Coordinator for the Psychosocial Support Programme at St.John’s Mahavidyalayam;  Engaged in project planning, monitoring, and evaluation; Drafted project proposals, and progress and final evaluation reports;  Supported the NGOs’ advocacy campaign on protection of children’s rights.

Accomplishments:  Contributed to the sociological study of Batticaloa district; Assisted research consultant in developing and designing research studies; Engaged in field work and economic surveys; Conducted literature reviews; Collected and analyzed data; Prepared questionnaire for interviews and summarized them; Drafted the final reports and submitted for the Board review; Prepared research proposals for submission to funding agencies.

Accomplishments:  Established contacts and sources for information gathering and fact-checking; Interviewed people in a wide range of circumstances; Wrote copy for publication on a tight deadline; Worked long hours and unpredictable schedule; Followed current events, always looking for a story opportunity; Offered story ideas to editors and other writing staff; Attended news conferences.