Strategic Leadership: Provide clear and decisive strategic guidance to the Mandala Agrifresh team, steering collective efforts towards the overarching mission of reducing post-harvest food loss and optimizing the efficiency of the agriculture supply chain.Technology Proficiency: Identify and assess suitable low-cost post-harvest management technologies and facilitate the integration of these technologies to empower farmers in reaching new and distant markets.Strategic Planning: Guide the team to formulate and implement strategies to embed low-cost packaging technologies into the fresh produce supply chain in order to minimizing food loss throughout the supply chain.SOP Expertise: Provide essential support to the technical team in crafting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the efficient management of cold storage for fresh fruits and vegetables. Guide the team in tailoring SOPs to ensure safe and efficient aggregation, transportation, storage, distribution, and retailing. Market System Clarity: Enhance the team's understanding of the market system for fresh fruits and vegetables. Offer insights and clarity that enable the team to navigate market dynamics effectively, contributing to informed decision-making and strategic planning.

• Identify potential opportunities offered by private sector buyers in end market(s); • Design and implement interventions that leverage the interconnections between farmers and rice mills, feed companies, and aggregators to strengthen their commercial networks. • Proactively engage a network of private actors (including SMEs) and other stakeholders such as financial institutions, insurance companies, government agencies, business membership organizations, and business development service providers to work towards cohesive sectoral growth. • Analyze and enable relationships among actors that translate into shared benefits to incentivize private and public investment in the agriculture sector in Nepal. • Supervise and provide strategic direction to KISAN II business and market systems team to implement interventions and activities. • Contribute high-level strategy towards achievement of project objectives and targets.

• Develop and update sector strategy to support the overall development of maize and vegetable sub-sectors.• Design and implement Market Systems Development (MSD) interventions in maize and vegetable sub-sectors.• Identify market actors and develop partnership with private stakeholders to implement project interventions and activities.• Worked closely with private sector firms and build their capacity to rollout firm-led services that benefit producers and support market development. • Develop and manage strategies that supplement the growth of KISAN II partners.• Assess the current business models, interventions and activities implemented by KISAN II, and generate learnings and recommendations for improvement. • Support management with overall strategy development to meet project targets and deliverables.• Develop exit strategy for KISAN II ensuring scale and sustainability of the activities. • Lead research activities and prepared reports/case studies, and provide editorial support to the programme team as and when required.• Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (MEL) team to ensure that the impact of all project interventions and activities are efficiently captured and reported.

• Co-facilitated the implementation of Market Systems Development (MSD) interventions in the vegetable sector under Sahaj-Nepal Agricultural Market Development Programme (NAMDP) implemented by Swisscontact. • Designed market interventions, and develop partnership with private stakeholders to implement designed interventions related to the vegetable sector.• Contributed in sector analysis of vegetable and Crop Protection Input (CPI) sectors, and preparation of sector strategy.• Undertook Monitoring and Results Measurement (MRM) duties to ensure that the impact of the interventions are efficiently captured and reported.

• Conducted tamarind value chain analysis in Jharkhand, India.• Edited the value chain analysis report of potato, goat and backyard poultry in Jharkhand, India.

• Prepared a study report on the status of agro-vets in sampled districts being specific to the constraints, potentials and the opportunities that lie within the agro-vet market system.• Generated secondary data, and consolidate and analyse the primary and secondary data.• Presented the finding in a half day workshop to relevant stakeholders.

• Contributed in setting the strategic vision for the vegetable sub-sector.• Supported the process of the programme’s agriculture portfolio development through effective research and analysis, mainly of the vegetable sub-sector.• Developed effective partnerships with private stakeholders to maximise the prospects for successful delivery of sub-sector interventions related to the vegetable and dairy sub-sectors.• Worked closely with market players to support the implementation of assigned intervention activities related to the vegetable and dairy sub-sectors.• Worked with the M&E team to conduct results measurement activities related to assigned interventions and partnership agreements.• Prepared reports/case studies/proposals related to assigned interventions in the vegetable and dairy sub-sectors, and provide editorial support to the agriculture team.

As a Programme Officer, I conduct research, write proposals and edit articles related to policy level trade issues, both national and regional. Additionally, I also prepare and edit news articles for SAWTEE’s monthly e-newsletter “Trade, Climate Change and Development Monitor”; and provide editorial support on SAWTEE’s flagship quarterly magazine “Trade Insight”.

Assisted the Professor with instructional responsibilities and provided academic support in teaching undergraduate Calculus courses.I also conducted one-on-one drop-in help sessions and graded problem sets assigned to the class.

I served as a member of the youth advisory committee for the film festival “The Children in the Shadows”, and performed the following responsibilities:- reported regularly to the project director;- reviewed and recommended prospective films;- strategically selected venues across the city and prepared them for screening;- organized meetings with local community members and school leaders to educate them regarding the film festival; and- actively promoted the film festival.