• Lead research, brainstorming, and proposal development to identify and explore new growth initiatives.• Prepare budgets and assist in drafting SOWs for new activities, ensuring strategic and financial alignment with project goals.• Strategically coordinate IP&T project activities to ensure smooth execution and alignment with investment and trade facilitation goals.• Collaborate with stakeholders and beneficiaries to tailor project strategies to their needs, driving engagement and mutual alignment.• Serve as the main point of contact for project stakeholders, fostering a collaborative environment that supports project success.• Oversee external consultants, ensuring their contributions are aligned with project directives.• Organize and manage essential documentation, including MoUs and internal memos, for easy access and compliance.• Conduct onboarding sessions for beneficiaries and consultants, facilitating seamless project integration.• Support the mission of enhancing investment and trade activities, contributing to economic growth and development in Pakistan.

• Organized consultative workshops in Karachi and Lahore with 76 trade union leaders, to compile insights into legal and policy obstacles faced by unions to provide federal leaders with guidelines on improving effective collective bargaining practices. • Constructed curricula for media sensitivity training workshops in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, and Karachi for 380 media professionals and government health professionals to formulate the National HIV and AIDS Communication and Advocacy Policy 2023. • Researched and compiled data from a library of over 150 primary and secondary sources to write Pakistan’s first UN-mandated Gender Digital Divide Report with development partners (National Commission on the Status of Women, UNFPA, and UNDP).

• Strategized internal marketing campaigns with executives from various industries for organizations such as PTA, Park View City, Jazz, and Alibaba Group by conducting market research and analysis.• Created a supply chain performance review mechanism to disseminate key insights to relevant stakeholders by calculating lead times, managing costs in budgetary constraints, identifying relevant manufacturers and transportation partners, leading to timely completion of deliverables across 9 projects.

• Conducted media analysis to track media language and public perception using 8 key indicators, which were then utilized in academic review and trend analysis of evolving media landscape and freedom of press.• Drafted 14 summaries to track discourse trajectories on key political, economic, and human rights issues which have since been distributed to and used by 6 clients in civil society and diplomatic circles. • Planned and implemented digital and social media marketing strategies by coordinating content creation, online campaigns, and digital communication to increase the organization’s outreach by 16%, reaching over 150,000 additional readers.

During the time of my internship, I assisted the UNV in organizing information management operations, and collaborated with a wide range of volunteers across Pakistan. I was also responsible for the coordination of disseminating information to relevant officials and groups of volunteers according to the thematic segmentation of various issues that UNV works on.

Responsible for communication across multiple portfolios, collecting and disseminating information, developing and managing portfolio executives.