Ravi Mahato

Social development professional with a background in Mechanical Engineering and specialized training in Development Management. Experienced in partnerships, programme coordination, reporting, documentation and stakeholder engagement across community development and social impact initiatives. Skilled in using data, field insights and sustainability perspectives to support effective programme implementation and impact-driven interventions.

Passionate about developing practical, inclusive and sustainable solutions that create long-term value for communities, institutions and the environment.

Assistant Manager at Tata Steel Foundation (2023-09 – Present)

• Managed partnerships and donor coordination for education initiative, working with corporate and institutional partners to support programme implementation, reporting, and review processes.
• Supported proposal development, concept notes, and donor documents for education interventions focused on out-of-school children, bridge courses, functional literacy, and community-based education models.
• Coordinated programme reporting and MIS updates by collecting, reviewing, and presenting key data related to enrolment, mainstreaming, attendance, learning progress and partner-supported activities.
• Facilitated field coordination for donor visits, reviews, and documentation, ensuring timely communication with field teams and proper presentation of programme progress and impact.
• Contributed to education programme strengthening through research, documentation, process improvement, stakeholder coordination and development of communication material highlighting programme outcomes and success stories.

Associate at Swaniti Initiative (2023-01 – 2023-09)

Worked as an Associate in the Alipurduar District of West Bengal to set up a Grievance Redressal Mechanism at community level and Augmentation of public service delivery gap between the government and Tea garden dependents.

• Mediate and liaison with multiple government departments and officials for paperwork, communication, and coordination during and after the implementation of recommendations.
• Training and Capacity Building for COs, BDOs and other government officials in Districts.
• Act as a catalyst for the departments of the state government or between non-government agencies.
• Create insight papers, reports, or presentations to communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Conduct extensive field surveys, stakeholder interviews/consultations, beneficiary interviews, and meetings with government and non-government organizations officials.

Block Program Manager at Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (2021-04 – 2022-12)

An MBA Graduate worked as a Block Program Manager in Thandla Block, Madhya Pradesh. Looked after the overall implementation of the Startup Village Entrepreneurship Program (SVEP).

• Planning, Implementing and Monitoring the Startup Village Entrepreneurship Program (sub-scheme of NRLM) with PIA as a Block Project Manager & Creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem at Jhabua District-MP.
• Achieved 112 % Target of the SVEP project in FY 2020-2021 & Incubated 186 micro-entrepreneurs.
• Convergence with the line departments to avail government schemes for entrepreneurship development.
• Created a Local Community Cadre, and trained entrepreneurs in business management and soft skills.
• Monitor the project fund & ensure a proper book of accounts.
• Coordinated other rural development schemes with District's & State's higher officials, Jhabua.
• Capacity building and training of the beneficiaries on Entrepreneurship.

PGDEM in Post Graduate Diploma in Environment Management – Environmental Planning & Coordination Organisation, Government of Madhya Pradesh (2023-08 – 2024-09)

PGDM in Post Graduate in Development Management – Development Management Institute (2019-06 – 2021-05)

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering – College of Engineering Bhubaneswar (2015-07 – 2019-04)