Lead — Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) at WWF-INDIA (2023-07 – Present)
Provide strategic leadership to strengthen program performance, transforming raw, qualitative field data into structured, auditable tracking frameworks for institutional and corporate stakeholders.
- M&E Framework Architecture: Design and deploy comprehensive field-level M&E systems and standardized metrics to transition traditional narrative data into clear, data-heavy KPI dashboards for executive review.
- Data Integrity & Audit Readiness: Establish rigid field validation and monitoring protocols across multiple project sites, securing absolute transparency and eliminating capital leakage to ensure quality data for statutory corporate audits.
- Performance Oversight: Generate data-driven structural insights that inform high-level management decisions, minimize operational bottlenecks, and guarantee that field execution tracks tightly with organizational milestones.
Senior Coordinator — Energy Access & Communities at WWF-INDIA (2016-02 – 2023-08)
Held complete strategic, fiscal, and operational accountability for WWF-India's renewable energy access and climate resilience portfolio across the Sundarbans and other priority landscapes, directing multiple donor-funded and co-funded projects delivered through CSO and community-based partners.
- Portfolio Capital Anchoring: Directed the deployment of a ₹30 Million (INR) solar mini-grid initiative (Project Sahasra Jyoti), electrifying 1,000 forest-fringe households across two unelectrified Sundarbans islands by 2020; structured co-funding partnerships with global corporate entities including Bank of America and Schneider Electric India Foundation.
- Portfolio Lifecycle Governance & Financial Stewardship: Exercised financial oversight over large-scale budgets and cross-functional teams, executing strict milestone-based expense matching and tranche-based fund disbursements, utilizing LogFrame matrices and Theories of Change to consistently honor complex donor commitments and timelines.
- Asset Transparency & Scale-Up: Extended clean energy infrastructure to a 500-household coastal village government water-supply system in Odisha, fully solar-PV powered by 2023, maintaining 100% project-dedicated asset transparency over corporate funding tranches to prevent ground-level leakage.
- Public-Private Diplomacy: Formed localized community-owned governance groups and aligned them with state government bodies, NGO networks, and elite international corporate banking stakeholders; contributed to climate change and energy access policy engagement.
Coordinator — Climate Change & Energy at WWF-INDIA (2009-01 – 2016-12)
- Designed and delivered local climate change adaptation, enterprise development, and disaster-preparedness infrastructure systems in highly vulnerable deltaic ecosystems.
- Installed a community-owned, managed, and operated 10 kWp solar PV system on a remote unelectrified Sundarbans island, in partnership with CAT International Projects, Australia, establishing the field-tested model later scaled into Project Sahasra Jyoti.
- Planned, designed, and implemented an electric-mobility clean transport solution in the Sundarbans to strengthen last-mile connectivity.
- Developed the foundational field methodologies, baseline research systems, and local verification protocols that served as the blueprint for community-based RE project M&E tracking systems.
Assistant Coordinator — Climate Change at WWF-INDIA (2008-01 – 2009-12)
- Developed and implemented climate change adaptation projects across the Sundarbans Delta.
- Represented WWF-India in the State Inter-Agency Group (IAG), West Bengal, a multi-stakeholder network of NGOs, CSOs, UN agencies, and government institutions.
- Supported media groups, research institutes, and interns in preparing policy papers, studies, and research reports on climate change impact and adaptation.
Senior Program Officer — Sundarbans Outreach Project at WWF-INDIA (2006-01 – 2008-12)
- Designed and implemented community-based sustainable aquaculture interventions under the WWF–World Bank supported Sundarbans natural resource management programme, improving livelihoods and biodiversity conservation outcomes.
- Conducted a study on bycatch in the coastal fisheries sector of Odisha as part of the Olive Ridley Turtle Conservation initiative.
Technical Officer — GIS & ENVIS at WWF-INDIA (2002-01 – 2004-12)
- Applied GIS and remote-sensing based spatial analysis to support ecological assessments, landscape planning, and evidence-based decision-making for biodiversity and natural resource conservation.
- Developed and managed the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) platform to strengthen knowledge management and information dissemination for stakeholders.
