Project Manager - LASOONA (BRAVE-North 2025 Floods Recovery) - District Buner, KP, Pakistan
(2025-10)
Funded by: CONCERN WORLDWIDE
- Successfully initiated and scaled a multi-sectoral flood recovery program, delivering life-saving assistance to 15,501+ beneficiaries within the first 90 days, including livelihood restoration and skills development interventions.
- Established critical Community Physical Infrastructure (CPI), enhancing community resilience and access to essential health and care services.
- Achieved 100% donor compliance through robust MEAL activities, including Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and impact assessments, resulting in high-quality case studies and success stories for donor reporting.
- Strengthened government and community partnerships through inclusive, conflict-sensitive, and gender-responsive programming, ensuring sustainable project outcomes.
- Built and mentored a high-performing field team, ensuring full compliance with humanitarian standards, safeguarding policies, and disability/gender inclusion principles.
Project Manager - LASOONA (Pakistan Monsoon Floods Anticipatory Actions 2025) - District Swabi, KP, Pakistan
(2025-09 - 2025-10)
Funded by: START NETWORK
- Successfully managed one of the largest anticipatory action projects, delivering pre-emptive and emergency assistance to 44,401+ beneficiaries, including livelihood protection, skills training, and enterprise support interventions.
- Achieved 100% on-time delivery under extreme time constraints, ensuring efficient resource mobilization and stakeholder coordination.
- Strengthened coordination with government stakeholders (PDMA, Livestock Dept., Education Authorities), ensuring seamless program implementation and community buy-in.
- Ensured full accountability under START NETWORK guidelines through robust MEAL activities and comprehensive donor reporting.
Project Manager - Consortium of LASOONA, HI, and IDEA - District Swat, KP, Pakistan
(2025-07 - 2025-09)
Emergency Response to the Monsoon Floods, Swat 2025 (Alert 969). Funded by: START NETWORK
- Orchestrated a successful consortium-level response, coordinating with multiple international and national partners to deliver coordinated life-saving assistance to over 2,000 beneficiaries.
- Achieved 100% partner alignment, ensuring mutual accountability and program coherence in a complex emergency setting.
- Mainstreamed protection, gender, and inclusion across all program activities, ensuring vulnerable groups were prioritized.
- Managed project budget and procurement effectively, ensuring value for money and risk mitigation.
Project Manager - LASOONA - KP, Pakistan
(2024-08 - 2025-02)
Changing Minds for Climate Resilience (CMCR). Funded by: BMZ
- Successfully delivered a high-impact climate advocacy project, leading to increased community and government engagement on policy changes for climate adaptation and plastic waste management.
- Designed and implemented data-driven projects on plastic waste management, contributing to measurable behavioral and policy changes at the community and government levels.
- Facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues and workshops, effectively communicating project impact to a broad audience and building strategic partnerships.
- Integrated DRR/WASH principles into resilience activities, ensuring holistic and sustainable outcomes.
Project Manager - LASOONA - KP, Pakistan
(2022-09 - 2024-09)
Nutrition Project. Funded by: BMZ/WHH
- Successfully managed a BMZ/WHH-funded nutrition project for two years, meeting all project objectives and donor deliverables, with a focus on community health, caregiving, and nutrition outcomes.
- Strengthened organizational capacities and community nutrition outcomes through effective project management and stakeholder coordination.
- Achieved 100% budget compliance through meticulous monitoring of expenditures and asset utilization.
- Facilitated capacity-building activities for staff on nutrition awareness, health, and care services, and coordinated support from M&E, Finance, Logistics, and security sections, ensuring smooth implementation.
- Coordinated with healthcare institutions and training providers to strengthen health and nutrition referral systems.
Capacity Building and Communication Officer - LASOONA - KP, Pakistan
(2019-09 - 2022-08)
Governance Project. Funded by: EU/WHH
- Strengthened the governance project's visibility and impact by developing a robust communication and capacity-building strategy.
- Developed and disseminated 16 quarterly newsletters and 48 monthly one-pagers, significantly enhancing stakeholder engagement and project visibility.
- Developed gender-based success stories for each of the main project interventions, showcasing the project's impact on vulnerable groups, including women and persons with disabilities.
- Organized high-profile events, including donor visits, training, and workshops, ensuring proper visibility and stakeholder engagement.
- Successfully maintained a comprehensive stakeholder database, ensuring effective communication and coordination.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Officer - LASOONA - KPK, Pakistan
(2014-02 - 2019-08)
Nutrition Project. Funded by: WHH
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive M&E system for a nutrition program across three districts, which became the organizational standard for data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Developed TORs for the behavior change communication strategy, formative research, and participatory learning and action, significantly improving project outcomes and donor compliance.
- Developed and maintained the MIS for data collection, analysis, and report generation, ensuring data security and integrity.
- Provided technical assistance in impact assessments, collaborating with external evaluators and researchers to enhance program effectiveness.
- Trained and coached field monitoring staff, building organizational capacity for M&E.
- Ensured accurate disaggregated data (sex, age, disability) for reporting and program improvement.
Communication and Documentation Coordinator - LASOONA - KPK, Pakistan
(2013-01 - 2014-03)
Core Team, Head Office. Funded by: WHH
- Significantly enhanced the organization's visibility and learning culture by developing a knowledge management system.
- Produced high-quality communications materials, including documentaries, photo documentaries, annual reports, and regular newsletters.
- Established and fostered working relationships with a wide range of media organizations, ensuring effective media coverage.
- Developed an effective feedback system to incorporate learning into the overall programming cycle.
Child Protection Project Coordinator - LASOONA - KPK, Pakistan
(2012-05 - 2012-12)
Funded by: Save the Children
- Successfully implemented a comprehensive child protection project, developing training modules on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), Child Protection Committees (CPC), Community Dialogue, and Child Rights.
- Supervised and provided technical support to Child Protection Project Officers and Community Mobilizers, ensuring effective program delivery.
- Strengthened community-based protection mechanisms by working with community and school authorities to address protection issues.
- Ensured safeguarding standards were upheld.
