Mehak Thaheem

Community mobilization and development professional with experience in social mobilization, TB awareness and referral, hygiene promotion, food and economic security, cash transfer programming, community organization, data collection, reporting, and field coordination. Experienced in working with communities, NGOs, government stakeholders, and field teams.

Social Mobilizer - Thardeep Rural Development Program - Dadu

(2025-06 - 2026-07)

• Conducted community awareness sessions on tuberculosis, symptoms, prevention, treatment, and screening.
• Mobilized communities for TB screening, case finding, contact tracing, and referrals to health facilities/TB DOTS centers.
• Supported mobile screening camps, outreach activities, patient follow-up, and community-level awareness at UC level.
• Maintained activity records and prepared daily, weekly, and monthly reports while following confidentiality and project guidelines.

Hygiene Promoter - Thardeep Rural Development Program - Dadu

(2024-10 - 2025-03)

• Led awareness activities on hygiene and safe water and mobilized communities for hygiene campaigns.
• Conducted community needs surveys and assessments and supported development of IEC materials.
• Delivered hygiene-promotion training and coordinated with government agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
• Monitored campaign progress and reported activities and community needs.

Social Mobilizer - Thardeep Rural Development Program - Dadu

(2024-01 - 2024-06)

• Conducted TB awareness sessions and mobilized communities for screening and case-finding.
• Supported referral, contact tracing, screening camps, patient follow-up, record keeping, and reporting.

Food & Economic Security (FES) Associate - Laar Humanitarian Development Program - Dadu

(2023-07 - 2023-11)

• Supported planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of livelihood activities.
• Conducted community mobilization, household surveys, livelihood assessments, and market assessments.
• Supported training activities, beneficiary data management, progress reporting, and cash-transfer coordination.

Social Organizer - Health And Nutrition Development Society (HANDS) - Dadu

(2022-11 - 2023-06)

• Supported community meetings, stakeholder workshops, needs assessments, baseline surveys, and PRA activities.
• Helped form and strengthen community organizations and supported inclusive community participation.
• Conducted awareness sessions, training, workshops, campaigns, monitoring, reporting, and community profiling.
• Coordinated with project staff and relevant stakeholders and supported donor/project visits.

Cash Transfer Officer - Sukaar Foundation - Dadu

(2022-10 - 2022-11)

• Supported cash-based programming, beneficiary targeting, field procurement, and coordination with field and finance teams.
• Worked with e-voucher systems, electronic devices, vendor training, community messaging, and payment facilitation.
• Supported community facilitators and staff on cash-transfer programming and humanitarian principles.

Kangaroo Mother Care - The Aga Khan University (AKU) - Dadu

(2019-09 - 2020-01)

• Supported KMC-related training activities, data collection, household interviews, consent procedures, and electronic data entry.
• Used training materials, performance checklists, and supportive supervision approaches to assess and monitor skills.
• Maintained confidentiality and followed neutral interviewing and data-collection procedures.

Accountant - Micro Finance Business - Dadu

(2019-02 - 2019-09)

• Supported branch operations, loans and deposits, budgeting, credit processes, collections, recovery, MIS, and reporting.
• Maintained operational and administrative standards and coordinated with the community to support branch services.

Teaching (PST) - Nasrullah Kalhoro Academy School - Dadu

(2014-05 - 2019-01)

• Prepared lessons, notes, tests, assignments, progress reports, and classroom activities.
• Delivered student-focused instruction, evaluated progress, maintained classroom standards, and participated in parent-teacher meetings.

Matric - BISE Board (2014)

Intermediate - BISE Board (2016)

Bachelor of Arts (BA) - University of Sindh, Jamshoro (2018)