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Rahul Singh
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Team Coordinator
, PRADAN
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Banka,
India
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An accomplished development professional with over 9 years’ experience in Development sector across research, program conceptualization, project execution, skill development, Team management, assessment and evaluation and training & development.In-depth knowledge and exposure to a variety of social interactions and support services to people from diverse occupational or cultural backgrounds
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural, Urban
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research
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Private Sector, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Professional Experience: |
• Establishing new team at new place at Katoria Banka Bihar, analyzing and assessing proposals received from schools and Finalized a list of project sites and formulate strategies for implementation
• Ensuring efficient and effective coordination across all elements of the literacy program and supervising fund disbursement, reviews and approving the field monthly financial expenses
• Networking with stakeholders including government authorities and developing strategic and operational plans, annual plan and budget plan
• Implementing standardized timelines, orientation and learning & developmental activities required for acquisition of core competencies and maintenance of knowledge and skills
• Responsible for planning and coordinating with Programme/Projects Manager, Logistics, and HR departments
• Preparing and managing the master budget and ensuring operations are sufficiently funded amongst the various projects
• Monitoring of accounts receivables (staff and Implementing partners’ advances) and payables on monthly basis to ensure outstanding balances are settled on timely basis
• Creating and maintaining reviews of project budget proposals, external funding opportunities and other grants-related information and overseeing effective closure of ending projects by ensuring all costs are capture without overspending
• Assigning tasks to composite units and ensuring appropriate allocation of tasks to people in the group with the accountability of grooming executives, reviewing and reporting, Networking and resource mobilization
• Initiating, nurturing and facilitating democratic processes, upholding dignity of all and articulating the processes through which the group will perform its development task
• Setting process timelines by providing timely feedback for improvement, growth and development and evolving the group into a well-knit team with the accountability of building and nurturing a learning ‘challenging’ climate
• Building capacity among people by facilitating effective mentoring sessions, planning strategies for data collection and preparing concept notes, executing requests for financial proposals, approvals from head office and donor
• Determining training needs and conducting programs to enhance efficiency and evaluated the effectiveness of training programs by developing pre/post assessment programs
• Key Projects:
o Women Farmer in Vegetable Value Chain – LWR funded
? Fund volume 16 million
o Mahila Kisan Sasaktikaran Project (MKSP) – MoRD funded
? Fund volume 50 million
o Improving livelihoods with innovative cropping systems on the East India Plateau as Project Anchor
? Funding Agency - Australian Council for International Agriculture and research (ACIAR) AUS-Aid
o CFT (MGNREGA-NRLM convergence) project (MoU with MoRD)
? Involved in capacity building of PRIs around MGNREGA and convergence, capacity building of community to prepare participative INRM based plan, mobilization around their rights and entit
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Education: |
• Master of Science (Mathematics), NIT, Rourkela, 2007
• Bachelor of Science (Mathematics), Central University of Allahabad , 2005
• Intermediate, G.I.C Allahabad, 2000
• High School, G.I.C Allahabad, 1998
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
• Supervised a team of 5 senior and junior level professionals and handled their activities also took reports from them on a regular basis
• Established and spearheaded account and finance unit and set up Management information system (MIS) to collect information of our 8000 outreached family
• Budget holder of the project “Women Farmers in vegetable value chain" funded by LWR (Lutheran World Relief). The budget of the project is INR 25 million
• Anchored Multi- dimensional and more than one projects at the same time as a Senior Executive and spearheaded a small team of two professional and 8 to 10 Subject Matter Specialist and Para-Professional
• Recorded around 60 success stories of farm and off farm farmers whilst working on the project Digital Green (Funding Agency: BMGF)
o Groomed around 30 women trainer who can efficiently utilized Pico projector and disseminate such audio visual case studies in the nearby SHGs
• Successfully accomplished fruit plantation with 300 tribal families and 125 Ha of land; this was a WADI plantation funded by NABARD. Mobilized the land in tribal community is accomplishment to cherish
• Meticulously implemented irrigation project by successfully mobilizing the tribal community and implemented over 250 ponds with the same number of tribal families
o This resulted in achieving first time non-monsoon crop from the land for the Tribal
• Formed Women Self-help group and implementing livelihood (Farm and Off Farm) through the non-negotiable process / approach of my current organization, received promotion and worked with 200 women SHGs
• Successfully helped over 2000 Women farmers to increase their overall livelihood status by significantly building the capacity of farmers around different scientific techniques of crop production
• Imparted more than 600 training to 9000 (Gross) women farmers over three years
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
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Years of Experience:
5-10 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Hindi |
Nationality:
Indian
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