SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Worked with national and international organizations with their Humanitarian & Emergency and Resilience Response Projects.
•  Specialized in Emergency Planning and the implementation of Resilience Building Programs.
• Have knowledge of Community Development, Natural Disaster Management, Crop Production and Productivity, Food security & On Farm Water Management.
•  Familier with Q/GIS and GPS.
• Strong networking skills with organizations and colleagues.
• Communication & teamworking, .
• Fluent in English, Dari, and Pashto.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, M.Sc. (Hons.) in Agriculture, Agronomy; College of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy, Junagadh Agricultural University, Gujarat, India.

Bachelor of Science, B.Sc. in Agriculture, Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy, Nangarhar University, Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Attended 3 international trainings on agriculture, water management and disaster management in Japan, India and Egypt.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Program Coordinator  (CHA) Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance, WBD, UN/FA), JICA & USA funded program.  Kabul, Afghanistan

• Overall coordination of emergency livelihood, emergency food security and emergency resilience projects with donors, provincial managers/focal points and governmental entities in Kandahar, Farah and Badghis provinces.
• Auditing the provincial managers on their budgets, spending, and compliance. HR tracking and hiring of project support staff.
• Developing workplans and its regular follow up with provincial Project Manager, insuring deadlines are met.
• Assisting Program Manager in managing technical, administrative, and financial related activities of program with planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all on going projects in provinces.
• Conduct frequent site visits to monitor the progress and quality of ongoing projects, resolve social problems, guide project managers on smooth project implementation, measurement of the completed works, and provide reports and feedback to CHA main office and to the donor.
• Supporting Program Manager with documentation and reporting, project progress, challenges/bottlenecks, opportunities, lessons learned, budgeting, cost and no cost extension of projects, data analysis, workshops/briefings, and meetings.
• Monitoring the distribution of livestock and food security packages to the beneficiaries. Beneficiaries selections and committee forming, making sure that most eligible beneficiaries are selected.
• Chairing regular online meetings with Provincial Managers and focal points on projects progress, bottlenecks, social and technical issues, checking their work plans with activities, making sure that the budget of every line is spent.
•  Writing case studies/success stories on every program intervention and uploading in the CHA website.
• Checking, correcting, and making weekly, monthly, and annual reports, profile surveys reports, of ongoing projects in the provinces and getting it to the donors and to the top management team.

Senior Project Assistant  (UNESCO) United Nation Scientific Educational & Cultural Organization, Kabul

• Assist Senior Program Officer in managing technical, administrative, and financial related activities of Culture Unit in terms of planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of all ongoing regular and extra budgetary programs.
• Provide support to field based national staff, implementing partners, consultants, especially during field visit and provide technical input and policy advice to program areas.
• Review addendums, variations and crosscheck the requests with the field conditions from implementing partners before comments and/or approval.
• Review of proposals, invoices, programs submitted by implementing partners and mid-term and final financial and narrative reports.
• Assist Senior Program Officer and Head of Unit in designing and implementing a risk matrix for the program, and report regularly on the risks related to the successful delivery of the program.
• Managing UNESCO’s work in the field of Culture, including preparation/organizing meetings, workshops, training programs and close communication with relevant communities, implementing partners and stakeholders.
• Assist Senior Program Officer, Head of Culture Unit, consultants or other missions during field visits and/or in meetings with any relevant stakeholder.
• Assisting Senior Program Officer and Head of Unit in planning, implementation, and facilitation of any UNESCO missions within Afghanistan to implement any project activities related to the protection, conservation, and preservation of heritage in the country.

• Assisting in elaborating the Culture Unit content on UNESCO Kabul website, making sure that available information is up to date.

• Assist in drafting of ToRs, contracts, reports and other required documents and forms required for successful implementation of the projects.

• Assisting Snr. Program Officer and Head of Unit in HR and procurement related activities as per UNESCO standard procurement regulation and policy.

• Assist in provide input to strategic planning of interventions of UNESCO Office in Afghanistan and resource mobilization initiatives, bringing in experience gained from the program.

• To be backup for Senior Program Officer in his absence and takeover all the responsibilities for day to day work.

• Perform any other tasks as requested by supervisors, particularly in regards to contributing to the planning and implementation of other programs and projects concerning culture.

Agronomist  (Panj-e- Amu River Basin Sector Project an ADB funded project, in north-eastern region, Badakhshan province).

• Baseline survey, feasibility study and collection of agricultural, socioeconomic and water management data & it’s analysis for PARBSP project.
• Community development & working closed with CDCs & DDAs concerning project activities in Badakhshan province. 
• Design field level irrigation agronomic packages to improve crop production and productivity in the selected schemes of the project.
• Establishment of wheat, rice and vegetable demonstration plots in the project site to increase agricultural production and productivity.
• Extension of new agricultural techniques like line sowing, raise-bed & furrow irrigation & intercropping.
• Establishment of Irrigation Associations (IAs) and registering it in north-eastern to avoid irrigation water losses, increase irrigation Efficiency, operation and maintenance of secondary and tertiary canals, and mitigate conflicts on irrigation water.
• Conduction of environmental and social safeguard survey and its impact assessment for the main canal excavation in Baharak, Badakhshan.
• Writing of success stories on demonstration farms.
• Participation in PARBSP workshops in MAIL.
• Preparing of weekly, monthly and annual reports and sent it to the top management team.