Experience

United Way of Hyderabad

• India
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Vice President

  • Jul 2021 - Present

• Senior Manager - Community Impact

  • Jul 2017 - Jun 2021

  • Providing strategic oversight on the positioning of the organization, cross-departmental processes, identifying priority areas of growth and areas for innovation.• Leading a team of 14, plus field staff – grew the Community Impact Department from one member to a team of 14 over three years.• In the Financial year 2019-20, managed CSR portfolios of 18 Corporate Clients worth 36Cr including grant management and monitoring, Compliance checks, fund utilization transparency checks, and programmatic integrity checks as part of NGO partner relationship management• Designed 3 flagship projects and several small-scale programs for Corporate Partners ensuring alignment of their focus areas with needs in the community by performing gap analysis studies, mapping stakeholders, developing a theory of change resulting in targeted interventions. • Provided strategic direction to UWH’s ground implementation in the focus areas of Education, Health, and Livelihoods through guidance in developing operational plans, on-ground implementation, fund flow management, program evaluation, reporting, and identifying mission-critical course corrections. • Successfully closed Nayee Taleem, the first flagship project of United Way of Hyderabad; meeting all the project objectives. Show less

• Manager - Community Development Projects

  • Jul 2016 - Jun 2017



Masoom Mumbai

• Mumbai Area, India

• Program Head

  • Apr 2014 - Apr 2015

  • Overseen the program implementation in 30 night schools across the city of Mumbai, including educational material distribution, enrollment and attendance improvement programs, training of school leaders to build governing capacity and SSC result improvement program • Program Development: Introduced life skills and leadership sessions for adolescent students • Managed donor relations through reporting, budgeting and managing fund flows and supporting volunteer engagement • Managed a team of 13 members including grassroots staff and mid-level managers • Developed Information Management System for the qualitative and quantitative data management and analysis Show less



University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC)

• Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Junior Scientist

  • Jun 2013 - Feb 2014

  This is a community research project on Mapping Juvenile Commercial Sex Trafficking in the city of Minneapolis o Developed data management systems for multiple data sources o Built interview protocols and conducted ~50 interviews. o Qualitative and quantitative analysis of data collected from all sources o Wrote a report called “Why should we care about juvenile sex trafficking” (http://www.lwvmpls.org/wp-content/uploads/here.pdf) This is a community research project on Mapping Juvenile Commercial Sex Trafficking in the city of Minneapolis o Developed data management systems for multiple data sources o Built interview protocols and conducted ~50 interviews. o Qualitative and quantitative analysis of data collected from all sources o Wrote a report called “Why should we care about juvenile sex trafficking” (http://www.lwvmpls.org/wp-content/uploads/here.pdf)



University of Minnesota

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2012 - May 2013

  • Translates Research and posts resources to Incommons, a web-based conversation platform • Assisted in developing logic model and data collection plan for a developmental evaluation for Incommons • Managed the RFP process and the actual operations for the Creating Public Value conference held in September 2012 • Jointly facilitated a strategic planning exercise with the faculty for Transportation Engineering and Road Research Alliance (TERRA) • Translates Research and posts resources to Incommons, a web-based conversation platform • Assisted in developing logic model and data collection plan for a developmental evaluation for Incommons • Managed the RFP process and the actual operations for the Creating Public Value conference held in September 2012 • Jointly facilitated a strategic planning exercise with the faculty for Transportation Engineering and Road Research Alliance (TERRA)



EdelGive Foundation

• India
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Jun 2008 - Sep 2010

  • Advocated and was successful in getting investment for 16 new organisations working in the sectors of education and alternative livelihood generation • In 6 of these cases the support was seed funding for innovative ideas. • Did a comprehensive analysis of the organisations based on field visits, financial statement and risk-returns analysis. • Prepared of the necessary documentation and made presentations to the board to assist the investment decision making of funding and capacity building • Developed mutually agreed upon reporting guidelines, detailed action plans and evaluation parameters with the partners. • Increased engagement of Edelweiss employees in the sector through encouraging volunteering with partner organisations. • Was recognised as the best performer in the team for two years running Show less