Experience

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Social Media Content Manager

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom ● Curate and craft social media content to promote IIPP's thought leadership in governance, finance, economics, and public sector innovation ● Manage channels of communication of IIPP (Twitter & LinkedIn) to make complex academic and policy ideas accessible to a large audience ● Develop and deploy a content calendar using Hootsuite to ensure regular and timely communication



Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University

• India
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • May 2022 - Jun 2022

  Sonipat, Haryana, India Course: Ecological Economics ● Assisted Dr. Debal Deb, preeminent ecologist and conservator, to deliver a course on ecological economics to 79 post-graduate students ● The course aimed at equipping students with frameworks from political economy and ecology to understand the present-day climate and biodiversity crises ● Led seminars and conducted tutorials covering topics like issues in neoclassical economic analysis, use and non-use values of ecosystems and biodiversity… Show more Course: Ecological Economics ● Assisted Dr. Debal Deb, preeminent ecologist and conservator, to deliver a course on ecological economics to 79 post-graduate students ● The course aimed at equipping students with frameworks from political economy and ecology to understand the present-day climate and biodiversity crises ● Led seminars and conducted tutorials covering topics like issues in neoclassical economic analysis, use and non-use values of ecosystems and biodiversity, indigenous philosophies of nature ● Co-developed grading rubric and graded assignments and presentations Show less



Chief Minister's Good Governance Associates Programme

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

• Deputy Manager

  • Sep 2021 - May 2022

  Delhi, India ● Led fundraising and donor engagement for Ashoka University’s collaborations with Government of Haryana (Chief Minister's Good Governance Associates) and Government of Delhi (Child Rights Fellowship) with a cumulative budget of GBP 600,000 ● Analysed feedback on implementation from agencies and citizens to present recommendations for redesigning government schemes and enhancing programme effectiveness to the Chief Minister’s office ● Onboarded 4 donors (including multinational companies… Show more ● Led fundraising and donor engagement for Ashoka University’s collaborations with Government of Haryana (Chief Minister's Good Governance Associates) and Government of Delhi (Child Rights Fellowship) with a cumulative budget of GBP 600,000 ● Analysed feedback on implementation from agencies and citizens to present recommendations for redesigning government schemes and enhancing programme effectiveness to the Chief Minister’s office ● Onboarded 4 donors (including multinational companies like CISCO and Pernod Ricard) and facilitated all legal and financial compliance ● Forged partnerships between the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) portfolio of donors and place-based social innovation pilots to enhance impact Show less



Samaj Pragati Sahayog

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fundraising, Donor Relations and Reporting Officer

  • Sep 2018 - Oct 2020

  Bagli, Madhya Pradesh, India ● In-charge of raising, monitoring, and evaluating a GBP 1.1 million grant for improving livelihoods of 12,000 smallholder and landless agricultural households across in 2 districts of Madhya Pradesh ● Reported on field experiences of all programmes including financial inclusion, watershed development, agroecological farm management, management of farmer producer organisation, sustainable livestock development ● Prepared proposals, budgets and concept notes for raising funds and… Show more ● In-charge of raising, monitoring, and evaluating a GBP 1.1 million grant for improving livelihoods of 12,000 smallholder and landless agricultural households across in 2 districts of Madhya Pradesh ● Reported on field experiences of all programmes including financial inclusion, watershed development, agroecological farm management, management of farmer producer organisation, sustainable livestock development ● Prepared proposals, budgets and concept notes for raising funds and interfaced with external donors to facilitate the planning, execution and monitoring of projects Show less



Ashoka University

• India
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Apr 2019 - May 2019

  Sonipat, Haryana, India Course: Political Economy of India's Development 1947-2019 • Assisted Dr. Mihir Shah, Member of the erstwhile Planning Commission, in conducting a course titled Political Economy of India's Development 1947-2019 for a batch of 89 Young India Fellows. • Graded final assignments and conducted discussion sessions to provide a critical lens to major issues in development like the Jobs Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA), Universal Basic Income, Agrarian Distress, Water and more.



People's Archive of Rural India

• India
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Jul 2017 - May 2018

  Haryana, India • Part of a three-member team that worked on PARI's Project FACES to document the facial and socio-economic diversity present in rural spaces under the guidance of P. Sainath. • Interviewed 400+ men, women and adolescents across 67 blocks across 16 districts of Haryana. https://bit.ly/3f8FECb