AISHWARYA ALEXANDER

• Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships: Responsible for increasing the portfolio of projects in the area of green climate, energy efficiency and sustainable development by formulating ideas into actionable concept notes and funding proposals along-with financial and economic modelling, etc
• Documentation: Collating and developing industrial best practices, provided technical inputs for various reports, supported the senior management in developing pitch decks, talking points, write up etc.
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting: Responsible for implementation, supervision, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of technical, operational and financial aspects of the projects undertaken by the organization
• Policy: Responsible for ensuring compliance with Standards, Policies and Procedures of projects undertaken by the organization as per the requirement of the concerned donor agency. Analyze various policy reports against the envisaged deliverables, as well as the overall project objectives, and submit comments, along with suggestions for improvements or corrective actions required, if any.
• Capacity Building and Training: Actively involved in awareness creation, training, and capacity building activities for the MSMEs, banks, FIs, NBFCs officials, including SIDBI employees, other partners, and stakeholders, and shall also develop suitable training modules and workshop material for the same.
• Achievement: Mobilised funding support of USD 200 Million through Green Climate Fund

• Policy Analysis: Analysis of government policies to identify potential threats and opportunities affecting the operations of the organization
• Advocacy: Liaising with various stakeholders, including government ministries and regulatory bodies, to advocate for corporate disclosure and to conceptualize, design, and disseminate advocacy materials.
• Communication: Responsible for conducting research on various topics in the ESG domain to draft curated content to be pitched as media articles and op-eds. Participated in key policy events to represent the voice of the organisation
• Business Development: Development of proposals on various projects and to ensure resource mobilisation from the right sources
• Research and Data Analytics: Analysis of the data disclosed by corporates to develop policy narratives on the identified findings. To conduct research and make efforts in publishing policy briefs, position paper, report etc
• CITIES- Point of contact for disclosure on CITIES platform. Coordination with Municipal Corporation to understand pain points and strategise solution towards effective disclosure

• Communication and Knowledge Management:

Collected and collated best practices from the field and ensuring its wide dissemination, designing knowledge products such as brochures, infographics, factsheets, policy briefs, concept notes, backgrounders, media briefs, focused articles etc, social media content creation, strategising annual communication plan

• Reporting and Grant Management:

Drafted project proposals and periodic progress reports, in addition to developing technical reports including reports on feasibility assessment. Responsible for regular coordination with the donor, designing and presenting the progress to the donor

• Capacity Building:

Developed training modules and content for various stakeholders and organising them at different levels. Responsible for conceptualising and organising learning series on WASH topics for the field team

• Partnerships and stakeholder engagement:

Responsible for liaising with the concerned ministries for scaling up of project interventions and to align the organisation with government mandates. Drafting policy briefs and pitch deck for advocacy

• Advocacy:

Responsible for developing advocacy materials, strategising and organising public advocacy

campaigns, advocacy events etc

• Innovation and Research:

Undertaking research on various appropriate technologies in the WASH sector and assessment of

the same for its replication potential in the intervention sites

• Achievements: Conceptualised and organised learning series on WASH topics for the field team and publication of news articles in Time of India

• Knowledge products: Developed knowledge products including Policy Briefs, Infographics, Factsheets, Brochures, Flyers, media release, concept notes, backgrounders, human interest stories, web story etc targeted at achieving wider outreach and to escalate advocacy
• Communication Plan: Developed annual calendar of events for the important dates observed by United nations chalking out various activities related to communication, advocacy and partnerships such a campaigns, media interaction, workshops, trainings, webinars, RJ shows, events in close coordination with state government
• Social Media Management: Drafting unique, curated, context specific social media content for various social media platforms
• Documentation: Drafted and pitched OpEds, reports on best practices, Donor reports, factsheets, web story, media articles, photo-video documentation
• Webpage administration: Focal point for managing UNICEF Bihar's, Enterprise Content Management toolkit, conceptualizing and generating communication content for social media, webinars, WhatsApp platforms, amongst others
• Monitoring Evaluation and Learning: Assessment of physical and virtual campaigns for its outreach and impact on general public, assessment of newspapers for calculating outreach, evaluation of project deliverables against specific TORs, creating templates to track performance and impact of projects
• Field Visits: Undertaking field visits for gathering content in the form of best practices, developing stories/articles/photo essays, capturing pictures, taking video bytes for social media
• Branding: Responsible for internal branding of the UNICEF Bihar State Office and for ensuring that relevant communication materials adheres to UNICEF brand guidelines
• Stakeholder Engagement and establishing partnerships: Supported in establishing partnerships with development partners, assessing their quality of work, ensuring timely compliance and completion of activities
• Event Management: Supported in conceptualizing campaigns, managing events, designing materials like flyers/brochures/factsheets for the event, ensuring outreach, tracking and analyzing outreach, documentation of the event
• Achievements: Revamped UNICEF Bihar Intranet webpage, developed curated public advocacy contain for 15 events, organised 5 workshop, drafted and pitched 5 Op-Eds and rebranded UNICEF Bihar Office

• Data Quality Assessment- Conducted regular analysis of data reported by the districts on the Champions of Change dashboard under the ADP
• Monitoring and evaluating of the performance of aspirational districts through the analysis of indicators as highlighted in the Champions of Change dashboard. Developed monitoring templates for various schemes related to the socio-economic indicators under the Aspirational Districts Program
• Stakeholder Engagement- Liaising with various development partners like to ensure their active participation in the program, to evaluate their contribution and to give specific recommendation on learnings and way forward
• Documentation of field activities- to report the best practices, strategize models for the replication and scaling up of best practices; drafting and pitching content for social media and NITI Aayog blogs on website
• Secondary research and policy analysis of various schemes related to the indicators in the programme to prepare policy briefs, background and concept notes
• Capacity Building: Organized high-level meetings under the chairmanship of CEO NITI Aayog with various ministries and development partners to monitor the progress in the Aspirational Districts Program. Conducted training of officials on sustainable land use planning GIS maps, MIS and supported in organizing

• Strategic Planning, developing district action plans and country roadmaps for international organizations
• Strategic Planning to create a District Action Plan for ensuring sustainability in providing access to Sanitation Services in accordance to Government of India guidelines
• Support the institution in drafting India country roadmap indicating inter-ministerial convergence strategy, to ensure Hand Hygiene at the grassroots

• Behavioural Change Communications: Designed and implemented 55 campaigns to promote safe sanitation practices and toilet usage in rural parts of the district and documentation of the same, developed monitoring mechanism to track the impact of the behavioral change campaigns
• Stakeholder engagement with United Nations Children's education fund and Global Interfaith WASH alliance which helped in increasing the momentum of Swachh Bharat Mission in the district
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Supported in developing an output based monitoring mechanism at block and district level to ensure transparency in program implementation
• ODF+ innovations- Conceptualized and initiated upcycling of recyclable solid waste recovered from the Solid Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) centre in the district, a concept well appreciated throughout the country
• Demonstration of best practices: Conceptualized and supported in exhibiting the success models of the district in two of the famous international festivals held in the district to assess the perception of the rural community in adopting sanitation practices
• Documentation of the best practices: in the form of human interest stories, testimonials, backgrounders etc
• Capacity Building: Organized 7 major workshops/orientation programs/training sessions for various stakeholders/government officials in the district
• Strategic Planning: Developed District Sanitation Action Plan
• Achievements: Increase of sanitation coverage by 55 percent and setting up of 3 material recovery facilities