Neha Joshi
Ranchi
Summary
Results-driven Program Manager with 9+ years of experience in partnerships, social development, and project implementation across India. Skilled in managing large-scale initiatives for migrant workers, agricultural workers, and language preservation. Demonstrated expertise in building strategic partnerships, mobilizing rural communities, and leading diverse teams of up to 100 staff. Highly skilled in stakeholder engagement, budget management, and program evaluation. Strong background at Karya, Jan Sahas, IIMB, and PRADAN.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Manager
Karya
04.2023 - Current
- Led cross-organizational partnerships with grassroots organizations, successfully mobilizing 20,000+ rural workers through strategic collaborations with organizations like PRADAN
- Managed the KHPT project, coordinating 1,000+ workers to collect speech recordings in their native languages, supporting digital inclusion initiatives
- Developed and implemented a localized chatbots solution for tuberculosis patients, improving healthcare access in rural areas through native language support
- Currently leading a project focused on endangered language preservation in Northeast India and Jharkhand, documenting local recipes across 10 endangered languages and working with 1000+ women
- Oversee budget management, stakeholder engagement, and impact evaluation across multiple simultaneous projects
Program Lead : Migrants Resilience Collaborative
Jan Sahas
12.2020 - 02.2023
- Leading Jan Sahas’s initiative for MRC across Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal by scaling up various activities under the program like social security entitlements, awareness about menstruation, precautions to take
- Lead the capacity building of teams under MRC of 400+ staff working with us
- Led the Organization's COVID food relief program, reaching out to a thousand people across, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
- Led an initiative for migrated women to make sanitary napkins at home with the help of project Bala.
- Setting up reporting processes as well as reporting regularly on the program activities
- Forging partnerships and building advocacy mechanisms with various civil society organizations and government departments
- Regular reporting and relationship building with Donors
- Managing the large budgets of the program
- Https://jansahas.org/
Program Manager
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB)
01.2020 - 11.2020
- Company Overview: https://www.iimb.ac.in/home
- Management of team around 50+ staff working on the data collection for labor market survey in Rajasthan and Karnataka
- Designing the questionnaire for conducting labor market survey in Rajasthan and Karnataka with 8000 households and 16000 Participants in 120 districts (Urban and Rural) with professors from Azim Premji University and IIM Bangalore
- Managing, monitoring and evaluation for field teams in Rajasthan and Karnataka for Survey implementation and Coordinating with IFMR for Data collection
- Managing the budget of the research
- Https://www.iimb.ac.in/home
Executive
Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN)
06.2016 - 01.2020
- Company Overview: https://www.pradan.net/
- Cluster Facilitation Team (CFT) – A project of Ministry of Rural Development and Pradan
- Helped improve the ecosystem of MGNREGA in Khunti district and affected state level policy shifts through field demonstrations
- NRLM – A collaboration with National Rural Livelihood Mission and Pradan: Helped build the farm and non-farm based livelihoods of SHG women with a special focus on the most vulnerable
- Https://www.pradan.net/
Intern
Aajeevika Bureau
11.2015 - 12.2015
- Company Overview: https://www.aajeevika.org/
- Conducted an independent study on understanding financial behavior and skills acquired by laborers who migrate to Ahmedabad and Surat from Ghatol, Banswara District
- Https://www.aajeevika.org/
Intern
Kudumbashree: National Resource Organisation
05.2015 - 06.2015
- Company Overview: https://www.kudumbashreenro.org/
- Conducted an independent Study on exclusion of women from Neighborhood Groups in coastal and Tribal area
- Https://www.kudumbashreenro.org/
Assistant: Research and Resource Centre
Professional Assistance for Development Action
06.2013 - 05.2014
- Company Overview: https://www.pradan.net/
- Helping the pradan team members to identify the topics to include in Bi monthly News reach Magazine
- Organizing the seminars and workshops related to development work Pradan does
- Https://www.pradan.net/
Education
Master of Arts - Development
Azim Premji University
01.2016
Bachelor of Art - Economics
Ambedkar University
01.2013
Skills
- Project Design and Implementation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Donor Management
- Capacity Building
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Budget management
Websites
Languages
Hindi
English
Publications
- Strengthening Local Governance: A Development Paradigm, Neha Joshi, Nidhi Trivedi, 2018, https://www.pradan.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Article-3-Strengthening-Local-Governance-A-Development-Paradigm-by-Neha-Joshi-and-Nidhi-Trivedi.pdf
- In Quest of Fellow Travelers on a Road Less Travelled: Destination Mendha, Neha Joshi, Suhasini Bali, Mahendra Kumar Singh, Satish Pattnaik, 2018, https://www.pradan.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Article-No.-3-In-Quest-of-Fellow-Travellers-on-a-Road-Less-Travelled-Destination-Mendha-By-Neha-Joshi-Mahendra-Kumar-Singh-Satish-Patnaik-and-Suhasini-Bali-.pdf
Timeline
Program Manager
Karya
04.2023 - Current
Program Lead : Migrants Resilience Collaborative
Jan Sahas
12.2020 - 02.2023
Program Manager
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB)
01.2020 - 11.2020
Executive
Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN)
06.2016 - 01.2020
Intern
Aajeevika Bureau
11.2015 - 12.2015
Intern
Kudumbashree: National Resource Organisation
05.2015 - 06.2015
Assistant: Research and Resource Centre
Professional Assistance for Development Action
06.2013 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Art - Economics
Ambedkar University
Master of Arts - Development
Azim Premji University
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