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Praveen Kanagaraj
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Dedicated and focused project manager with 16 years of experience in prioritizing and executing multiple tasks to achieve project objectives. Proven ability to operate equipment, train staff, and implement process improvements effectively. Strong focus on detail and adaptability in team environments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Asst Program Manager,
Buddy4study India Foundation
bengaluru
10.2025 - Current
- Promotion of scholarship through phone and email.
• Screening the due diligence reports.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews of applicants involving the Siemens team.
• Directed a two-person team, assigning roles to streamline operations.
• Allocating internships for SSP students to support career development
initiatives.
• Executed GD and PI training programs tailored to student needs.
• Scheduled mock tests and aptitude assessments through vendor collaboration.
• Planning and executing a send-off for final-year students.
• Handle 1,945 engineering students across 177 government colleges in 27
states.
• Timely submission of bills and signing approvals of students' bills.
• Web portal checking, creating assignments, attending meetings with donor IT,
and proposing new changes.
• Monitor the progress of the students in the batch.
• Answer the calls and emails of students for different issues.
• Communicate with partners, donors, and students for finalizing the plan.
• Interaction with students, parents, and donors.
• Coordinate with different partner agencies for placement trainings, and make
their travel, food, and stay arrangements in different cities.
• Work with the team for different activities.
• Preparation of Various Reports
• Create and maintain an appropriate database.
• Compiled reports for senior management highlighting program milestones and
financial compliance.
• Identify and mitigate risks, resolve issues and conflicts, and provide
recommendations for resolution.
• Coordinate and communicate with cross-functional teams and senior
management to ensure alignment and collaboration.
• Ensure program compliance with organizational policies, procedures, and
regulatory requirements.
• Effective implementation of the Siemens Scholarship Program
Program Manager
Smile Foundation
Bangalore
03.2017 - 09.2025
- Onboarded by Siemens to Buddy4Study from Smile Foundation due to strong performance during transition period. Ensured uninterrupted project operations through effective transition management.
- highlighting responsibilities and tasks currently handled at buddy4study matching previous work performed at smile foundation.
Team Lead
Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
Bangalore
08.2010 - 03.2017
- Community mobilization
- Community Engagements.
- To lead team members.
- Prepare reports.
- Weekly reviews for team members and keep a track of the team's portfolio.
- Providing weekly analysis to meet the month's target.
- Ensuring the productivity of the team members to meet the target.
- Keep track of the team's performance and attendance.
- Keep track of the team's capacity utilization.
- Planning and imparting process knowledge to the new joiners.
- Interact with government officials. Briefing the government officials on new updates and changes in the process.
- Managing service operations to achieve quality services, resolving citizens' complaints about civic issues.
- Providing different kinds of analysis to ensure there is no rework, and there is proper utilization of the resources.
- Providing various analyses to ensure the process is running without any issues.
- Arranging and conducting events.
- My role will involve interfacing with diverse stakeholders, like civil society, corporates, and academic institutions, in promoting citizen participation initiatives.
- Enhance the reach and effectiveness of ICMYC.com, and incubate community engagement on civic issues.
- Build a pool of engaged community members.
- Liaison between the Janaagraha team, communities, and government civic agencies to resolve my city complaints.
- Continually explore ways to ensure high participation among the citizen groups.
- I was responsible for training and events for citizens as needed. At appropriate levels.
- Lead a team of community outreach staff who will be the link to mobilizing citizens.
- Conduct, manage, and launch events at the community level. Also, support community volunteers in their grassroots activities.
- Promote the concept of participatory budgeting, and enable the conduct of participatory budget sessions.
- Jaagte Raho!: An initiative working towards increasing the voter turnout percentage.
- Worked with the Election Commission authorities and citizen communities in running the pilot program to ensure accurate voter lists in urban constituencies based on the P.U.R.E (Proper Urban Electoral Rolls) manual.
- Endeavor to promote the adoption of the PURE manual with the election commission.
- Mobilized, trained, and managed 52 citizen volunteers called Area Voter Mithras (AVMs) in Domlur ward in Shanthinagar AC, who help residents register as voters and educate them about the importance of voting.
- Coordinated with various government representatives, such as corporators, MLAs, and MPs, for the seamless execution of the project. Executed awareness campaigns asking citizens to register as voters and use their right to vote.
- During the Lok Sabha election, I was promoted to Senior Associate and led a team of 8 field support associates and 3 data entry associates, who will be the link to mobilizing citizen volunteers to participate in this project.
- Conducting training and orientation for citizens as needed. At appropriate levels, interface with diverse stakeholders, like civil society, corporates, and academic institutions, in promoting voter awareness. Continually explore ways to ensure high participation among the citizen volunteer groups.
- During the Lok Sabha election, I was in charge of three Assembly Constituencies in Bangalore to enroll voters to enable them to cast their vote. In this direction, 14,261 forms were submitted to the Electoral Registration Authorities. This was achieved by mobilizing and training 778 Area Voter Mithras (citizen volunteers), who conducted a door-to-door campaign across KR Puram, Mahadevapura, and CV Raman Nagar Assembly constituency.
- In achieving the submission of 130,618 forms, Janaagraha enrolled voters by visiting corporates, viz. Mind Tree, Café Coffee Day, Dell, and Citibank.
- Communities and RWAs were also approached for the enrollment of first-time voters. The number of Jathas was also undertaken to create awareness among citizens to register to vote. In the entire process, technology was used to a great extent to monitor real-time progress of registrations of voters.
- In preparation for the Lok Sabha elections, the PURE list team partnered with the Times of India to run a nationwide campaign called 'Rise Up: Register to Vote,' which focused on getting unregistered citizens onto the voter list. The campaign was run across 16 cities, viz. Bengaluru, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Kolkata, Ranchi, and Patna to enroll the voters.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - B.Com
05.2011
Skills
- Project planning and management
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Program impact assessment
- Event coordination
- Communication proficiency
- Team leadership
- Analytical problem solving
- Community engagement and mobilization
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Languages
English
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Tamil
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Kannada
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Telugu
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Malayalam
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Accomplishments
- Significant milestone regarding my work with the Siemens Scholarship Program. Over the last nine years, I have successfully achieved a 100% success rate in onboarding students with high levels of accuracy and efficiency.
- Supervised team of 3 staff members.
Timeline
Asst Program Manager,
Buddy4study India Foundation
10.2025 - Current
Program Manager
Smile Foundation
03.2017 - 09.2025
Team Lead
Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
08.2010 - 03.2017
Bachelor of Commerce - B.Com
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workDesired start date: Open to discussion
Desired Job Title
Asst Program Manager,Program ManagerWork Type
Full TimeLanguages
- English
- Kannada
- Tamil