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Punamdhita Bora

Guwahati

Summary

Proactive manager with demonstrated leadership abilities, strategic planning expertise and problem-solving acumen. Assists team members managers with accomplishing demanding targets by encouraging staff and coordinating resources. Methodical and well-organized in optimizing coverage to meet operational demands.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Assistant Manager-Client Account Management

Haqdarshak
07.2023 - Current
  • Build long term relationship with clients
  • Helping operations in creating implementation plans
  • Help design programs around different thematic areas to help client see maximum value
  • Assist operations with client issues or escalations
  • Work on client satisfaction surveys and incorporating client feedback
  • Managed over 18 clients

Deputy Manager-Resource Development Support (Proposal development)

Habitat for Humanity India
09.2019 - 07.2023

• Maintain donor relationship and provide timely updates and quality reports to donors
• Managing donor projects and work closely with cross functional team for monitoring and timely implementation
• Understand projects and contribute towards proposal/project development based on donor interests
• Liaise with cross-functional teams in order to ensure quality and quantitative delivery of proposals
• Ensure timeline monitoring of program and budget utilization
• Ensure quality donor reports
• Gather and understand proposal, concept and budgetary requirements from the Resource Development team
• Maintaining proposals required along with its timelines, budgets and other donor requirements
• Developed formats for budget and proposals as per donor needs
• Interact with donors for clarification on proposals and budgets and interact with them to understand proposal needs

Key Achievements:
• Prepared over 600 proposals with a value of 400 crore for more than 50 donors
• Achieved proposal success rate of above 60%
• Worked closely with Habitat International teams for international donor partnerships

Senior Programme Executive

Concern India Foundation
01.2019 - 08.2019

• Interact with donors and understand the proposal needs as per available budget
• Prepared proposal and budget for corporate donors
• Program planning, program monitoring & evaluation, program management and impact assessment of non-profits involved in development interventions.
• Regular monitoring of Projects implemented by the Bangalore Branch
• Conduct regular field visits to the Projects to assess the progress of Projects
• Review of financials of the Projects and conduct audits of the programmes with the finance team.
• Participate in identification and vetting of new organizations
• Actively participate in design of new programme for the branch along with other team members.
• Manage regular reporting of partner organizations.
• Design and implement MIS for the Projects.
• Preparation of necessary reports for the Programmes & Maintaining MIS at the Branch level for Programmes

Advocacy Officer

Save the Children, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu State
02.2018 - 12.2018

• Support state led initiatives to represent institutional perspectives on national, state and district level policy discussions, relevant forums and Committees.
• Prepared proposals and budget for corporate donors
• Support in developing publications in creating visibility of state’s perspectives, positions and experiences on child rights issues
• Support development of State ACC plan aligned with National agenda and State’s priorities
• Plan, Integrate and Engage through National Campaign within state and strengthen partnerships with media to enhance visibility of organisation
• Orient Media through sensitization meetings, studies, consultations, case stories, field visits & reports from ground for securing coverage in form of quality news coverage

• Coordinate and manage qualitative and quantitative studies as per instruction of line manager
• Create database for all knowledge created within organisation
• Deliver data products in report/presentation format, or verbally to the specific requirements and timelines
• Work closely with Team Leader and provide regular support for analysing the monitoring data
• Support in project assessment, reviews and evaluation
• Compile monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual reports across projects
• Write press release, media coverage as required
• Conduct secondary data analysis

Documentation Officer (Consultant)

Save the Children
07.2017 - 01.2018

Program Manager – Health & Disability

APNALAYA, Mumbai
09.2015 - 05.2017

• Planed, organized, coordinated and monitored all aspects of a community programme, including needs assessment and daily operations
• Conducted training to build capacity for implementation and management of community projects
• Provide regular updates to donors on project implementation status
• Involve donors by arranging field visits to the project sites
• Prepared progress & impact reports as per donor specifications
• Worked with youth to oversee intervention at community level
• Built relationships with the community through effective networking and advocacy

Achievements
• Developed strategy for community based disability program in one of the most underserved urban slum in Mumbai
• Conducted research into the relationship between consanguineous marriages and disability; contributed to analysis and research report
• Established a dialogue between the community and related government stakeholders to highlight crucial community issues

Program Officer – Youth Programs

CENTRE FOR CATALYZING CHANGE, New Delhi
12.2012 - 09.2015

Ensured that C3 India’s youth programs meet their requirements, and program objectives in a timely manner and are accountable to the donor for all required deliverable s within the agreed upon timelines.

• Work with multilateral donor like MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation and so on

• To meet C3 India’s financial and personnel requirements and reporting in a timely manner, endure compliance with all CEDPA India’s policies and procedures.
• Establish and maintain working relationship with partners, representatives of bilateral and multilateral donors, international and local NGO’s
• Conduct evaluations and compile reports
• Facilitate sessions with adolescent girls and boys (in school and out of school) and manage and organize meeting/trainings with school administration/teachers

Achievements
• Successfully implemented the pilot phase of the YouthLIFE program in seven schools and expanded it to 50 schools in Delhi.
• Increase in knowledge amongst the students which ranges from 16-63% in areas of HIV/ AIDS, Substance Abuse, Good Touch and Bad touch and Gender equality after the implementation of the program.
• Contributed in developing resource materials like digital content, modules and program brochures and newsletters.
• Strengthen teacher’s training in –schools related to Life Skills, Gender equity, Reproductive health rights for adolescent boys and girls. Reached out to approximately 300 private schools and 150 government school teachers
• Selected and appointed new schools in Delhi and Jharkhand for program expansion
• Facilitated sessions to in- school and out of school adolescent boys and girls (SABLA scheme) on issues related to Life Skills education and information on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights

Program Coordinator

INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, New Delhi
09.2010 - 11.2012

• Proactively coordinating projects and acting as central point of contact for the project team including client - DRR Project In Maharashtra & Restoring Family Links project
• Creating, writing and co-coordinating professional accurate timely reports both financial and narrative
• Evaluating and monitoring projects systematically in order to capture and share learning from what do, and to facilitate a culture of continuous individual and organisational learning.

Achievements
• Reached out to around 1000 fisherwomen in Andhra Pradesh and provided them with necessary resources and training in various livelihood aspects.
• Reunited 50 families separated during disasters or war.
• Developed newsletter for the FNS wing and contributed towards development of Youth Peer Education module.
• Organized National and State level trainings on Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Restoring Family Links

Education

BA SOCIOLOGY (Hons) -

HINDU COLLEGE

MA SOCIOLOGY -

DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
05.2010

Skills

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Training

  • COMMINITY-BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society & South Asian Regional Delegation
  • YOUTH AS AGENT OF BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society & Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
  • PROGRAM MONITORING & EVALUATION TRAINING
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society
  • GENDER & EVALUATION METHODS
  • ISST

Timeline

Assistant Manager-Client Account Management

Haqdarshak
07.2023 - Current

Deputy Manager-Resource Development Support (Proposal development)

Habitat for Humanity India
09.2019 - 07.2023

Senior Programme Executive

Concern India Foundation
01.2019 - 08.2019

Advocacy Officer

Save the Children, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu State
02.2018 - 12.2018

Documentation Officer (Consultant)

Save the Children
07.2017 - 01.2018

Program Manager – Health & Disability

APNALAYA, Mumbai
09.2015 - 05.2017

Program Officer – Youth Programs

CENTRE FOR CATALYZING CHANGE, New Delhi
12.2012 - 09.2015

Program Coordinator

INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, New Delhi
09.2010 - 11.2012

BA SOCIOLOGY (Hons) -

HINDU COLLEGE

MA SOCIOLOGY -

DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Punamdhita Bora