Tinto Joseph
Utkarsh global Foundation
Mumbai
16
years of professional experience
An enterprising professional with a commitment to excellence & value creation, offering 15+ years of experience in building, scaling, and managing large multi-stakeholder programs, partnerships with Govt. and other institutions, with strong expertise in strategy, revenue-linked projects, platform adoption, and ecosystem development across government, Child Protection & Aftercare, healthcare, skill development, and education sectors. Adept at initiating alliances with new strategic partners/donors and collaborate with Govt. Officials/Agencies and Corporates for projects development. Experience in influencing and delivering results cross-organizationally for large and complex community development projects. Achieved Skill Excellence Award under the National Urban Livelihood Mission Project in 2016-17.
Work History
Senior Manager - Grants, Partnerships and Program Development-Social Justice and Empowerment
4 Months- Lead the conceptualization, design, and development of high-impact programs and project proposals across multi-sector domains.
- Drive government affiliations, accreditations, and empanelment processes with Central and State departments to enhance institutional credibility and funding access.
- Build and strengthen strategic partnerships and stakeholder networks with government bodies, NGOs, and private sector organizations.
- Ensure effective inter-departmental coordination and end-to-end project implementation, maintaining quality, timelines, and impact outcomes.
- Spearhead program design and innovation in key thematic areas including: Women Empowerment & Livelihoods, Entrepreneurship Development, Legal Aid Clinics & Access to Justice, Skill Development & Employment Generation, Child Protection & Social Inclusion
- Identify and pursue new funding opportunities through tenders, EOIs, RFPs, and strategic project development initiatives.
- Lead policy alignment and compliance frameworks to ensure adherence to government and donor guidelines
State Head-Operations
7 Years 8 Months- Led state-level operations and strategy for large-scale projects in the areas of Public Health Intervention (Implementation) Occupational Health Intervention, Women Empowerment and Livelihood, Entrepreneurship, Child Protection and Aftercare Homes, Especially Abled Homes, Geriatric Care Intervention, Skill Development, Education and Employment generation in support with various state and central ministries and CSR platforms.
- Led child protection, rehabilitation, Aftercare Home, and Nirbhaya Home interventions (One Special Nirbhaya residential Home and Other 18 Aftercare Residential Homes, Two Special Homes for Abled ) under the Care and Protection of Children Act, 2015 framework in coordination with DCPU, CWC, Social Justice Department, Women & Child Development Department, and law enforcement agencies for rescue, rehabilitation, reintegration, and safeguarding of vulnerable children and women.
- Managed multi-sector government and CSR-supported projects involving institutional care, psychosocial support, livelihood rehabilitation, community reintegration, compliance, stakeholder coordination, team leadership, and operational management across multiple districts and intervention sectors.
- Managed multi-crore projects, teams, vendors, and government stakeholders
- Built and managed institutional partnerships with government, NGOs, and private entities
- Executing responsibilities pertaining to proposal submission, budgeting, staffing, planning and operations of the projects.
- Leading, mentoring and motivating personnel and beneficiary groups as part of project implementation.
- Ensuring employment, income generation opportunities by initiating micro-enterprises units etc.
- Leading the efforts in community development intervention and facilitating strategies required for the project implementation.
- Devising strategies in planning the future of the project and managing the accounts and administrations of the project
Program Assistant (Project Administration & Operations at PAN India basis)
1 Year 10 Months- Project Administration and Operations - Need Assessment, Deliverables, Initiation, Project Scoping, Costing & Budgeting, Resource Allocation, Issue Tracking, Control Planning, Maintaining Dashboard, etc.
- PR, Advocacy & Promotions – All Project promotion activities, conducting workshops/conferences, meeting delegates/representatives etc.
- Stake Holder Management - Continually provide & improve a positive stakeholder experience by communicating value proposition, making them understand the project activities with a focused approach & nurturing relations for productive tie-ups.
- Field Level Operations and Management - Regional meetings, workshops, invitations & enrolments, visit coordination, workshop planning etc.
MR-QMS & Administration
3 Years 11 Months- Oversaw the day to day execution & development of business development strategies for all offices to enable the achievement of targets.
- Built relationships with clients/stakeholders to support BD leads, partnerships and other relationships required to deliver client value.
- Execution of Quality framework and necessary guidelines for approval from Ministry of Environment that requires for mining/infrastructure/construction.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Human Resource Development
Diploma - Airline Hospitality & Travel Management
Skills
Organizational Strategy & Growth
Grant Management
Networking & Partnerships
Platform / Program Scaling
Revenue Models & Resource Mobilization
Government & Institutional Alliances
Operations
Team Leadership (Multi-location)
Languages
English
Hindi
Tamil
Malayalam
Timeline
Senior Manager - Grants, Partnerships and Program Development-Social Justice and Empowerment
Utkarsh global Foundation
02.2026 - CurrentRead More
State Head-Operations
Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust Unit of HLL Lifecare Ltd., Govt. of India
10.2016 - 06.2024Read More
Program Assistant (Project Administration & Operations at PAN India basis)
Public Health Foundation of India
12.2014 - 10.2016Read More
MR-QMS & Administration
Environment Engineers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd
10.2010 - 09.2014Read More
Frankfinn Institute of Airhostess Training
Diploma from Airline Hospitality & Travel Management
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Mangalore University
Bachelor of Arts from Human Resource Development
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AREAS OF CRITICAL IMPACT
- Program / Project Management
- Conceptualization: Outline project goals, the scope of work, identify required resources and stakeholders.
- Planning: Project timelines and work packages are broken out, assignments are made and process for completion are defined at this stage.
- Execution: The project activities are implemented including teamwork, also the majority of project costs are included.
- Closure: Project completed and passed on to the customer, resources are reassigned and team members disbanded.
- Administration & Operations/ Monitoring & Evaluation
- Develop M&E framework and operational plan including roles & responsibilities; monitoring indicators & targets, measurement and reporting methods; evaluation topics and methodologies and use of monitoring and evaluation data and findings to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
- Oversee the development and implementation of a project, M&E plan that is capable of clearly and adequately reporting data that represent project performance in a timely manner.
- Supervise the design and implementation of operational research and quality assurance protocols to identify issues hindering the project performance or to document best practices to be multiplied and shared with other stakeholders.
- Implement and assess activities to strengthen capacities in terms of operations and data management.
- Monitor and evaluate the project and respond to any specific requirements.
- Human Resource Management and Development
- Develop a team of skilled human resource at the national and regional levels and built up the capacities of many practitioners, decision-makers and support organizations.
- Enhance the relevant capacities by conducting tailored/customized training aimed at integrating adaptation into development planning at various levels.
- Develop strategy, execute and coordinate capacity building plans for the project staff and community members.
- Support the teams in the development of protocols, facilitate workshops, consultations necessary for developing the same.
- HR Policy Development, execution of projects in the field assign duties and responsibilities and supervising selection and recruitment process.
- Grant Management/Funding
- Securing funding from the Government and Multilateral Donors.
- Identify Government opportunities for the organization across several technical and geographic portfolios.
- Develop & execute plans to compete for these funding opportunities; including pre-solicitation/pre-proposal activities, submission
- Identify and track relevant upcoming funding opportunities through advance intelligence gathering, partner relationships and other available resources.
- Represent the organization’s business development interests at relevant meetings, events, and within resource mobilization or donor-specific peer networks.
- Strategic Relationship / Business Development
- Continually provide and improve a positive donor/corporate experience by communicating the value proposition.
- Create a harmonious relationship by making them understand and enjoy the service the organization is offering.
- Develop a plan so that each service interaction is consistent and yields a positive outcome.
- Manage key accounts with focused approach & nurturing relations for productive business relations.
- Team Optimization
- Effectively set-up service teams provide support, direction and mentorship in service delivery.
- Develop, manage and improve standards and procedures within the team.
- Work with cross-functional teams and monitor performance, technical and skills development.