USAID

USAID-Training for Pakistan Project was a four years duration project worth of 33 Million US Dollars. I served as third most senior position in the program and was also the part of the project designing stage.

Major Responsibilities

• Mainly responsible for the management of trainings and capacity building programs under USAID, Training for Pakistan.
• Generate Training Ideas and Requests for Government ministries and private sector organizations (complete narrative and financial documents) for the USAID Mission final approval with their consultation.
• Prepare Training Implementation Plans (details of the training schedules, trainers, deliverables, etc.) for Pakistan based trainings.
• Supervised and lead implementation of for the following federal ministries;

• Ministry of Commerce’s nine months training support program for 58 mid and senior level ministry staff.
• Training program for the Ministry of Law Justice and Human Rights.
• Conducted comprehensive technical Training Need Assessment of Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). It was a national level need assessment covering all WAPDA power generation plants.
• Lead development and later supervised the biggest ever USAID funded Energy Sector Internship Program, 18 power generation and power related government departments and ministries participated in the program and placed 300 interns (fresh engineers) for six months.
• Lead and supervised Masters in Public Health scholarship program for 60 Department of Health, government of Sindh employees (mostly medical doctors) at Health Services Academy. The purpose of the scholarships was to strengthen the health management system in Sindh.  

• Focal person for the implementation of all In-country trainings for the public, private and social sector participants.
• Develop Request for Proposals and Selection of training providers/contractors.
• Monitor USAID-TFP funded trainings on regular basis and prepare monitoring reports. We used monitoring methods like beneficiary monitoring, output monitoring and implementers monitoring.
• Contracting with Training providers, negotiate financial and technical proposals, prepare contracts and approve their financial disbursements.
• Supervise and submission of training reports prepared by the specialized training providers.
• Focal person for USAID-Pakistan Participants Training Working Group. This includes all the USAID partners/projects working on participants training.
• Work closely with Chief of the Party USAID-TFP on day to day basis.
• Supervise the USAID Alumni Small Grants Program.
• Supervise USAID-Pakistan Alumni Association, that include membership, connecting them, web-based networking, criteria, etc.
• Prepare grants documents i.e. grants guidelines, proposal formats, review score sheets, formation of review committee, contracting documents, reporting formats, etc.
• Review Small Grants Proposals (both technically and financially).