Apr 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Drive and manage CSR programs of Akamai Technologies India CSR Trust
• Develop annual programmatic and financial work plans
• Build communication tools for internal and external media
• Stakeholder management
• Grant evaluation and monitoring
• Resource Management
• Ensure project compliance as per CSR mandate
• Cross functioning by collaborating with HQ teams for global initiatives
• Proven experience of driving high-impact programs
• Working with a high-powered board and successfully leading the development and execution of programs

Jan 2019 – Mar 2019 · 2 mos · Bangalore

Jun 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs · Greater Delhi Area

• Coordinated research and socio-economic assessment for Infrastructure for Climate Resilient Growth (ICRG), a Ministry of Rural Development-DFID programme for Evidence-based knowledge building. Facilitated Implementation of the Ministry of Rural development and Corporate Social Responsibility funded initiatives in the areas of Water Conservation, Natural resource Management, and Livelihood enhancement. Conducted field assessment related to Natural Resource Management (NRM) works under MGNREGA in 9 districts of Chhattisgarh for ICRG. Provided leadership support to state team members for Rural development projects.

Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Thiruvananthapuram

• Identified, trained and mentored 16 skilled resource persons from community and deputed them to different states as Master Resource Persons (Institution Building and strengthening Local Governance) SPOC for Karnataka-Kudumbashree NRO Panchayati Raj Institution Development program
• Primary role as Program Manager for this partnership
• Developed PRA tools to strengthen Local Self Governance projects towards institutions building and support livelihoods programme
• Developed tools for capacity building of Resource Persons
• Conducted regular field study as part of M & E
• Documentation of the program throughout and created narratives for newsletters, reports, handbook

May 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Joined as Young Professional in the Cohort 1 of National Resource Organisation (recognizedMinistry of Rural Development, under the National Rural Livelihood Mission to provide support to other States in their poverty eradication efforts)
• Conducted field assessment, situational analysis and PRA
• Resource Development through field narratives from work in States of Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam
• Developing tools for communication, coordination with partner state
• Assisted in organising workshops across States in identification of Community Resource Persons

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo · Greater Brighton and Hove Area

• Working with communications team at Institute of Development Studies (IDS) was a great learning for me. I was able to utilise my prior skills in communication in this job. I was part of the team when IDS was revamping it's website and relaunching the website. Working in such multicultural and dynamic team brought a new dimension to work culture and here I unlearned and relearned so many aspects of strategic communication and creative writing.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Youth leaders and social entrepreneurs

Jul 2007 – Jun 2008 · 11 mos

• Content Generation, Build strategic communication with partners (internal and external), editing, assisting for CSR corporate video

Sep 2005 – Jun 2006 · 9 mos

• Working with project under Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which primarily included media monitoring, media research, documentation, networking with policy makers and journalists
• Secondarily- Event management, travel to remotest parts of Karnataka support organising capacity building workshops, drafting report of project development,