Hassan Nasir
Address: Available on request
Cell: 0300-3182059
Email: hassannacir@yahoo.com, hassanmirani@gmail.com
Key Qualifications
Mr. Hassan Nasir, a development sector professional, has experience and expertise in managing, developing, implementing and evaluating development projects. Besides he also is skilled and experienced in networking with partner organization and government officials, team building, training of primary teacher, team management, crisis management, events management and financial management. He has skills in writing project proposals and concept notes. He has a natural flare in designing, developing and writing professional reports. He is able to design and deliver effective presentations. He has a dynamic and flexible personality and can work under any circumstances. He is a trainer in Adult Literacy, Classroom management, English, Sindhi, Community Mobilization and numeracy. Besides, he is an English Language teacher.
Mr. Hassan is currently working as Program Officer, Governance and Political Participation with Cavish Development Foundation, a not-for-profit and non-governmental organization. Before that he worked with Indus Resource Centre as Project Officer, Political Development Program and Literacy. However, he started his career as English Language teachers at English Language Development Centre Khairpur. His entrance, as Community Mobilizer, to development sector was an incident, which provided him the opportunity to learn development in rural and urban perspectives. Based upon my efficient and effective performance, he was promoted to the post of Project Assistant and this was followed by a subsequent promotion to the post of Project Officer – Literacy Projects. During this period, he managed a team of almost 250+ personnel belonging to diversified cultural and ethnic backgrounds. He designed, implemented and managed literacy projects run in 15 union councils of district Khairpur, Sindh. Later on, I was retained in the organization as Events Manager and was given the responsibility of coordinating and managing work related to organization of Taleemi Mela (Educational Festivals) which targeted providing youth enabling environment where they could utilize and improve their potential through healthy extra and co curricular activities. He is volunteer Sindhi translator for Community empowerment website (www.scn.org/cmp) which provides training material training low-income communities and has translated several pages in Sindhi and still working with them. With Indus Resource Center, one of my especial projects was raising awareness on Reproductive Health, Mother and Child health care and HIV/AIDS through interactive theatre; project was supported by World Education Inc. USA. In this project I worked with Indus Theatre Group and developed six theatre pieces on the above themes. These themes were presented before communities of almost 30 villages targeting youth and women.
AT CAVISH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
PROGRAM OFFICER
August 1, 2006 – TILL DATE:
Responsibilities:
- Managing Local Government Program supported by National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and implemented in District Haripur, NWFP Province.
- Developing projects and concept notes on Governance and political participation.
- Liaison with political party workers and district government.
- Donor liaison.
- Networking with partner organizations.
- Developing relations with news correspondents.
- Documenting workshops, roundtable meetings and public forums.
- Preparing press releases and ensuring dissemination to press reporters.
AT INDUS RESOURCE CENTRE (IRC) KHAIRPUR
PROJECT OFFICER – POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND LITERACY
April 1, 2006 – July 31, 2006
Responsibilities:
Project Management:
- Managing Political party development program, a joint program of National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and IRC.
- Managing two Literacy Resource Centers, established in supported with Education Sector Reform Assistance (ESRA).
- As Program assistant, help the program officer education and literacy in carrying out different activities of three education projects run under Developments in Literacy (DIL), Save the Children – UK (SC-UK) and Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Authority (PPAF).
- Conducting meetings of District Steering Committee of Political Party Development Program, LRC Coordinators, Partner Organization and district government officials.
- Managing the Awareness project, through interactive theater, on Reproductive health, mother and childcare and HIV/AIDS
Networking and Liaison:
- Liaison with political party workers and district government.
- Donor liaison.
- Networking with partner organizations.
- Developing relations with news correspondents.
Documentation, Reporting and Media:
- Documenting workshops, roundtable meetings and public forums.
- Preparing progress reports for internal and external use.
- Developing project proposals and concepts notes.
- Taking and writing meeting minutes.
- Preparing press releases and ensuring dissemination to press reporters.
Events Management:
- Organizing roundtable meetings and public forums.
- Organizing workshops for political parties’ workers.
- Organizing theater program for awareness on various issues.
EVENTS MANAGER
OCTOBER 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating over-all activities related to organizing of Taleemi Mela
- Preparing plans and checklists for streamlined organization of event.
- Arranging logistics for events.
- Coordinating and involving schools and other education institutions for participating in the Taleemi Mela and its related activities.
- Arranging and conducting speech and art competitions at Tehsil Levels.
- Coordinating with different stakeholders for participation.
- Coordinating with district officials for permissions and other necessary formalities.
- Preparing reports for external and internal consumptions.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Managing and Monitoring ESRA supported Family Reading (Literacy) Program.
- Managing and Monitoring two ESRA supported Literacy Resource Centers.
- Documenter in a project supported by National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
- Organizing public forums and roundtable meetings in collaboration with Political parties.
- Organizing interactive theaters in communities to aware them on reproductive health, mother and child care and HIV/AIDS.
PROJECT OFFICER (YOUTH AND ADULT LITERACY)
December 16, 2004 – September 30, 2005
Functional Responsibilities as Project Officer
Project management:
- Preparing and reviewing project implementation plans and strategies.
- Holding monthly review meetings with community mobilizers, teachers, partner organization, senior management and donor representatives.
- Devising alternative strategies, crisis management, and team planning.
- Hiring required staff and teachers for project.
Project implementation through partnerships
- Implementing project through Community Based Organization.
- Developing and maintaining terms of reference with implementation partners.
- Creating liaison between partner organizations and IRC.
- Assuring participation and involvement of District Government as an integral part of the project implementation.
- In process of collaborative implementation, striving for developing capacity of partner organization in project implementation.
M&E and reporting:
- Monitoring and managing 223 literacy centers
- Preparing systematic and analytical narrative reports for IRC’s senior management and donors; where necessary to other partners.
- Keeping a rigorous and systematic monitoring and review of project activities and field staff.
- Developing effective tools for monitoring and evaluation of the project in line with the implementation strategies applied.
Financial Functions:
- Preparing budgets for project and as budget holder, monitoring and managing all budgetary matters including proper and transparent utilization of the allotted budget.
- Reviewing financial reporting with the Finance section on budgets and activities of the project.
- Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of financial reports prepared by the Finance section.
PROJECT ASSISTANT/ACCOUNT AND ADMIN ASSISTANT
September 16, 2004 - December 15, 2004
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining petty cash, bank book and ledgers accounts.
- Financial reporting to donor agency.
- Maintaining personnel record.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Supporting community mobilizers in program side activities.
- Supporting project officer in monitoring project activities.
- Conducting meetings with teachers on bi-monthly basis to know academic problems and solving them.
COMMUNITY MOBILIZER, YOUTH AND ADULT LITERACY
APRIL 15, 2004 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2004
Responsibilities:
- Identification and mobilization of illiterates by going door-to-door.
- Monitoring academic activities of literacy centers.
- Writing reports on weekly and monthly basis.
- Assessment of literacy centers.
- Solving curricular and other problems of teachers.
- Providing class-based support to teachers.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (ELDC) KHAIRPUR
PRINCIPAL/ADMINISTRATOR
APRIL 2006 – PRESENT
- Managing admissions, staff affairs and timetables.
- Look after administrative affairs
- Teaching English Lanaguage.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER
SEPTEMBER 1, 2003 - MARCH 31, 2004
- English Language Teaching
AFFILIATIONS
- Prepared two Project Completion Reports on two ESRA supported ‘youth and adult literacy project’ managed and implemented by me. The reports systematically and analytically reviewed the overall project implementation, project targets and achievement, lessons learnt during project implementation, issues and challenges faced and future directions/recommendations for upcoming projects.
- Prepared a Project Completion report of “Khazana Project”, a GEP / British Council supported project.
- Documented three workshops, conducted by National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and IRC, and prepared reports of the workshops for NDI
- Documented one public forum and four roundtable meetings, organized by political parties in support of NDI and IRC, and prepared reports of these events for NDI.
- As Chief Editor, coordinated the entire process of publication of first issue of “Sareer”, a quarterly literacy Newsletter.
- Voluntarily translating ‘Community Empowerment’ website (http://www.scn.org/cmp) in Sindhi (http://www.scn.org/gcad/indexsi.htm) (http://www.scn.org/cmp/nacr-e.htm)
- Prepared concept notes on: science fare, reading festival, awareness raising on health issue through theater.
PROFESSIONALS
- Ten-day literacy teachers training, as a MASTER TRAINER, on “Integrated Literacy Model (ILM)”, conducted by Education Sector Reform Assistance (ESRA) at Indus Resource Center Khairpur.
- Six-day literacy teachers’ training, as a MASTER TRAINER, for “Post Literacy Curricula”, conducted by ESRA.
- One-day orientation workshop on “Environmental Issues”, conducted by IUCN – The World Conservative Union Sindh, held at Indus Resource Centre Khairpur.
- Three-day workshop on “Project Proposal Writing” conducted by Indus Resource Centre Khairpur.
- One-day Conference-cum-Workshop on “Literacy: Experiences and Future Directions” organized by ESRA Literacy Team at Sheraton Karachi.
- Two-day workshop on Review of literacy curriculum, called “Integrated Literacy Model” (ILM), organized by ESRA Literacy Team at Karachi.
- Attended three training workshops organized by NDI for Political Workers.
- Represented IRC in GEP Learning Forum and Resource Mela, held at Islamabad in May 2006.
- Five training programs of literacy teachers on Basic Literacy
- Two three day training workshop on “Post Literacy Manual”
- One-day workshop on Sindhi phonetics teachers ActionAid Pakistan Supported DA-12 Schools.
- Two one-day trainings on “English Language Teaching” for government and volunteer teachers of Pakistan Center for Philanthropy (PCP) supported government school.
- Being continuously involved in developing and conducting teachers’ trainings on English of primary classes.
Personal Data
Father’s Name Ghulam Qadir
Date of Birth September 01, 1983
Age 22
N.I.C. 45203-08104060-9
Domicile Khairpur district (Rural).
Marital Status Single
M. A. (Economics), B. Com
Online Course
- Four week e-course in Project Management, conducted by Global Youth Coalition for HIV/AIDS (GYCA).
- Currently, doing another four week e-course in Grants Writing and Fundraising, being conducted by GYCA.
Computer Skills
- Office Automation: Ms. Office Utilities viz. Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms PowerPoint.
- Designing and managing database in Ms Access.
- Designing and developing web sites in Ms FrontPage.
- Operating Systems: Windows 9x, 2000, and XP.
- Basic concepts in computer hardware and electronic data processing (EDP).
- Operating system troubleshooting and installation.
- Typing speed: 40 words per minute in English, Urdu and Sindhi
- A six-month English Language Course from English Language Development Center Khairpur.
- Strong documentation and reporting skills in English.
- Well conversant in English, Sindhi, Siraki and Urdu; can speak some Punjabi as well.
Reading books, newspapers and magazines, listening music, poetry, playing guitar
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