Ms. Ruby. C

Kulappura House, Puthiyathura,

Pullivila P.O, Trivandram, Kerala- 695526

Mobile No-099********, 958-***-****, 945-***-****

Email- gy84fr@r.postjobfree.com

Carrier Objective:

Commitment to excel in the Rural Development field by being proactive to learn and continuously strive for excellence.

Professional Profile

Holding an MBA degree in HRM, NGO and Rural Management from Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agricuture, Technology and Sciences, Formally known as Allahabad Agriculture University at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Having 7 years of rich work experience in executing and managing various development programmes in various capacities for donors, NGOs, and development organizations.

Have domain expertise in driving projects on Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women, formation and effective functioning of community based organizations (SHG, CBO, various levels of federations), Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion, Promoting Viable Micro Enterprises and Income generation activities, Vocational Training to youth and their carrier building, Community based Rehabilitation of the differently abled, Community Health (Mother and Child Health), Rehabilitation and Relief works during flood and drought, convergence with government programmes and schemes using community Participatory philosophy and techniques.

An expertise in project formulation, project management, project appraisal, evaluation, impact analysis, resource planning and deployment, project estimation, scheduling, tracking and implementation.

A good report writer and expertise in documentation.

Proficient in Man Power Planning, Recruitment, selection, Placement, and Induction.

An effective member in facilitating the organizational development process such as strategic management planning and decision making process, HR policy reviewing and implementation as well as financial policy etc.

A good trainer with expertise in the areas of leadership, micro planning, Panchayat Raj, Result Based Management Planning, Monitoring, Reporting and Documentation.

Demonstrated competence in holistic programme development and management with focus on social inclusion of rural and semi urban areas; working with the poor, needy and vulnerable communities through local NGOs and promoting people centered advocacy.

An effective liasoner with exceptional relationship management skills with hands on experience in networking with Consultants, NGOs, Government agencies and safeguarding the interests of beneficiaries and stakeholders, concurrently.

A good administrator holding competencies in managing Fire and safety, Security, housekeeping, arranging training programmes, providing effective guidance and support to administrative and maintenance team for performance of their respective duties effectively, Develop and implement administrative, procurement and IT policies and procedures, Manage the entire cycle of procurement including invitation of tenders/quotation from different agencies and company for the arrangement of material as per procurement policy and guidelines, Management of Fixed Assets filings, correspondence, exposures, hotel and travel booking, maintaining the stock register, attendance and leave registers of the staff, overall office maintenance etc.

Current Employment Profile

Tenure : Since July 2011 to till date.

Organization : Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi

Designation : Programme Coordinator- State Madhya Pradesh

Organizational Profile:-The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has historically been working in areas of literacy, health, disability, empowerment of the underprivileged, and livelihoods. Almost two decades after rich experience of grassroots developmental work, the RGF has revisited its larger purpose, and repositioned its focus area. The Foundation will now focus its energies towards achieving systemic and social change through Education.

VISION OF RAJIV GANDHI FOUNDATION’S WORK IN EDUCATION

To create access for the largest number of children to an education that:

• Encourages curiosity, independent thinking and open-mindedness

• Enables each child to live by the values of integrity, equality and humanity

• Equips each child to realize his/her full potential.

Summary of Responsibilities

• Coordinating and implementing the educational reform agenda of the organization in the State Madhya Pradesh.

• Building partnership with the likeminded NGOs

• Capacity Building of the NGOs to implement the educational reform agenda in their operation area/districts

• Organizing workshops and meetings

• Liasoning with the government department and official especially related to education.

Previous Employment Profile

Tenure : Since April 2003 to August 2009.

Organization : Diocese of Varanasi Social Welfare Society (DOVSWS)

Designation : Programme Manager

Organizational Profile: DOVSWS is a registered nonprofit organization working in the eight districts (Varanasi, Mau, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Joanpur, Azamgharh, Ballia and Bhadoi) of Eastern part of Uttar Pradesh for the socio-economic empowerment of the Dalit, minorities and marginalized section of the society with a motto of empower people and transform the society. The organization visualizes a society where justice and brotherhood and equality will be reign. The head office is situated in Varanasi.

Summary of Responsibilities carried out till date

Programme Coordination and Management: Responsible for both Rural and Urban projects in the operational area of the organization. Developing programme plan, budget plan project strategies, deliverables, alignment of clearances and delivery schedules as well as liasoning with government departments and networking with likeminded NGOs and, coordinating all related programme activities. Maintaining sustainable coordination mechanisms between women’s groups, adolescent girls groups, various other community federations and structures, field implementing agencies and other stakeholders.

Monitoring, Reporting: Responsible for programme monitoring as per the monitoring framework. Providing oversight on the project monitoring and review programme plan at the overall project level and for target area level interventions. Developing Results Based Management monitoring tools and tracking results, Responsible for submitting consolidated reports on RBM basis to the concerned agencies and reporting on exceptional basis with action recommendation. Coordinate Annual, quarterly Reviews of project plans, thematic studies and third party evaluations. Preparing presentations on regular updates of the project progress and learnings and share them with concerned persons and departments. Budget monitoring, including analysis of significant deviations and corrective actions

Sector Engagement and advocacy: Support and promote people centered advocacy works and networking in the state and region. Coordinate and regularly interact with sector players, local governments and other institutions. Facilitate convergence and leverage of support to the programmes. Operationalise partnerships with government departments and non government partners at the District and State level.

Technical support and Capacity Development: Ensure adherence to technical standards and quality; provide oversight to all projects. Adding Value addition to the programmes and projects. Planning the capacity building and skill development of the staff in view of future requirement of the organization. Build the capacity of the organization through OD process and review the strategic plan of the organization periodically. Employee performance management etc.

Documentation and Learning: Document change processes and case studies, which contribute to learning, analyze the issues and outcome, disseminate the learning from the one projects to another project. Replication of good practices.

Recruitment, selection and Induction to the staff and Human Resource Management in the organization: Developing job responsibilities of staff, developing and managing the human resource plan, conducting the recruitment, selection and induction process, and enhancing the abilities of the human resource and preparing them for the future interventions.

Employee welfare, Health and Safety: Ensure compliance to the organization’s various policy and procedures related to programme and finance, ensuring the proper execution of the HR policy of the organization, Risk Management, Health and Safety policy, managing employee welfare facilities, Total quality management of the programme activities and its results, handling grievances, etc.

Office Management: Overall office maintenance and management, managing Fire and safety, Security, arranging training programmes, providing effective guidance and support to administrative and maintenance team for performance of their respective duties effectively, Develop and implement administrative, procurement and IT policies and procedures, Manage the entire cycle of procurement including invitation of tenders/quotation from different agencies and company for the arrangement of material as per procurement policy and guidelines, Management of Fixed Assets filings, correspondence, exposures, hotel and travel booking, maintaining the stock register, attendance and leave registers of the staff, etc.

Fund Raising: Developing new project proposals, liasoning, coordinating and corresponding with the concerned personals and agencies, plan and organize annual programmes to raise fund locally to manage various community managed events such as women’s day, differently abled day, girl child day, May Day etc.

Significant Highlights

Area of Expertise Work Experience

Project Management Coordinated and Managed the effective implementation and success of various grassroot projects with a cross cutting theme of Gender mainstreaming in all project components such as

• The project named “Arsenic Mitigation through Community Participation in Uttar Pradesh of Ballia District” Supported by Water Aid, London (December 2008-Aug 2009)

• The project named “strengthening and sustaining the people’s initiatives and their entrepreneurial capacities at 7 Blocks of Ballia District, with major focus on women empowerment and promoting their socio-economic and political development. funded by CORDAID, Netherlands (from April 2006 – May 2008)

• The project named “Peace Building at Ballia” funded by CRS Lucknow.

• The project named SHG formation, micro finance and income generation at Ballia district supported by NABARD, Lucknow.

• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) funded by RUPCH New Delhi

• Community Relief and Rehabilitation of flood victims at Ballia funded by UNICEF, Lucknow

• Community based Arsenic Mitigation Programme funded by Jal Nigam UP and Unicef Lucknow.

• Adolescent group formation and promoting vocational training and their economic empowerment supported by Manos Unidas Spain.

• The project named “Community Based rehabilitation of the Differently abled in the 50 gram Panchayats of the rural area at Mau” funded by Manos Unidas (from 2003- 2005)

• The project named “Community Based rehabilitation of the Differently abled in four districts of UP Mau, Ghazipur, varanasi and Ballia” funded by Liliane Fonds, Netherlands (from 2006- 2009)

Finance Management Effective and maximum utilization of the resources and its proper documentation. Developing programme budget plan, project cycle and cash flow statements. proper and systematic maintenance of bills and accounts, budget analysis, Ensuring timely submission of financial reports to concerned agencies, Financial audit etc.

Research and Analysis Conducting end line evaluation of various deveopmental projects on its completion and their proper documentation. Replication of good practices and documenting the learnings for future interventions. Market feasibility studies to identify viable micro enterprises and available local markets for various products promoted by SHGs and SHG members individually, Conducting PRA studies and Citizen Report card surveys and rapid assessment studies, developing baseline survey formats. Developing monitoring tools, Training need analysis for the community leaders and staff, Analysis of the field data and writing their analysis reports etc.

Conducted an end line Evaluation of a Project named “community based rehabilitation of the differently abled in the three blocks of Mau District, UP, India” Supported by Caritas Sweden and implemented by Society of Khrist Jyoti at Mau. (September to October 2008)

Coordinated various end line Evaluation of the projects in DOVSWS.

Reporting and Documentation Preparing various levels of project progress reports, financial progress reports, documentaries, awareness generating skits, Annual Report writing, process documentation, developing various programme strategies according to need and time of the area and people, preparing new project proposals, etc.

Capacity Development of the staff and organizational building Organizing trainings, workshops, exposures and meeting to enhance capacities of the staff and filling the gaps. Proper implementation of HR policy of the organization, recruitment, selection, placement and induction, employee welfare etc.

Worked as a faculty member of NABARD, Lucknow in providing training to the NGO personals.

Policy Influence and Sector Engagement Successful to convergence various governments developmental programme for the rural community through liasoning with various concerned government departments.

As part of Advocacy closely involved with key ministers of state government, government institutions, national NGOs, NGOs, donors and others. Coordinated the formation of a Network of 45 NGOs from Ballia, Mau and Ghazipur named as “AAP” for the policy centered advocacy with the local government.

Successful in replication of Arsenic filters developed in Ballia by government. Through influencing Ministry of Rural Development, Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam, government of Uttar Pradesh installed 315 filters in Ballia

Knowledge and Skills

• Have good written, oral fluency in English and in Hindi.

• Strategic planning, strong leadership and effective team management

• Exceptional team player and have organized regional events on occasion of International Women’s Day, World Water Day, International Differently Abled Day, Girl’s Child Day in the region.

• Strong knowledge and understanding of development issues especially in the context of Uttar Pradesh and Northern and Southern India.

• Partnership development and networking skills.

• Result orientation and ability to work independently and meeting deadlines.

• Computer skills- Conversant with Operating Systems such as MS-DOS, Windows XP & Windows 2000, Windows-7, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint, Databases.

• Working knowledge on SPSS, and Tally

• Knowledge of Financial management and administration.

Publications and Presentations

• SHG Training Module and SHG Registers for Data Maintenance.

• Various Community Health Related Registers for Data Maintenance. (Mother and Child Health)

• IEC Materials on Women Empowerment, Rules and Regulations for Various community Structures and formation procedures, Integrated Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion, Awareness generation skits on social themes, posters etc.

• Developing annual Reports of the organization for publicity.

• One month summer training experience in IOCL Barauni, Bihar on HR functioning in public sector and prepared a Project work on “Employee Job Satisfaction in IOCL Barauni, Bihar” as part of the partial fulfillment of the Degree Master in Business Administration.

• Presented a Paper on “Ethics in HRM” in a National Workshop organized by Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences and got awarded first.

• Prepared a project work on “HRM Practices in NGOs in India” as part of the partial fulfillment of the Degree Master in Business Administration.

Trainings and courses attended.

• Generic TOT, TOT on Micro Enterprise Development and management, Training on Group Management, Training on formation of Community based organizations and its management, Training on Social Analysis, Training on Leadership, Training on conflict management, Training on Micro Planning, Training on Panchayat Raj, Training on good Governance, Training on the formation of Project proposal on the basis of RBM, Training on Project management that included Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting on RBM basis & Documentation, (By Association for Stimulating Know How, ASK, New Delhi),

• Training on Community based Rehabilitation of the Differently Abled, Seminar on various types of disabilities, its cause, prevention and management ( by KIRAN centre , at Varanasi)

• Training on Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction organized by Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra, Lucknow.

Trainings Conducted

Conducted various trainings for the village leaders and staff of the grassroots organizations. Such as Training on Group Management, formation of Community based organizations and its management, Social Analysis, Leadership, Micro Planning, Good Governance, Result Based Management, RBM Planning, Monitoring and evaluation, RBM Reporting and Documentation, Micro Enterprise Motivation and Development and Management, Conflict Management, Participatory Rural Appraisal.

Academic Credentials:

Year Degree/Diploma/

Certificate Board/University Division Percentage

2011 MBA in HRM and NGO management and Rural Development Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad Grade System 90.25%

2009 BA in Sociology Kerala University IInd 54.18%

2003 Intermediate Higher Secondary Examination Board Kerala Ist 63.36%

1996 Matriculation Public Examination Board Kerala IIIrd 43.33%

Language Skills

Language Ability to Converse Ability to Read Ability to Write

Poor Fair Good Poor Fair Good Poor Fair Good

English

Hindi

Malayalam – Mother tongue

Tamil

References:

Mathew Kayany

Diocesan Health Coordinator

Bishop’s House, 45’ Cantt.

Varanasi. UP. India, 221002.

Contact No. 941-***-****, 099********

gy84fr@r.postjobfree.com Mr. Johnson Rhenius Jeyaseelan

Programme Officer-Water Aid India.

Lucknow Regional Office, 2/203,

Vishal Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, UP, India, 226010.

Mobile: 074********

Email: gy84fr@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Information

Date of Birth : - 28/ 05/1980

Father’s Name : - Stephen Pelkis

Mother’s Name :- Cicily

Marital Status : - Single

Religion :- Christian

Nationality :- Indian

Permanent Address :- Kulappura House, Puthiyathura, Pulluvila. P.O.

Trivandrum, Kerala, India-695526, Phone No. 047*-*******

Present Salary Annual : Rs. 4, 20,000

Expected salary Annual : Rs. 6, 00,000 and above

With due respect I declare that all the information about me stated above are very true to the best of my knowledge.

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Ruby. C Date:----------------

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