Program manager

Personal summary

Imrana Farooqui, is a Chevening scholar and a business graduate from School of Business and Economics from University of Exeter, UK. She has a mix of work experience of private, public, academic and non-governmental sectors. She began her career at Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan where she had been instrumental in fundraising through her contribution in programme design, proposal writing and coordinating with the donors like the world Bank, Asian Development Bank and IFAD. She left full-time employment at the end of 2002 of a strategic leadership and operational management role to take care of my two infant children. During this time, she worked as a consultant (both independently and at leading consultancy firms) in development sector and as a visiting faculty at leading Universities and academic institutions. She also wrote scripts for over twenty documentaries for the various NGO’s and INGO's projects/ programmes in Pakistan. She took up a consultancy followed by a full time position at Oxfam Novib Pakistan in 2013 where she designed, developed and delivered a private Sector Engagement strategy. She represented Pakistan at the Oxfam Asia Private Sector Resilience (PSR) and Women Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN) groups and contributed towards developing and designing initiatives at the country as well as multi county level.

Skills

Conflict and gender sensitivity and analysis, women economic empowerment, private sector engagement5 Programme design and development30 alliance-building and networking;30 project and partnership management30 outcome monitoring and harvesting3 capacity development and training,30 strategic communication20