Najeeb Qadri

Experience

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  Afghanistan Rehabilitation & Education Program (AREP)

  Jan 2010 - Jul 2013

  Program Specialist

  • Coordinated and managed Education project implementation (activities, budget, and project documentation) inline with strategic objectives and donors’ requirements.• Contributed to projects designing and development of Education strategies, guidelines, and SOPs to supportquality assurance of Education in Emergencies (EiE),Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Social Emotional Learning(SEL).• Developed and submitted quality proposals in response to identified funding opportunities to reach vulnerable children and hopefully achieved multi-million funding for education interventions.• Planned and designed curricula and tools for educational programs and evaluations and defined educationalmethodologies to meet program goals.• Led and provided information and analysis towards the development of strategies, technical approaches, program designs, guidelines, and SOPs in consultation with relevant stakeholders. Show less

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  CARE

  Aug 2013 - Dec 2016

  Project Admin Officer

  - Providing technical, operational, fleet and cash management support to the sub office and field operation teams of REP, STAGES, and EEA projects.- Providing technical and operational assistance to the teams in social mobilization, capacity building, surveys, assessments, data collection and distribution of non-food items (NFIs).- Preparing quantitative and narrative regular and periodical reports to management, donors and authorities.- Establishing and maintaining responsive hard and soft filing system for better record and archive. Show less

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  ACDO - Asia Community Development Organization

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  Project Manager

  • Ensured timely delivery of services and supply of learning materials to beneficiaries in two provinces in Afghanistan, and supervised staff members in both provinces to smoothly carry out project activities.• Developed appropriate learning materials and tools to promote knowledge among project beneficiaries to educate them in English and computer programs plus information technology (IT) applications.• Enhanced and sustained effective working relationship with relevant government counterparts and other stakeholders to exchange knowledge and achieve effective results on education programs.• Developed the quality of interventions through regular field visits, monitoring and evaluation of training centers and curriculum, and focus group discussions (FGDs).• Contributed to the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure optimum efficiencyand sustainability beyond project duration, plus analyzed education data and shared analytical reports/recommendations with senior management on improving quality of the services delivery. Show less

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  Chemonics International

  Jun 2017 - Jan 2021

  Provincial Manager

  - Working with provincial education directorate (PED) and districts education departments (DEDs) to build their capacity in delivering higher quality education services and to increase transparency and accountability of national and subnational MoE systems.- Overseeing and attending project and grantee’s activities, confirming and approving grantee’s completed activities, helping technical leads in activities performance, managing administrative and operational activities and supervising district officers.- Working with CSOs, SMSs, CDCs, and DDAs to mobilize local support for project implementation and goals. Show less

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  Save the Children International

  May 2021 - Jul 2023

  Education Cluster Coordinator

  • Successfully supported and carried out six core functions of the Education Cluster i.e., supporting service delivery, informing strategic decision-making, planning and strategy development, monitoring and reporting, contingency planning/preparedness/capacity building and advocacy.• Assumed overall responsibility for co-leadership of the Education Cluster and ensured humanitarian program cycle (HPC) and all other strategies for Education reflect key findings from needs assessments.• Guided multi-donor pool funds, monitored implementation of response, and carried out advocacy campaignsto encourage donors to fund education initiatives in Afghanistan.• Facilitated Education Cluster meetings, and interventions and represented the Cluster in the Inter-ClusterCoordination Team (ICCT), Humanitarian Coordination Team (HCT) and other clusters meetings.• Strengthened quality of the response through harmonization of activities and promoting interagencycoordination on key approaches from WASH, Protection, Health, Nutrition, Accountability to Affected People (AAP), and Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) clusters, and thematic working groups.• Reviewed, edited, and approved partners’ proposals and led their approval in UN OCHA’s Grant Management System (GMS) that helped in allocating $20+ millions for EiE in Afghanistan.• Ensured that children’s perspectives are solicited and included in all stages of HPC and that child safeguardingprotocols are streamlined across all strategies, documentations, and implementation. Show less

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  Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland

  Mar 2023 - now

  Resource Specialist

  • Ensuring activities and relevant programs are consistent with the mission, vision, and values of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland, and donors/US government agencies.• Providing specialized case management to refugees/immigrants on their basic needs and services includinghousing, food, clothing, education, health screening, public benefits access, and community orientation.• Developing and implementing refugee specific cultural orientation and education, and employment plans, withequal emphasis on self-sufficiency and early employment as means to link refugees with mainstream American society and contribute towards their independence in the United States.• Educating community members on the cultural and political differences between Americans and refugee population and documenting all activities (hard and soft) in accordance with the agency and federal guidelines.• Providing transportation to essential appointments and teaching refugees how to travel unaccompanied to future appointments using public transportation.• Coordinating social benefits application/reapplication, intakes, interview and all other communications with the county’s job and family services department, so the immigrants should receive social benefits on time.• Providing Services to Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat (SASIC) to receive overall wellness and support for access to mental health resources and to address and overcome severe and long-lasting trauma, so they can achieve their physical, social, emotional, and economic goals. Show less