Female, Married, Citizen of
Address:- Qtr. No: 2, B- 9, Zinc Colony, Hindustan Zinc Ltd.
Post: Hurda, Dist: Bhilwara, Rajasthan, Pin:311029
e-mail: sush_74 @ yahoo.com
Phone No.: 91-1483-229107 (Ext- 409) (Residence)
Mobile No.: 09413356143
Languages Known: – English, Hindi and Gujarati.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 8 Years
KEY CAPACITIES:
Project Management and Coordination, Programme Monitoring & Evaluation, Domain strength in managing NRM related projects, Training, and Watershed Management. Good hands-on experience of project planning, project implementation, participatory research, excellent social and communication skills. Proven skills in change management.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Have an experience of working in NGO sector, Government Sector and Corporate Sector.
2. Have been instrumental in achieving 6 national and state level awards for HZL in a span of 2 years.
3. I have successfully changed the complete mode of CSR from reactive to proactive mode in HZL and have made the whole process participatory with the local community of the target villages.
4. While working in VBKVK, there was a point when all the projects were in its closing stage and there was no new project in the pipeline. I managed to facilitate 3 major projects which made the projects cell self sustainable.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION:
§ Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Development from Xavier Institute of Social Services (XISS),
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
§ Bachelors with Honours in Political Science from St. Xavier’s College,
EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
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Dec 2005 – till Date |
CSR HEAD of Rampura Agucha Mines, of Hindustan Zinc Ltd. |
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MAY 2003 – NOV 2005 |
FREELANCE CONSULTANT, mainly with four grassroot NGOs of Udaipur |
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JAN 2001 – APR 2003 |
Program Officer at Vidya Bhawan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, |
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JUN 1999 – DEC 2000 |
Project Executive National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation Limited (NTGCF), |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. FROM DECEMBER 2005 TILL NOW
HINDUSTAN ZINC LTD. (A VEDANTA GROUP COMPANY)
Worked as CSR HEAD of Rampura Agucha Mines, of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL). HZL is the third largest zinc and lead producer in the world. Rampura Agucha Mines is the 3rd largest integrated Zinc and Lead mine in the world. Along with producing Zinc, HZL takes its social responsibility very religiously. The CSR activities are clearly divided into focus areas like health, Education, Sustainable livelihood, Agriculture and animal Husbandry, water harvesting and Infrastructure. We do all our CSR work in collaboration with district administration.
JOB RESPONSIBILITY:
§ Conceptualising new projects for the sustainable development of the local people.
§ Making Strategies for the implementation of Projects.
§ Dialogue with the Local and District administration.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
§ Have made and implemented projects for 160 villages catering to a population of 5 lacs.
§ 60 villages converted into replicable Models. The model villages qualify in all the development indicators like health education, infrastructure etc. and above all each model village has a Village Development committee (VDC) which takes forward the process of development in a participatory manner.
§ Have implemented a project on computer literacy for rural schools benefitting more than 50,000 children in 200 schools.
§ Facilitated SHG movement in one Block of Bhilwara district, resulting in formation of more than 200 SHGs with average membership of 15 women in each SHG. This movement involved more than 3000 women into sustainable livelihood activities
§ Have been instrumental in achieving 6 national and state level awards for HZL in a span of two years.
2. FROM MAY 2003 TO NOVEMBER 2005
Worked as a FREELANCE CONSULTANT, mainly with four grassroot NGOs of Udaipur working on various development issues like Health, Education, Watershed and NRM. My job included project proposal writing, contact with funders, preparing detail workplan for implementation of projects, regular documentation and representing the NGOs at various forums.
3. FROM JANUARY 2001 TO APRIL 2003.
VIDYA BHAWAN KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA,
Worked as a PROGRAM OFFICER, at VBKVK,
JOB RESPONSIBILITY:
1. Fund Mobilisation and management for VBKVK
2. Project Management and Coordination of various projects running at VBKVK. The main projects facilitated by me were:
§ Management of Environment Resources through Community (MERC) funded by "Aga Khan Foundation”
§ Promotion of organic Agriculture in Udaipur District funded by NABARD.
§ Promotion of organic agriculture funded by "National Foundation for
§ Drought mitigation program funded by "CARE, Rajasthan"
3. Providing technical and project management support to NGOs who were implementing VBKVK,s projects in the field.
4. Monitoring and evaluation of project implementation by grassroot NGOs
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
§ Have completed the cycle of all the projects being handled by me.
§ Was able to mobilize three major projects for the organization.
4. FROM JUNE 1999 TO DECEMBER 2000:
NATIONAL TREE GROWERS COOPERATIVE FEDERATION LIMITED (NTGCF),
Worked as a PROJECT EXECUTIVE at NTGCF, DAHOD. NTGCF is a sister organisation of NDDB, which mainly works on eco-restoration in eco-fragile and marginalised area though famous AMUL cooperative model. During this phase of my career I worked intensely on eco-restoration through watershed approach. I contributed mainly towards institutional building component in a multidisciplinary team working for eco restoration of 110 villages in the catchment of Kali and
JOB RESPONSIBILITY:
§ Worked towards formulation of strategies and better management and governance of common property resources, while working in NTGCF.
§ Worked towards evolution and strengthening of village institutions and village specific bylaws while working in NTGCF.
§ To contact, dialogue and network with Government and other agencies.
ACCOMPLISHMENT:
§ Formation of 30
§ Implementation of 12
§ Implementation of Watershed projects in 35 villages of Dahod district of Gujarat.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES:
1. AT SEVA MANDIR,
Conducted a comprehensive baseline survey of a village followed by micro- planning giving feasible proposals for development.
2. AT VBKVK,
Conducted a detailed survey for assessing the condition of agriculture and animal husbandry in four areas of Rajasthan, namely, Jhadol Block of Udaipur district; Jawaja Block of Ajmer district; Pugal Block of Bikaner district, Kailadevi sanctuary area of Karaoli District. This survey was followed by preparation of workplans suggesting improvement in the condition of agriculture and animal husbandry for all the four areas.
3. AT Xavier Institute of Social Services (XISS),
Conducted a detailed survey of a village and prepared a comprehensive plan for its development.
WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS ATTENDED
a) 3rd International Thematic PRA Training at
(Conducted by Dr. Robert Chambers, Mr. Somesh Kumar)
b) Workshop on Development Perspectives, organised by UNNATI, Ahmedabad
c) Training on energy conservation, organised by NTGCF, Anand
d) Workshop on Gender Sensitization, organised by NTGCF, Anand
e) Workshop on Natural Resource Management, organised by
f) Workshop on Water Management, organised by Society for Promotion of Wasteland Development (SPWD),
g) Workshop on Environmental Economics, organised by Society for Promotion of Wasteland Development (SPWD),
h) Workshop on Local Governance, organised by National Foundation for
i) Seminar on Community Mobilisation, organised by ISCE, Ahmedabad
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE:
Very Good knowledge of Spread Sheets (Excel, Lotus123), Word Processors (Microsoft Word, Lotus Word Pro), Designing & Presentation packages (PowerPoint, Photoshop) & Internet browsers.Operating knowledge of MS-DOS & WINDOWS Operating System;
LANGUAGES KNOWN:
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Language |
Speak |
Read |
Write |
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English |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
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Hindi |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Excellent |
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Gujarati |
Fair |
Good |
Fair |
I hereby declare that all the above information is correct to the best of my knowledge.
Sushma Sharma
Date: 16-12-2007