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Raj K Pandey, GPO Box: 19862, Kathmandu, Nepal, [email protected], [email protected]

CURRICULUM-VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name : Raj K Pandey (Chhetri)

DoB : April 17, 1974

Sex : Male

Marital Status : Single (Never Married)

Home Address : Sunaul Bazaar-2, Bardaghat, Nawalparashi, Lumbini, Nepal

Languages : Nepali, English, Hindi, Maithali, Bhojpuri, Awadi and Newari

Nationality : Nepalese

Education : Masters in: (i) Business Studies (MBS); and (ii) MA Rural Development

Area Visited : India, Tibet, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore and 45 districts of Nepal

CAREER SUMMARY

Raj K Pandey started his career in January 1990 with Save the Children-Norway (then Redd Barna), a

founder member of International Save the Children Alliance. He also upgraded himself with education,

knowledge and skills. Consequently,Save the Children-Norway not only groomed him properly but

also promoted twice in admin support capacities during his tenure from January 1990 to November

1997.

He moved to the Japan International Cooperation Agency/Japan Medical Association (JICA/JMA) funded

School and Community Health Project (SCHP) as a technical staff and worked with JICA/JMA from

1997-October 1999. JICA/JMA also promoted him within 8 months of his services. He worked theredirectly with the backward grassroots communities in rural areas of Nepal, and acquired practical

fieldwork experience from community-based development programs along with project management.

During October 1999-October 2001, he worked with the UK Governments Department for International

Development (DFID) funded Rural Access Programme (RAP) as an Administrative Officer. From very

inception of RAP project designing phase, he engaged in admin support jobs for project management,

administration, logistics arrangement, accounts keeping and office set-up for GBP30 millions project.

From 2001, he worked with the interdisciplinary group of regional and international experts at UNFPA,

Country Technical Services Team for South and West Asia (CST/SAWA Countries). He rendered his

general services to the advisory group of Consultants that composed from different UN Agencies.

During May 02-May 03, he produced & presented informative, educative and advocacy oriented; society

focused; interactive radio programs"Our Concerns" and Developments Friend with HBC94FM Radio.

He mainly advocated about the public concerned national burning issues on socio-economy,

development, governance, human rights, poverty, minority, gender, children, etc. that are related with the

civil societies.

During May 03-December 04, he worked with the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers

under the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) funded Strengthening the

Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers Project, based in the PMs Office of Nepal.

Raj K Pandey, GPO Box: 19862, Kathmandu, Nepal, Mobile: (977-01) 98510 86884/9841 813529, (Page 1 of 6)

Raj K Pandey, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur

GPO Box: 19862, Kathmandu,

Nepal

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Mobile: (977-01) 98510 86884
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From January-June 05, he worked with the DFID/Enabling State Program-Nepal, based in the PMs

Office to handover the outcomes, clean-up and phase-out the project activities under Strengthening the

Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers Project funded by UK Governments DFID.

From July 05-May 07, he implicated as a freelancer Consultant for United States Agency for International

Development (USAID)/National Democratic Institute; USAID/International Federal of Electoral System

(IFES) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)/Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA).

During June 2007-September 2008, he worked with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Nepal Office, particularly for the human security of JICA staff, Japanese JOCV volunteers and Missions.

From October 2008 - to date, he is working with one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations

(UN), based in Nepal, to provide supports for the UN funded Programs/Projects under Grant/Loan.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

S

N

Duration Designation Organization

From To

1 31 Dec 2010 To date Operations Assistant A Specialized Agency of United Nations

2 30 Sep 2008 31 Dec 2010 Administrative Assistant A Specialized Agency of United Nations

3 31 May 2007 30 Sep 2008 Area Security Officer Japan International Cooperation Agency4 30 June 2005 31 May 2007 Freelancer Consultant USAID/IFES, NDI and UNICEF/ROSA

5 31 Dec 2004 30 Jun 2005 Act Project Coordinator DFID/Enabling State Programme Nepal

6 15 May 2003 31 Dec 2004 Project Officer Office of the Prime Minister (DFID/ESP)

7 15 May 2002 15 May 2003 Producer/Radio Anchor Himalaya Broadcasting Company (HBC)

8 01 Dec 2001 15 May 2002 Office Secretary UNFPA, CST for SAWA Countries

9 15 Oct 1999 31 Oct 2001 Administrative Officer DFID/Rural Access Programme (RAP)

0 30 Jul 1998 15 Oct 1999 Jr. Programme Officer JICA/Japan Medical Association (SCHP)

1 01 Dec 1997 30 Jul 1998 Technical Supervisor JICA/Japan Medical Association (SCHP)

2 01 Feb 1995 01 Dec 1997 Administrative Assistant Save the Children Norway (Redd Barna)

3 15 Oct 1993 01 Feb 1995 Logistics Secretary Save the Children Norway (Redd Barna)

4 01 Jan 1990 15 Oct 1993 Receptionist Save the Children Norway (Redd Barna)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Institutions Name Level Division Major Subjects

Public Admin. Campus

Jamal, Kathmandu

MPA

2011

Result

Waiting

Development, Public Policy, Project Management,

HRM, Administration, Budgeting, Auditing, etc.

Shanker Dev Campus,Putalisadak, Kathmandu

MBS2007

1st Div.60.20%

Research, Statistics, Organizational Behavior, A/C,Managerial Economics, HRD, Marketing, Finance, etc.

Patan Multiple Campus,

Patan, Lalitpur

MA

2006

1st Div.

69%

Development, Economics, Sustainable, Anthropology,

Sociology, Tourism, Linkage, Politics, Research, etc.

Peoples Campus,Pakanajol, Kathmandu

BBS2002

2nd

Div.46.79%

A/C, Economics, Management, Marketing, Business,Statistic, Finance, English, HRM, HRD, Project Mgmt.

People's Campus,

Pakanajol, Kathmandu

I Com

1997

2nd Div.

51.02%

Mathematics, Economics, English, Management, A/C,

Business, Finance, Marketing, etc.

GoN/SLC Board

Kathmandu, Nepal

SLC

1990

1st Div.

68.08%

Mathematics, A/C, Nepali, English, Rural Economics,

Geography, Science, etc.

TRAINING ATTENDED

1. The Business Communication Course, The British Council, 16-29 Nov 102. The Professional Writing Course, The British Council, 3-26 Nov 09

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3. Beginning Life in UN: Induction Program, Philippines, 24-28 Nov 08

4. Leadership Development Program, USAID/National Democratic Institute, 14-17 Sep 055. Cisco Networking Academy Programme (CCNA), Held at KU/KCM, 15 Feb-15 Aug '04

6. Imprest Account Handling, DFID/Nepal, 25-26 May '03

7. Radio Program Production/Presentation, HBC Radio, May 02-038. Community Mental Health, GoN/Mental Hospital, WHO and Maryknoll/Ashadeep, 5-6 Aug '99

9. Training of Trainers (ToT) Course on Child-to-Child, Hatemalo Sanchar, 1-10 Jun 9910. A 8-weeks Computer Package Course, St. Xavier's Campus, 11 Aug-30 Oct '9711. A 30-hours Course on Mind Control, Personality Development and Impressing People, Memorex

Institute, Russian Cultural Center, 4-6 Feb '96

Vanguard Leadership Course, Patan Jayceettes, 10-11 Mar '94

12. English Language Course, Acharya Language Institute, 6 Dec '93-6 Feb '94

13. Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of the Projects, 12-25 Sep '97 (Trainings by Redd Barna)

14. Community Mobilization for Sustainable Development, 01-13 Jun '9715. Development Communication, Education and Gender Sensitization, 07-18 Apr '97

16. Development Approach Needs Assessment, 12-21 Jan '9717. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), 16-26 Nov '96

18. Project Management and Evaluation Procedures, 13-21 Aug '96

19. The Art of Leadership: for Community and Local Resource Mobilization, 01-13 May '9620. Book Keeping and Project Management: Refresher Training, 08-17 Feb '96

21. Strategic Management of the Partner NGOs/CBOs, 18-29 Nov '95

22. Understanding Socio-cultural Research, 04-17 Mar '95

23. Accounting for Non-Profit Organizations, 19-25 Jan '95

24. Administrative and Management Procedures at Non-Profit Organizations, 05-14 Nov '9425. Capacity Enhancement on Accrual Accounting and Store Handling, 11-23 Jul '94

26. Training Need Identification of the NGOs/CBOs, 01-09 Mar '94

27. Effective Supervision and Leadership Styles, 18-25 Nov '93

28. Office Management and Communication, 07-15 Jun '93

29. Leadership Development and Team Management, 12-18 Feb '93

30. Communication and Presentation Skills in the Target Groups, 19-27 Dec '9231. Individual Behavior and Effective Communication for Team Spirit, 10-21 Aug '92

32. Taking Personal Initiatives for Result Oriented Performance, 06-15 Mar '92

33. Communication and Team Building for Group Dynamics, 18-25 Dec '9134. Facilitating Team Dialogue and Interpersonal Relationship in the Team, 13-22 Jun '91

35. How to Deliver Effective Presentation, 11-19 Oct '90

36. Roles and Responsibilities of Administrative Staff, 17-28 May '90

37. Roles and Responsibilities of Employees in Humanitarian Organizations, 13-21 Feb '90

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

Holding Driving (Motorbike) License, Nepali Citizenship, Passport and UN-DSS Certificates;

Computer Skills (DOS, Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, LAN and Novell Network);

Excellent inter-personal communication as well as reading and writing skills;

Supported to organize several seminars, workshops and interactive discussion programs;

Can work independently for administrative, finance, logistics and program related jobs;

Friendly working relationship with the office goods/service suppliers in Kathmandu;

Sound knowledge about Donors, UN Agencies, I/NGOs, CBOs and Government of Nepal;

Good working relationship with GoN, I/NGOs, CBOs and individual experts;

Publication: "Co-writer of a Sanitation Training Manual" under JICA/Japan Medical Association;

Interviewed several experts, freelancers, intellectuals and government authorities for radio.

WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS PARTICIPATED


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1. Regional Workshop on Gender, Entrepreneurship & Economic Empowerment, ADB, 1-3 Feb 11

2. Nepal Country Portfolio Review, Ministry of Finance and ADB, 1-2 Dec 10

3. Nepal Portfolio Performance Review, GoN/MoF, World Bank, DFID, JICA, ADB, 3-4 Dec 094. Economic and Social Structure for Conflict, Royal Norwegian Embassy and CIDA, 16 Jul 07

5. Inter-agency Contingency Planning for Natural Disaster Management, UN-OCHA, 4-5 Jun 07

6. Challenges and Prospects for Planning Process, National Planning Commission, 15-17 Sep 06

7. Nepal Multiparty Womens Caucus Development, USAID/NDI, 30 Sep-2 Oct 058. Rural-Urban Relationship in the Development Planning Process, UNDP, 1-2 Jul 05

9. Accessing WTO and its Impacts, Management Association of Nepal (MAN), 2-3 Jul 05

10. Conflict and Impact on Rural Development, Action Aid, 6-8 Jun 05

11. Rural Poverty and State Delivery System, NPC/Poverty Alleviation Fund, 27 Apr 05

12. Raising Urban Poverty and Impacts of Conflict, FOHRID/KMC, 20 Apr, 0513. Interaction on Governance Reform Program Roadmap, OPMCM & MoGA, 12-13 Jul 04

14. Effective Service Delivery for Better Governance in Nepal, OPMCM, 1 Jul 04

15. Public Service Reform, Management Association of Nepal (MAN), 30 Apr 04

16. Relationship of Nepalese Judges and Secretaries, Supreme Court and PM Office, 2 Apr 0417. Issues on Government Reform, National Planning Commission and PM Office, 2 Jan '04

18. Microeconomic Policies and Reform Initiatives, NPC and PM Office, 21 Aug '0319. Expectation of Innovation in Nepalese Bureaucracy, GoN/Cabinet Secretariat, 30 Jun '03

20. Strengthening the Civil Service and Improving Service Delivery, PM Office, 9 Jun '03

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations Assistant: Providing daily supports for the office administration; communication

and coordination; thematic group meetings/workshops; portfolio management; Mission schedule

and travel managements; and logistical and secretarial supports for smooth operation of UN

including following routine responsibilities as mentioned under UN Administrative Assistant.

Administrative Assistant: (i)Office administration - provide daily administrative, logistical and

secretarial supports; inter-departmental coordination for vehicle requirements and office supplies;and receive, log, distribute and filling of incoming/outgoing documents/correspondences. (ii)

Communication and coordination - interact with the UN Program/Project Managers/Directors,

government officials, development partners and private sectors on program/project issues and

follow-up actions; drafting and proof reading of reports, daily letters/memos for supervisors and

send them out; provide inputs on behalf of supervisors for quarterly reports; and screen incoming

telephone calls, take accurate messages and deal queries from internal/external clients, mainly for

assigned supervisors. (iii) Thematic group meetings/workshops - meeting arrangements with line

ministries/departments, development partners and private sectors; and provide general supports to

organize workshops/seminars and participate in relevant workshops/seminars as nominated by

UN. (iv) Mission management/travel arrangement - prepare Supervisors' and Mission members'

in-country and out-country travel arrangements, particularly for travel authorization requests to

facilitate headquarters and other UN Residence Mission visits, travel itinerary, hotel reservation,UN security clearance, ticketing and travel plan; arranging appointments and meetings at centrallevel for the headquarters missions visiting Nepal; and any necessary supports required for

efficient and effective implementation of the UN funded programs/projects.

Area Security Officer: Briefing for management/all staff; prepare daily/weekly/monthly security

situation analysis and assessment reports; coordination for the security-related matters with donor

agencies, especially UN led Inter-agency security management and government counterparts;

monitor and identify trends/potential problems and recommend counter-measures; maintain

working relation with related authorities/agencies; keep updated records of national/international

movement of staff/volunteers; and provide regular security briefings for all JICA staff/volunteers.


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Perform other regular duties - monitoring media; dissemination of security updates/information;

residence security assessment; district security analysis for all visiting missions/JOCV volunteers,who are assigned across the country; monitoring staff movements and responsible for the human

security as a core member of JICA/Nepal security management team for all staff/JOCVs.

Freelancer Consultant: Involved for research; report preparation; workshop note taker; logistics

and general supports for the international level seminars and consultation with local stakeholders,particularly on governance, socio-economy, gender, development, poverty and democratic issues.

Act Project Coordinator: My major responsibilities were to coordinate/liaison with the Office

of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers for PMs Office Strengthening Project extended

period to complete the remaining pending activities; hand over the outputs and project clean up.

Project Officer:Worked at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers under the

DFID/ESP. Our main responsibilities were to implement the PM's Office Strengthening Project;

dealing senior bureaucrats/PMs Advisors for coordination/liaison; PM Office improvements;

procurement; logistics services and consultancies provided by external experts; supporting

Project Coordinator for administration, management, procurement, accounts keeping, secretarial

services, planning, budgeting, documentation and any other activities as required to implementthe Project.

Program Producer/Presenter:Produced and presented hard-talk radio programs on the national

controversial burning issues entitled "Developments Friends" and Our Concerns with the

Himalaya Broadcasting Company (HBC) 94 FM Radio Station. They were interactive live panel

discussions among experts, concerned authorities and radio listeners on the socio-economy and

development related issues, which are directly concerned with the civil societies of Nepal.

Office Secretary:I was assigned as Secretary to support regional and international expectorates,

however, I also supported Finance and Administrative Officers as per office decision for daily

administration, procurement, logistics supplies, finance keeping, vehicles management and I was

responsible to arrange international travel movements of the UNFPA, CST/SAWA expectorates.

Administrative Officer: Ouradmin duties were for general supports in providing administrative,

finance, transportation, logistics, procurement and secretarial services for 13 British expectorates

and 12 local Nepalese experts who were engaged for GBP 30 millions Rural Access Program

(RAP) project preparatory design purpose during 1999-2001 through UK Government's DFID.

Assistant Program Officer:I was responsible in facilitating and escorting Japanese researchers

and field visitors for research and studies; regularly visiting backward communities to support

program team in implementing, follow-up, monitoring, supervision and evaluation of the project

activities; working at central office for program related activities and technical paper preparation.

Technical Supervisor:Successfully introduced and implemented Child-to-Child concept in thesanitation, health awareness, income generation, community library, advocacy& school activities.

It was new concept for JICA/JMA but I learnt it while working with Save the Children Norway.

Administrative Assistant: Supported admin section for managing support staff; management of

vehicles; local procurement; maintaining inventory of the projects/head office; custom clearance;

maintaining personal files; drafting routine correspondence and supporting program sections.

Logistics Secretary: I was implicated for secretarial jobs to facilitate Headquarters and Projects.

Receptionist: I was responsible for all the information and communication facilitation activities.


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EMPLOYERS' INTRODUCTION

(09) United Nations is owned by 192 member countries including 48 from Asia. Its main instruments for

helping its developing member counties are policy dialogue, loans, equity investments,

guarantees, grants, and technical assistance. UNs vision is an Asia and Pacific and global

region free of poverty and its mission is to help its developing member countries substantially

reduce the poverty from the world.

(08) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), established in 1974, through a special act of the

Japanese quest for international economic and technical cooperation to the outside world, which

is solely responsible to implement the Japan Governments Official Development Assistance

(ODA) in the world.

(07) UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID), working in partnership with

the GoN, had funded Enabling State Program-Nepal. ESP is taking an innovative approach in

addressing the problems for the good governance in Nepal. In particular, it is seeking to avoid

the common problems experienced by donor-funded projects of poor national ownership and the

imposition of external ideas.

(06) Strengthening Project: Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers was a satellite project of

the DFID/ESP with GBP700 thousands budget during 2003-04. The Strengthening Project was responsible

in merging Cabinet Secretariat and Prime Minister's Office; improving PM Office facilities; connecting PM

Office via IT/LAN System; introducing modern office procedures for efficient and effective PM Office;

HR Development and supported for government plan, policy and strategy formulation through consultants.

(05) Himalaya Broadcasting Company (HBC) 94 FM Radio Station was a well-known radio in Kathmandu.

HBC was popular among its urban, sub-urban and rural listeners, especially for hourly news and folk songs

as well as presentation of the diversified radio programs according to desires of its dispersed listeners.

(04) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is one of the main bodies of UN system. UNFPA, Country

Technical Service Team for South and West Asia (CST/SAWA Countries) is working to provide technicalsupports on population management issues. The team consists interdisciplinary regional and international

advisory group of experts from major UN agencies such as ESCAP, ILO, WHO, UNESCO, UNIFEM, etc.

to work in a partnership basis with the government and other population related national/international

development agencies, working in 15 South and West Asian Countries for population management issue.

(03) The UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID)/Rural Access Programme

(RAP) worked with an aim to reduce poverty in 6 eastern and western backward hilly districts of Nepal

through rural access along with complementary social package programmes. WSP International, Helvetas-

Nepal, GEOCE, University of East Anglia and Oxford Policy Management jointly worked in a partnership

as Consultants for designing and implementing RAP for improved livelihoods of marginalized people.

(02) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)/Japan Medical Association (JMA) jointly funded and

implemented School and Community Health Project (SCHP) to uplift life standard of marginalized people

through participatory community development approach in remote parts of Nepal.

(01) Save the Children-Norway (previously Redd Barna) is a Norwegian semi-government voluntary

international humanitarian organization; with a worldwide membership; working to improve conditions

for children; especially, children in difficult circumstances. It is a founder member of the InternationalSave the Children Alliance.

REFERENCE

Names of referees will be provided upon request


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