Ruth Lipika Hira

• Able to coordinate with different stakeholders for completion of projects.
• Experienced in developing Strategic and Operational papers.
• Professional experience in the field of international development, preferably with a good portion of that gained in overseas contexts.
• Strong understanding and experience of new business development, including facilitation of consortia and partnerships, opportunity identification, quality proposal development and donor rules.
• Experience of project and award management, including planning, budgeting, resource management, controls, problem solving, monitoring and delivering on time, to quality and within budget.
• Proven ability to work with others to build capacities in a cooperative way. Good persuasion skills.
• Experience in delivering training, in-person, remotely and through mentoring.
• Knowledge, experience and/or interest in safety & security management and wider risk management
• Ability to work in differing cultural contexts, using the most appropriate methodologies for adoption of change in each context.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills in English, with a relevant second language desirable.

• Managed 6 INGO partners for while working with ECHO 
• Monitored and supported activities implemented by the partners with active partnership
• Managed Child protection and education teams for World Vision for the GAC and UNICEF funded projects
• Implemented child protection and education program for TDH and World Vision in 4 Rohingya Refugee camps under Cox's Bazar district 
• Implemented Child Protection activities under GAC and UNICEF funded porject on time
• Lead the Girls Education Program for Room to Read Bangladesh at urban context.
• Implemented Play Based learning program for BIED in urban and sub urban context. 
• Implemented multi lingual education program  and Dictionary development project for indigenous community of Bangladesh.
• Implemented informal education program for children in rural context. 

Masters in Sociology from the Department of Social Science of Dhaka University, 1998