Sanjeev Bhanja Email Address

Disaster Management Lead, Asia

Tearfund is a Charitable organisation in Teddington, Slough, United Kingdom.

I am an aid worker with proven leadership, management skills, networking and advocacy capability. Managed country programs in the Philippines, Indonesia and India with demonstrable impact, both in humanitarian and development sectors. Provided leadership to the missions of credible organizations, ActionAid, CARE, PATH, EFICOR, and Tearfund and facilitated strategic positioning and growth of the organisations. I have sound experience in program management, advocacy & networking, donor coordination and business development for complex humanitarian response, DRR, and public health programs especially for maternal child health & nutrition sector. Skill-set:•Strategic Planning and Program Management: Over 10 years’ experience in the design, management, and implementation of large projects in partnership with USAID, CIDA, DFID, BMGF and DEC with up to 5 million USD funding per year.•Team Management: Have led large team of up to 70 national and expatriate staffs in cross-cultural setting to deliver results with laid out procedure for staff well-being. Knowledge Management and M&E : Conversant with developing monitoring learning and evaluation design; and knowledge management pathway.•Partnership Management and Coordination: Have carried out due diligence procedure using Partner Organisation Capacity Assessment tools, safeguarding and compliance standards for appropriate selection of partners, • Representation, Networking and Advocacy: have represented organisations at UN networks and collaborated with Government and academic institutions. Represent Tearfund in START Network and humanitarian coordination mechanisms at the national and regional levels.•Mainstreamed gender, diversity and inclusion in programs: Address consciously and integrate gender, diversity, and inclusion into the project design and monitoring. Sector focus- Humanitarian Response, Disaster Management and Risk Reduction,Maternal Child Health & Nutrition