Consultant with rigorous experience in Business Management with Project Management

1. CURRICULUM VITAE (CV)
Position Title: Consultant
Name of Expert: Avinash Shroff
Date of Birth: 15th
February 1991
Country of Citizenship/Residence India
Education:
Degree /
Diploma
Year /
Period
College / University Specialization
Percentage
M.Sc.
(Economics)
2014 Madras School of
Economics, Chennai
Economics 72.40
B.Sc.
(Economics)
2012 Sri Satya Sai Institute of
Higher Learning, Andhra
Pradesh
Economics (hons)
with Math &
Statistics
82.40
Employment Record Relevant to the Assignment:
Period
Employing Organization and
Title/Position.
Country
Summary of activities performed
relevant to the assignment
April
2015 to
till date
Employing organization:
Sutra Consulting Private Limited
Position: Consultant
India Activities performed:
 Assisting team in project execution
and service delivery on a day-to-day
basis.
 Development of project management
and project implementation plans -
work schedules/deliverable plan for
team members and external
consultants and firms.
 Identify and partner with external
firms, consultants and human
resources necessary for project
implementation.
 Preparing Terms of Reference and
contract for external parties and
consultants
Nov 2014
to March
2015
Employing organization:
Sutra Consulting Private Limited
Position: Junior Associate
India Activities performed:
 Approaching donors and
development agencies to identify
opportunities
 Widen the portfolio of opportunities
that are being pitched
 Prospecting/ solicitation and lead
generation from new and existing
clients, donors, development
organization and projects.
 Identification of opportunities both
tendered and non-tendered / non-

2. competitive solicitation
 Identification of suitable partners and
consultants for tendering
 Timely preparation of Proposals
 Peer review of proposals, concept
notes, tender documents and
response to business opportunities
Language Skills Speaking Reading Writing
English Excellent Excellent Excellent
Hindi Excellent Excellent Excellent
Odia Excellent Excellent Excellent
Chhattisgarhi Excellent Excellent Excellent
Telugu Fair Poor Poor
Reference to Prior Work/Assignments that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Assigned Tasks
Assignment Details: Project Management Services to Skill Development Program of Odisha Rural
Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS)
Location: Odisha
Clients: Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS)
Designation: Project Manager
Main Project Features: Placement Linked Skill Development Training Program under Aajeevika Skill
Development Program (ASDP) in Odisha is being implemented by the state government to cater to
the challenges of creating a large number of Skill development and livelihood opportunities for the
poor, increasing labour force and to increase the income levels of working poor in the State.
Key Responsibilities:
 Responsible for providing high quality services to ORMAS through deployment of qualified
manpower.
 Responsible for overall program management of skill development initiatives of ORMAS in the
state and enabling effective implementation of ASDP in each district / block level.
 Technical Support Agency (TSA for ASDP) for solutions for planning, management, monitoring
and reporting, essentially as an effective project management unit.
Assignment Details: Outcome Assessment District Women’s Helpline strengthened under the
SWASTH programme in Bihar
Location: Bihar
Clients: Care India Solutions for Sustainable Development, New Delhi/BTAST
Designation: Qualitative Expert cum Project Manager
Main Project Features: This purpose of the current assignment therefore, two-fold: a) conduct an
assessment of the help lines in line with the objectives of the previous assessment (given above) to
understand the extent to which the help lines had improved capabilities, b) Understand the extent
to which the needs of women victims were addressed and what the related socio-cultural, health
and nutrition outcomes were for these women
Key Responsibilities:
 Responsible for conducting a desk-based review of the relevant literature on violence against
women, the role of women’s help lines, and the linkages between violence and health/nutrition
outcomes.
 Measurement of results framework indicators to be measured (taking into account previous and

3. Reference to Prior Work/Assignments that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Assigned Tasks
current assessment objectives) and a pre-analysis plan for analyzing the data collected. Details of
the methods including how interviews with women on such sensitive issues will be undertaken,
and a final sampling strategy also have to be included.
 Responsible for developing a document that discusses the risks for the women victims of
participating in the study and how the agency is going to mitigate such risks.
 Responsible for developing qualitative discussion guides for conducting in-depth interviews/case
studies/social autopsies as suggested by the agency.
 Responsible for developing separate discussion guides/checklists for each method/category of
respondent. The tools to cover all areas that can help answer the questions raised under each of
the objectives identified above.
 Involved in recruiting data collectors/moderators/facilitators experienced in qualitative data
collection and well-versed in the subject area, particularly those who are skilled in dealing with
sensitive issues such as violence.
Assignment Details: Support for development and implementation of a strategy for Independent
Impact Evaluation of Odisha Girls Incentive Programme (OGIP) in 2013-16.
Location: Odisha & Jharkhand
Clients: DFID/IPE Global
Designation: Consultant
Main Project Features:
DFID supported OGIP is implemented by SC/ST Department, Government of Odisha and is providing
program support to Govt. of India pre-metric scholarship of INR 2250 per year to SC/ST children
studying in 9th
and 10th
standard to all families with household income of less than INR 2 Lac per
annum.
Key Responsibilities:
 Responsible for designing key research questions on the indicators, developed research tools,
piloting of research tools and consultations at the field, data analysis of baseline findings, report
preparation.
 Involved in the secondary analysis of the indicators like GER, dropout rate, transition rate, pass
rate that affect the enrolment of children while transiting from upper primary to secondary
education.
 Involved in the final report preparation of the Odisha Girls Incentive Program and presenting the
same to the client.

4. Reference to Prior Work/Assignments that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Assigned Tasks
Assignment Details: Technical Assessment of Rural Sanitation program in two Indian states of
Odisha & West Bengal and a National level program
Location: Odisha, West Bengal and New Delhi
Clients: World Bank
Designation: Consultant
Mai Main Project Features: The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank is engaged in
advancing the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Gramin in 5 states of the country, Odisha, West Bengal,
Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. SBM-G has the objective of achieving ODF-free status
by providing toilets to all households in the country by 2019, provide toilets in all the Anganwadis,
and separate toilets for boys and girls in all the schools in the country by August 15, 2016, and
promote cleanliness in the all the villages through management of solid and liquid waste. WSP is
considering support to the SBM-G and in the course of making preparations for the project, it is
taking up a series of assessments, including Environmental assessment, Fiduciary assessment and
Technical Assessment (TA).
Key Responsibilities:
 Involved in the holding consultation of Consultants with key stakeholders at the district, state
and block levels.
 Involved in the procurement and staffing of consultants
 Involved in the IDI with the key stake holders to have a clear idea on the current status of Rural
Sanitation in the state of Odisha.
 Providing key inputs and preparing draft report of the out comings from the consultations held
to be submitted to the World Bank.
Assignment Details: Economics of Organic Farming: A brief review
Location: Chennai
Clients: CIKS (Centre for Information Knowledge System), Chennai
Designation: Researcher Assistant
Main Project Features:
 The project titled “Economics of Organic Farming” is part project of CIKS (Centre for
Information and Knowledge System) wherein my work was to help CIKS in helping them drive
away the importance of Organic methods of Farming by presenting them a brief review,
compiled out of 50 national and internationally acclaimed articles of agro-economists working
in the area of Organic Farming.
 This project compared the benefits and limitations of Organic vis a vis Inorganic methods of
Farming. It also helped in showing the positive aspects of Organic methods of Cultivation and
its contribution to human life. It further discussed its viability in India in terms of yield,
consumption and exports.
Key Responsibilities:
 Carry out a secondary research on the marketability and produce of organic farming in India.
 To identify the areas that is best suited for the growth of organic farming.
 Bring out the importance of Organic farming not only in terms of their nutritious value but also
in terms of trade and exports.
 The demand for Organic produce in the developed nations can help us in reducing the gap in
balance of payments.
Assignment Details: Nexus between revenue and expenditure in state of Uttar Pradesh using Co
integration
Location: Chennai
Year: 2013 -2014
Designation: Research Assistant

5. Reference to Prior Work/Assignments that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Assigned Tasks
Main Project Features:
The project was undertaken to find out long term equilibrium relationship between the revenue
and expenditure in the state of Uttar Pradesh using the co-intergation approach. It was seen that
the state of Uttar Pradesh had a positive balance of trade only thrice in a span of two decades.
Key Responsibilities: My key role was to identify the any correlation between the revenue and
expenditure of Uttar Pradesh using statistical tool and secondary data collected from relevant sites.
Statistical Packages Known MS Office, E views, STATA
Expert Contact
Information:
Cell no. 7894244025
Email ID: avishroff@gmail.com
Certification:
I hereby declare that the above information given by me is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
Place: Bhubaneswar
Date: 03/07/2015