Gaurav Aryal

Lead partnerships, external relations, fundraising, project management, knowledge management and communications. Lead the systematic engagement process with partners, facilitate due diligence assessments, and partner capacity assessments. Develop partner agreements, MOUs and process legal and financial clearances. Ensure visibility, branding, and organise outreach events. Write, edit and quality control of proposals, concept notes, communication and visibility materials and social media posts.

Resource mobilisation and business development to secure 6 million Euros annually. Identify funding and partnerships opportunities, form partnerships, networking. Strengthen the internal decision-making systems and communications. Represent Plan at multi-stakeholder forum, interagency networks, stakeholder and partner meetings. Build relationships with strategic partners, networks, and government. Write, edit, and proofread bid documents, EOIs, concept notes, proposals, sales pitch, and project reports.

New business development, fundraising and partnerships for multi-sectoral projects. Conceptualise, develop and quality control new project ideas, concepts, proposals, EOIs, pitch documents, visibility and communications products. Raised 2 million euros per year. Gather partner intelligence, new opportunities, conduct donor research, and maintain partnership databases. Lead the partnership identification, negotiation, due diligence of national and international partners.

Lead process to design action research, data collection, analysis, and report writing on social issues. Draft, edit, revise, and update strategic documents, project reports, annual reports, newsletters, website content, and social media content. Collect, write, and disseminate learning, best practices, project briefs, case studies, and success stories. Ensure quality control of reports and publications. Support project management, manage database, information system, contacts, and correspondences.

Lead the newsroom and content planning with editorial, creative teams, and news sources. Conduct interviews, write and edit news, features, articles, corporate and personality profiles on finance, economic development, business, and corporate issues for Business 360°, a monthly business magazine, and its website. Write, edit, translate, proofread, news, articles, features, interviews and profiles. Coordinate with editorial, creative, and marketing departments for the timely completion of content.

Conduct market research on financial service providers on the social protection. Engage in data collection, analysis, activity-based costing, quantifying costs, savings, and benefits of alternative methods of G2P payments, and prepare detailed end-to-end process maps. Conduct focused group discussions, key informant interviews, and surveys. Process, analyse, and synthesise information. Write, edit and summarise a report. Engage with community, financial service providers and government stakeholders.

Support weekly, monthly, and annual planning of content, news, and articles together with editorial and creative teams. Conduct interviews, write, translate, edit, and proofread news stories, features, articles, corporate and personality profiles on finance, economy, business, and corporate issues. Coordinate with news, design, marketing, and circulation teams for timely design, quality control, and collaboration. Collaborate with journalists and editors for smooth content development and publication.

Conduct market research on the demand-side needs of financial products and services. Collect quantitative and qualitative data and information and perform data analysis. Prepare a process report, document the findings, and prepare a synthesis report. Support to draft, edit, proofread, summarise research findings, and final report.

Lead, coordinate, plan, and manage content for Food and Wine magazine. Take interviews, write and edit news stories, features, and articles related to food and beverages, hospitality, travel, tourism, and lifestyle issues. Content creation, drafting, copy editing, translation, and proofreading content in English. Ensure the quality and quantity of content availability for magazine publication. Work closely with reporters, photographers, the marketing and administration team.

Specialized in Economics, Project Management, Communications and development theories and practices.