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Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name MOHAMMAD TANVIRUL ISLAM
E-mail tanvirul.islam@savethechildren.org; tanvirul07.islam@yahoo.com;
Telephone +880-1715-046908
Nationality Bangladeshi
Date of birth 10 January 1976
Contract Address 87, Nazimuddin Road, Flat No: C3, P/O: Posta, Thana: Lalbagh, Dhaka
Social Skills and
Competencies
Sensitive to the rights of the vulnerable children and believe in their meaningful participation.
Thrive on working in a multicultural team and environment and strong adaptability to different
and emergency situations.
Excellent initiative and self motivator with good mediation and leadership skills.
Ability to work under pressure and tense situations.
Organisational Skills and
Competences
Knowledge on Project Cycle Management, visibility methodology, Result Oriented Monitoring
(ROM) system, reporting and budget format of various donors projects.
Extensive working experience to implement education projects for Rural, Urban and Hard to
Reach areas of Bangaldesh.
Strong Knowledge on pedagogy, NCTB curriculum, pre-primary education, PEDP, National
Education Policy.
Proven working experience to implement education projects through national partners and
ability to find alternative and creative solutions to different situations.
Extensive experience working with national partners through capacity building and support
using Child Rights Based Approach (RBA) in emergency and development setting.
Major Achievement
Key Task Goals Achieved
Capacity Building Trained teachers, supervisors and program staff who are providing Basic Education services
to different types of working children at rural and urban settings on education pedagogy,
classroom management, multi grade system, positive discipline, quality education,
accelerated learning.
Education and Advocacy
Materials Development
NFE and Pre-primary Teachers Training Manual
Positive Discipline Resource Book
Manual On Communicative English
Manual on After School Tutorial Program
SMC training manual
Video training manual on community participation in school development
Advocacy and awareness raising material development
Partnership Management Successfully implement 4 Basic Education and 1 Education in Emergency Project through 9
local partners and 7 national partners
Fund Raising Secure fund for Urban Slum Children Education (EU funded)
Secure fund for IKEA Education fund
Secure fund for Education in Emergency Project of UNICEF
Secure fund for EC SHARE Project

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Advocacy Achieved to incorporate School Lunch program in PRSP and government budgetary allocation
Achieve to band physical and humiliating punishment (PHP) by the government in schools
Education in Emergency
(Back to School) Project
Rebuild 500 government and non-government schools effected by cyclone Sidr
Provide capacity building training to 1200 teachers on psychosocial support to disaster
effected children
Establish 125 Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) after cyclone Sidr and Aila
Develop teachers training manual on psychosocial support to disaster effected children
Work Experience
July 2010 to Present Manager-Basic Education (Education for Youth Empowerment -EYE), Program
Coordinator (Education)
Name of organization Save the Children International
Main activities and
responsibilities
Capacity Building
 Organize and facilitate EYE thematic need based capacity building training, workshop,
review and assessment of SCSD and Partner staffs
 Facilitate external experts to conduct capacity building training
 Conduct regular monitoring of all thematic education initiatives
Policy and strategy based support
 Contribute to programme strategy development on EYE.
 Provide technical advice, policy interpretation, and guidance related to Education Policy,
EFA, National Plan of Actions
 Contribute to the development of appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of programme.
 Integration of educational components with other Themes.
Program design, development and new program initiation:
 Organize in Project assessment/evaluation and prepare ending report as well as
maintained all coordination and liaison.
 Define projects’ strategies, plan of implementation, Project proposals.
 Education in Emergency-Back to School Support.
Pedagogical and curriculum based support:
 Development of need based NFE/skill based curriculum
 Pedagogic support to ensure quality of the education components,
 Developing relevant monitoring indexes for all education components
 Review and development of teaching learning materials, modules, primers.
 Identify and continuous development of pre-vocational education components of EYE
Research and Knowledge building:
 Update the Program Team on new approaches/policies/interventions, literatures.
 Education new idea generation, concept note development for fund raising.
 Documenting and promoting best practices in education sector to ensure quality
Report preparation and capacity building budget management:
 Preparing and modifying annual budget for theme and partner
 Prepare progress report, donor reports and other documentation as required.
Advocacy and networking and national level representation:
 National level advocacy on education issues, best practices, establishment of education
based linkage and mobilizing platform
 Institution building, network and linkage establishing with like minded education based
organization

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Fundraising
 Fundraising proposal development for IKEA soft toys on Education; Proposal development
for UNICEF on Education in Emergency project. Experience on proposal development on basic
education under EC SHARE call.
April 2008 to June 2010 Program Officer-Education
Name of organization Save the Children Sweden Denmark (SCSD)
Main activities and
responsibilities
 Asses capacity building needs of partners in formal and non-formal education program.
 Organize, conduct and coordinate training for the partners and SCSD regarding
education (Accelerated learning, Positive discipline, Classroom management, Pre-school,
teaching learning process, Child-friendly school).
 Monitoring support to achieve quality of education and ensure effective education service
delivery.
 Organize and facilitate learning sharing visit, workshops, meetings to strength staff
knowledge
 Support to develop need based NFE curriculum review for the working children.
 Provides technical advice, policy interpretation, and guidance related to Education Policy,
EFA, National Plan of Action II and PEDP.
 Documenting and promoting best practices in education sector to facilitate realistic
program implementation procedure and generate new ideas to ensure quality of
education.
 Strengthen field staff capacity to collect, interpret, and use data to improve program
quality and coverage, and advocacy effectiveness and ensure community participation in
education development.
 Facilitate PNGOs education program development in line with SCSD’s thematic goal and
objectives.
 Identify education needs of the disadvantaged group children and contribute to develop
program strategy.
 Facilitate partnership for enhanced programme delivery and programme development.
 Support supervisor to strengthening of quality and efficient technical and strategic
education partnership.
 Preparing various documents (concept note, agreement, ToR,) in relation with education
program development and implementation.
 Contribute to the development of operational plans for partners and theme to achieve
relevant objectives.
 Support to planning and budget process of partners and themes.
 Advocacy and linkage with national level key education actors to incorporate employment
education as a priority for the Child Labourer.
 Organize, facilitate and participate workshops, seminars (internal and External) regarding
inclusive education, education for employment as the spokes person of SCSD.
 Coordinate Education in Emergency Project: Working as a focal person to implement Early
Recovery in Education (ERE) project after cyclone Sidr. Provide support to implement Child
Friendly Space (CFS) after cyclone Sidr and Aila.
August 2006 to April 2008 Associate Program Officer- Education
Name of organization ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB)
Main activities and
responsibilities
Partnership management (local and national); partner’s capacity building (program design,
advocacy, program implementation), providing technical support to prepare partner
organization’s annual plans and budget (program and financial) as well as contributing
education theme plan and budget; organize national and international seminars and

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workshops; research and documentation on PEDP-II; translating education activist guide;
maintain filling and documentations of relevant letters, memos etc from different sources;
organizing and facilitating field visit for different national and international staff of AAB; writing
reports and meeting minutes; writing concept note on community based school lunch program
June 2003 to July 2006 Program Coordinator-Education
Name of organization Noakhali Rural Development Society (NRDS)
Main activities and
responsibilities
Team leader to implement commonwealth education fund (CEF) project in the coastal area of
Bangladesh; facilitating training for the teachers, civil society for capacity building on
community participation in mapping exclusion, social audit; conduct research with Power and
Participation Research Centre (PPRC) on classroom culture and practice; conducting and
developing participatory budget analysis (PBA) research methodology; contributing to develop
AAB education theme partners program strategy; providing training on education advocacy to
the AAB partners staff with the collaboration of Interaction Consulting; Providing inputs and
joint research with CAMPE on various issues; report preparation and documentation;
maintaining linkage with national level partners to bring local issues in the national level
advocacy; establishing primary schools as a part of AAB thematic initiative; monitoring field
activities.
June 2002 to April 2003 Short Term Consultant
Name of organization Marie Stopes Clinic Society (MSCS)
Main activities and
responsibilities
Monitoring and supervising field initiatives as a team leader; developing information and
communication materials; maintaining transmission record of radio and TV advertisement;
organizing training for Government Family Planning and Health officials at field level; quarterly
report preparation and tracking budget expenditure
April 1997 to April 1999 Field Investigator
Name of organization Centre for Sustainable Development (CFSD).
Main activities and
responsibilities
Preparing Questionnaire for opinion collection from various stakeholders; opinion collection
from the field; report preparation based on the opinion collection data; Maintain database and
logs of all press and media coverage.
EDUCATION
Degree Bachelor In Education (BED) Masters in Sociology Honors’ in Sociology
Name of Institution Khan Bahadur Ahasanullah Teachers
Training College
University of Dhaka University of Dhaka
Year 2013 (waiting for result) 1998 to 1999 1995 to 1998
TRAINING
Title, Year and organizer Management Development Programme, 2010, Save the Children Sweden Denmark
Child Friendly School, 2009, Save the Children Sweden Regional Office
Inter Agency Network for Education in Emergencies INEE minimum standard, 2009,
Save the Children Sweden Regional Office, Nepal
CRC and Education Rights, 2008, Save the Children Sweden Regional Office, Bangladesh
Right Based Approach, 2007, ActionAid Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Advocacy Fellow Development for Primary Education, 2006, ActionAid Bangladesh and
Interaction Consulting, Bangladesh
Scientific Social Research, 2005, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC),

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Bangladesh
Education for All: National Plan of Action-II and Educational Policy, 2004, ActionAid
Bangladesh and Interaction Consulting, Bangladesh
PUBLICATIONS
Title, Year and Publisher Universal Primary Education for All Towards Millennium Development Goal 2:
Bangladesh Perspective, 2009, SAGE publication
Handbook on Positive Discipline, 2009, Save the Children Sweden Denmark
Physical and Humiliating Punishment of Children in School, Outcome of Countrywide
Consultations, 2008, Save the Children Sweden Denmark
Advocacy Action Guide: Primary Education, ,Interaction consulting and Commonwealth
Education Fund-CEF
Bangladesh MDG Report Card, 2006, The Daily Star
Advocacy for School Lunch Program: Can change the situation, 2009, Asia Education
Network Website
Swapna o Bastobata, 2004, NRDS
Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and Primary Education, 2005, The Daily Naya
Diganta
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Mother tongue Bangla
English
Reading skills Excellent
Writing skills Excellent
Verbal skills Excellent
IT SKILLS
Excellent in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet browsing
REFERENCES
Shahida Begum
Program Director-EYE
Save the Children International
House No CWN (A) 35, Road No. 43, Gulshan
2, Dhaka-1212
Phone: 01713279587, email:
shahida.begum@savethechildren.org
Mohammad Muntasim Tanvir
Senior Progamme Manager, Education and
Youth at ActionAid International, Bangkok,
Thailand
Phone: +66816996402, +8801715437921,
email: tanvir301@yahoo.com,