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OHMAR KHINE

Consulatant - Gender Equality, Social Inclusion and Protection
Tha Sai, Samut Sakhon

Summary

A Ph.D. In Economics with a strong academic foundation in business and psychology, this expert specializes in applied gender policy research, economic modeling, and fiscal analysis tailored to diverse Asia-Pacific contexts. They bring over a decade of experience in leadership, stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, and fundraising, with a proven ability to align regional programs with global priorities. Multilingual and DEI-driven, they excel in team mentoring, facilitating technical workshops, and building high-level partnerships with governments, donors, and international organizations. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Executive Director

Neurodiversity at Work Research Centre (NWRC)
Bangkok, Bangkok
12.2023 - 02.2025
  • Company Overview: Steps Social Enterprise, Co. Ltd.
  • Spearhead effective collaboration with stakeholders (academic institutions, NGOs, iNGOs, CBOs & private businesses)
  • Develop tools, roadmaps, and policy briefs for stakeholders and guiding Business strategies related to the inclusion workplace and social protection
  • Demonstrate success in advocating for safe learning environments through global and regional networks, influencing policies, and promoting sustainable interventions to uphold young disabilities rights
  • Write white papers, reports, and academic papers on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and different Business models
  • Develop high-impact proposals, secure funding, and establish partnerships with key stakeholders across public, private, and international sectors.
  • Ensure efficacy and responsibility for the planning, execution, and evaluation of projects and budgets
  • Nurture and mentor current and future team members
  • Oversee and support the implementation of data collection and analysis of both internal and external projects
  • Proficient in programming tools like Python, R, and SPSS with the ability to address data gaps, improve methodologies, and enhance statistical processes
  • Advanced data analysis and visualization skills that are essential for translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for business decisions
  • Implement data quality checks and governance protocols that enhance data integrity and compliance across the organization
  • Engage with other researchers to build strategic partnerships and opportunities for knowledge-sharing
  • Demonstrate ability to lead initiatives that enhance program quality through the effective use of MEAL data

Gender Consultant

UNICEF
Bangkok, Bangkok
12.2022 - 11.2023
  • Company Overview: East Asia & the Pacific Region (EAPR)
  • Improved the EAPR gender expenditures (14 countries) by 20% overall from analyzing all data
  • Managed complex, multi-country programs, ensuring strategic alignment, effective execution, and robust monitoring and evaluation processes
  • Integrated gender-sensitive approaches into education and employment programs, enhancing opportunities for adolescent girls and young women
  • Advocated for adolescent girls' rights by influencing policy in financial inclusion, education, and health, ensuring clear communication of strategies and outcomes to key stakeholders
  • Achieved a track record in advancing global advocacy efforts, sharing research insights, and driving best practices for youth skills and employability
  • Provided technical assistance to UNICEF Country Offices along the nine key GAP priority actions, including adolescent girls' well-being and leadership, gender integration across the life course, ending gender-based violence, and working with men and boys on masculinities
  • Committed to ethical data practices and inclusive approaches, integrating genderresponsive solutions to meet the needs of vulnerable populations in line with organizational standards
  • Liaised with consultants, partners, and local counterparts such as educational institutions, think tanks, and civil society organizations
  • Undertook a detailed quality assurance review of the country office annual report (narrative and quantitative progress on GAP indicators) and Emergency Preparedness Plan
  • Worked in close coordination with the regional and country offices adolescent and PME team to identify the best results to showcase in a regional gender annual report
  • Developed good practices from countries in the region working on the Skills4Girls portfolio, building a regional compendium of what works to address gender norms at various levels
  • Contributed towards the project coordination of the Skills4Girls portfolio across the EAPR region, country offices, Education and Adolescent teams, as well as HQ Gender and PPD team
  • Wrote case studies for gender programs, prepared presentations and brochures
  • Analyzed and evaluated the Emergency Preparedness Plan for EAPRO countries

Graduate Assistant

Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Bangkok
01.2019 - 01.2023
  • Taught a course for the online thesis submission system and how to use EndNote
  • Assisted courses in Research and Methods (undergraduate course in Economics)
  • Assisted in running a regional economics conference
  • Edited submitted manuscript for publication in Southeast Asia Journal of Economics

Director

Girls Aspire! Program (GAP)
Mawlamyine , Myanmar
01.2013 - 01.2017
  • Company Overview: Mon State, Myanmar
  • Established the organization for the empowerment of girls
  • Created and managed programs and trained 12 staff members
  • Fundraised and wrote grant proposals
  • Liaised and established monitoring for donor organizations such as the US Embassy and USAID
  • Managed all financial and narrative annual reports for donor organizations
  • Monitored all contracts and ensured appropriate progress toward meeting goals and monitored program implementation to ensure meaningful accomplishments
  • Partnered with governments, NGOs, and girl-led organizations, managing crosssectoral collaboration to maximize resources and deliver cohesive programming
  • Created and delivered training and support programs that enhance the skills, knowledge, and leadership capacities of girls and women
  • Understood social norms, school-based violence, and social and behaviour change approaches, combined with the ability to develop resources such as toolkits and training materials for capacity building.
  • Designed and implemented programs that promote gender equality and support women's economic advancement in alignment with global frameworks such as SDGs 5 and 8
  • Developed and executed programs that address the unique needs and vulnerabilities of girls, including initiatives focused on preventing child marriage, trafficking, and genderbased violence
  • Mon State, Myanmar

Deputy Director

Foundation for Education and Development
Phang Nga , Phang Nga
01.2007 - 01.2011
  • Company Overview: Phang Nga, Thailand
  • Assumed all duties of the Executive Director in his absence
  • Provided the strategic leadership for the organization and oversaw the development of programs
  • Managed 78 staff members and teachers in the organization
  • Proven ability to design, implement, and evaluate labour policy initiatives and migration programs for international organizations, NGOs, and governments.
  • Knowledge of anti-trafficking measures, forced labour prevention, and workers' rights protection mechanisms.
  • Communicated and coordinated the organization's strategic, programmatic, and financial activities with the Executive Director
  • Managed all day-to-day budgeting, accounting, forecasting, financial reporting, and cash-flow analyses
  • Managed all financial and narrative annual reports for the donor organizations
  • Coordinated fund-raising goals, strategies, and plans for prospective donors
  • Developed partnerships across sectors, engaging with governments, donors, UN agencies, and NGOs to advance education reform and child protection, particularly in preventing violence in schools
  • Monitored all contracts and ensured appropriate progress toward meeting goals, monitoring program implementation for meaningful accomplishments
  • Liaised and established monitoring for donor organizations such as Oxfam, Save the Children, UNICEF Thailand, Japan Volunteer Center (JVC), Comité Catholique Contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD), Child's Dream, and Open Society Institute (OSI)
  • Deep understanding of migration, displacement, and demographic trends, with expertise in analyzing diverse datasets to inform policies, planning, and reporting in humanitarian and development settings
  • Liaised with other Thai organizations and Burmese organizations which were based in the border
  • Worked with a variety of Thai national and local governments and private entities to ensure coordination for various programs
  • Participated in regional conferences, international conferences, and networking meetings
  • Phang Nga, Thailand

Education Coordinator

Foundation for Education and Development
Phang Nga, Phang Nga
01.2006 - 01.2007
  • Company Overview: Phang Nga, Thailand
  • Supervised five learning centers serving over 700 children of migrant workers from Burma with over 40 teachers
  • Managed education programmes focused on policy development, planning, and monitoring, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic plan to address violence in schools and create safe, inclusive learning environments
  • Oversaw all financial transactions about the education program
  • Wrote grant proposals and oversaw projects from major donors such as Save the Children UK, Oxfam Novib, and UNICEF
  • Conducted the survey and census of migrant workers' children to assess needs and establish mobile learning centers for the first time in the region
  • Collaborated with local Thai schools to integrate migrant children into the Thai education system
  • Helped parents to understand the value of education for their children
  • Promoted child rights among the Burmese migrant workers' communities
  • Phang Nga, Thailand

Education

Ph.D. - Labour and Gender Economics

Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
01.2019 - 1 2022

Master of Arts - Business Managerial Economics

Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
01.2018 - 1 2019

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Yangon University of Distance Education
Yangon, Myanmar
01.2012 - 1 2016

A.A degree - General Education

Ohlone College
Fremont, California
01.2009 - 1 2011

Skills

  • Leadership & management skills

  • strategic program development

  • program monitoring/evaluation

  • internal & external program review

  • staff capacity-building

  • human resource management

  • Fundraising

  • grant-writing

  • financial report preparation

  • narrative report preparation

  • funder relations development

  • Research skills

  • computer skills

  • Power BI

  • Tableau

  • STATA16

  • R

  • SPSS

  • Python

  • Microsoft Office

Skills Expertise

  • Leadership & management skills that include strategic program development, program monitoring/evaluation, internal & external program review, staff capacity-building & human resource management
  • Fundraising, grant-writing, financial & narrative report preparation & funder relations development
  • Research & computer skills, including Power BI, Tableau, STATA16, R, SPSS, Python, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, Lightroom, InDesign)
  • UN/UNICEF Completed Courses: Foundations of Gender-Transformative Approaches; Gender-Responsive Monitoring & Evaluation; Gender-Transformative Approaches to Adolescent Girls Programming; I Know Gender: An Introduction to Gender Equality for UN Staff; COVID-19 Integrating Gender-based Violence Risk Mitigation; Programmatic Approaches to Positive Gender Norms and Socialization; BSAFE; Fraud Awareness; Ethics and Integrity at UNICEF (2020 Update); General Information Security Awareness Course; PSEA; Prevention of Sexual Harassment and Abuse of Authority (2021 Version)
  • Fluent in Burmese, Mon, and English (reading, writing, speaking, and general communication skills); Adequate in Thai (general communication)

Country Of Birth

Burma (Myanmar)

Publications

  • "Did 'Burmese Way to Socialism' Create Jobs Equitably?", Thailand and the World Economy, 42, 1, 01/08/2024, pp.148-173, https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/TER/article/view/263441
  • "Gender Inequality across Time and Space in Myanmar", Thailand and the World Economy, in press
  • Occupational Options of Labor Force in Myanmar: A Historical Analysis, Thammasat Review of Economic and Social Policy, prepared for publication

Training Workshop Conference

  • 12/2024, IDEAs - Chulalongkorn University Young Scholars Workshop - Development policy in a financially integrated world: Addressing contemporary challenges, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 11/2024, GenderPro Credential - The Global Women's Institute, The George Washington University
  • 05/2024, CITI Program in Human Subjects Research - Social-Behavioral-Educational (SBE) Foundations
  • 06/2023, 15th International Burma Studies Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, presenting the paper titled 'Did 'Burmese Way to Socialism' Create Jobs Equitably? Job Creation under the Military Regime in Myanmar'; supported by Burma Studies Conference
  • 05/2023, Gender/Adolescent Regional Network Meeting for UNICEF
  • 12/2022, 12 Gender-related UN/UNICEF online courses (Foundations of Gender-Transformative Approaches; Gender-Responsive Monitoring & Evaluation, etc.)
  • 12/2022, 7th Asian Historical Economics Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 08/2022, Singapore Economic Review Conference, Singapore, presenting the paper titled 'Did 'Burmese Way to Socialism' Create Jobs Equitably? Job Creation under the Military Regime in Myanmar'; supported by the Department of Economics, Chulalongkorn University
  • 06/2022, Society Interdisciplinary Business Research Annual Meeting, Seoul, South Korea, presenting the paper titled 'Gender Inequality across Time and Space in Myanmar'
  • 01/2014, Women Leadership Development Training by Gender Equality Network (GEN), Yangon, Myanmar
  • 05/2013, CEDAW TOT training by NGO Gender Group, Yangon, Myanmar
  • 10/2011, Seminar for Dawei Seaport on mitigation and adaptation, Phang Nga, Thailand
  • 07/2011, Workshop on Project Cycle Management (PCM) and proposal writing by European Union, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 03/2011, Media and Advocacy by Burma Partnership (BP), Mae Sot, Thailand
  • 01/2009, Interpreter Training by Newcomer Health Program, San Francisco, California, USA
  • 05/2008, International Women's Network Conference, Italy
  • 02/2008, Lenten Campaign sponsored by Comité catholique contre la faim et pour le développement (CCFD), France
  • 03/2007, Workshop for Burmese Migrant Children Education by Unicef, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 05/2006, Impact Assessment on project training by Save the Children UK, Phuket, Thailand
  • 02/2006, Mental Health & Counseling training by Basis Need, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • 11/2005, Internship Program to learn about Conflict in Maluka, Maluku Island, Indonesia
  • 08/2005, Conference on International Law and Migrant Workers by Diplomacy Training Program, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 03/2005, Community Organizing Training by HREIB, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 02/2004, Transitional Justice Program Truth by HREIB, Mae Sot, Thailand
  • 09/2003, Leadership Training by HREIB, Mae Sot, Thailand
  • 08/2003, Children's Rights Training by Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB), Mae Sot, Thailand
  • 03/2003, Basic Art Training, Mae Sot, Thailand
  • 12/2002, Workshop of Basic Children Rights & School Health Education, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 08/2002, Teacher Training for Burmese Teachers (TTBT), Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 02/2002, Women Exchange & Youth Exchange Workshop, Sangkalaburi, Thailand
  • 07/2002, Management Training by National Health Education Committee (NHEC), Sangkalaburi, Thailand
  • 06/2002, Women and Peace Building Workshop by Mon Women Organization (MWO), Sangkalaburi, Thailand
  • 11/2001, Women Rights Training Workshop by MWO, Kaloakane, Thailand
  • 09/2001, Women's Empowerment Workshop by MWO, Kaloakane, Thailand

Timeline

Executive Director

Neurodiversity at Work Research Centre (NWRC)
12.2023 - 02.2025

Gender Consultant

UNICEF
12.2022 - 11.2023

Graduate Assistant

Chulalongkorn University
01.2019 - 01.2023

Ph.D. - Labour and Gender Economics

Chulalongkorn University
01.2019 - 1 2022

Master of Arts - Business Managerial Economics

Chulalongkorn University
01.2018 - 1 2019

Director

Girls Aspire! Program (GAP)
01.2013 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Yangon University of Distance Education
01.2012 - 1 2016

A.A degree - General Education

Ohlone College
01.2009 - 1 2011

Deputy Director

Foundation for Education and Development
01.2007 - 01.2011

Education Coordinator

Foundation for Education and Development
01.2006 - 01.2007
OHMAR KHINEConsulatant - Gender Equality, Social Inclusion and Protection