Pallav Ranjan

Born 14 December 1971
Address: 11217 Fall River CT, Potomac, Maryland 20854
Phone: (301)3666691
Email: pallavranjan@gmail.com
Website: spinybabbler.org/knowledge
LinkedIn URL: linkedin.com/in/ranjan-pallav


EXPERIENCE


Executive Director and Principal Editor-writer
Spiny Babbler Knowledge Center (Outreach and Communication Center rebranded)
March 2015-present

Nationally and internationally circulated content, print, web, alternative, and video/animation related technical writing since 1989. Capacity to lead content teams. A range of writing output including shorts, scripts, articles, interviews, reports, and books. Ability to reach out to a wide range of audience (rural, planning, donor, to government partners) with assured products in different styles as best-fit for the audience targeted. Ability to research, design, produce, and disseminate in content, print, web, video, and alternative media an added plus. Self-driven team player able to meet deadlines. Great at collaborating, training team members, integrating institutional priorities at the client, inhouse, or planning levels.

Author of Maya, My Love (novel on women’s trafficking, Spiny Babbler), I Learn to Trust (stories of young people and their relationship with the police, Search for Common Ground), With My Whole Heart (mitigating gender violence and promoting women and girls’ rights, UK Aid), an art tour across 19 locations of Nepal (made the largest artwork of the nation and related how the internet could help change lives in urbanizing and rural countryside, muncha.com) and other publications.

  • Planned, proposed, primary signatory, implemented communication products and projects involving extensive writing-editing.
  • Products approved by Nepal Government’s various departments; Child-to-Child Project for the International Labor Organization; TEMLP for UNDP and the Global Environmental Fund; Alternative Media Project for ICIMOD and the Ford Foundation; PACC for ARD Inc; three child protection projects for World Vision International; publications for Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation and Nepal Police.
  • From data analysis, writing, art, copy-editing, media research, and designing and printing of publications, video and alternative media material for UNESCO; brochures, 2D training video, introductory 3D video, reports, websites, and other material.


Work Samples


Asia Regional Meeting of the Policy Forum on Development
Meeting Documentation
GIZ BE and the EC
Maternal Mortality Report
Mother and Infant Research Activities
With My Whole Heart
Expanding the horizons of equality
VSO Nepal consortium with UKAID
I Learn to Trust
Stories of the Young and the Police
A New Normal
Findings of outcome harvesting on transforming harmful social norms and improving accountability in Nepal.
International Alert
Promoting Peace
Improvement of livelihoods in rural areas
Nepal Peace Fund, GIZ

Knowledge (Communication) Consultant
Independent
March 2015-present

  • VSO International, SAHAJ, Nepal Health Sector Support Programme, International Alert, MIRA, Search for Common Ground, GIZ, Ecpat Luxembourg, UN Women, Swiss Development Cooperation, International Alert, Search for Common Ground, The Mountain Institute, Asia Foundation, Lutheran World Federation, Lumanti, NGO Fund Project, and many other organizations.
  • Wrote and edited policy to implementation level documents involving government secretaries, mayors, local elected representatives, and donor government representatives and project leaders. Analyzed data, prepared reports, leaflets, news releases, profiles, interviews, booklets, annual reports, research reports, books and other material to be used for the web, video, print.
  • Prepared full range of communication services including content, print, web, alternative media products such as multiple documentary/docu-drama scripts. Communication products.

Lead Writer-Editor, Institutional Head
Outreach and Communication Center Private Limited
February 2003 - February 2014
  • One-stop service for international organizations expanding from data collection, filtering, management and information and knowledge product packaging. Research, analysis, writing, and editing to prepare
  • leaflets, brochures, manuals, reports, and books to web, video, animation products.
  • United Nations Development Organization, UNICEF ROSA, CD-MUN, Nepal Peace Trust, and other international organizations.

Primary Writer-Editor, Founder
Editorial Services
April 1996-December 2002.
  • Worked with international organizations offering English writing, editing, translation services in Nepal.
  • Conducted research, writing, photography, designing, and coordinated printing and trained 5 team members in writing, editing, illustration, and design and layout.
  • Red Cross Nepal, Water Aid, Small Business Promotion Project, Save the Children US, UK, and Norway and multiple organizations.

Associate Editor
Wave Publications
January 1995-March 1996
Casino Times, PC Quest and Royal Nepal Golf Club Souvenir. Involved in planning the magazines, assigning writers, taking on writing assignments including editorials, features, articles and finalizing the magazine for press.

Associate Editor
Adventure Nepal Publications
January 1994-December 1994
Adventure Nepal and The Nepal Looms. Involved in writing editorials, features, blurbs, headlines, captions. In charge of planning, assigning researchers and writers, editing, coordinating design and layout, coordinating with the printers.

Assistant Editor
Nepal Traveller Publications
April 1992-December 1993.
Nepal Travel Trade Reporter and Shangri-La inflight magazine. Planning of the magazines, assignment of researchers, writers and photographers, writing of features, blurbs, captions, headlines. Multiple articles researched, fact checked, written, and published. Coordinated with the design and printing teams.

Editorial Assistant
Nepal Traveller Publications
February 1991-March 1992
Nepal Traveller and Nepalese-Tibetan Carpet. Supported the editor by researching and writing articles, fact checking, copy and substantive editing, coordinating with designers, photographers and other writers.

Freelancer
Independent
January 1988-January 1991
More than 100 articles published in what was then Nepal’s only English newspaper, The Rising Nepal, The People’s Review, Everest Herald, Poetry Nottingham, Republica, Annapurna Express, and others contributed to AD: Architectural Digest with research. Translated/edited more than 100 technical as well as creative products for development organizations as well as established and upcoming creators.


CERTIFICATION AND EDUCATION

  • Introduction to Communication Science. University of Amsterdam on Coursera. Verified certificate for the 8-week course earned on 19 March 2015.
  • English Grammar and Essay Writing. University of California, Berkeley on EdX. Certificate for 5 week course earned on 18 March 2015.
  • The Importance of Listening. Northwestern University on Coursera. Verified certificate earned on 30 November 2015.
  • What is Social? Understanding social media. Northwestern University. Verified certificate earned on 5 November 2015.
  • School Leaving Certificate. St. Xavier's School. Kathmandu, Nepal. 1988.