Ummer Tashfeen

TFP Fellow

Teach for Pakistan • Full-time

Jul 2025 - Present • 1 yr

• Appointed as a Teach For Pakistan Fellow within a national leadership development program focused on eliminating educational inequity in Pakistan through classroom impact, community partnership, and systems change. • Delivering full-time instruction in an under-resourced government school serving low-income communities, with a focus on measurable learning gains and student-centered classroom practice. • Conducting baseline assessments and ongoing learning diagnostics to identify attainment gaps, tailor instruction, and track progress against grade-level expectations. • Designing and implementing structured interventions to address learning inequities, including targeted remediation, differentiated lesson planning, and continuous instructional improvement informed by evidence. • Leading a Community Partnership Project in collaboration with families, school staff, and local stakeholders to remove barriers to learning and strengthen support structures for students beyond the classroom. • Mobilizing resources to improve school and community access to learning supports, including facilitating skill-development workshops and supporting initiatives that expand access to educational materials and technology. • Engaging in ongoing professional coaching, classroom observations, and leadership development to strengthen pedagogical practice, community mobilization, and long-term advocacy capacity. • Contributing to a broader movement of alumni and partners working across sectors to advance education equity, strengthen public systems, and influence long-term policy and practice in Pakistan. • Leveraging cross-network learning through Teach For All’s global community to exchange evidence-informed practices and deepen comparative understanding of education inequity across contexts.

Proposal Developer

Cynosure International • Full-time

Sep 2024 - Jul 2025 • 10 mos

• Formed Proposals for various organizations in the International Development sector, like UN agencies and INGOs. • Facilitated Meetings, interviews, and Stakeholder Engagement. • Reached out to International Consultants on Development Aid, and Devex. • Formed Firm Presentations on Canva, and Managed Firm Database on Excel and Manatal. • Conducted desk research on global policy and development-finance trends relevant to donor priorities and funding cycles, summarizing implications for proposal positioning, stakeholder messaging, and investment-relevant narratives.

Research Fellow

HANNS SEIDEL FOUNDATION (HSF) • Part-time

Nov 2023 - Apr 2024 • 5 mos

FISCAL DEVOLUTION IN ACTION: KARACHI'S BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS; PRE & POST 18TH AMENDMENT: • Conducted in-depth research on Fiscal Devolution and its impact on Karachi’s Budgetary allocations, analyzing changes before and after the 18th Amendment. • Ensured high-quality research output by adhering to the rigorous academic standards of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, a prestigious German research institute working in collaboration with Pakistan. • Acted as a liaison between HSF administration and Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad (QAU) Fellows, facilitating communication and project coordination. NATURAL DISASTER & GENDER: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN'S STRUGGLE IN POST- FLASHFLOOD LIFE IN TANK: • Led in-depth qualitative research on gender dynamics and disaster recovery in Tank, Pakistan, a conservative, ethno-religious region severely impacted by flash floods. • Applied intersectional feminist and postmodernist frameworks to reveal the untold stories of women as they navigated the post-disaster "new normal," challenging patriarchal norms and redefining their roles and identities. • Examined the policy and governance dimensions of disaster response, identifying gaps in gender-inclusive recovery frameworks and advocating for more equitable, context-sensitive interventions.