SSK has a strong team of committed full-time staff. The program team consists of development professionals having experience in Rural Management Studies, Social Work, Disaster Management, Women Studies and Educational Psychology.The team is a mix of expeience holders and freshers. To facilitate administrative functioning, SSK has a support team comprising Program Secretaries, Administrative Staff and Finance Personnels. In addition SSK has consultancy team with expertise in the field of training, evaluation, monitoring and designing development projects.We are a team of 30 members (including 8 women members) of which 22 are engaged with designing & implementing the programmes. With head quarters in Lucknow, we have 3 field offices at Sitapur, Varanasi and Mirzapur where we have our direct intervention.

We have a Core Consultancy Team, which has rich fund of knowledge and expertise in the field of evaluation, monitoring and designing development projects. Capacity building of organizations in the domains of communication, team work, leadership, financial management, participatory development techniques and knowledge management (including editing & documenting) is our forte.
To render the above function we have professional staff who have post graduate and research degrees from leading institutions of Social work and Rural Development as also a good track record of rendering above spectrum of services. The team looks forward to be engaged with consultancy work from corporates, government departments, and foundations with a view to becoming a partner in progress with other vital sectors of the society.

    Staff

SSK has a mix of staff in 3:1 ration of men and women in terms of gender that are placed at different levels. Following are brief account of their compensation package:

Salaries	Male	Female	Total
<5000	2	0	2
5000-10,000	9	2	11
10,000-15,000	10	7	17
15,000-20,000	3	2	5
20,000-30,000	7	0	7
>30,000	4	1	5
Total	35	12	47

   International Travel

SSK Staff has travelled abroad to facilitate and attend different programs. Following are brief accounts of their trips:

Name	Visited Place/Country	Program	Sponser
Mr. Ashok Singh	Cambodia (visited twice)	As a resource person for Social Accountability Symposium	World Bank, Govt. of Combodia, Silika, PRIA
	Bangkok (visited twice)	As a participant for Asian Regional Meet on NGO Diplomacy	VANI and Coordination SUD
	Kabul (visited thrice)	Training	Afghan Aid & PRIA
Mr. Nagendra Singh	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Disaster risk Reduction Festival	Europeon Commision
Mr. Santosh singh	Chiang Mai, Thailand	Regional Learning Forum Asia 2010: Towards integrated health, Wash & DRR programmes	Malteser International, Germany
Mr. BijayaNanda Dash	Dhaka, Bangladesh	To attend a regional conference on Climate Change & extreme cyclone highliting DRR	Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre(ADPC), BDPC, Ministry of Food & Disaster Management
Mr. Sanjay Singh	Columbo, Sri Lanka	South Asia training Workshop for trainers	CommonWealth foundation and ASPAE
Ms. Shalini Chaturvedi	Indonesia	Basic Leadership Develpment course	Asian Pacific Beuro od Adult Education, Mumbai
	Gothenburg, Sweden	Decentralization and good governance with a Gender perspective	ICLD- Swedish International Centre for Local democracy
	Combodia	Decentralization and good governance with a Gender perspective	ICLD- Swedish International Centre for Local democracy
Ms. Vandana Tripathi	The Netherland	Fellowship for a short course on Housing and Urban development	CORDAID, Netherland and IHS, Rotterdam
Ms. Bipasha Roy	Indonesia	Basic Leadership Develpment course	Asian Pacific Beuro od Adult Education, Mumbai

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