Featured Alumni

Featured Alumni

Nargiss Jamal Mushref

Nargiss Jamal Mushref is a development practitioner with more than ten years of experience in project management, promoting Afghan women’s rights, providing technical direction, and developing strong working relationships with relevant government counterparts at district, provincial, and national levels.

Nargiss currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Party of the USAID/PROMOTE Musharikat project, a position she has held after serving as the Director for the Central Region. She is leading five regional teams at regional levels and programs at Kabul office. She also supports the project Chief of Party in the oversight of project implementation, activities, and deliverables, ensuring that work plans are implemented with timeliness and quality, responsible for outreach and positive relationship building with key stakeholders, government entities, private sector, and Musharikat partners.

Nargiss began her career in project communications and reporting positions with the United Nations Human Settlement Program, quickly progressing to areas of higher responsibility within the Visibility and Communications team. Before joining Musharikat, Ms. Mushref served as Program Communications and Reporting Officer with The Liaison Office (TLO), where she worked on a project that addressed gender issues in Afghanistan’s southern provinces.

She has also worked with Integrity Watch Afghanistan as an Advocacy and Communication Officer, where she developed and executed project communication strategy in line with donor requirements and served as the lead writer for all strategic communications products required by the organization.

Nargiss holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB) from Kardan University and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Communication and Marketing at Rome Business School.