Before coming to Australia in 2015, Hanif had been working as an early childhood educator, researcher, and parenting group facilitator in Iran for 10 years. In 2016, alongside pursuing a PhD in early childhood education at Monash University, he joined the Parenting and Early Years team at the Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF). Since then, he has actively contributed to revising the Bringing Up Great Kids (BUGK) program, and developing variations of the BUGK program tailored to 1000 days, family violence, kinship care, and parenting adolescents. He has conducted various training sessions for parents and professionals all over Australia. After graduating from his PhD in 2022, he served as the coordinator of the national BUGK evaluation project.