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Job Description : Executive Director, Khamir

To build the next line of leadership at India’s leading crafts platform

In its third decade, Khamir has built a wide ripple of cultural ecology - with its epicentre in Kutch and its message of regenerative crafts practices pulsating across India. The journey that started in 2004, has gradually become a murmuring movement, leading the way to promote the ecology of crafts, local entrepreneurship, and regional aesthetics in crafts.

Over the past two decades, Khamir has supported the creative enterprise of artisans through varied support services, revitalized a number of languishing crafts in the region, and developed craft educational initiatives. The organization provides a common roof for artisans, creative professionals, designers and technologists who co-create learnings and grow capacities. These efforts have led to the revival of regenerative value chains for a number of crafts – most notably the weaving of Kala Cotton, which has today become a global brand, and Desi Oon. As of today, Khamir is one of the leading crafts organizations in the country - tending a robust system of value chains, providing sustainable livelihood to 750+ artisans from over 200 crafts units, and carrying focussed interventions to revive languishing traditional crafts.

True to the meaning of its name Khamir - ‘to ferment’ – the organization is transforming many of its ideas into roadmaps in the service of Indian crafts and artisans. To keep the ripples of our story resonant - and boats moving - we need rowers who are looking for their own north star in the constellation of the Indian craft ecosystem.

Further details of the position are below:

Position: Executive Director, Khamir

Location: Kutch, Gujarat

Type of Employment: Full-Time

Quaification -

• Post Graduate in Arts / Craft & Design Development/Creative Industries Management/ Cultural history / Textiles, Handicrafts or Handlooms / Social Enterprise.

• Minimum 8 years of experience in the leadership role.

• Communication, Documentation, and Fundraising skills.

• Must have the ability to be a team player with a collaborative approach. Will be responsible for ensuring and maintaining diversity, inclusion, and equity in the organization - across faiths, genders, castes, communities, and all-natural species.

Candidates must have excellent oral and written communication skills in English with the ability to conceptualize and articulate. Fluency in Hindi is preferred.

The role expects domain expertise, an ability to think strategically and laterally, navigate complex or ambiguous situations decisively, be open to working in a multi-cultural environment, and relate with ease across stakeholders – with artisans, academia, state and non-state institutions, and craft professionals. We look for people with self-motivation, with a strong sense of purpose, ethics and efficiency.

Roles & Responsibilities

Programe Development, Monitoring:

• Develop, nurture and enable growth on the four program planks of Khamir – a). Design & Innovation, b) Centre for Hand-Spinning, c) Craft Focal Points, d) Craft Based Pedagogy & Education, while ensuring development support for Khamir’s autonomous, commercial arm.

• The ED is expected to lead the development of the organization’s overall strategy, build alignment across the organization; facilitate horizontal learning and collaboration internally and integrate the combined outcomes of the organization.

• Ensure excellence in program management and evaluation, including financial management; and mobilize resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.

Organizational Leadership, Management, and Governance:

• Provide leadership to the organization to achieve its objectives through strategic plans, partnerships, creative initiatives, research, and innovations.

• Work in partnership with the Governing Board, be proactive in seeking support and report to the Board.

• Develop partnerships and collaborations with relevant institutions, and individuals.

• Responsible for fundraising, making pitches, and ensuring the financial sustainability of the organization

• Responsible for the organization’s transparent functioning – on compliances, donor requirements, annual reports, and communication with stakeholders. With support from the COO, oversee contracts and implementation of staff service regulations of the organization.

• Work along with the COO to ensure good financial governance and management.

Capacity Building

• Lead and motivate the team by creating a nurturing organizational environment. This would involve identifying learning opportunities for the staff, ensuring participatory review processes, partnering with training institutions, and ensuring finances for the same.

• Oversee capacity-building requirements of staff, communities, and partner organizations.

• Develop a repository of training resources, and identify training institutes/organizations, and financial resources.

• Support the COO to ensure regular staff appraisals and reviews

Relationship Building

Be proactive in forging local, regional, national, and international linkages/partnerships; develop collaborations with craft and design institutions, government departments, technical research and academic institutions, cultural centres, as well as external professionals in the field of art, craft, ecology, design, fashion, community development and technologies related to specific programs.

Note: The roles and responsibilities outlined above are not meant to be an exhaustive list of tasks. The need for flexibility is required and the job holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

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