Job Description

About Azim Premji Foundation

We are a not-for-profit organisation with a vision to contribute towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. Our work is focused on India. Our presence on the ground provides us with the unique opportunity to contribute to immediate and long-term developments through continual work. We build institutions through our own operations, collaborate with governments on projects fundamental to our vision and work with partners in areas of equity and human well-being.

About the Livelihood work

Employment, income, dignity – we work to connect the dots of this area of human development and well-being Our work in Livelihoods is geared towards promoting livelihood opportunities for some of India’s most vulnerable and marginalised people. We took our first steps under Livelihoods at the country’s central tribal belt, in Raigarh and Gumla districts of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand respectively.

Job Locations

Dharamjaygarh/Raigarh (Chhattisgarh), Simdega/Gumla (Jharkhand)

Job Description:

We are looking for bright, enthusiastic people with experience in the development sector for various opportunities in our Livelihood Initiative, which is based in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and revolves around the theme: Horticulture

Broad Roles

The Resource Person will support the Livelihood Initiative of the Field Institute in two broad roles, around a particular theme of Horticulture

Supporting the district leader/block leader in integrating the livelihood operations at the sub-district/district level and,

Thematic development and support to field teams spread in multiple geographical locations in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh state—facilitate the formulation of projects, provide technical backing in their implementation, track quality, and movement vis-a-vis plans, mobilize program finances, coordinate stakeholders, anchor thematic studies, and contribute to problem-solving challenges of a particular theme.

Key Responsibilities

The Resource Person, while located in one of the geographies of the Livelihood Initiative, will be in a supportive role in pan-field operations to build a theme —creating capacities and ownerships of field teams engaged in action. The following are the key responsibilities

Facilitate stakeholder-level engagements beyond the community (block, district & state).

Capacitating Field Teams across the states around a particular theme.

Develop thematic projects, prepare the design-for-action, and facilitate the roll-out.

Anchoring the Content Development work in the Livelihood Initiatives in a theme.

Contribute to field-based pilots, tracking results and documentation of new evidence from practice.

Eligibility

Master’s degree in the related field of Horticulture  with minimum of 3 years of full time relevant work experience.

OR

Bachelor’s degree in the related field of Horticulture with minimum of 5 years of full time relevant work experience.

In exceptional cases, candidates not from the development sector but keen to learn and contribute to livelihoods work in the central tribal belt may be considered.

Experience of working in the central tribal belt region on the theam of Horticulture or Livelihoods in general will be considered as an added advantage

Fluency in Hindi and English. Local language will be an added advantage

Applicants who have already applied for this position or are in the process, please do not apply again for this position.

Interested candidates can apply using the following link

https://bit.ly/RP_Livelihoods

"Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for next level" 

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