About the Organisation

Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization working towards making a deep, large scale and institutionalized impact on the quality and equity of education in India.

Position

  • Cluster Coordinator – Livelihoods

Location:

  • Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh and Gumla, Jharkhand

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Responsibilities

The Cluster Coordinators will be responsible for the team and all our livelihoods work in a cluster. A cluster would include some panchayats, and each panchayat would include a few villages. The cluster coordinator would need to

  • Understand and identify the needs and scope of required livelihoods interventions in the area.
  • Nurturing the community-based organizations like SHGs, Farmer collectives, common interest groups, forest protection committees, and so on.
  • Provide enabling support to the Frontline functionaries in the public – systems, Panchayats, and community resource persons in the villages.
  • Be responsible for plan preparation and effective implementation of various livelihoods programs in the villages of a cluster- monitoring day-to-day operations and direct engagement with the community for mobilisation.
  • Enable better access to the community to the welfare schemes and development programs of the govt.
  • Orchestrate collaboration action with the team, partners, PRIs, associated government departments, and the community.

Skills and Attributes

  • Ability to build, manage and enable a team to work with various stakeholders for livelihood promotion.
  • Ability to empathize and dialogue with the vulnerable communities and facilitate small and large group settings towards a social change action.
  • Mobilize partnership action to effectively implement the program in the area.
  • Strong understanding of the community, geography, and the economic sectors, actors, and policies.
  • Effective communication skills with the community, PRI members, partners, and relevant govt. depts.
  • Program implementation skills – for the various livelihoods programmes in the cluster.
  • Conduct data collection/surveys related to the program and maintain records /documentation.
  • Mastery over at least one livelihood theme- livelihood institutions, natural resource mgmt., agriculture/ livestock promotion, forest mgmt., micro-enterprise, rights & entitlements, local governance, financial inclusion, economic independence of, women or similar livelihood themes.
  • Travel within cluster and in/around block.
  • Interest and passion to work in the social sector, with commitment and perseverance.
  • Computer skills, proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word).

Qualification & Experience:

  • >3 years relevant experience in community work – ideally livelihoods/rural development/watershed.
  • Post-Graduation in agriculture/rural management/ rural development/social work.
  • Fluent in Hindi, English.

Application Procedure: 

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