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

  • Panchayat-Coordinators, Livelihoods

Location:

  • Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh and Gumla, Jharkhand

Responsibilities

The Panchayat coordinators will be responsible for the team and all our livelihood work in a Panchayat. A Panchayat will include a few villages. There will be a community resource person in each of these villages. The panchayat coordinator would

  • Provide programmatic support to all the community resource persons within a Panchayat.
  • Act as group facilitator and trainer of various livelihood programs launched by the Foundation in the community
  • Direct engagement with the community in day-to-day operations of livelihood interventions and community mobilization.
  • Work with community and PRI to enable better access to livelihood and welfare schemes and development programs of the government
  • Institutionalize development planning, implementation, and tracking in CBOs and PRI bodies.
  • Work with local partner/community resource persons to establish community connect in the villages within the Panchayat.
  • Nurture relationship with stakeholders and trigger civic engagement between community institutions and the wider systems-block, banks, markets, etc.
  • They will work under the overall leadership of the Cluster Coordinator.

Skills and Attributes

  • Effective communication with the community, PRI members, partners, and relevant government departments.
  • Program implementation skills for effective implementation of various livelihood programmes in the Panchayat.
  • Travel within cluster and in/around block.
  • Interest and passion to work in the social sector, with commitment and perseverance.
  • Computer skills and proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word) would be an advantage.

Qualification & Experience:

  • 1 year relevant experience in community work – ideally livelihood/rural development/watershed/agriculture/social work and similar themes
  • Graduation in any discipline with work experience in relevant area.
  • Fluent in Hindi, Local language/dialect will be an added advantage.

Application Procedure: 

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  • Send us your application with the following documents to [email protected]. 
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