Project Coordinator - Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India - The Hans Foundation

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Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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Description

Hans Livelihood Project - Uttarakhand

BACKGROUND

In Uttarakhand, Horticulture and its allied sectors have emerged as one of the potential areas to accelerate the growth of the State economy and augment farmer's income.

Nature has endowed Uttarakhand with a wide range of agroclimatic conditions due to which there is huge potential for the cultivation of high-value horticulture crops.

Almora district accounted for the highest share per cent) of the total population in Uttarakhand.

About 94.6 percent of the district's population lives in 3,619 villages and the district has a high population density of 233 persons per sq.

km compared to the state density of 109 persons. Therefore, this district has huge potential in terms of production and market.

Yamkeshwar and Almora are the selected blocks, where proposed livelihood interventions broadly address the economic security of people.

A three-day consultative workshop was organized at Almora district, where various stakeholders like farmers, officials from horticulture, livestock, bee-keeping, irrigation, banks, NGO, agriculture, ITI, and DIC participated.

Based on the discussion and secondary data, the project activities are designed.

GENERAL

Location of Job:
Almora - Uttarakhand

Type of Employment:
Contractual for 1 year

No

of Position:
1

Reporting to:
Project Manager

Annual Salary:
up to 540000/
JOB PURPOSE

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Manager having a reach livelihood projects experience to join our team and drive the Project grassroots work of HLP in Uttarakhand and other locations while supporting the project.

Roles & Responsibility
a. Project management and coordination

Management of the project Under the Project Manager's guidance and THF's officials.
Strengthening the communitybased organizations (CBOs) in livelihood generation activities.
Formation of producer groups and FPOs/Cooperatives for sustainable livelihood opportunities for villagers.
Promotion of valueaddition techniques in farm & offfarm products.
Preparation of monthly working plan for CBO formation, capacity building and IGAs in close coordination with the project manager.
Identification of training needs of the CBOs and organizing training programs and exposure visits.
To guide SHGs & Cooperative in all the activities from identification of potential activities, development of business models and microfinancing.
Guiding fieldlevel staff to achieve intended objectives.
Develop action plans to achieve the physical and financial targets of the project.
Establishment of nurseries and capacity building of villager's nursery development, maintenance and other nurseryrelated works.
Network, liaise and develop relationships with state, district/block level government departments and technical institutions.
Ensuring convergence with the line department for better outcomes of the activities.
Ensuring stakeholder engagement for smooth implementation.
Periodic meetings with the project staff, government department and THF's officials.
Data, case study/anecdotes collection from the field with highquality photographs.

b. Capacity Building of the project staff and community

Helping the Project Manager to develop training manuals for staff capacitybuilding initiatives.
Capacity building of fieldlevel staff and community institutions.
Providing support to fieldlevel staff for imparting training to the community.

c. Team Management and Coordination

Assist fieldlevel staff in optimum use of their productivity.
Facilitates the field teams in biweekly or monthly meetings to review progress against plans, and deliverables and find solutions to problems, share lessons learned etc.
Helping the Project Manager manager in all projectrelated documentation work.

d

Monitoring and Evaluation:

Ensures monitoring of the project through various mediums and submits report to Project Manager.
Collect and present information/reports for the project as and when needed.
Receiving periodic reports from fieldlevel staff and sending them to the Project Manager.
Regular field visits to the project area to monitor project deliverables and share progress with the Project Manager.
Any other tasks and assignments as given by the Project Manager and THF officials.