Website American India Foundation
Position – Consultant
Role – Mobilizer
Number of position – One (1)
Program – Livelihoods
Location – Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Position Type – Consultancy
Reporting To – Centre Manager (BACI)
Duration – 5 months
Background
The American India Foundation Trust is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Through its unique value proposition, working closely with local communities, the Foundation partners with NGOs to develop and test innovative solutions and with governments to create and scale sustainable impact. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji and Bill Clinton, AIFT has impacted the lives of 16.51 million of India’s poor across 36 States and Union Territories of India. Learn more at https://aif-india.org
About the Livelihoods Program
AIFT’s Livelihoods program envisions a world where poor and vulnerable communities have access to dignified work opportunities, empowering them with sustainable livelihoods. Since 2006, Livelihoods program has directly and indirectly served 1.4 million beneficiaries. The program takes a unique market relevant approach, while leveraging technology to provide knowledge, skills, and opportunities to underprivileged youth, marginalized women and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) to secure jobs, manage enterprises, and make a respectable living. To enable a razor-sharp focus on the country’s livelihood issues, AIFT has also initiated the Market Aligned Skills Foundation (MASF), a Section-8 company envisioned as a social start-up. Multiple innovations have been introduced to resurrect lives and livelihoods upended by COVID-19. Removing systemic barriers like long duration of loan approvals, and default in loan repayments; Project Entre-Prerana is creating robust financial linkages by engaging an innovative AI enabled underwriting and loan disbursal platform. Leveraging technology to mine and meet inclusive and remote job opportunities in the post-COVID era, AIFT’s one of its kind AI-enabled platform, “Inclusive Jobs Portal https://inclusivejobs.in,” aims to bring together equal opportunity and inclusive employers with talented candidates from the underserved communities of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), and the “Remote Jobs Portal- https://remote.inclusivejobs.in/” aims to create synergies to match organizations looking for a diverse pool of qualified and skilled women aspirants, from inaccessible, rural, remote and aspirational districts around the country.
About The Project
Project “Engage 2 Empower (E2E)” is India’s first of its kind program, which deeply engages the corporate employee volunteers as equal participants in creating a career pathway, through skill enhancement and job access, of marginalized youth, especially females and persons with disabilities. It has been envisaged as a completely virtual program.
Key deliverables:
1. To ensure candidates enrolment and onboarding over the learning platform as per the batch size for the selected courses
2. To support training delivery for employability skills and for tech. driven courses in offline/online mode for college going youth
3. Building rapport with colleges and universities for the tie-up and MOU to for students’ trainings.
4. To coordinate/monitor enrolment and schedule for online/offline employability skills training of candidates over learning platform
5. To support AIFT MAST candidates in career guidance from different parts of the country.
6. To support in filtration and screening of the candidates for long term employability courses.
7. To organize various activities for students’ exposure on regular basis
8. To reach out to the colleges of the geography and tie up with them
9. To handle student queries and help them understand different available courses on Learning platform
10. To develop social media posts, communication materials, case stories for the project
11. To maintain and update necessary periodic report and documentation as required in the project
12. Any other task/responsibility assigned by the line manager
Key Skills and Competencies:
1. Bachelor’s degree in communication, psychology, information technology, B.CA, B. Sc, business management, Engineering or related field
2. Two (2) plus years’ previous experience as student counselor/ admission executive/students’ mobilizer/sales & marketing executive or related positions
3. Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel), and instructional software
4. Strong presentation skills.
5. Experience with technologies and best practices for instructional manuals
6. Good knowledge and network with colleges of the geography
7. Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management
8. Organized and able to create multiple timelines, budgets, and schedules
9. Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
10. Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills
11. Ability to work under pressure and disciplined
Other: Monthly fees commensurate with experience.
Position Availability: Immediately
Application Process: To apply for this position, send your CV and covering letter describing how you meet the specifications for this role and what you bring to it by applying below.
Only applications of short-listed candidates will be acknowledged.
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