Job Opportunity for Project Manager at Care India in Dhar

POSITION/DESIGNATION

Project Manager 

GRADE/LEVEL

Grade E

PROJECT/UNIT

CISCO’s Sustainable Employment and Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) Program

PROJECT DURATION

One year (March 2023 to Feb 2024)

REPORTS TO

Director Programs- North & East

Dotted Line Reporting 

Senior Technical Specialist- EDU

LOCATION

Pithampur, Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh 

TRAVEL

50% including daily field travel, district head quarter, state and national travel as required.

ABOUT US

CARE is a not-for-profit organisation working in India for over 70 years, focusing on alleviating poverty and social injustice. We do this through well-planned and comprehensive projects in health, education, livelihoods and disaster preparedness and response. Our overall goal is the empowerment of women and girls from poor and marginalised communities leading to improvement in their lives and livelihoods. CARE India seeks a world of hope, tolerance, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. Our goal is to ensure that women and girls from the most marginalized communities are empowered, live in dignity and their households have secure and resilient lives. CARE India aims to accomplish this goal by working with 50 million people to help them have quality health, education, livelihoods and overcome the effects of disasters. CARE continues efforts towards poverty alleviation with focus on women and girls. We hope to impact 100 million people by 2030. Our employees are committed to CARE’s values, Code of Conduct, and safeguarding commitments towards a safe workplace for all, including the principle of ‘do no harm’. They are also responsible to uphold and strengthen our safeguarding commitments in their role. To know more about our safeguarding policies please visit our website link given below. www.careindia.org | Regd. as CARE India Solutions for Sustainable Development

PROJECT DETAILS

CARE India is implementing a project supported by Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited. The project will aim to support 4,200 women and youth through training and capacity building on life skills, financial literacy, digital literacy, and gender sensitization. 400 women and youth will be supported directly for skilling and employability enhancement and enterprise promotion.  

Overall objective: Economic empowerment of 4,200 women and youth from low-income households through Sustainable Employment and Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) approach.

Specific objective 1: To increase access to career counselling services amongst women and youth from low-income households. 

Specific objective 2: To enhance employability or self-employment opportunities amongst targeted women and youth from low-income households for ITeS sector and other relevant sectors.

Specific objective 3: To reduce gender barriers for women and other vulnerable groups.

Specific objective 4: Improved access to entitlements and schemes amongst eligible right holders for relevant govt. schemes.    

JOB SUMMARY

Project Manager is to be contracted for 11 months (may be extended as per need/ requirement) to provide techno-managerial leadership and assistance for the timely project implementation and support to the project team.

• Ensure that the project is implemented in line with project design and as per quality /standards.
• Initiate measures to modify strategy, plans and approaches of the project to ensure achievement of projects goals and objectives.
• Strengthen and enhance the technical quality of all project’s components through continuous and close coordination and feedback to the project team.
• Promote innovative approaches and interventions in the project. 
• Develop detailed implementation plans and support the project team achieving the set objections.
• Identify Operational challenges in the project and ensure timely interventions and support to overcome the same in close co-ordination with project team and CHIQ.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Techno-managerial role:

• Overall techno-managerial assistance to the project team on identification of participants and conducting training and capacity building programs (life skills, digital literacy, financial literacy, gender, entrepreneurship, career counselling etc.)
• Lead and anchor enterprise setup and promotion interventions for the selected participants.
• Lead and anchor skilling and employability enhancement interventions for the selected participants. 
• Represent CARE India amongst relevant ecosystem actors including nodal government departments for convergence opportunities and market players for enterprise and placement promotion and support.  
• Strengthen and enhance the technical quality of all project’s components through continuous and close coordination and feedback to the project team.
• Develop quality documents of project interventions including reports, knowledge documents with support from project team. 
• Ensure that the project is implemented in line with project design and as per quality /standards.
• Manage timely roll out /implementation of the project activities as per the defined activities of the project shared in project brief.
• Initiate measures to modify strategy, plans and approaches of the project to ensure achievement of projects goals and objectives.
• Promote innovative approaches and interventions in the project. 
• Develop detailed implementation plans and support the project team achieving the set objectives.
• Identify Operational challenges in the project and ensure timely interventions and support to overcome the same in close co-ordination with project team and CHIQ.
• Timely engagement and reporting to CISSD’s support office (CSO) including Economic Development Unit, Impact Measurement Unit, Regional Hub and other key departments. 
• Supervise project work plan progress vs targets/ indicators, evolve change management strategies, timely submission of accurate MIS & all other reports, address capacity building needs for all district staff. 

Supportive Supervision:

• Manage administrative reporting and HR functions following up to performance plan supported by project team.
• Ensure correct flow of monthly MIS and project reporting with case studies and other intervention and research initiatives on the ground also are successful to produce desired outcomes. 
• Mentor and counsel staff, to address issues around performance and support to strengthen relationships within & among team/s.
• Lead day-to-day administrative and office management functions like recruitment, leaves, monthly plan & review, performance appraisal. 

Convergence and Partnerships:

• Establish CARE India as a strong development agency with donor, state, district and local administration, and line departments (State Skill Development Corporation, Training Partners, Sector Skill Council, DC-MSME, Financial Institutions, etc.)
• Facilitate schematic linkages to support target groups of the project. 
• Identify and develop a mutually beneficial relationship with diverse agencies both public and private and other networks for branding, funding opportunities, resource support, etc. 
  (The above list is not exhaustive, and the management reserves the right to review it as and when the role evolves based on the need of the business and individual’s skills and capabilities)

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

Essential:

Academic qualification: PGDM – Rural Management / NGO Management / MA in Rural Development / MBA in Agribusiness Management / MA in Social Work or higher degrees in similar thematic areas from reputed Government & esteemed College / University in the state / country.
Minimum 8 years’ experience in implementing similar projects on promoting women and youth entrepreneurship, skilling and employability enhancement. 

Preferred: 

• Proven work experience in the following technical competencies will be preferred women entrepreneurship, skilling and employability enhancement, financial and digital inclusion, life skills, feasibility studies, and business plan development, gender equality, access to entitlements. 
• Demonstrated experience in team leadership and project management including recruitment, planning, budgeting, grant administration, team building, supportive supervision to a large field team with community based cadres, managing experience of HR, mentoring, project finance & accounting, procurement and MIS systems with strategic communication and reporting skills in English. 
• Familiarity with Monitoring & Evaluation and MIS systems with basic knowledge of MS Excel.
• Good documentation skills for developing quality narrative project progress reports.
• Women candidates are encouraged to apply for this position.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

Professional Competencies:

• Strategic and Business communication skills for engagement with donors and diverse stakeholders.
• Project Management skills with addressing HR, Finance, Budgeting and Procurement issues
• Team leadership with attitude to meet deadlines and ensure quality outcomes.
• Providing techno-managerial direction to the project team in alignment with the project requirements.
• Good understanding of conducting research studies with respect to designing questionnaires, training of enumerators, data collection, data cleaning and validation and data analytics. 
• Ability to travel across remote geographies and build local Panchayat and community relationship with team.
• Planning skills demonstrating effectiveness in design, decision making, reporting, accountability, ownership and mentoring to produce timely results
• Good writing and Oral Communication skills in English and Hindi. 
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite mainly Word, PowerPoint and Excel. 

Personal Attributes:

• High level of integrity and honesty.
• Communicates with impact.
• Compassionate, and respectful of all people.
• Adaptable and flexible.