Job Opportunity for Team Leader at Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Muzaffarpur

Location : Muzaffarpur

Education : Post Graduate in Management

Experience:

• 7-10 years in the development sector Candidates having prior experience in the area of social enterprise establishment would be preferred

Skills & Competencies required:

• Dynamic and research-oriented
• Must have an eye for details and should work in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Rural irrigation scenario and energy management aspects.
• Experienced in community mobilization aspects
• Experienced in data collection, management, analysis, reporting, and documentation.
• Candidates having an experience in the area of social enterprise establishment experience will be preferred.

Job Profile:

• Demonstrating the impact of women-owned and operated solar irrigation enterprises by targeting saturation of agricultural land within one JEEViKA-promoted CLF geography.
• Using the ground pilots, relevant state government agencies such as MNRE, Agriculture Department, and JEEViKA will be brought together to scale up the model by combining the subsidies available under various schemes in these agencies.
• Project team will saturate a cluster of 10 to 15 villages within a CLF to demonstrate the model of women-led irrigation service provider model.
• Facilitating the baseline and results in the framework will be designed for this ground pilot.
• Designing appropriate financing models including existing government programs and proposing additional mechanisms to make solar irrigation schemes affordable and viable for the interested women entrepreneurs
• Using the ground pilots as a base, JEEViKA on its own can also scale up this model by acknowledging solar irrigation enterprises as possible livelihoods activity for its members
• Technical support and capacity development around energy management and entrepreneurship development.
• Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders in the state for the renewable energy program.
• Preparing evidence-based reports for different stakeholders (internal and external).
• Maintenance of high-quality MIS for reporting at different levels.