Job Opportunity for Upfront – State Lead, Maharashtra at Swasti in Pune

Upfront is a global south entity, part of the Catalyst Group of organisations,  driving significant impactful sustainable solutions, particularly for first mile workers and their ecosystems. We are based in India and have  foot prints  across 11 countries.  

We strive to make wellbeing a reality for first mile workers.  We have over 20 years of collective experience strengthening ecosystems to protect workers’ rights, promote & improve their health, safety, security, entitlements, living conditions to create inclusive workplaces & enabling environments. Through various solutions, methodologies, and evidence, we build, promote, and facilitate long-term intervention models. We work on systems, policies, and behaviors in order to increase scale, impact, and sustainability.

We are looking for dynamic professionals who have knowledge, expertise, and experience in public health, policy advocacy and action research. 

Number of vacancies– 1

Locations– Pune

Role:  As the State Lead, your responsibility includes managing program planning, operations and stakeholder engagement and its team members.  To this end, specific functions include:

• Lead and deliver state level plans:  Anchor the state level plans and ensure quality to achieve milestones, in an effective and efficient manner while keeping operating principles and values of the organization.
• Develop capacities and implementation interventions:  Develop capacities of the team to design, manage and deliver programs. Support teams to undertake action research, which are useful and used in sectoral decisions, policies and programmes effectively.  Also build a pool of network consultants who can contribute on a continuing basis and who are of similar value systems and are loyal to the requirements of the organization. Support teams for execution of deliverables.
• Develop and strengthen collaborations & partnerships:  Proactively engage with sectoral players and catalyst group organisations for strategic work, collaborations, and a variety of programs and assignments, which further to our knowledge and sectoral contributions. 
• Develop and implement tools, approaches and methodologies:  Constantly innovate and explore new vistas and develop, pioneer and adapt tools that significantly improve the way research is conducted and how the information is used in decision and policy influencing.
• Monitoring, Learning and Communications:  Focus on producing high quality and integrity of data and learning, which are useful and used in sectoral decisions, policies and programmes effectively. Implement the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning System with the support of the org MEL teams to measure the results and impact of the program.
• Any other duties assigned from time to time by the organization.

Qualification: 

• Ideally a post-graduate (Social Work / Public Health/ Economics/Development Studies) with knowledge and in-depth experience in project management, public health, and stakeholder management specific to industry leaders, donors and government (desired). Experience in Workforce wellbeing related areas would be an advantage.

Experience: 

2-5 years in development sector

Knowledge, Skills & attributes:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 
• Conflict resolution and problem solving 
• Empathy, facilitation, leadership and team building skills
• Has good understanding in the following areas:
  • Public health systems and functions
  • Action research & implementation
  • Monitoring and communication
  • Stakeholder management
  • Worker’s rights and responsibilities

Geography:

The state lead will be required to travel extensively across the regions within the state, as per the work requirement. Interstate travels might be required occasionally.