Assistant Manager- WEE

Project Concern International; Barabanki; On-site; INR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading non-profit organization in India is seeking a professional to manage fishery-based projects in collaboration with UPSRLM. The role involves implementing project strategies, managing field teams, and building community capacity. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management and livelihoods promotion, preferably with experience in fisheries. The position requires dynamic leadership and excellent stakeholder engagement skills, along with a relevant postgraduate degree for successful execution of the project objectives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Livelihoods Promotion.
• At least 3 years working with State Rural Livelihoods Mission preferred.
• Experience in Fishery led Interventions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Anchor the implementation of Fishery Intervention as per package of practices.
• Manage the PCI field team and their training.
• Facilitate capacity building of community institutions.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Training skills

Education

PhD/Masters in Fishery or related field

Postgraduate in Agriculture, Rural Management

Tools

MIS Reporting

Knowledge products development

Job description

PCI India, a registered Indian society, has been working in India for the past 26 years. We drive interventions to transform the lives of communities at scale by solving complex development problems. In the past year, PCI India reached more than 1.7 crore, i.e. 17 million people in 204 Districts in 15 States.

About the Project / Partnership

The Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission (UPSRLM) is mandated to implement DAY-NRLM – a national flagship program of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India that envisions addressing multi-dimensional poverty in rural India by organizing the poor and vulnerable women into self-help groups (SHGs). These SHGs are federated into Village Organizations (VOs) at the village level and further into cluster level federations (CLFs).

Encouraged by the results of PCI’s engagement with the Bihar State Rural Livelihoods Mission, the UPSRLM collaborated with PCI to establish a technical support unit in the state. This unit works with an objective to strengthen UPSRLM’s overall systems and processes; strengthen UPSRLM’s community institutions and platforms; and devise evidence-based strategies and interventions, integrate Health and Nutrition (HN) and Take-Home Ration (THR) into UPSRLM’s core operational model to achieve sustainable improvement in HN outcomes.

PCI has been recently expanding its work into livelihoods with UPSRLM and has been supporting UPSRLM in conceptualizing and devising subsector interventions around Fisheries based livelihood with community Platforms promoted by UPSRLM. The project will ensure subsector intervention on fishery value chain interventions in UP. The incumbent will be required to devise strategies for promotion Fishery, building capacity of SHG members, organize them into producer groups, aggregate the and ensure marketing of products.

The scope and approach specific to employment generation entails co-creation strategies with UPSRLM for system strengthening of UPSRLM in its core business areas, Strengthening UPSRLM’s internal system, structures, institutional mechanisms and processes, and strengthening and mobilizing the community institutions of UPSRLM in its core business areas for fishery.

Job Summary

The position requires the professional to closely work with the district & block team of UPSRLM, actively supporting in managing Fishery based intervention. Key responsibilities include anchoring the implementation of aforesaid project as per the prescribed package of practices, managing field teams & building coordination with the mission team, capacity building of field team & community cadre and establishing local market connects. This role requires a dynamic professional with strong project management, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Anchor the implementation of Fishery Intervention in their respective regions as per the prescribed package of practices.
• Managing the field team of PCI and ensuring their timely onboarding, capacity building and deliverables.
• Facilitating the mobilization process and ensuring the timely formation & capacity building of livelihood-based community institutions.
• Anchoring the identification and capacity building of community cadre to be onboarded under the project.
• Ensuring the timely review of community cadre and ensuring timely disbursement of honorarium to cadres.
• Work in close coordination with project leads of Fishery for achieving the targets.
• Ensuring the on-field support to project teams, community cadre and project beneficiaries through frequent field visit to districts & blocks.
• Establishing robust coordination with UPSRLM District and Block teams & seeking their support in achieving the project goals.
• Develop the pitch notes, jingles, audio-visuals, training collaterals and other knowledge product in consultation with the project lead.
• Develop case studies, district level proposals on fishery in consultation with the project lead.
• Ensuring timely feeding of data on MIS and other reporting formats; preparing descriptive reports and decks on the project progress, challenges & issues in the field.
• Conducting regular review of project team and ensuring handholding support to them in handling the field level issues & challenges.
• Establishing robust relations and communication with the line departments at district level & facilitating the application process and due diligence for leveraging benefits under various schemes & loan products meant for Fishery.
• Establishing strong market connect and facilitating the backward & forward linkage for the projects at regional level .
• Any other task assigned by supervisor.
• The position is based at regional level and incumbent will be required to work in close coordination with the project lead .

Qualifications

• PhD/Masters in Fishery, MSW, PGDRM or Postgraduate in Agriculture, Rural Management, Agri business Management, Economics and other allied subjects with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the field of Livelihoods Promotion
• Previous experience of at least 3 years in working with State Rural Livelihoods Mission will be given preference.
• Candidates who have previously worked in Fishery led Interventions are encouraged to apply.
• Previous experience of Managing large scale project at District or Regional Level.
• Good computer knowledge, management, ambiguous and training skills.
• Good written and verbal communication.
• Willingness to travel frequently to the field and ability to work against tight timelines.
• Able to handle quantum of work in a time bound manner
• Able to guide, mentor and supervise team members to achieve outputs and deliverables.

Note: This JD is intended to provide a general overview of the position and may not cover every aspect of the role. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the organizational goals.