Senior Associate Field Operations

Buoyancy Plastics For Change Recycling; Chennai District; On-site; INR 400,000 - 560,000; Full time

Job summary

Buoyancy Plastics For Change Recycling is seeking a field professional with 5+ years of experience in the informal sector to drive stakeholder engagement across the plastic recycling ecosystem. The role focuses on enrolling stakeholders on the PFC platform, building capacity, and ensuring compliant documentation and reporting.

The candidate will strengthen relationships with HBW, WP, IB, DWCC and other partners while promoting ethical sourcing and transparency.

Qualifications

• Graduate with 5+ years of field work experience in the informal sector.
• Good understanding of social and environmental concepts and methods.
• Experience of being part of any program/project management or field work would be an added advantage.
• Past experience in Urban/Rural Development, Environment or Waste Management is helpful.
• Fluency in local language and working knowledge of English.
• Sound understanding of informal sector and vulnerable communities.

Responsibilities

• Identify, network, mobilise and engage key stakeholders across the informal plastic recycling sector.
• Enroll and manage stakeholders on the PFC platform.
• Build trust with stakeholders to maintain strong working relationships.
• Increase plastic sourcing and supply by ensuring ethical sourcing and fair price.
• Maintain due-diligence and other required documentation; prepare regular reports.
• Travel frequently across Bengaluru city and other locations as needed.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Data management

Documentation

Reporting

Education

Graduate degree

Tools

MS Office

CRM

Job description

Duties and Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder Management:
1. Identifying, networking, mobilising and engaging key stakeholders across the informal sector in the plastic recycling industry to formal supply chain. Our key stakeholders are Home Based Workers (HBW), Waste Pickers (WP), Itinerant Buyers (IB), Van Units (VU), Dry Waste Collection Centre (DWCC), Waste Pickers Community Leaders, Scrap Shops (SS), Wholesaler etc.
2. Enrolling and managing stakeholders on the PFC platform.
3. Building trust with stakeholders to maintain strong working relationships.
4. Increasing plastic sourcing and supply from stakeholders by ensuring ethical sourcing and fair price.
5. Facilitating management and client visits with stakeholders.
Capacity Building:
1. Conducting one-to-one capacity building to strengthen stakeholders working capacity w.r.t PFC Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
2. Conducting one-to-one CRM (mobile technology) training for stakeholders.
3. Creating awareness and sensitising stakeholders on various social/govt. schemes and services, statutory compliances and policies with the help of NGO/Franchise partners.
4. Facilitating stakeholder formalisation in the sector by enabling opening bank accounts, PAN, ensuring statutory compliances, policies etc.
Reporting and Documentation:
1. Maintaining various due-diligence and other required documentation at
stakeholder level, managing, monitoring and reviewing it periodically.
2. Ensuring timely, concise and accurate reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis on prescribed formats.
3. Ensuring timely, concise and accurate CRM updates and also ensuring
stakeholders are updating it regularly.
4. Maintain case work and community work documents of stakeholders.
5. Help managers and teams to capture information from the field as and when required.
General responsibilities:
1. Ensure professionalism at all times and demonstrate exemplary prioritisation of workload skills.
2. Ensure that the PFC policies, SOPs and protocols are being adhered to at all levels of the company.
3. Ensure strict adherence to data confidentiality and security.
4. Willingness to travel frequently cross Bengaluru city, sometimes at short notice, including other places as per need of project or company.
5. Work closely with PFC team and Partners.
Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications
Graduate with 5+ years of field work experience in the informal sector.
Good understanding of social and environmental concepts and methods.
Experience of being part of any program/project management or field work would be an added advantage.
Past Experience of working in the fields of Urban or Rural Development,
Environment, Community Relations / Interventions / Engagement, Plastics Recycling, Waste Management will be helpful.
Fluency in local language and moderate English working Knowledge.
Sound understanding of informal sector and vulnerable communities
Skills
Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in the field alone.
Open to new challenges.
Good data management, documentation and reporting skills.
Good computer skills

MS Office and Working on CRM.
Ability to work under pressure and prioritise tasks.
Eye for detail.
Able to learn new systems, methods, processes and procedures.
Able to meet deadlines and produce quality outputs.
Proactive and self motivated.
Humility, honesty, transparency, integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality.