About CSRBOX

Job Position: Program Associate - Livelihoods

Location: Ahmedabad

Experience: At least one-year experience in women centric livelihoods promotion

CTC: INR 3.00-4.50L (Depending on the relevant experience and location)

About CSRBOX and BharatCares

CSRBOX is India’s leading CSR knowledge and impact intelligence driven media cum social impact advisory platform. It works as an enabler to create corporate-non-profit, corporate-corporate and corporate-government collaborations. Our biggest strength is our research and consulting team that maps over 4000 CSR projects and 1500 companies' CSR portfolio every year. We have a strong CSR Impact Practice vertical that works with companies and CSR foundation for their CSR projects’ need assessment, baseline study, monitoring and impact assessment. BharatCares is the social impact arm of CSRBOX, looking after implementation of CSR projects for underprivileged communities across livelihoods, skill development, education, health and environment thematic. A few of our corporate clients are ICICI Bank, SKF Ltd., Bosch India, IBM India, Diageo, DP World, Future Generali, Airbus, Arvind, LG Electronics, Hero MotoCorp etc.

About the Position

Responsibilities

The Program Associate-Livelihoods will be an integral part of our ongoing livelihood project partnerships with a few large companies under CSR ambit. The incumbent will be handling a team of field coordinators working with women entrepreneurs. The more specific information of the role is outlined as below:

a.      Ensure onboarding of women entrepreneurs to meet the project onboarding targets through follow up with field coordinators

b.     Implement strategies for effectively mobilizing entrepreneurs to participate in training programs and promote adoption of training practices by them

c. Implement monthly and weekly training plans developed by Project Lead in alignment to project timelines and track implementation against the same

d. Conduct quality documentation of project activities, outcomes and learnings through case studies, periodic progress reports, etc.

e. Manage and support the ground level team to deliver project activities on the ground

f. Conduct regular review and planning meetings with ground level team to review the progress on activities and outcomes

g. Refining business plans of entrepreneurs through follow up with field coordinators

h. Visit entrepreneurs on periodic and sample basis across all clusters to assess and monitor the performance of team

i. Liasioning with various local stakeholders (wholesalers, retailers, e-commerce platforms, local administration) for implementation of the program

j. Ensure the spending as per project budget

k. Any other task as assigned by Project Lead

Mandatory Qualification and Experience:

• A minimum of 1 year of working experience in promoting women-centric livelihoods and entrepreneurship
• Demonstrate interest or knowledge in areas related to women entrepreneurship, business plan development, enterprise setup, etc.
• Some experience of dealing with various private and government stakeholders working towards promotion of women livelihoods
• Ability to demonstrate ownership, and work in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment as part of a closely-knit team (showcasing patience, tenacity, and grace under pressure)
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Post-Graduate degree from any recognized university preferably in Development Studies/Social Work/Management/Livelihoods Promotion/ Entrepreneurship

Desirable