1. Project Management:
• Lead the project design and development in consultation with key stakeholders.
• Contribute to AIFT's strategy development on Entrepreneurship and self-employment programs and execute the strategy.
• Provide thought leadership within AIFT on Entrepreneurship and self-employment programs of livelihoods.
• Oversee implementation of the projects under the Entrepreneurship and self-employment programs, across India.
• Prepare and manage a dynamic project implementation plan, in consultation with key team members and government.
• Provide supportive supervision to block-level, district level or state level teams in routine implementation of planned activities.
• Ensure accuracy in projects’ data collection and reporting.
• Undertake documentation of the projects for internal learning and donor reporting purposes.
• Engage with government and donor(s) for project planning, review and reporting.
• Facilitate day-to-day project management tasks including all aspects of financial management, human resources management, procurement, and office administration.
• To ensure the retention of donor and continuity of project.
2. Government Engagement:
• Facilitate Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with state governments, district collectorates, PSUs for ensuring co-operation from all departments concerned towards the program.
• Establish and maintain regular contact with the government officials, program implementing partners at state and district level for program review and sharing of learnings.
• Engage with state and district governments to encourage adoption of best practices demonstrated in the program including providing support to budget planning.
3. Building Partnerships and Resource Mobilization:
• Proactively work with AIFT’s Strategic Partnerships team to identify fundraising opportunities from CSR and other institutional donors.
• Support in proposal development and donor contract management, in co-ordination with the Strategic Partnership team and government engagement team at AIFT.
• Help in identifying credible partner NGOs/organizations who can partner on program implementation.
• Provide technical assistance and leadership support to implementation partners.
• Network with alliances and other likeminded organizations for replication of the program.
4. People Management:
• Hire, retain and develop a high-performance team for delivering AIFT’s strategy on Entrepreneurship and self-employment programs.
• Facilitate and coordinate high quality and timely trainings of project team members and other stakeholders.
5. Monitoring and Evaluation (in co-ordination with Learning, Evaluation & Impact team at AIFT):
• Coordinate with government in seeking approvals for conducting routine monitoring, baseline, end line surveys, and needs assessment studies, as necessary.
• Facilitate the development, implementation and strengthening of program MIS.
• Undertake field visits to monitor programs as well as conducting periodic program reviews with government counterparts and other partners.
• Provide feedback to and participate in review meetings of the Program Steering Committee on a regular basis.
• Prepare regular monitoring reports, both for AIFT, donors and internal audiences, on the progress of the program.
