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Theme Lead (Rural Governance and Community Collectives) Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) 2023

  • Deadline: Dec 25, 2023

  • Qualification (Education): Postgraduate

  • Experience Required: 10-15 Year

About Job Profile

Top Management and Leadership

Leading a multi-state team engaged in rural governance and community collectives’ program of the organization. It requires intensive capacity building of PRIs, activating gram sabhas and facilitating entitlements for the poorest. 

Primary Responsibilities include

 

  • This is a senior management position. Selected candidate is expected to lead AKRSP(I)’s programs on community-based organisations, rural governance, community health, and women self-help groups. 
  • Leading and establishing a program on community health and nutrition. 
  • Promoting large scale livelihood activities among SHG members using savings or bank credit.
  • Leading the expansion of programs for the poorest households across all geographies. 
  • Preparing and operationalizing strategy for inclusive programs across all verticals of the organization.
  • Preparing and operationalizing strategy for large scale leverage of resources from flagship government schemes such as MGNREGA, NRLM etc.  
  • Liaison with donor agencies, SRLMs, government agencies, and other related agencies for fund mobilization and policy related partnerships. 
  • Capacity building of field teams on various aspects of rural governance, community collectives and inclusiveness. 
  • Preparing regular progress reports along with regular evaluation of major projects related to rural governance and community collectives. 

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

 

  • Experience and in-depth understanding of the rural governance institutions and processes. Experience of working with Panchayats and government line departments is a must for this position. 
  • In depth understanding of women’s self-help groups, micro-finance, and women empowerment related aspects. 
  • In depth understanding of monitoring, evaluations, and reporting functions particularly in development sector programmes
  • Basic understanding of community health programs particularly focused on nutrition
  • Good training skills
  • Good communications skills including writing skills 
  • Willingness to travel in remote areas 
  • Willingness to liaison with government, banks, donors etc
  • English language proficiency is must to execute this function. Working knowledge of Hindi is desirable.

 

Other Information:

Job Functions

  • Salary Range: NA LPA

  • Employment Type: Full Time

  • Work Mode: Hybrid

How to Apply

If you qualify and are interested in taking up the role, please apply through this link

If you qualify and are interested in taking up the role, please apply through this link.

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Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India)

  • State: Gujarat

  • City: Ahmedabad

About Organisation

Khan Rural Support Programme (India) is a non-denominational, non-government development organization. AKRSP(I) works as a catalyst for the betterment of rural communities by providing direct support to local communities. AKRSP(I) is active in over 3255 villages of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra. It has impacted lives of over 3.5 million people from marginalised sections of society.

Over 80% of the households impacted by AKRSP(I)'s work belong to marginalised communities like tribals, dalits, and minorities. Over 60% of beneficiaries are women who form a core group for program interventions.

  • State: Gujarat

  • City: Ahmedabad

Contact Details:

Contact Phone: 6212223355

Contact Email: mail@akrspi.org

Date of Posting/Posted On: Dec 01, 2023
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