Reporting to: Manager - Community Investment
No of positions: 01
Location: Karjat
Project Period: 1st May 2024 - 30th June 2025
Job Responsibilities:
Manage activities, deliverables of POSHAN project to achieve malnutrition free villages under the Project area:
- Facilitating activities to improve the status of malnourished children through appropriate community based management approach & interventions at ground level in the communities identified in a given district.
- Create specific plans for execution of the projects on a daily basis in alignment with the overall project timelines to cover 100 villages in the respective district/s.
- Manage the project team in terms of division of responsibilities, development and monitoring of their Key Result/ Performance Areas
- Facilitating periodic refresher trainings for field staff and providing mentorship in carrying out Project activities.
- Ensure proper anthropometric and other data collection regularly for monthly growth monitoring of children in the Project area and timely referral to higher centres, as needed.
- Coordination with Project team members to ensure counselling of community members, high risk mothers, family members of SAM children to reduce malnutrition
- Coordinate with and strengthen various community level bodies to facilitate convergence for achieving quality mother and child care and malnutrition free villages.
- Liaise, communicate, interact effectively and manage partnership with the internal and external stakeholders of the project such as; Government agencies (Public health departments, municipal authorities, health institutions etc.), private players (various expert agencies working on the project), civil society groups (NGOs, citizen’s groups, etc.)
- Develop/ possess detailed knowledge on the project causes and be able to guide the project team and give inputs to all the project partners.
- Facilitate periodic review and networking meetings with internal and external stakeholders
- Document the project activities and outcomes on regular basis and submit the project status reports to the donor as per the committed timelines
- Financial reconciliation and reporting of the project activities
Profile Requisites:
- Graduates, preferably from social sciences background.
- Passionate about program implementation
- Proficient in spoken and written English
- Proficient in basic computer skills- MS word and Excel operations and presentations
- Good in interpersonal communication and organizing field based program
- Ability to meet deadlines and work in teams collaboratively
- Demonstrable experience in program implementation, monitoring and evaluation
- Minimum of 4 years of experience.
- Open to travel and field visits.
Remuneration: Subject to relevant qualification, experience & merit, the salary range is INR 4 LPA to 5.4 LPA.
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