Job Description
Responsibilities
- Establish coordination among Caritas India partners working on livelihood, food and nutrition and facilitate productive interactions among these partners.
- Offer support to CI partners for strengthening their abilities to network on governance, hunger and malnutrition issues.
- Liaise with like-minded organisations at district and state levels in such a way that there is value-addition to the livelihood, food and nutrition security programmes of CI and her partners.
- Establish and maintain healthy relationship with organisation leadership.
PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT: Facilitate, support and accompany partner organisations and their staff for management of Caritas India project in accordance with the quality standards of CI.
Responsibilities
- Function as the state programme lead of Saksham project.
- Ensure that programme results are achieved as envisaged in the proposal.
- Ensure that CI interventions are managed through Results Based Management in the stages of planning, monitoring, evaluation and documentation AND in accordance with CI quality standards.
- Ensure efficient deliverable management in such a way that all reports are received from partners and are sent to Saksham Programme Lead in acceptable quality in terms of being error free, presentable (appropriate format) and timely.
- Partners are helped with competency in enhancing the quality of the programmes on a continuous basis.
- Organise partner regular interactions for learning exchange, result review and replication.
- Organise interface meetings and events for showcasing project successes and disseminating project successes.
- Help partners with thematic expertise on governance, sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security.
- Ensure that relevant IEC materials are designed and developed for increasing the reach and effectiveness of programme.
- Manage studies and research on participatory governance and food security.
- Identify and document knowledge products emerging from the programmes of Caritas India and her partners.
- Ensure that innovations and best practices are developed as knowledge products.
- Coordinate and manage research for developing and/or synthesising models which could be replicated.
- Assist Caritas India in innovating programmes with newer and more effective ideas.
NETWORKING: Represent CI and work with like-minded networks and organisations to ensure greater visibility for CI as a credible leader in influencing policy and systemic changes in the field of livelihood and food security.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that CI is respected by government and civil society as an organisation with credible experience and knowledge on livelihood and food security in the state.
- Help partners initiate issue-based advocacy and help them initiate networks or enter into existing prominent networks that campaign for people’s causes.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Create/facilitate healthy and favourable environment of work for the personnel appointed at Caritas India level and help partners manage HR for the effective project implementation.
Responsibilities
- Assist implementing partners to recruit suitable candidates for the project positions and organise appropriate induction for the newly recruited project staff.
- Help implementing partners contextualise job descriptions of project positions.
- Help partners define and implement specific Human Resource Development strategies and conduct relevant HR trainings of the teams of implementing partners.
STEWARDSHIP OF RESOURCES: Ensure that all resources of CI are ethically utilised and optimally managed.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that the assets of the organisation are safeguarded and managed optimally.
- Conduct regular monitoring of projects of implementing partners so that activities are implemented on time.
- Ensure the healthy rate of utilisation of funds of Caritas India and her partners.
- Coordinate with Programme Management at Caritas India and implementing partners in finalising revised activities and re-allocating resources for revised set of activities.
- Proper, prompt and accurate maintenance of accounts.
- Consolidated Monthly report narrative and financial including burn rate after receiving from both the partners each month.
- Coordinating monthly meeting of management team
- Field monitoring through visits to areas at least once/twice in a month
- Guidance and mentoring the team
- Overall monitoring of project activities as per the MEAL plan
- Finalizing baseline, Pre KAP, PDM, Post KAP and End line reports with support of partners team and MEAL team of Caritas India
- Submission of Project report with annexes
- Any other based on the suggestion from donor
Safeguarding Standard
“The hiring process and procedures in Caritas India reflect the commitment to safeguard the rights and dignity of all people – especially children and vulnerable adults – to live free from abuse and harm. Caritas commits to its values and is an equal-opportunity employer”.
Salary :
Salary is based on the organization's salary band and candidates' skills and experience
Function Area :
Programs
Role :
This position supports Caritas India partners in Bihar in the implementation of Livelihood, food and nutrition security of the pandemic-hit communities in the regions assigned.
Location :
Bihar
Experience :
Minimum 3-5 years of work experience in the similar field
KeySkills :
Thorough knowledge on the subjects related to livelihood and food security and participatory governance particularly in the context of the Dalits and Adivasis of Bihar. Ability to put knowledge and principles into practice. Ability to carry out regular assessments and studies on livelihood and food security. Knowledge about government responses – programmes and schemes – on sustainable agriculture
livelihood
food and nutrition security. Knowledge of other stakeholders and like-minded organisations working in the sector. Ability to find opportunities to partner with like-minded organisations and work with them constructively in addressing the issue of livelihood and food security. Ability to apply CI program quality standards and RBM concepts and practices in programme management processes and activities. Expertise in reporting – qualitative and quantitative. Budget management and ability to understand finance statements. Knowledge and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Ability and
Company Name :
Caritas India
Email :
hr@caritasindia.org
https://www.caritasindia.org/