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”.