Project Officer – Skilling & Livelihoods

ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION TRUST

The American India Foundation Trust (AIF) is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high-impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji, and the U.S. President, Mr. Bill Clinton, AIF has impacted the lives of 21.01 million of India’s poor across 35 States and Union Territories of India.

Registered as a Trust in India, with an independent Board of Trustees, AIF adheres to strict financial and governance standards, ensuring transparency, accountability, and responsible management of resources. As per statutory mandates, AIF is registered under 80G and 12A. These registrations and certifications are tangible evidence of the organization's existence, credibility, and compliance with the applicable legal and regulatory frameworks while demonstrating a firm commitment to its vision and mission. Learn more at www.aif-india.org

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

AIF’s Livelihoods program envisions a world where poor and vulnerable communities have access to dignified work opportunities, empower them with sustainable livelihoods. Since 2006, the Livelihoods Program has directly and indirectly served 2.20 million people from vulnerable communities. Leveraging technology to provide financial and market linkages, knowledge, skills, and dignified work opportunities, the program helps the communities secure jobs, manage enterprises, and make a respectable living. Since its inception in 2006, through its flagship programs Market Aligned Skills Training (MAST) and Ability Based Livelihood Empowerment (ABLE), AIF Livelihoods has provided program support to 825,960 disadvantaged youth, women and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), and impacted 343,727 livelihoods.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

AIF aims to influence the skilling and employment ecosystem for inclusion and empowerment of youth from the marginalized and economically weaker section of the society. This program aims to empower the Sales professionals to excel in their roles by focusing on skilling in credit processing, store security, product expertise, personalized customer support, improved communication skills, interpersonal skills and continuous service improvement. This project endeavours to benefit 22,000 individuals across these three locations through interventions.

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of a Project Officer is to act as the end accountable person for the Skilling Center/City Level projects across planning, implementation/execution/delivery, reporting, donor driven requirements, financial & other statutory compliances. They will be required to plan, manage, supervise, and organize activities and ensure that project goals align with the program objectives & organization’s mission.

• Manage and coordinate the day-to-day affairs related to the implementation of projects aimed at benefiting the target group.
• Oversee the hiring and orientation of project team members in alignment with project goals.
• Ensure adherence to project timelines and efficient utilization of budget to fulfill project commitments
• Supervise mobilization and community engagement activities to ensure project deliverables.
• Coordinate with the project team to achieve project targets.
• Assess and evaluate aptitude of the target group after mobilization
• Assess target group aptitude and facilitate enrollment on LMS platform.
• Regular interaction with the Target Group to share information about existing programs and schemes that can benefit them
• Facilitate the target group in onboarding the digital platforms and access govt and non govt.  digital services
• Develop the training plan with the team and ensure adherence to achieve targets.
• Ensure smooth delivery of training on different modules along with soft skills
• Ensure regular follow up and connect with the target group during and after the training engagement and gather feedback
• Respond to target group’s queries regarding training/ capacity building, placement, self-employment in a timely manner.
• Ensure proper guidance for the target group through job readiness / self – employment/income enhancement workshops.
• Collaborate with employers/vendors/ businesses to ensure adequate placement/ market linkage/ expansion opportunities for program participants.
• Regular visits to the respective communities/ stakeholders/Govt bodies to ensure project deliverables
• Ensure placement and self-employment deliverables are achieved