Trainer- Trade Specific

Position	Trainer- Trade Specific	Program	Livelihoods
Role	Trainer- Training cum Production centre (TPC) and Promote Entrepreneurship	Reporting Relationship	Project Officer-Skilling & Livelihoods
Location	Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Mumbai (Kalyan), Nasik, Pune, Bhopal, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad	Number of Positions	12
Nature of Employment:	Fixed term Staff (One year, extendable as per individual’s performance and program need)

ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION TRUST

The American India Foundation Trust (AIFT) 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, AIFT 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, AIFT adheres to strict financial and governance standards, ensuring transparency, accountability, and responsible management of resources. As per statutory mandates, AIFT 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

AIFT’s Livelihoods program drives a unique market-relevant approach, harnessing the power of technology, to provide knowledge, skills, and opportunities to underprivileged youth, marginalized women, and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) to secure jobs, manage enterprises, and access dignified and sustainable livelihoods while building climate-resilient communities. With a keen focus on the areas of remote jobs, ecosystem support for enhanced female labor force participation, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities for PwDs, street vendors, and artisans around the country, AIFT Livelihoods aims to lead nationwide, industry-led, collaborative skills and entrepreneur development initiatives to meet India’s growing need for a skilled workforce. Since 2006, the program has served 3.8 million underserved citizens across India.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Generational Urban Poverty Alleviation Program (GenUP) Program is conceived to address the persistent cycle of generational urban poverty affecting communities like street vendors, migrant workers, women, youth, and persons with disabilities. Decades of evidence from AIF’s on-ground work revealed that families engaged in low-income urban occupations for generations struggle to break the cycle due to limited skills, low financial access, and inadequate market opportunities. GenUP aims to disrupt this cycle by empowering households through a holistic 5E framework—Employment, Entrepreneurship, Entitlements, Environment, and Ecosystem Building.

The program’s core objective is to enable multi-income, resilient households by providing 21st-century skills, entrepreneurial support, market linkages, digital inclusion, and access to government schemes.

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Core Responsibilities (60%)

• Develop and facilitate dynamic training programs in Apparel and Textile Design, soft skills, and entrepreneurship, aligned with the NSDC curriculum.
• Develop, adapt, and update training materials, lesson plans, and curriculum based on skill gaps and participant needs.
• Employ diverse instructional techniques to support different learning styles and ensure high comprehension and retention.
• Foster an inclusive and supportive learning environment that encourages active participation and collaboration.
• Provide personalized feedback, mentoring, and guidance to enhance participant learning.
• Ensure timely delivery of curriculum and address trainee queries related to training and placement.

• Deliver entrepreneurship development training covering business planning, financial literacy, digital tools, and enterprise management.
• Conduct need-based assessments to customize training for women entrepreneurs.
• Facilitate exposure visits, demonstrations, and practical learning sessions.
• Support beneficiaries in preparing business plans and accessing credit, schemes, and social security benefits.
• Provide one-on-one counselling on enterprise ideas, career goals, and livelihood pathways.
• Track progress of each entrepreneur and offer post-training handholding support.
• Facilitate onboarding of women onto digital platforms such as UPI, billing apps, Mera Bill, e-commerce, and government portals.

• Identify and coordinate placement opportunities, apprenticeships, and market linkages for trained women.
• Collaborate with local businesses, financial institutions, government departments, SHGs, and market players to strengthen enterprise support.
• Cultivate partnerships with community organizations and employers to enhance livelihood outcomes.

• Ensure retention of trainees throughout the program and minimize dropouts.
• Conduct daily calling and counselling of absentee candidates to ensure regular participation.

• Maintain accurate records of training activities, attendance, counselling notes, assessments, and success stories.
• Ensure documentation of field visits, enterprise verification, and follow-ups.
• Support monitoring and evaluation by collecting data, analysing outcomes, and generating insights for program improvement.
• Onboard and orient candidates on AIF’s LMS portal.
• Conduct and analyse the endline assessment on AIF LMS.
• Maintain all required program documentation for reporting purposes.

Mobilization (20%)

• Support baseline assessment.
• Assess and evaluate candidates based on their understanding post mobilization.
• Provide counselling to mobilized candidates, addressing their questions, concerns, and offering guidance.

Entrepreneurship Promotion (20%)

• Maintain 90% attendance in the batch.
• Maintain 100% Pass percentage of each batch in External Assessment.
• To ensure timely receipt and delivery of minimum required pieces of work order from buyer on monthly basis.
• Support women in home run TPC setup and in other trade specific areas. 
• Any other task as assigned by the line manager from time to time.
• To ensure tracking of self-employed candidates for Six Months.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Graduate/Postgraduate in Social Work, Management, Development Studies, or relevant field with Diploma/ Degree in Textile and Apparel Designing.
• Skilled in 21st century employability skills training delivery, Strong and updated knowledge about dress making, apparel, Stitching.
• Well informed of labor market trends, employer needs and best practices in career services
• English and Hindi communication skills –both written and verbal
• Proven experience as apparel sector, Garment industries
• Should have a flair for teaching & will also be required to guide the students through their projects

• 3–4 years of experience in training, counselling, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, or women empowerment programs.
• Experience working with SHGs, micro-entrepreneurs, or skill development programs preferred.
• Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel), and LMS

OTHERS: Salary shall be commensurate with experience.

POSITION AVAILABILITY: Immediate

APPLICATION PROCESS: To apply for this position, please click HERE

Only applications of shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.

 

 

 

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