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Associate Programme Development
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Organization: International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST)
Apply By: 17 Sep 2024
Location: Noida(Uttar Pradesh)
About the Organization
iFOREST is an independent not-for-profit research and innovation organisation that was established in 2019 to identify, promote and scale up solutions for pressing environment-development challenges in India and other developing countries in Asia and Africa.
Our work is rooted in regional priorities to accelerate environmental actions at the sub-national level and to improve national policies and plans to support it. Our mission is to address the unique needs of regions by leveraging our resources and expertise to scale up national action and make a global impact. We use our regional knowledge to inform national policy and plans and strengthen international collaboration.
Job Description/Responsibilities
The associate will be responsible for supporting the team in programme development, expanding the professional network, organising training programmes, creating and updating information data base, and putting together proposals. This would entail dedicated support for identifying new opportunities for Expression of Interests (EoI) and Request for Proposals (RfP), as well as support the team in project and contract management activities.
Specific tasks to be undertaken by the associate would include:
- Identify new EoI opportunities from multilateral and bilateral, and government funded projects.
- Support end-to-end documents for EoI and RfP responses in line with requirements of RfP.
- Liaise with internal team and other stake holders on developing EoI and tender/bid documents and financial proposals.
- Support the team in programme development activities.
- Support team in project management and contract management activities.
- Support team in organising various training programmes/meetings/events.
- Identify and source external team of experts as and when needed for project and draft CVs as per the RfP
- Support team in Identifying specialized experts from recruitment and professional networking platforms.
- Support team in building contact and information databases to support research projects.
Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience
- Master’s or Post Graduate Diploma in Business and/or relevant subject (minimum) from a recognised institution in a relevant field, including management, economics, commerce, or allied subjects.
Required competencies
- In line with the listed responsibilities for the successful candidate, she/he is expected to have the following competencies:
- Good understanding of procurement process’ of multilateral, bilateral and government agencies.
- Experience of carrying out programme development activities in consulting industry.
- Ability to identify, track and source EoIs and RfPs from multilateral and bi-lateral funding agencies viz, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, etc. and government projects.
- Experience in liaising with clients/funding agencies, associate firms, external experts, and other stakeholders as and when required for tender preparation, JV/consortium, bid submission.
- Experience in identifying potential external experts and maintaining database of professionals and associate firms.
- Experience in contract management and project management steering contract meetings, contract negotiations, periodical project reporting’s and other stakeholder meetings.
- Excellent organisation skills for organising training programmes, events and high-level meetings at regional, state and national level for various stakeholder group.
- Familiarity with different online and offline tools for effective engagement with participants of a training programme will be an added advantage.
- Willingness to travel as per requirement.
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