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About the Organization

ChildFund is a child-focused international development organization that works in 23 countries to connect children with the people, resources and institutions they need to grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe, no matter where they are.

Job Description

The Project Manager will lead ChildFund India’s Project titled “Tackling the root causes of child labour in India spices supply chains” in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The responsibilities include project planning, implementation, monitoring, ensuring program quality & effectiveness, providing strategic guidance to the project team to achieve project outcomes through regular progress review, documentation, establishing networking and collaboration with various stakeholders, budget control & management, donor reporting, cross functional coordination and any other critical tasks that will support achieving project objective and outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

• Overall implementation of the above-said project in Barmer and Jaisalmer regions of Rajasthan and Bhadrachalam region of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
• Setting up & equipping the project office, team building – support for recruitment, induction and capacity building of staff.
• Identification, assessment and finalization of CSOs for collaboration.
• Ensure the smooth implementation of the project as per approved plan, meeting the compliance requirements and establishing the systems and processes to monitor the project progress.
• Managing the team and providing them the necessary guidance and support including.
• Be accountable for accomplishing the project milestones, enhance relationship and networking with other stakeholders such as government departments, agencies, NGOs, technical/ resource agencies, local authorities, elected representatives, people’s organizations, local farmers, communities, etc.
• Conduct monthly, quarterly and annual reviews with the project staff and report on the progress with feedback for further improvement on a regular basis.
• Working closely with ChildFund India national team in program and financial management related matters.
• Support in identifying consultants & resource agencies for the project.
• Represent the organization in appropriate external forums.
• Ensure that periodic and qualitative reports are submitted as per the agreed timeline.
• Ensure that monitoring and tracking requirements are met and requisite controls are in place. Provide required feedback with corrective measures on a regular basis.
• Be responsible to collect, program/project updates, analyze information and generate reports for dissemination to internal and external audiences.
• Any other responsibilities that may be assigned by the Line Manager

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Post graduate degree in Social Work / Rural Development.
• 7-10 years of experience in NGO sector, of which minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in management and leading specific project/program.
• Self-driven, result oriented and experience of managing teams.
• Strong experience in building networks and developing relations with stakeholders both government and non-government at district and state level.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity building of staff and partners including training, mentoring and leadership.
• Knowledge of participatory community development approaches.
• Excellent presentation, public speaking and interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication skills (both verbal and written) in Hindi & English. Other regional languages such as Telugu and Rajasthani would be an asset
• Strong computer skills, with familiarity in using Microsoft Office suite applications.
• Willingness to travel to remote locations
• Be gender sensitive with strong conviction and skills for the empowerment of excluded and disadvantaged children.
• Previous experience of designing and implementing Child Protection and/or Livelihoods projects would be an asset.

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