Program Manager – Livelihoods

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About the Organization

PCI India, a registered Indian society, has been working in India for the past 26 years. We drive interventions to transform the lives of communities at scale by solving complex development problems. In the past year, PCI India reached more than 1.7 crore, i.e. 17 million people in 204 Districts in 15 States.

Job Description

The Program Manager – Livelihoods, based in Delhi, will lead PCI’s efforts to collaborate with Ministries and States to expand opportunities for Women-Led Enterprises (WLEs) in public procurement. She/ he is expected to develop project strategies, action plans, evaluation tools, budgeting and overall project implementation. She/he will guide the team at various State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs) in collaborating with state departments to identify WLEs from existing SHG federations and help them build skills and support systems for success in public procurement. S/he will represent the organization and coordinate with NRLM and other responsible point persons in different SRLMs, and also with other key business organizations, stakeholders and agencies as per the requirement, under the close supervision of Director Livelihoods. She/ he will work effectively with market intelligence and business processing with overall support and guidance of Director Livelihoods to effectively interact and gather information/input from different public procurement and market space of WLEs and similar programs/ initiatives under NRLM/ SRLM. She/ he will develop analytical reports, data/ evidence and presentations for different stakeholders. S/he is expected to support the team in developing instructional playbooks on PP and undertake risk assessments of existing WLEs for generating evidence of best practice.

Job Responsibilities

Support in Project Operations & Management

• Provide technical support at national and state levels to promote public procurement opportunities for women-led enterprises.
• Lead the design and structuring of all major knowledge products (including research reports, situation analyses, instructional playbooks, Lessons Learnt Documents, workshop reports, etc.)
• Assist NRLM and SRLMs in identifying key indicators for public procurement and business model impact, ensuring effective data capture through the MIS and conducting necessary analysis.
• Identify best practices and lessons learned to guide programme improvement and strategy planning
• Lead and support in developing concept dissemination strategy for ensuring strategic positioning of the project at national and global level.
• Support in managing and optimizing project operational procedures, partnership management, contract management in sync with evolving program strategies in close coordination with COPs.
• Work closely with program support team to ensure judicious use of project resources in compliance with organizational policies

Supporting Project team positioned at different SRLMs

• Support team members at national and key states in planning & executing project activities at different SRLMs.
• Support the team to submit the progress reports and attend meetings and discussions with the donor representatives at different states as & when required.
• Be updated with all project activities at different states by having a regular connect with them, to serve as a stopgap, if required.
• Identify any shortcomings, and report to program lead to ensure uninterrupted project implementation.
• Support in project monitoring, timely reporting of the projects of different geographies.
• Support in preparation of any strategic documents pertaining to any project geography as requested by donor, client or any other stakeholder.

Support in Stakeholder and Donor Management

• Support Senior leaders in partnerships management by preparing meeting notes, draft articles, speeches, briefings, presentations, reports, documents and collated information as and when required.
• Engage in liaising with project stakeholders at different project locations.
• Support in quality and timely completion of final deliverables
• Assist the donor-facing presentation, data rich reporting, presentations, knowledge products and high-level dissemination of all final products.

Other responsibilities

• To carry out any other relevant duties as required.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate shall have a post-graduate degree/diploma in business management with specialisation in marketing, financial management or entrepreneurship development.

Professional Experience:

• The ideal candidate should have minimum 7 years of experience in working with enterprise development space or NRLM/ SRLM with international project support including being in reporting, financial management role with proven expertise in one or more of the following domains:
• Rural enterprise livelihoods
• small and micro enterprise promotion
• The candidate should preferably have an experience of working on projects for the government, with focus on managing relations with donors and government system writing project reports, budgeting, and cost management.

Skills and Attributes:

• Excellent knowledge & skills to work on MS office.
• Knowledge and experience with gender approaches
• Knowledge of principles of negotiation, research & market analysis techniques
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership in a highly motivated team
• Excellent oral and written English skills

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