Project Lead

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About the Organization

Since 1979, Trickle Up has been enabling extremely poor people to build resilient livelihoods and emerge from the cycle of poverty adopting graduation approach. Trickle Up has focused on the poorest and most vulnerable, helping empower participants who live in extreme poverty and face multiple levels of exclusion due to gender, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We target those who are most socioeconomically excluded across Asia, Africa, and the Americas- women, youth, people with disabilities, indigenous people, refugees, and other vulnerable groups who live beyond the reach of most social services and development programs. In FY19, we reached 170,000 people across 19 countries. We have been registered and operating in India since 2005; our current footprint is focused on Jharkhand and Odisha States, where we reached 129,000 people in FY19.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Project Management professional who has significant project management experience working closely with the field and partner organization and its staff on the delivery of program objectives. The Project Lead will lead on the implementation of the project targeting 1200 PVTG women through Graduation Approach. The Project Lead will lead the project in Littipara block of Pakur district in Jharkhand to scale Trickle Up’s evidence-based Graduation Approach to bring the PVTG community out of extreme poverty and contribute to Trickle Up’s continuous programme innovation efforts. We are seeking a highly motivated development professional with significant expertise in livelihood development for vulnerable populations especially through Graduation Approach, expertise in capacity building, training and managing partners. The Project Lead will report to the State Program Manager. This position offers a unique opportunity to play a critical role in enabling the partner organization to scale a proven programmatic approach.

Job Responsibilities

Programme Management

• Lead implementation of the program in Jharkhand to scale Trickle Up’s approach to graduating vulnerable populations out of ultra-poverty.
• Facilitate and lead the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach program to scale Trickle Up’s approach to graduating vulnerable populations out of ultra-poverty in line with project deliverables and the MoU between Trickle Up & local partner.
• Manage successful execution of the project in compliance with requirements, regulations, and good practices.
• Support the work of Trickle Up’s partnership with local organizations through training and ongoing coaching to build the capacity of partner employees to plan, manage, execute, and learn from programmes.
• Contribute to the development of monitoring and evaluation systems and lead the project implementation.
• Manage all grants funding of the project.
• Regularly communicate programme progress, results, and lessons learned to colleagues, partner organization, and donors to support organizational learning and external representation.
• Manage the successful execution of the project in compliance with requirements, regulations, and good practices.
• Supervise the team of the implementing partner.
• Facilitation during monitoring and evaluation systems and provide necessary information of the project as and when necessary.

Training and Capacity Building:

• Facilitate and lead the capacity-building of partner staff on program management and thematic areas including ultra-poverty, livelihood development, financial inclusion, convergence with government initiatives, gender and agency.
• Build coaching models across programs and monitor the progress of project participants based on the coaching provided.
• Support development of training and knowledge tools for improvising coaching in the intervention community with focus on areas of WaSH, Gender Empowerment and other indicators followed by Trickle Up for wellbeing of life.
• Support contextualization of training modules as per the state specific needs.

Networking

• Maintain contacts with block and district government bodies / authorities to ensure their cooperation and convergence with program activities.
• Identify local resources that can support / complement TU’s presence in the Program area.

Budget Management

• Ensure effective and timely monitoring and appropriate expenditure of project budget.
• Ensure budgets cover costs, including M&E, admin, overhead, and communications
• Ensure Budget is managed appropriately. Expenses are coded and spent on time and correctly

Staff Management

• Ensure the partner staffs have clear roles and responsibilities and are held accountable for delivering results
• Ensure partner staffs have support and tools they need to effectively do their jobs well
• Capacity Building, training and support staff

M&E Management

• In coordination with the M&E officer, ensure that project properly collect and analyze data in a timely manner
• Assist the M&E officer, in the analysis of data and generate lessons learned

Reporting

• With State Program Manager, ensure consistency between program deliverable, budget, implementation and reporting
• Ensure high quality reports are submitted on time
• The Program Lead will be the first node of data management and reporting.
• Facilitate the smooth data collection from the field for digital M&E process.

Representation

• With relevant other staff, and when appropriate, represent Trickle Up at local and state level
• With State Program Manager, liaise with the donor

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Post-graduation or equivalent in Social Work/Sociology/Rural Development / social science/ Development Studies

Working Experience:

• Demonstrated 8-10 years of proven work experience in program implementation of livelihood programs, Program Management experience at field level working with field-based staff to ensure timely and quality program facilitation for international NGO
• Overall experience managing livelihood programs working in partnership with local NGOs and/or CBOs.
• Knowledge on Micro Enterprise development, management and marketing would be an added advantage.
• Experience working in partnership with government at the state, district and block level (e.g. Depts and SRLM)
• Proven experience of handling projects involving linkages with industries, NGOs, National/State/ local organizations and government.
• Experience of implementing Graduation Approach programs will have preference

Knowledge and skills

• Strong writing and verbal skills in English and Hindi and exemplary communication skills.
• Skills in data analysis (quantitative and qualitative), and ensuring data quality, integrity and efficiency of collection.
• Skills in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems and distilling findings and learning for a range of audiences.
• Knowledge on Micro Enterprise development, management and marketing
• Knowledge of digital approaches of program monitoring and evaluation.

Salary and Benefits:

Trickle UP offers a compensation package that will be commensurate with qualification & experience for this full-time position. The successful applicant will join a dynamic, passionate, multicultural team deeply committed to the alleviation of extreme poverty. Trickle Up promotes a collegial, high-performing organizational culture in which staff communicate clearly and openly, and are reflective, innovative, and mutually accountable.

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