Project Manager- Agriculture, Livelihoods

Position: Project Manager- Agriculture, Livelihoods, Full time Location: SELCO Foundation, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience :3-7 years 

Reports to: Program Manager - Starting date: Immediately

 

SELCO Foundation seeks to inspire and implement socially, financially and environmentally inclusive solutions by improving access to sustainable energy. SELCO Foundation’s key objectives are systematically identify diverse needs of the poor, understand and define the role of sustainable development, poverty alleviation and decentralized energy, create and deploy innovative solutions that positively impact well-being, health, education and livelihoods towards the alleviation of poverty and foster the development of enabling conditions or an ecosystem through holistic thought processes in technology, finance, entrepreneurship and policy.

 

As one of the priority development verticals, we are working to develop sustainable energy driven solutions for Agriculture. Under the Agricultural vertical we have been working on specific value chains such as millets, rice, spice, tomato, potato and with agri cooling as a value chain cutting across all horticulture produce. SELCO seeks to develop sustainable energy solutions across agri commodity value chains in order to improve, diversifying farm incomes and reducing drudgery across agri processes and activities. Specifically, we are looking at technologies that bring about value among small marginal farmers and entrepreneurs, FPOs, FPC's, SHG and other stakeholders.

 

You can find more information on this program on our Program Website.You can find more information about the SELCO Foundation on our Organization Website.

 

Key Responsibilities

• To support the agriculture team for research, identification, innovation (both tech and financial), implementation for Decentralized Renewable Energy based technologies for agriculture, specific to commodities such as Rice & millets.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with relevant local stakeholders ( NGO partners, Govt. Institutes etc.,) related to each commodity.
• To map and profile the technology providers/ manufacturers for the identified technology nodal points and coordinate for smooth implementation of projects.
• To visit sites/ partner organizations to identify different end user/ commodity typologies to develop prototype and test new technologies relevant to the value chains. And, to develop different business & financial models for these typologies.
• To support the agriculture team in developing different technologies, models and packages of solutions for farmers, traders, entrepreneurs etc.
• To coordinate with the other geography teams of SELCO and support them in developing and implementing programs to create cross learning platforms for the specified value chain.
• To coordinate and help in collecting data and sharing it with knowledge team to develop the knowledge deliverables (case studies, presentations, report, etc)
• Conduct site visits and prepare monthly case studies with pre and post implementation learnings, financial profitability for all the implementations.
• Support the team in conducting the training and capacity building requirements from the implementations and create training modules with relevant stakeholders.
• To coordinate with end users for maintenance and troubleshooting support for implementations at each site by coordinating with the technology providers to resolve the same.
• Share data, caselets, learnings & newly identified typologies with the geography teams and also with the partners.
• Support the team in bringing out the newsletters including case studies, learnings, new typologies etc which will be shared with the partners, geographies monthly.
• Coordinate with the outreach team for sharing the learnings through various social media channels.

Key requirements 

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in development sector and with domain knowledge of sustainable energy is preferred
• Strong project management and operationally sound, along with Stakeholder management and relationship building
• With specific Interested in energy access, livelihood and ecosystem building
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office, Excel and PowerPoint.

 

To apply please send in your CV and cover letter to apply@selcofoundation.org with “Project Manager- Agriculture ” in the subject line.

 

Or Please apply by filling out the online form.

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