Project Officer-Financial Linkage

Position:	Project Officer-Financial Linkage	Program:	Livelihoods
Role:	Financial Linkage	Reporting Relationship:	Senior Program Manager-Skilling & Livelihoods
Location:	Pune (Rural), Maharashtra	Number of Positions:	One
Nature of Employment:	Fixed term staff (upto two years)

ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION TRUST

The American India Foundation Trust (AIF) is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high-impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Through its unique value proposition, working closely with local communities, the Foundation partners with NGOs to develop and test innovative solutions and with governments to create and scale sustainable impact. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji and Bill Clinton, AIFT has impacted the lives of 18.88 million of India’s poor across 35 States and Union Territories of India. Learn more at https://aif-india.org

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

AIF’s Livelihoods program envisions a world where poor and vulnerable communities have access to dignified work opportunities, empower them with sustainable livelihoods. Since 2006, the Livelihoods Program has directly and indirectly served 2.20 million people from vulnerable communities. Leveraging technology to provide financial and market linkages, knowledge, skills, and dignified work opportunities, the program helps the communities secure jobs, manage enterprises, and make a respectable living. Since its inception in 2006, through its flagship programs Market Aligned Skills Training (MAST) and Ability Based Livelihood Empowerment (ABLE), AIF Livelihoods has provided program support to 825,960 disadvantaged youth, women and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), and impacted 343,727 livelihoods.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Village Vistaar is a multidimensional response to all the on-ground road blocks coming in the way of

overall growth of rural citizens. This response is further simplified through a 4 E model of growth covering Employment, Entrepreneurship, Entitlements and Environment. When these 4 Es are taken up in isolation, the outcome and the impact never gets aligned with the development vision and interventions on ground as they lack the provision of accommodating the deep aspirations and real needs of the communities. The 4 E model of growth enables the communities to engage with the area of immediate urgency and embark on their journey towards a better future. It also maximizes the community participation and co ownership by local authorities through direct alignment with the available resources, schemes, and local aspirations.

Parallelly Village Vistaar gives enough opportunity to the funding partners and collaborators to pick and

choose all the 4 Es (thematic sub areas) or start supporting the chosen ones. The primary role is to skill

and empower 1000 women candidates in identified domain skills and further align them with market needs for self-employment and remote job opportunities.

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Conduct community visits and engage with 2000-2500 project beneficiaries at the community level.
2. Identify and map out government and private financial institutions within the project area.
3. Create batch plans for women learners for introducing different concepts to ensure effective learning 
4. Connect project beneficiaries with relevant financial institutions for accessing capital, social security schemes, and various government loans. Assist them in opening bank accounts, ensuring compliance with KYC regulations, and providing guidance on tax compliance related to their entrepreneurial activities
5. Assist beneficiaries in opening bank accounts and ensure compliance with KYC regulations.
6. Facilitate the generation of QR codes for beneficiaries to streamline transactions and record-keeping.
7. Provide guidance to beneficiaries on tax compliance related to their entrepreneurial activities and link them with relevant institutions for accessing capital (entrepreneurship) and social security and welfare (entitlements) schemes.
8. Monitor the proper utilization of credit by beneficiaries to enhance income and facilitate timely repayment to financial institutions
9. Organize and arrange technical support for beneficiaries to ensure the continuity and success of their enterprises.
10. Assist in maintaining and updating the AIF MIS (Management Information System) database in coordination with the Project Manager.
11. Facilitate stakeholder and donor visits to the field as and when required. 
12. To be involved in any operational activity as and when instructed by the Project Manager.
13. Any other task assigned by line manager that might emerge depending upon the need and opportunity decided by AIF

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

1. Graduate/Post Graduate in any discipline with at least 3-4 years of experience rural livelihoods and creating market and financial linkages.
2. Experience in working with micro-entrepreneurs and local vendors will be an advantage.
3. An understanding of the market with forward and backward integration. 
4. Ability to develop relationships and engage with multiple stakeholders including Government.
5. Documentation and report writing skills with good proficiency in computer. 
6. Consistently approaches work with positive energy and a can-do attitude. 
7. Possesses a variety of skill sets including time management, multi-tasking, inter-personal and problem-solving abilities.
8. Ability to develop a local level network of useful resources to support project implementation.
9. A team player who is supportive, flexible and ready to take on additional tasks.
10. Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal excellent and confident communicator.

OTHERS:

Salary shall commensurate with experience.

POSITION AVAILBILTY:

Immediate

APPLICATION PROCESS:

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Only applications of shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.

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