The Resource Person will support the overall Livelihoods work across multiple geographical locations. He/she will develop annual plans, track implementation vis-a-vis plans, do quality assessment, communications, follow-ups with internal and external stakeholders and documentation of the processes, outcomes, and learnings.
While supporting pan-field operations of the livelihoods field teams in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, the responsibilities include the following:
- Understand the poverty context, the organizational perspective and then facilitate articulation of plans and the programming needed to achieve them.
- Understand the program controls, processes, procedures, standards, reporting, etc., to manage the projects.
- Monitor progress to ensure that milestones are being met across the various project locations including budget and timeline management.
- Request, collate, and report programmes and project information at required intervals.
- Locate and provide basic best practice resources/linkages and guidance as well as enabling contents like standards and templates for common documents or processes.
- Anchor the work of learning and evaluation by supporting in data-keeping, analysis, and distilling lessons out of field experiences in collaboration with other work units in the Foundation such as the ‘Knowledge Resource Centre’, University, and thematic leaders.
- Facilitate teams to build strategic linkages of CBOs, Panchayats, and other institutions with external stakeholders—mobilizing resources, improving programs, supporting and influencing state and market eco-systems.
- Support in preparing strategic notes like MoUs/ToRs, for negotiation with external stakeholders.
- Assessing adequacy of resources and competency/skills in the teams to achieve the plans. And mobilizing organizational means to prepare required learning and development programs.
- Identifying risks and bottleneck in timely completion of projects/tasks and coordinate problem-solving involving peers, field teams and leadership.
- Lead in documentation of strategy, plans, process, and evaluations.
