Position: Program Associate

Organization: SEWA Bharat

Location: Bikaner

Roles & Responsibilities 

Leadership & Team Management 

– To lead the process of designing and setting-up livelihood and enterprise work for papad rollers and papad trade in Bikaner. 

– To lead and supervise designing, scaling, and replicating livelihood work related to papad for supporting and promoting collectives and micro-enterprises of women papad rollers. 

– To lead, communicate and motivate a team of people to achieve a common goal and support members in achieving their full potential and grow as professionals. 

– To identify, organize and set up business/work streams by orienting, training, coaching, and disciplining – associates, general managers; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions of all employees.

Business Growth & Partnerships 

– To identify business opportunities through a periodical market scan, leads, and proposals for farmer collectives and micro-enterprises. 

– Identification or selection of variation of products through value chain assessment, forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures, supporting collective to develop business plans (B2B, B2B2C), achieving month-wise marketing targets, and month-wise, year-wise targets of the enterprise and its implementation. 

– To design and implement a quality control system, business monitoring system, success indicators, monitoring processes to track work progress effectively. 

– To build partnerships with different brands and markets, and design and manage local organizing campaigns to liaise and negotiate with them for better price realization. 

– To build partnerships, a roster of mentors or experts, engagement in relevant district, state, national or international platforms to contribute in relevant policy discussions. 

Institutional Development & Capacity Building 

– To facilitate developing a strategic institutional and financial viability plan of papad collectives and micro-entrepreneurs, and ensure implementation of the same. 

– To facilitate, coordinate, organize and deliver need-based capacity building programs for the board of directors, micro-entrepreneurs, grassroots, and professional staff. 

– To design, deliver and develop need-based capacity-building programs for the board of directors and grassroots staff to build local managerial capacity for the long-term sustainability of the project. 

Fundraising and fund management 

– To support fundraising activity to raise more resources to support the program’s implementation and expansion. 

– To support in managing communication, reporting, and other requirements of funders to build long-lasting partnerships. 

– To identify and liaise with local trusts, foundations, government agencies, and other organizations that could potentially make grants to the organization. 

Eligibility 

• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders in unstructured environments.
• Ability to make sense of dynamic requirements and pivot quickly according to evolving situations.
• Good command over spoken and written Hindi and English
• Prior experience of working with grassroots organizations
• Self-starter with the ability to initiate and develop new workstreams
• Willing to travel as per need and requirement

Education & Other Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters in Business, Agribusiness, or rural development
• Women candidates are encouraged to apply 
• Past experience in leading and managing a team. 
• Oral and written fluency in both Hindi and English is mandatory.