Position: Regional Head

Organization: Access Livelihoods

Location: Odisha

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and salary history

Experience: 5-7 years of relevant experience, preferably in seed business. Working with Community Enterprises

will be preferable

Language: English, Hindi, and preferably Odia

What is Expected of You?
1. Lead and guide a team on community businesses
2. Identify new business opportunities and get technical feasibility and viabilities done
3. To be able to design and ground new community business like paddy, rice, dairy and pulses
4. Ensure profitability of various businesses and the Producer Companies
5. Promote micro-enterprises and create financial and market linkages for them
6. Enhance skills of youth to promote enterprises or/and obtain employment
7. Raise finances from formal financial institutions to meet the business requirements
8. Ensure new product development and new markets outreach
9. Manage partners and other stakeholders
10. Train and develop capacities of members, board of directors and staff
11. Link producer company to academic institutions, market institutions, government institutions for
access to information, resources and technologies
12. Establish systems to ensure transparency and accountability including financial, MIS, legal, marketing
and cutting-edge technological solutions
13. Monitor and report the progress of projects on a regular basis
14. Coordinate the strategic and annual planning and its execution
15. Willing to travel extensively as required
16. Must have excellent numbering skills, must be comfortable with Excel, Power Point and Word.

Personal Qualities & Behavioural Traits
1. Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with various stakeholders of the project.
2. Excellent coordination, communication and negotiation skills
3. Ability to adapt to local culture and tolerance to the physical hardship of rural India.
4. Ability to relate and empathise with marginalized community.
5. Time management skills
6. Enjoy working under pressure, deadline-driven and ability to adapt to a changing environment
7. High in cause orientation and resource consciousness
8. Good documentation and presentation skills.

What do We Offer?
• Non-hierarchical work environment
• A professional work environment and job satisfaction
• The joy of creating social impact
• The chance to work with and learn from highly experienced professionals
• A chance to truly experience and understand the real India