Project Coordinator

CissdNorth Zone
Required Experience
- 5 - 15 Years
- Posted On
- 07 Aug 2023
Basic Section- Band- Junior Management- Grade- G- Designation- Project Coordinator
- Entrepreneurship- Employment TypeOrganisational- Company- CISSD- Business Unit- SPU-1- Function- PMU-2- Sub Function- EDU- Cost Center- SEED- Country- India- Zone- North Zone- State- Madhya Pradesh- Working Location- Dhar- Sub Unit- UP- SkillsSkill

Minimum Qualification

MA (RURAL DEVELOPMENT)

MBA/PGDM (AGRI BUSINESS MANAGEMENT)

CERTIFICATION

No data available

Working Language

No data available
- Job Description**POSITION/DESIGNATION**

Project Coordinator - Entrepreneurship**GRADE/LEVEL**

Grade G**PROJECT/UNIT**

CISCO’s Sustainable Employment and Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) Program**PROJECT DURATION**

One year (March 2023 to Feb 2024)**REPORTS TO**

Project Manager**LOCATION**

Pithampur, Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh**TRAVEL**

80% including daily field travel, district head quarter, state and national travel as required.**ABOUT US**PROJECT DETAILS**

CARE India is implementing a project supported by Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited. **The project will aim to support 4,200 women and youth through training and capacity building on life skills, financial literacy, digital literacy, and gender sensitization. 400 women and youth will be supported directly for skilling and employability enhancement and enterprise promotion.**

**Overall objective**: Economic empowerment of 4,200 women and youth from low-income households through Sustainable Employment and Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) approach.

**Specific objective 1**: To increase access to career counselling services amongst women and youth from low-income households.

**Specific objective 2**: To enhance employability or self-employment opportunities amongst targeted women and youth from low-income households for ITeS sector and other relevant sectors.

**Specific objective 3**: To reduce gender barriers for women and other vulnerable groups.

**Specific objective 4**:Improved access to entitlements and schemes amongst eligible right holders for relevant govt. schemes.**JOB SUMMARY**

**Project Coordinator - Entrepreneurship & Skilling** is to be primarily contracted for 11 months (may be extended as per need/ requirement) to support the project located in Talwandi Saboo Block in Bathinda District, Punjab.
- Lead all project interventions with respect to identification and promotion of relevant skill building initiatives.
- Prepare detailed strategy and implementation plan for promotion of skilling, upskilling and employment creation efforts.
- Explore convergence opportunities with nodal government bodies and training partners.
- Explore placement and enterprise opportunities.

**ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Lead all project interventions with respect to identification, adoption or formation, capacity building of participants on life skills, digital literacy, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and life skills.
- Lead all project interventions with respect to identification and promotion of potential enterprise, skilling, and employability enhancement.
- Designing and conducting relevant market research / value chain studies / to identify potential enterprise activities, mapping demand driven skills and develop business plans for enterprises.
- Conduct training of trainers and training of participants on relevant thematic areas including life skills, digital literacy, financial literacy, entrepreneurship and life skills etc.
- Explore relevant market linkages for supported enterprises and empanel relevant market players for forward and backward linkages.
- Explore onboarding accredited training partners and employers for supporting capacity building of women and youth participants seeking employability enhancement and placement assistance.
- Designing and developing detailed training module for trainings on relevant trainings such as Financial Inclusion, Digital Literacy, Life skills, Entrepreneurship and Gender.
- Facilitate identification and selection of Community Resource Person and train them on relevant thematic.
- Monitor field/ on ground implementation of project activities as per project MEL framework including providing guidance to local Community Resource Persons (CRPs) on implementation quality and reporting from the villages.
- Support the project with documentation and reporting, research, monitoring, reporting, and documentation including case studies, documenting best practices, assisting in donor reporting and support team members and project in designing required communication materials.
- Support the project team under overall leadership of the project manager, regional hub and other specialists from CSO, in designing and organizing state level events, policy discourse and representing various forums.

**Other responsibilities**:

- Be accountable for timely accomplishment of responsibilities under this thematic area line items with respect to