Circle Alliance Country Coordinator

6 months ago


Mumbai Maharashtra, India Resonance Full time

**WHO WE ARE**
Come grow with us If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial and inclusive, culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you.

At Resonance, immediate hands-on experience alongside our clients as we work to build sustainable, positive impact. Our teams are autonomous and self-sufficient. You get to weigh in with founders and leaders on how to drive change and grow the movement while growing the company.

Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world's toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets.

**POSITION MANDATE**

The CIRCLE Alliance: Catalyzing Inclusive, Resilient, and Circular Local Economies is a public-private initiative to reduce plastic use and tackle plastic waste. Founded by Unilever, USAID, and EY, its aim is to support women entrepreneurs, improve livelihoods, and protect the environment by accelerating the development of a circular economy for plastics. CIRCLE will build on the successful approaches developed as part of impact enterprise accelerator TRANSFORM and by USAID’s Save Our Seas Initiative. CIRCLE will work across three key areas: developing a circular economy for plastics through grants funding and business consulting to social enterprises, supporting effective and transparent mandatory extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies and implementation, and advancing gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.

CIRCLE is seeking a Country Coordinator for India. The Country Coordinator will lead country-level project implementation, with an emphasis on creating a steady pipeline of SMEs, grantee selection; coordination with and between grantees, partner governments, and CIRCLE members organizations; and oversight. The Country Coordinator will partner with the Grants and Program Manager, Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Advisor, USAID AOR and Mission Activity Managers, the Unilever Project Leads and Country/Regional Leads, and key points of contact at EY to engage with grantees to identify priority acceleration needs and develop Tailored Acceleration Packages (TAPs), which are designed to strengthen business operations, gender inclusive practices, sales, etc. Engagement with Unilever may also include engaging with third party suppliers and helping targeted small and medium enterprises (SMEs) pursue opportunities to engage within the Unilever supply chain. The Country Coordinator will likewise lead the selection and management of local capacity builders and specialized short-term technical assistance resources when required. Lastly, the Country Coordinator will serve as an in-country point of contact for grantees, providing grant monitoring support and fostering cross-grantee collaboration and learning.

This is a full-time position based in Mumbai, India reporting to the Chief of Party. This position is expected to be hybrid and will align with Unilever office mandates.

**OUTCOMES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**
- Serves as the CIRCLE Alliance’s country representative and partnership liaison to USAID Mission, Unilever, and EY in-country teams; participates in country, regional and global coordination meetings as required.
- Supports Alliance member in-country teams with the development of grantee pipelines, which includes collaborating with in-country peers, leveraging entrepreneurship ecosystems through extended networks, identifying viable grantees within the SME ecosystem, and representing the Alliance at in-person or virtual grants information sessions.
- Supports the successful implementation of award and grants management processes, including engaging in the solicitation, pre-award risk assessment and due diligence, evaluation, implementation, communication, MEL/reporting/tracking, and closeout.
- Manages grants evaluation and selection committee processes and chairs their respective country-level committee.
- Maintains an understanding of USAID programming and grants, with emphasis in ensuring grants are well administered and implemented in compliance with donor regulations and Resonance policies and procedures.
- Maintains responsive and clear communications with the CIRCLE COP, WEE Advisor and Grants and Program Manager on grants and grantee-related activities to ensure timely and responsible implementation of activities, as well as troubleshooting and remediation as needed.
- Ensures integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment priorities across the activity, including grant administration and implementation.
- Supports grantees with


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