Project Field Officer

**Location**:
U.P, Bihar, Uttrakhand, M.P, Punjab

**No. of positions**:
8 (one for each cluster of average 3- 5 centers)

**Reports to**:
Regional Officer

**About Us**:
Established in 2001, NASSCOM Foundation has been witness to the transformative power of technology for the last 20 years. Part of the NASSCOM ecosystem, we are the only not for profit outfit, representing the Indian tech Industry. We remain rooted to our core philosophy of TechForGood, where our efforts are focused on unlocking the power of technology by creating access and opportunity for those who need it most. We work on helping people and institutions transform the way they tackle social and economic challenges through technology.

We have three key areas of intervention, Digital literacy, Skilling and employability and Women entrepreneurship.

**Project Background**:
The “NASSCOM Foundation’s Resource Center for Digital Literacy and E-Governance” project aims at empowering the communities from marginalised backgrounds in Aspirational districts to become digitally literate and access all relevant government schemes. It would help to enhance the knowledge, bridging information gaps, livelihoods creation and easing access to relevant government schemes, financial inclusion and linkages to ensure overall wellbeing. In this project, NASSCOM Foundation will set up “Resource Center for Digital Literacy and E-Governance” in 40 Aspirational Districts in the country.

The Aspirational District Programme launched by the government in January 2018 is an attempt to push for growth across various socio-economic parameters for inclusive development. “NASSCOM Foundation’s Resource Center for Digital Literacy and E-Governance” will contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

**Key Responsibilities**:
As key member of the core project team, the person will contribute to manage the “NASSCOM Foundation’s Resource Center for Digital Literacy and E-Governance” initiatives of NASSCOM Foundation. As key member of the team, s/he/they will be supporting and working closely with the ‘Regional Officer’ for the project. Broad structure of responsibilities is noted below.
- Ensuring compliance of vision, mission, values, objectives and policies of NASSCOM Foundation
- Work closely with national and regional team’s / service provider agency teams to implement the strategies and interventions as planned under the project.
- Regional level coordination and supportive supervision of the project team engaged in field operations
- Build and maintain stakeholder relations at district and regional level, engage with multiple stakeholders and agencies to achieve program outcomes
- Plan and measure results designed for the project, identify areas of research and studies for improving knowledge and generating evidences
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor the program implementation process and to support the field team in implementation.
- Adept with documentation and reporting as per internal / external requirements.
- Ensure project interventions, planed outputs and / outcomes are delivered on time within the stipulated scope and budget
- Coordinate with internal and external parties for the flawless execution of projects.
- Ensure data and reporting compliances as per M&E framework developed for the project
- Develop & execute projects and services for scaling up, own the overall responsibility for the successful execution of the project.
- Build and document good/best practices and use opportunities for it to be scaled
- Giving pro-active real time feedback to the implementation team on various program and data collection issues based on regular monitoring of processes of the program.
- Any other incidental work as and when assigned by the management.

**Key Requirements**:

- Post-Graduate, or equivalent standard of education essential - ideally in rural management, international development, public policy or other social sciences
- Minimum 2-3 years of relevant experience
- Humility, willingness to learn
- We need change makers to drive our inclusive tech agenda.
- Passion and commitment towards bringing a social change.
- A self-starter, able to undertake routine tasks independently
- Knowledge in project monitoring & evaluation (M&E), project-implementation-plan (PIP), Baseline & impact evaluation and ToC (Theory of Change) framework’ required.
- Experienced with the Digital Literacy/ inclusion ecosystem, maintains and builds trusted relationships with key stakeholders in the sector.
- Updated on relevant technology initiatives/components/tools adding value to the digital literacy/ digital inclusion / E-Governance/ livelihood / entrepreneurship ecosystem with experience in related project implementation.
- Identify key public and private institutions and pursue partnerships towards digital inclusion / digital financial inclusion.
- Updated on emerging technologies and can provide need based technical assist