Program Coordinator

**Living Water**

KEY POSITION INFORMATION

Title

Coordinator
- Livelihood and Sustainability

Grade

Technical

Reports To

Manager Program

**Department/Group**

Operation
- Living Water

Location

Hyderabad

**WORK CONTEXT / BACKGROUND**:
Coordinator -Livelihood & Sustainability at organization level to provide technical inputs and support Living Water
- Project to enhance program quality and technical support in Livelihood and sustainable WaSH. Engage with team for effective and efficient implementation by Project, linking to support institution, monitoring and networking the rural Livelihood initiatives and WaSH intervention specifically through working with partners at the ground level work and engaging with government for policy level advocacies.

**PURPOSE OF POSITION**:

- Leads in the strategy design and activities focusing enhancing team’s capacity for rolling out livelihood opportunities and facilitating social protection services for beneficiaries integrating appropriate WaSH behaviour services..
- In cases where no livelihood opportunities exist, works with local level partner training them and equipping key implementing team, develop communities and design livelihood entrepreneur models and strategies based on economic priorities in the designated area.
- Takes a lead in capacity building efforts for staff in the organisation developing process documentation, development of content, techniques, different development tools for assessment approaches and empower CBOs and association in target areas who provide livelihood services. Capacity building of staff and CBOs on advocacy and networking with government and other stakeholders.
- Actively promotes and secures the commitment and ownership of government and other local stakeholders for livelihood entitlement to enhance the likelihood that effective entrepreneurship, or sustainable business model will continue beyond the life of intervention.
- Actively train staff and team working at the community’s level for effective implementation of the Projects.
- Identifying technical and capacity building resource agencies, regular interface with them and engage them in implementation of the Projects.
- In coordination develop monitoring plan, training plan and strategies for effective and efficient monitoring and reporting of the progress and results of the livelihood activities.
- Train the staff and ensure the SHG, SIG, FPO and structures are established across the existing operational communities in Project location.
- Contribute to the development of reports and workplan as per need.
- Support in any other works as assigned by the Management

**ROLE DIMENSION / DESCRIPTION**

**Time Spent**
- **Technical supportive and supervision to WPA on sustainability intervention**

Visit to Project field location for support visit

Ensure quality of programming and training arrangement including resources

Provide technical support and guidance for staff.

Review of design and give feedback on capacity building of the staff.

Develop process and model and train staff in technical level for better execution.

Develop staff development plans in place.

20%
- **Field Support in implementation of WaSH and Economic development intervention**

Demonstration of specific model / best practices in WPA and dissemination & scaling up identifying partners. Facilitate Field exercises, survey, developing process, assessment, equipping the staff on through trainings on entrepreneur development

Documentation cases, events documented.

Develop and disseminate IEC, Behavioral change communication, campaign.

Support the field team to conduct the capacity building of GP/Village committees on institutional building (regular meetings, building linkages, building organization and technical skills, monitoring, review, etc.)

40%
- **Capacity building/ Mentoring of Project staff**

Public welfare schemes & linkage for access.

Rural poor related Acts, schemes, and programs. SIG strengthening.

Through understanding on National Rural Health to have alignment of WPA program.

Train and develop process documents and equip staff and implementation team.

Develop IEC for staff, proposal, concept note. Procure IEC from secondary sources.

Dissemination of communication materials, training manual.

40%

**Important Functional Relationships**:
List below all the contacts required in this position to efficiently accomplish the objective of the position.

**Contacts**

**Reason for Contact**

**Frequency of Contact**

**(Daily, Weekly, Monthly)**

WPA Field Staff

Technical support, monitoring and training

Ongoing

National Office, Director, Manager Program, staff

Review, update, and discussion

Ongoing

Key partners

Networking, Liaison, advocacy

As required
Knowledge, Skills and other Criteria:

- (The following knowledge, skills, and abilities may be acquired through a combination of formal schooling, self-education, prior experience, or on-the-job training.)_
Education
Graduate/M