Subject Matter Expert

The Hans Foundation (THF), established in 2009, is a Public Charitable Trust that works towards creating an equitable society to enhance quality of life for all through the empowerment of marginalized and underprivileged communities in India. The Hans Foundation works for the Health and Wellbeing of remote and under-served groups, with an additional focus on children, persons with disabilities and women. THF also works for holistic Education and Livelihood development of our communities. Our Two-Fold Strategy involves identifying and working within Aspirational Districts and high poverty index in the North, North-East and East regions within specific states, as well as catering to lower-income and migratory populations in cities, through urban programs.

Over its 15 years of existence, THF has reached more than 35 million beneficiaries through its programs. THF works with communities through direct implementation of projects on the ground in addition to providing local management and monitoring support to not-for-profit organisations in India funded through THF USA and RIST.

**BACKGROUND**

In Uttarakhand, Horticulture and its allied sectors have emerged as one of the potential areas to accelerate the growth of the State economy and augment farmer's income. Nature has endowed Uttarakhand with a wide range of agroclimatic conditions due to which there is huge potential for the cultivation of high-value horticulture crops. Almora district accounted for the highest share (22.01 per cent) of the total population in Uttarakhand. About 94.6 percent of the district's population lives in 3,619 villages and the district has a high population density of 233 persons per sq. km compared to the state density of 109 persons. Therefore, this district has huge potential in terms of production and market.

Yamkeshwar and Almora are the selected blocks, where proposed livelihood interventions broadly address the economic security of people. A three-day consultative workshop was organized at Kangra district, where various stakeholders like farmers, officials from horticulture, livestock, bee-keeping, irrigation, banks, NGO, agriculture, ITI, and DIC participated. Based on the discussion and secondary data, the project activities are designed.

**GENERAL**

**Location of Job: Hawalbagh, Almora** (Uttarakhand)

**Type of Employment**: Contractual for 1 year

**No. of Position**: 1

**Reporting to**:Project Manager

**Annual Salary**:up to 600000/**JOB PURPOSE**

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Subject Matter Expert having a reach livelihood projects (Agriculture) experience to join our team and drive the Project grassroots work of HLP in Himachal and other locations while supporting the project.
- Ensuring strategic direction of project operations, day-to-day management, and delivery of the Project’s components.
- Efficient support to tasks related to advocacy, planning and programming, resource mobilization, monitoring and evaluation, and representation.
- Financial resources management.
- Human Resources Management and efficient procurement and logístical services.
- Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in various training programs.
- Leads the livelihood and economic development project team and ensures team spirit
- Maintains regular contact with project staff on programmatic issues and oversees the work of the project coordinators in the various Somali regions.
- Participate in all internal and external (coordination) meetings representing the project.
- Coordinate and cooperate with initiatives of other sections of the project like horticulture, agriculture, universities and nurseries, and value chain suppliers, specifically the ROLS, Governance and Human Development Units.
- Improve/establish communication and coordination mechanisms and procedures amongst the various stakeholders
- Prepare inception reports, work plans and regular donor progress and impact reports for the project.
- Ensure the achievement of outputs in line with the approved work plan through the day-to-day planning, management coordination and implementation of activities
- Ensures monitoring and evaluation of the projects, including regular field visits and the organization of Project Board and Steering Committee meetings and reports on project progress and constraints.
- Advocates for The Hans Foundation with government counterparts, donor community, national or international financial institutions, and any other institutions.
- Support the enhancement and update of a web-based database to serve as a monitoring and reporting tool (if any)
- Manage and monitor identified project risks and update the status of these risks with the management
- Keep the Deputy Programme Manager abreast of emerging project issues.
- Preparation of high-quality project documents and proposals, and encouraging adequate peer review of the same through established mechanisms.
- Supports overall resource mobilization for the program area

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