Regional Coordinator

**Yuva Rural Association**
**Job profile - Regional Coordinator**

**Yuva Rural Association**:YRA is a Voluntary Development Organization based out of Nagpur and having development interventions in the Vidarbha region mainly with a vision of ‘an empowered and capable society with all human rights; equity, peace, justice, and security; without any discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, ethnicity, religion, gender, age and language; leading towards sustainability.

YRA is committed to developing a Better human society with equal opportunities and participation towards sustainability of the planet and to supporting and facilitating the needy, poor and marginalized people to make them harness equal opportunities and participate equally, aiming “No One
Live Behind”.

YRA is being supported by foreign funding organizations, Government
Departments, CSR and United Nations etc. To carry all these interventions.

**Key Functions**:The Regional Coordinator will be **the **Head of the Programs and anchor and coordinate all the existing Programs /projects at the regional level (Eastern Vidarbha) and will be based in that region only. Major areas of duties will be as below.

**Roles and Responsibilities**

**A. Coordinate all district-level programs and projects at the regional level**
- Anchoring the current projects: (definition of Anchoring is separately given)
- Monitoring all multi-district projects of Eastern Vidarbha with the support of District Coordinators & project staff
- Setting up new projects at the regional level.
- To develop linkage with other projects on issue-specific concerns, designing joint programmes.
- PME of all district-level projects with the respective teams
- Micro-level planning inputs to the project teams of the district
- Ensure the proper implementation of all multi-district projects in the respective district
- Ensure all necessary data and records, both soft and hard are maintained with regard to all the projects at the district level.
- Ensure all documents are handled properly and maintained.
- Ensure all the activities are implemented with expected quality and quantity at the grass-root level
- Planned and surprising visits for the field observations to know the pulse of the program in the district.
- Coordinating with all donors and stakeholders
- Compiling the district-level reports for sending to the donor in their prescribed formats quarterly and annually
- Develop and maintain a professional and institutional relationship with all stakeholders such as government offices, colleges, universities etc.
- Represent the district on all external forums and processes at the district level related to our strategic intervention areas.
- Representing the regions on all internal YRA processes and forums
- Giving political leadership to all district-level programs
- Provide timely inputs to the district as thematic experts
- Assist, coordinate and plan funders/donors’ visits in the region and as per the themes
- Timely updating the pulse of the programme to the Director Program.
- Ensuring that the agreements are received on time and sent to the donors timely after proper process
- Organize monthly/quarterly meetings of the region
- Develop new program strategies for better and effective implementation of the programs
- Co-ordination of work in specific areas - geographical, special programmes, issues, campaigns
- To attend state & national level forums and bring back the concept for replication

**B. Developing new program initiatives**
- Develop own and the district’s understanding of the development issues in the region on regular basis.
- Develop new concepts of interventions to address different region-specific issues with the districts as per the new strategic plan
- Keep updated, alert, and informed to oneself about different development interventions in the districts, especially new announcements, programs and projects by the government and others

**C. Administrative and accounts management**
- Verify and ensure timely preparation of the QBPs of all region-specific district projects wise.
- Ensure that the special program notes prepared by the district coordinator are from the angle of quality, quantity, time, resource persons, material, budget, participants, expected output etc.
- Monitoring the proper utilization of the monthly budget vs. Actual.
- Assisting in updating the accounting systems and timely accounts maintenance as per the demand of the project
- Timely ensuring the fund requirement from the donors

**D. HRD**:

- Verifying leave records, Bank holidays, Diaries, monthly calendars, monthly plans, checklist etc. at the district level
- Perform proper performance appraisal process of the district
- Give the expert presentation on the process of induction and orientation program for the new incumbents
- Initiating mentoring, appreciation, individual conferencing, peer support, and peer pressure.
- To be sensitive and responsive to maintaining a positive and