01. Position Summary:

The incumbent is based out of Bengaluru Office of GRAAM. Responsible for the community consultation activities that includes program / project management (action research) and community engagement.  Th responsibilities in nutshell includes sourcing and leading the implementation / action research projects, planning and coordinating the data collection activities building a strong network with partner organizations across the country.

02. Skill / Competence Requirement:

ü  Leading the team as enabler and motivator

ü  Overall project management and survey management

ü  Program Reporting and Documentation  

ü  Flair for field work and working with community

ü  Community consultation and Field based Activity planning and monitoring 

ü  Should be willing to travel extensively within and across different districts and states of India.

ü  Substantial understanding about the community processes

ü  Expertise to document lessons learnt and best practices from the grassroots

ü  Analytical, written and oral communication skills required to translate local/vernaculars/dialects

ü  Good English (written and verbal)  and Hindi (written desirable and verbal is a must) and Kannada is advantageous   

ü  Good computer, critical thinking and analytical skills (MS Office, Online Survey tools desirable)

03. Description of Duties / Responsibilities

ü  Developing project proposals and presenting it effectively to the clients / partners

ü  Project plan development, budgeting and management

ü  Building network with NGO at state and national level to establish a dependable grassroots partnership for GRAAM

ü  Team Communication and Management: Allocating necessary activities and plans to team / partner organizations as required by the project, preparing and negotiating contracts, budgets and survey plans

ü  Conceptualizing and Executing, Supervise and monitor the activities/programs/projects as part of the team

ü  Actively engaging in development of operational plan for implementation of Community consultation plan

ü  Taking responsibilities for quality implementation and execution of activities under CC Team.

ü  Planning and managing data collection activity including field validation / field checks for ensuring data sanctity / quality  

ü  Periodically recruit and train field short term surveyors / enumerators for various research and study related activities 

ü  Manage logistical coordination for field surveyors training and survey activity 

ü  Development / Translation / Contextualization of research tools in coordination with the research team and community consultation team  

ü  Conducting Participatory Research and Rural Appraisals Activities

ü  Coordinating with Govt Departments and other stakeholders to seek permissions and  with CBOs, PRIs, People representatives for obtaining necessary cooperations for conducting field surveys

ü  Developing budgets for data collection activities in coordination as required by the study

ü  Contribute towards website updating, news letter from community engagement

ü  Any other related assignments may be entrusted by the reporting authority

Secondary:

Participate in developing field survey capacity building resource materials, tools etc

Participate in training programs organized by the organization as a resource person

Logistical coordination during organizational event

Facilitating field visits to the visitors and team

04. KPI:

 Source Action Research / Implementation Projects for the organization

 Source Data Collection Assignments

            Build a strong network of 60 Grassroots NGOs in Karnataka   (02 for each district)

       Build a network of 40 Grassroots NGOs in India (one from each state / UT) for undertaking field research

       Successful Completion of Assigned Project responsibility within stipulated time and quality

Base location : Bengaluru / Mysuru

No. of Positions : 01