Azim Premji Foundation, inviting applications for Gram Panchayat Facilitators under our Livelihoods Programme.
Location: Raigarh, Chhattisgarh; Gumla and Simdega, Jharkhand
Details of the Programme
The role entails implementing programmes and engaging with communities and Panchayat Raj Institutions for various livelihoods initiatives.
Eligibility:
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in livelihood community work.
- Graduation in any discipline with work experience in a relevant area.
- Fluency in Hindi, local language/dialect will be an added advantage.
The Gram Panchayat Facilitator will be responsible for the team and all our livelihood work in a Gram Panchayat. A Panchayat will include a few villages. There will be a community resource person in each of these villages. The gram panchayat facilitator would:
- Provide programmatic support to all the community resource persons within a Panchayat.
- Act as group facilitator and trainer of various livelihood programs launched by the Foundation in the community
- Direct engagement with the community in day-to-day operations of livelihood interventions and community mobilization.
- Work with community and PRI to enable better access to livelihood and welfare schemes and development programs of the government
- Institutionalize development planning, implementation, and tracking in CBOs and PRI bodies.
- Work with local partner/community resource persons to establish community connect in the villages within the Panchayat.
- Nurture relationship with stakeholders and trigger civic engagement between community institutions and the wider systems-block, banks, markets, etc.
- They will work under the overall leadership of the Cluster Coordinator.