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Project Associate/Assistant Program Lead

  • Company

    Sehgal Foundation

  • Location

    Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh

  • Employment Type

    Full-Time

  • Functional Category

    Programme Management & Implementation

  • Experience

    5 - 7 years

About Sehgal Foundation

S M Sehgal Foundation (“Sehgal Foundation”) is a public, charitable trust registered in India since 1999. Every person across rural India deserves to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life. With that vision in mind, our mission is to strengthen community-led development initiatives to achieve positive social, economic, and environmental change across rural India. With support from donors and partners, Sehgal Foundation designs and promotes rural development interventions that create opportunities, build resilience, and provide solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in India’s poorest communities. The foundation team works together with rural communities to create sustainable programs for managing water resources, increasing agricultural productivity, and strengthening rural governance. The team’s emphasis on gender equality and women’s empowerment is driven by the realization that human rights are central to developing every person’s potential. As an emerging knowledge leader on rural development issues in India, the foundation team engages in participatory research, impact assessment, interactive dialogue, and community media to take informed actions and achieve sustainable results. The team collects, assesses, and reports qualitative and quantitative data across an array of development outcomes, building an archive of evidence-based research that incorporates the voices and views of rural communities and demonstrates the results.

Overview of the Role

The Project Associate/Assistant Program Lead at S M Sehgal Foundation will play a pivotal role in implementing and coordinating integrated rural development projects in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh. The position is responsible for ensuring the effective execution of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) initiatives by working closely with community members, local institutions, and partner organizations. The role involves planning, supervising field operations, providing technical support to farmers, and ensuring gender-inclusive participation. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in the NGO/CSR/social sector, a solid understanding of rural livelihoods, and excellent communication and project management skills. This role is crucial in contributing to the Foundation’s mission of strengthening community-led development and fostering sustainable, impactful change in rural communities.

Job Description

- Work intensively with key representatives, Village development committee, project beneficiaries & other stakeholders.
- Organize meetings and trainings around project interventions ensuring adequate women participation
- Prepare monthly action plans and strategies for top quality implementation of project interventions
- Supervise & monitor field employee, review their monthly action plans & activity reports and proper guidance
- Provide technical support and trainings to farmers on-farm management and best agriculture practices
- Organize field days and exposure visits of farmers for better understanding and wider replication
- Prepare monthly, quarterly & annual project reports, document success stories, news articles etc.
- Prepare IEC materials like pamphlets/banners/booklets on project interventions for wider dissemination
- Strictly adhering to project timelines, managing project MIS and expenditures as per SF’s financial policy
- Prepare training manuals for training of farmers and team members on agriculture and allied activities
- Liaison with key community leaders, KVKs, NGOs, panchayat, govt. departments at block & district. level
- Prepare and support the development of new proposals on agriculture and NRM interventions etc.
- Strict adhering to SF’s vision, mission and guiding principles and safeguarding SF/donor’s interest in field.
- Any other responsibility assigned by management as per the requirement of the organization

Required & Preferred Qualifications

Skill

- Employee should have good communication skills.
- Good knowledge of MS Windows and Office suite, and MIS.
- Post-Graduation, relevant to desired skill and competencies.

Education

Post-Graduation, relevant to desired skill and competencies.

Experience

- At least 5 years of experience NGO/CSR/Social sector domain is required. - Experience of implementing and coordinating integrated village development based projects with thematic areas such as Livelihoods and Institution building.

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Paid Time Off

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Flexible Work Option

Flexible Hours