Senior State Program Manager (Project)
- Company
Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation (MVSTF)
- Location
Mumbai
- Employment Type
Full-Time
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Functional Category
Programme Management & Implementation
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Experience
7 - 8 years
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Salary
75000 - 76000
- Date Posted
30-Jul-2025
- Application Deadline
15-Aug-2025
About Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation (MVSTF)
The Government of Maharashtra with the support of various philanthropists and NGOs has undertaken activities on a war footing to address the drought that has adversely impacted thousands of villages and millions of people in Maharashtra. Jal Yukt Shivar a campaign to make the state drought free has established significant social capital and infrastructure over the past couple of years with strong results. Nevertheless several challenges remain to be addressed. The Village Social Transformation Mission is a unique mechanism with the potential to transform rural Maharashtra. It aims to provide hard & soft infrastructure and quality last mile service delivery empowering villages to practice self-sustainable development. The Mission will converge government efforts with activities undertaken by corporates under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Act. Existing corporate activities will be supported by existing government schemes and administrative machinery. Meanwhile the government will incorporate corporate best practices technical expertise and insights. The Mission had advanced development across the 1000 worst affected villages (by drought or other social challenges) in Maharashtra by 2021 creating a model for replication in the process. Based on the success of 1000 village program The Government Maharashtra has approved Mission MahaGram program to be implement through VSTF till 2029 across Maharashtra. This model will then be replicated across the state.
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Overview of the Role
The Senior State Program Manager will assist Joint CEO to undertake various project interventions; Support Joint CEO to prepare annual capacity building plan and initiate actions to build capacities of the project stakeholder with help of Government Departments research institute and other relevant stakeholders
Job Description
• Support Joint CEO to prepare annual convergence plan and initiate actions with the support of other line departments for support;
• Formulate an implementation strategy review and plan for continuous improvement in close association with key stakeholders
• Identify critical issues in project implementation and submit them to the Joint CEO for remedial actions to address the constraints at appropriate level;
• Undertake extensive field visit and ensure project expenditures are incurred in accordance with the provisions in the Village Development Plans and Annual Work Plan and Budget;
• Ensure that the project financial and physical progress reports are submitted in compliance with the VSTF documentation and requirements and the government including the RIMS (Result and Impact management system) and other indicators;
• Keep up to date information about the project its progress both physical and financial and provide required feedback to Joint CEO;
• Ensure the establishment and operations of the overall program monitoring and evaluation systems including the RIMS survey and in compliance with the overall requirements of the GoM;
• Ensure that the M&E of the participating institutions is adequate to provide the required information for timely preparation and submission of periodical progress reports;
• Carry out the M&E functions including direction of baseline surveys and impact assessment studies in the project area GPs;
• Undertake field visit to the project villages where necessary and make on the spot assessment and validation of the progress reports;
• Prepare progress reports containing inter alia an analysis of successes problems constraints and design issues that would help annual reviewers by supervision missions and a mid-term review by VSTF GoM and other stakeholders.
• Coordination monitoring of district progress on Gramkosh and Convergence participation in DMCs
• Support capacity building of Project Coordinators and Kaushlya Sakhi/Mitra/ project team
• Work to achieve Skill for Life and Socio-Economic and Rural Transformation: MM Skill for Life for all and contribute actions on following thematic areas
2.Agriculture and Agri allied sector:
• Promote formation of CBO i.e. Farmers Producer Companies producer companies Cluster level federations etc
• Promote and strengthen community-based organisations of Women and girls
• Financial inclusion and literacy of the Community based organisations
• Advancing gender equality across the sphere e.g. sustainable agriculture and agri allied sectors (animal husbandry dairy and fisheries) soil and water conservation livelihood early childhood development; quality equitable and inclusive education good health for all access to housing skilling WASH employment opportunities through MGNREGA protecting environment and biodiversity and access to market linkages.
• Improving access to services and livelihood opportunities
• Promoting access to small and micro entrepreneurship program and developing enterprises
3.Rural Housing Sector:
• Value addition the houses constructed under Centre and State supported Housing Schemes e.g. Prime Minister’s Rural Housing scheme Ramai housing scheme Shabari housing Scheme etc. with roof-top rain water harvesting painting kitchen gardens internal electrification solar energy and innovation etc.
4.Rural Health Sector:
• Setting Gaon tithe Dawakhana (using available community infrastructure)
• Promoting tele-medicine and generic medicine facilities
• Setting up kitchen gardens anemia free villages Menstrual Hygiene •Management reducing child and mother mortality rate and various awareness program on vaccination.
• Social Behaviour and Change Communication strategy and interventions on knowledge sharing
• Drinking water Sanitation Environment and Water Conservation Sector:
• Intervention to ensure village water safety and security access and management o& M Water quality monitoring water resource management waste water treatment and circular use of waste water improving water use efficiency.
• Developing Panchayat Van- 100 native tree plantation in each Gram Panchayat
Education Sector:
• Setting up digital schools minor repairs in school infrastructure Building as Learning Aid (BaLa) and ensuring basic amenities including benches safe drinking water hand wash stations kitchen shed Mini Science centre electricity connection solar interventions counselling strengthening school management committees.
• Introducing STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) interventions/labs for schools
5.Livelihood Sector:
• Setting Cooperative shops (CO-OP Shops) for Community based organisation and linking them to e-commerce platforms to ensure market access for their products
• Developing labour stops and mechanisms to ensure availability of labor and requirement for labour and farmers facility centre
6.Special Interventions:
• Building Capacities of the key stakeholder of Gram Panchayat Taluka Panchayat and District Zilla Parishad on various profession skills that are required for the implementation of the project.
• Any other tasks assigned by the VSTF Joint CEO.
Required & Preferred Qualifications
Skill
Excellent command of written and spoken English and Marathi is required. Candidates are required to submit writing sample for any assignment they have completed in their previous work/job experience (thesis or project work submitted as a part of academic assignment will not be considered).
Education
Post Graduate in Economics Social Sciences Social Work MBA in rural development business administration or related discipline
Experience
Minimum 07 years of relevant experience in rural development related project including Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Rural Development Fellowships and other social fellowships