Project Manager - Social/Agri/Rural

About TechnoServe:

TechnoServe (TNS) is a not for profit economic development firm focused for the last forty years on creating business solutions to fight poverty. We work closely with rural and urbanizing women and men in developing countries to build enterprises that generate income, create livelihood opportunities and fuel economic growth. We are headquartered in the United States and operate in more than 30 countries. TechnoServe has been active in India since 2007. Our team members are mostly from top tier organizations and have made a conscious decision to serve the poor with an aspiration to make a sustainable difference. More information can be found at www.technoserve.org

The country program in India focuses on three thematic areas, namely development of value chains (specifically agricultural value chains); development of entrepreneurship (specifically socially relevant businesses) and innovative partnership models for enhancement of livelihood opportunities for the poor. It is an exciting period for the country program as we set up our Indian entity and look for expansion of our programs and coverage across the country.

Project Manager at Mumbai, with extensive travel

Job Description for Project Manager:

- Lead specific projects in terms of strategy development for TechnoServe to sustainably help in developing project business model

- Conducting diligence, doing gap analysis and helping team to design program

- Working with the team in cultivating new relationships, developing the ecosystem for the value chain and partnerships, especially private sector partnerships on market linkages

- Working with the country team and development division of TechnoServe globally to prepare high quality learning documents for replication of the intervention model in other geographies

Requirements:

- Candidate should have minimum of 5 years work experience in preferably social development or agri-business or entrepreneurship promotion field. However, we are open to candidates from other work backgrounds

- Should possess excellent analytical skills and, communication skills both written and oral

- Candidate should possess good understanding of development space, and priority areas.

- Candidate should be flexible to travel extensively

Qualification:

- Master’s degree in business from IIM- (A, B. C, L)/ ISB / XLRI, Rural management, or International Development with relevant prior experience or Bachelors degree from IITs/ BITS Pilani/ St.Stephens College

Please send your resume at hire.technoserve@gmail.com with the name of the position you are applying for mentioned in the subject.