Overview

This role will be positioned within the Organization's program unit and will be supporting self Employment initiatives . This role will be a leadership as well as functional in nature with travel to field locations.

Responsibilities :

- Designing, developing and implementation

- Anchor Organization's self-employment (SE) strategy

- Develop a program blueprint that integrates self-employment as a critical component of Organization's work with youth. This will involve dedicated strategies for the following target segments:

a) Young people from the community (out of school, out of/without work)

b) Young people studying Industrial Training Institutes

- Build a network of Self Employment focuses partners- NGOs, government agencies, technical support agencies etc.

- Work closely with the network to learn, sharpen and enrich our focus on Self Employment

- End to end management of Self Employment projects, geared to meet desired results:

a) Work with partners on project design

b) Support state teams on implementation and participate in review calls/meetings with partners

c) Co-own project outputs with state teams and external partners

d) Build capacity of teams if needed

- Work with communications team to create a repository of Self Employment success stories from across the spectrum

- Work closely with the M&E team to monitor and evaluate the initiatives

Reporting to - Director Youth programs

Skills, Attitude and Knowledge :

- Master's degree in Social Work/Rural Management or associated development streams with minimum 6 or more years work experience preferably in the Skills and/or Self Employment spaces

- Demonstrated project management skills

- Knowledge of self-employment initiatives being supported by government, CSR etc

- Knowledge of issues in youth employability and the social development sector in India

- Should be willing to travel 1-2 weeks a month

- Driven by passion and zeal to achieve outputs and outcomes

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