District Lead (Rural Development) Job in Gandhinagar at The/Nudge Institute

The/Nudge Institute is hiring for the role of District Lead (Rural Development)!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Understand and practice the Spirits of The/Nudge Institute and GLPC.
• Perform a selection of Antyodaya vulnerable women in identified Aspirational Blocks in Gujarat.
• Ensure Mobilization of such vulnerable women into hamlet-level small groups and SHG.
• Ensure selection, placement and capacity building of community cadre from local villages/gram panchayats to provide tight handholding and facilitation support to the targeted vulnerable women/ families.
• Facilitate such vulnerable families’ access to eligible Government entitlements and social security schemes through various convergence platforms like community cadre, community institution, social capital, district/block level line departments, internal convergence within the GLPC etc.
• Perform effective livelihood planning for these families and facilitate them to access and avail of formal credit/ loans from the community institutions to start livelihood activities.
• Do capacity building of the community institutions and community care for the welfare of these vulnerable women in the long run (enhance community’s ownership through the communitization process).
• Ensure all project activities are implemented on time with utmost quality as per the approved Project Implementation Plan (PIP)/Standard Operating Procedure (SoP)/Package of Practice (PoP)/ Community Operational Manual (COM).
• Ensure timely collection/ entry, processing and reporting of data.
• Develop case studies and add content/contextualisation to the overall knowledge management component of the program.
• Do good stakeholder management at the grassroots level.

Requirements: 

• Candidates must have 2-5 years of experience in the development sector/rural development projects/ poverty eradication projects/livelihood promotion projects/ tribal development projects
• Candidates with work experience working in district-level positions in National Rural Livelihood Mission/ State Rural Livelihood Missions in Institution Building, Capacity Building, Social Inclusion, Social Development, and Livelihood promotion will be preferred
• The candidate must have her/his own bike with a valid driving license as it is a field-based job
• Preference will be given to local residents, especially women candidates, and candidates belonging to ST, SC social categories and any other marginalised communities