Lx776 - Regional Coordinator, Swayamshree - Odisha

LX776 - Regional Coordinator, Swayamshree - Odisha

Madrid

EUR 30.000 - 50.000

Role: Regional Coordinator, Swayamshree, Odisha
Experience: 5 years
Salary: Up to 12 LPA

Organization Profile: Reliance Foundation's initiatives in areas of Rural Transformation, Health, Education, Sports for Development, Disaster Response, Arts, Culture & Heritage, and Urban Renewal have reached over 71 million people since inception, creating transformational change across India. To know more about Reliance Foundation, visit our website: www.reliancefoundation.org

Job Purpose: RCs will play an important role in government linkages at the sub-state level. They will support specific enterprises as well as government coordination and monitoring in their responsible districts.

Role & Responsibilities:

1. Mapping the availability of Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) in the area with support from SRLM and FIAs and estimating the people dependent on the NTFP.
2. Understanding the value chain from production/availability, development, sustainability, harvesting, value addition, and marketing to identify gaps.
3. Providing support in value addition, processing, and marketing of the NTFP.
4. Establishing and strengthening collective enterprises in the NTFP.
5. Exploring possibilities of introducing technology for processing and value addition.
6. Identifying better markets/private sector players for marketing.
7. Developing suitable models of backyard poultry and goatery to the local context.
8. Developing plans, promoting, and strengthening poultry and goatery clusters, bringing a business approach into backyard poultry and goatery.
9. Resource mobilization from schemes/government programs for facilitating more investment into goatery and poultry.
10. Developing a cadre of service providers for health care, feed management, and marketing facilities for women engaged in poultry and goatery on a sustainable basis.
11. Establishing community enterprises with revenue models like livestock resource centers/goat resource centers/poultry cooperatives for providing services (health care, input supply, and output marketing).
12. Promoting small scale household/group enterprises for feed preparation/manufacturing.
13. Facilitating linkages with technical service providers like veterinary universities and experts.

Educational Qualifications:

1. Professional qualification in relevant areas or PG in any relevant area.
2. At least 5 years of experience in the relevant enterprise sector.
3. Hands-on experience in a similar enterprise in personal or private business or non-profit.
4. Experience in developing marketing channels (direct, retail, wholesalers, online, reselling, franchising, etc.) is a must.

Preferred:

1. Experience in rural development projects.
2. Experience working with women SHGs and SHG federations.
3. Adequate computer skills and proficiency in English.
4. Willingness to travel extensively in rural areas and stay in remote villages.
5. Ability to interact easily with rural communities.
6. Business planning, product knowledge, and marketing skills.