Job Description
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Position Title & Name |
Programme Delivery Team |
Location (Field/ HO/Site) |
Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh |
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Business/Function/Site |
Reliance Foundation |
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Job Purpose
RF-BIJ is a program being implemented by Reliance Foundation under its Rural Transformation initiative across 45 districts in India. RF-BIJ will comprise of three key interventions centered on – (i) Climate Resilience (CR4SD), (ii) Integrated Value Chains (IVCD) and (iii) Diversifying rural incomes & Women Entrepreneurship via agri-allied and non-farm sectors (DRIWE).
This role will contribute to RF-BIJ’s research activities. The role will specifically provide documentation and communication support, and help enhance existing documentation by analyzing program data. This would include collecting, organizing, processing and analyzing data from the program, generate inferences on program implementation processes, progress and impact. This position would be expected to generate high quality research, papers and progress reports for external and internal stakeholders. Additionally, this position will also nurture partnerships and collaborations for joint research, studies, publications and deployment of technology for better data and knowledge management .
Programme Delivery Team Responsibilities
• Conducts needs assessment and understand the challenges in achieving improved yield and adaptation of improved practices
• Enrol additional new users
• Update the profile for the current users
• Support in conducting baseline surveys
• Networks and Partnerships –Knowledge Partners / Grassroots Partners -Leverage their expertise, services, training capacities, schemes and user network
• Develops “Locally Customized and Situationally Responsive” interventions / phygitalservice for improvement in yield / management practices
• Implement the programmes in alignment with annual operating plans that is cost-effective, innovative and outcome driven
• Query management through various help line services (Toll Free, YouTube, WhatsApp)
• Document and analyse all the queries –thematic wise / region wise and provide inputs to the programme delivery team (field support team) to improve the program execution and content production & management
• Support in conducting surveys for specific interventions
• Carry out various special assignments
Programme Delivery Team- KPIs
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Activities |
Outputs |
Outcomes |
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•Enroll farmers and fishermen into the program –focused to crops, livestock, marine fisheries committedto the outcome •Assess the needs and challenges faced by the targeted users •Organize phygitalprogrammesto address the challenges / queries of the target group •Creates linkages with various resource / service delivery organizations for improving the access •Continuous feedbacks and support to content production team about various gaps in the livelihood improvement areas •Conducts virtual multi-location focus group meetings to analyze the adoption of each advisories and the feedbacks of target audiences •Support Disaster Response activities / special assignments executed
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•No. of farmers + livestock farmers enrolled •No of women farmers enrolled (subset of farmer + livestock farmers) •No. of marine fisher folk enrolled •No. of knowledge partners networked •No. of queries addressed –programme/ help line / chat bot (WhatsApp) / YouTube •No. of help line callers contact created •No. of feedbacks / case studies collected •No. of FGDs conducted •No. ofcontents collected from partners •No. of individuals surveyed / collected data for follow-up of various crop / livestock / marine fisheries management practices
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•Rate of adoptionof advisories in (%) •Improvement in the crop yield •Improvement in the milk / meat yield •Improvement of annual net income for Farmers, Livestock Farmers and Marine Fisher Folk •Livestock units -Saving livestock units from various seasonal diseases and health ailments
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Educational Qualification and Relevant Experience
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Educational Qualification |
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Post Graduate in Sociology / Social Work / Development Administration / Agriculture / Fisheries / Veterinary sciences or Rural Development / Management |
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Experience |
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O Minimum 2 years of experience in working with Development Sector (especially in rural areas) O Skill set for mobilizing communities and understand the livelihood issues o Able to converse with the rural community in the local language in understandable and simple manner o Knowledge on the rural dynamics and social organizations
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Other Requirement |
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O Experience in working in the rural livelihoods sector O Experience in working with multi-stakeholder partnerships -Capacity to build and maintain cordial relationship with Government Departments, Universities, KVKs, Research Institutions to extend their advisories and expertise O Fair knowledge about computer operations particularly in MS word, excel, online forms ability to handle various digital platforms to reach communities and increase the programmeengagements O Fair knowledge in preparing reports in English o Fair knowledge in actionable research o Fair knowledge in various ICT-enabled development programmes/ projects –regional / national / international
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How to apply:
Interested candidates can send their updated CVs at jobs.shortlisting@gmail.com with the subject line “RF- PD” latest by 10th June 2022