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Consultant- Knowledge Management

Position Name:  Consultant – Knowledge Management 

Reporting Line:  Sr Manager- Program Management and Analytics

Tenure:               6 Month  

Location:            Lucknow 

About PCI India: – 

PCI India, a registered Indian society, has been working in India for the past 25 years. We drive interventions to transform the lives of communities at scale by solving complex development problems. In the past year, PCI India reached more than 1.5 crore, i.e. 15 million people in1649 Blocks of 163 Districts in 14 States

About the Project / Partnership: –

  1. All Self-Help Group (SHG) women led production and distribution of Take-Home Ration (THR) Nutri Enterprises

Government of Uttar Pradesh (GoUP) has been taking various proactive policy measures to address malnutrition and unleash the power of women’s collectives for rural development. As a part of the same a long-term agreement was signed between Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission (UPSRLM) and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), GoUP for decentralized production and supply of Take-Home Ration (THR) to Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) by engaging cluster level federations of SHGs.

PCI, a technical partner to UPSRLM for Health and Nutrition through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) supported Prerna Technical Support Programme (PTSP), has been providing technical assistance to UPSRLM in conceptualising the decentralised production and distribution of THR through SHG-operated Food Enterprise.

PCI is keen on ensuring viability and efficiency of these enterprises by developing three Food Processing Enterprises as Centers of Excellence (CoE), which will serve as learning and immersion sites for other units. Further, PCI partnered with Decentralized Renewable Energy organizations and is demonstrating the solarization of 3 THR enterprises in the state with the objective of ensuring optimum production of THR enterprises which are solarized.

  1. Poverty alleviation of 5 Lakh ultra-poor in Uttar Pradesh

PCI India in collaboration with a thematic and technical partner is providing technical assistance to GoUP towards poverty alleviation of 5 lakh ultra-poor families in Uttar Pradesh (UP). It is a digital initiative for facilitating Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) entitlements exclusively on the accounts of women beneficiaries. It is a multi-department convergence initiative to address poverty and is backed by a comprehensive Government Order to onboard 14 departments ~ 46 DBT Schemes to be supported by executive orders from the concerned welfare departments. An active remote DBT assistance center is setup to proactively follow up on realization of entitlements from the beneficiaries.

  1. Prerna Technical Support Program (PTSP)

PTSP is the community mobilization project with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM). The project is designed to strengthen UPSRLM in its core areas as well as in the emerging areas of health and nutrition (HN). The overall support entails- co-creation of a strategy with UPSRLM for system strengthening of UPSRLM in its core business areas and integration of HN; strengthening UPSRLM’s internal system, structures, institutional mechanisms, and concomitant processes, and strengthening and mobilizing the community institutions of UPSRLM in its core business areas; providing technical knowhow to the UPSRLM for building HN strategy and designing strategic interventions on HN integration

Key Roles & Responsibilities:-

  • Collaborate with relevant program team and develop need-based compelling pitch documents, project proposal & and grant applications tailored to specific funding opportunities and stakeholder interests across various thematic areas of PCI India particularly Self-Help Group (SHG) community based initiatives around Women’s Economic Empowerment & Livelihoods, Gender and Social Norms, Health & Nutrition, Clean Energy and Climate, Social Protection, Skilling & Employability etc. on short notice.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team along with Strategy team of PCI India to finalize the proposals.
  • Ensuring the alignment of proposals with donor requirements, organizational priorities, and industry standards.
  • Meeting deadlines and delivering high-quality outputs within the agreed timeframe.
  • Adhering to ethical standards, confidentiality agreements, and organizational policies throughout the engagement.
  • The consultant may undertake the captioned assignment working remotely but there may be some infrequent requirement for the consultant to travel to Lucknow or Delhi office of PCI India for an in-person discussion with the team while drafting the documents. The cost of such in person meeting (travel cum lodging) should be borne by PCI India

Note: This TOR is in Intended to provide a general overview of the position and may not cover every aspect of the role. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the organizational goals.

PCI is committed to prevent any type of unwanted behaviors at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct.

PCI India is an equal opportunity provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability and/or marital status.     

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