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Program Associate-Technical

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Program Associate-Technical

About PCI India

PCI India is a not-for-profit organisation, working in India since 1998. Our programs are designed to solve complex development problems and transform the lives of communities in a sustainable way. We are currently active in 14 states with 22 programs that have reached out to more than 15 million people by 2022-2023. Some of the development areas where we have designed and implemented programs include Health, Nutrition, Women Economic Empowerment & Livelihood, Gender, Adolescents & Social Norms and Social Protection.

Our Vision and Mission

Vision – A happy, healthy, safe and a sustainable world for all.

Mission – Rooted in community realities, we co create and scale sustainable solutions to complex development problems.

Our Values

  • Excellence – Quality in everything no matter how small, is paramount.
  • Respect – There is inherent value in all people for who they are and what they contribute.
  • Collaboration – Only through collaboration we can address complex development problems.
  • Boldness – Boldness requires disruptive thinking backed up by courage and conviction.
  • Creativity – Creativity ensures dynamic responsiveness, relevance and impact.
  • Integrity – Integrity is non-negotiable in both personal and professional domains.

 

PCI is an Equal Opportunity Employer

PCI is committed to providing equal opportunity to all working for it and in creating an inclusive work environment. We respect the diversity of our people and follow a fair, non-discriminatory approach in terms of gender, age, nationality race, caste, religion, community, marital status, physical challenge, and sexual orientation.

We promote diversity in the workplace and ensure a culture of zero tolerance to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment whether sexual, physical or psychological.

PCI provides equal opportunity in recruitment, appraisals, promotion and career progression. Our people policies are fair, objective and non-discriminatory and everyone is expected to adhere to them.

About the Position

  • Job Title: Associate-Program Technical
  • Number of positions: 01
  • Location: Lucknow
  • Salary Range: Competitive salary commensurate with experience
  • Type: Project Based
  • Qualification required: Master’s degree in Demography, Public Health, Social Work, Computer application, Rural Development or Management or any other relevant degree
  • Experience required: Related Experience of 3-5 years in social development sector preferably with developing tools for capturing data and program management
  • Skill and Competencies:
  1. Must be very versatile with developing excel based tools, data handling, and analysis. Excellent command in English (written) and ability to write short articles.
  2. Ability to make designs on Corel/ page-maker/ InDesign or other DTP platform will be an advantage.
  3. Discretion and confidentiality.

How to apply: Interested candidates can apply for the Position by using the following link: https://pciglobal.in/?post_type=jobs&p=15620&preview=true

Application closure date: 13th March 2024

About the Role

The Project Associate serves as responsibilities include supporting in the management of multiple projects, organizing, and coordinating executive outreach and external relations efforts.

Responsibilities

  1. Prepare monthly program progress reports/slide decks to share with various stakeholders.
  1. Support senior team members in developing strategic documents and tools basis field experience and program requirements.
  2. Prepare state level progress report for various projects as per the timelines agreed by the donor.
  3. Maintain a repository of program documents, references, and updates
  4. Keep track of overall high-level deliverables of the project and managing overall commitments and timelines of the project
  5. Support senior team members in coordinating with consultants, stakeholder, donors, and other service providers hired for program activities. Organise periodic meetings, events, and training programs as needed.
  6. Coordinate with field team to gather learning from field including human interest stories, success stories etc. documentation and dissemination
  7. Support the identification and firming up the technical proposals in response to business Request for Proposals (RfPs)
  8. Assist in representing the firm in donor meetings, conferences contributing to knowledge sharing and branding of the firm.
  9. Coordinate with field team, embedded team along with finance & procurement team to update the status of various projects being anchored by PCI India.
  10. Deliver any other need-based tasks as requested by the team. 
  • Reporting to- Sr Manger-Program Management and Analytics
  • Stakeholders- Government district officials from various government departments.

About some flagship projects of PCI in Uttar Pradesh

  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.

What can you expect in PCI

  • A warm, inclusive, and happy work environment.
  • Performance driven reward mechanism.
  • Best of class benefits with competitive remunerations.
  • Health Insurance coverage for self, spouse & Children.
  • Group Terms Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance for Self.
  • All other statutory benefits.
  • Regular Recognition of performance and PCI Value display in work
  • An empowering organisation structure which values individual’s skills, competencies and potential.
  • Opportunities to operate in cross functional role.
  • Higher responsibilities and larger roles are merit based.
  • Young Talent Programs for developing future leaders.
  • Leadership roles for women is encouraged and given preference in selection and training.

Recruitment Process

  1. Applications will be shortlisted based on the specified criteria mentioned in the Job Description.
  2. Shortlisted candidates will appear for a written assignment (if required).
  3. Group Discussions may be part of the interview process for certain positions.
  4. The process could also include presentation of the assignment.
  5. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend one or more rounds of panel interview/s.

The complete process usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. If your application is not shortlisted, you will receive a mail from the People & Culture team. Those moving to the final round of interviews will be hearing from the People & Culture team. We prefer in person meetings but in case of location distances, we are happy to meet you virtually.

After the final round, if you are not selected for the position advertised, we will inform you over a mail. However, we invite you to apply to other open positions. We always look forward to engaging with talent that add value to our endeavours in various capacities.

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