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Program Manager – Enterprise Development & Convergence (Patna)

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Program Manager – Enterprise Development & Convergence (Patna)

About the Position

  • Job Title: Program Manager – Enterprise Development & Convergence
  • Number of positions: 1
  • Location: Patna
  • Grade: D
  • Salary Range: Competitive salary commensurate with experience
  • Type: Till December 2026
  • Qualification required: Post-graduate degree/ diploma in management (preferably business management, marketing or rural management) or entrepreneurship development.
  • Experience required:
  • Minimum 3 years of experience of working with government and international donors and must possess expertise in one or both of the following domains:
  1. Rural livelihoods,
  2. Small and micro enterprise promotion
  • Preferably have a deep experience of working as part of the core team of major Technical Support projects for the government, with a special focus on managing relations with donors and bureaucracy, writing project reports, budgeting and cost management.
  • Understanding of large-scale women economic empowerment programs & SRLM functioning
  • Skills and Attributes:
  1. Good analytical and problem-solving skills
  2. Ability to work in time-bound
  3. Excellent oral and written English skills
  4. Digital literacy including word processing, database systems, and PowerPoint. Strong command of excel and budget management is a plus.

Application closure date: 17th December 2024

Position Description:

The Program Manager- Enterprise development & Convergence would be based at the state office and is expected to support the TSU-Lead in program implementation, developing convergence and partnerships for program requirements. He/ She shall be responsible for building and nurturing government partnerships for enterprise promotion. S/he will be responsible for coordination with the relevant thematic verticals of the SRLM for ensuring smooth implementation of the project. S/he will be responsible for supporting the TSU-Lead in state specific landscaping for identifying women-led businesses to be nurtured for enhancing market participation and share. S/he will support in enterprise identification & development by ensuring on-ground engagement on regular basis with SHG women. S/he will ensure continuous information flow with all TSU members and professionals of SRLM, as per the requirement. S/he will also support the TSU lead in providing regular reports to different stakeholders as and when required. S/he will be responsible for organizing programs and activities in accordance with the project strategies at their respective locations. S/he is expected to be in continuous engagement with the stakeholders at the state level to make communication easy and assess risks in advance for ensuring smooth project implementation.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Implementation & Management

  • Conduct needs assessments to identify challenges and opportunities for rural women entrepreneurs.
  • Develop and implement strategies for promoting women-led enterprises in rural areas, focusing on sustainability and scalability.
  • Develop detailed enterprise & location specific project implementation plan (PIP).
  • Assist in creating market linkages, including access to local, national, and digital markets.
  • Promote innovative models for value addition and branding of rural women’s enterprises.
  • Identify and manage specialist partners that would support Women-owned enterprises to build the required business and technical skills.
  • Conduct enterprise support training for nurturing enterprises to enable business success.
  • Identify any shortcomings, address, and report to TSU lead to ensure uninterrupted project implementation.
  • Ensure efficient budgeting of the project expenditures.

Stakeholder and Partnership Management

  • Maintain excellent relationships and association with the state governmental officials to ensure that the technical support provided by the WEE team is valued by them and potential of WEE team is optimally utilised in supporting their work.
  • Support TSU-Lead in partnership management by conducting regular collaborative meets and extend support through required preparations for the same.
  • Work closely with the state PCI team members in addressing any requirements for the donor and other major stakeholders.

Reporting & Documentation

  • Finalise captured learnings, project activities and best practices for dissemination at different online & offline platforms for upkeeping projects visibility.
  • Contribute to designing and finalising of state indicators & MIS and ensure timely reporting.
  • Work closely with PCI team members to produce knowledge and learning products for knowledge sharing, aiming to communicate with government, donor, partners, development agencies and civil society
  • Finalising meeting notes, draft articles, speeches, briefings, presentations, reports, documents and collated information as and when required for the national and state office

Donor Management and Compliance

  • Develop and submit the progress reports to and attend briefing meetings and discussions with the donor representatives
  • Support in quality and timely completion of final deliverables.
  • Assist the donor-facing presentation and dissemination of all final products, as required

Other responsibilities

  • To carry out any other relevant duties as required and assigned by TSU Lead.
  • Reporting to:- Technical Support Unit (TSU)-Lead

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. The process could also include presentation of the assignment.
  3. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend one or more rounds of panel interview/s.

The complete process usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. 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.

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

 

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