Principal Specialist / Senior Manager - Rural Solutions, Vyapaar, Bhopal

Role: Principal Specialist / Senior Manager - Rural Solutions, Vyapaar, Bhopal
Experience: 10+ years
Salary: Upto 20 LPA

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Role Overview

We are looking for an outcome oriented and empathetic Leader to lead our Rural Entrepreneurship Solutions team working across various rural entrepreneurship projects in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. You will play a pivotal role in supporting on-ground teams with solutions, ensuring smooth operations, accurate data management, and building strong relationships with stakeholders and funders.

Key Responsibilities

Team Management & Support:
- Build, Lead and mentor a team working across different rural locations in MP and MH

- Help unblock day-to-day operational challenges and guide problem-solving for rural entrepreneur needs

- Support team in solutioning through regular check-ins, coaching, and contextual understanding

Business Solutioning:

- Mentoring and Business Solutioning for rural entrepreneurs - focussed towards income upliftment

- Understand context, challenges of rural entrepreneurs, unlock challenges and aid business growth

- Identify skill gaps and facilitate training, workshops and mentoring

- Develop sustainable business solutions and models based on local context and reality

- Facilitate connections for sourcing and selling with market, aggregators, online platforms etc.

Stakeholder & Funder Engagement:

-Build and manage strong, trust-based relationships with funders and key ecosystem players

- Represent the teams work in review meetings and funder check-ins

- Share progress updates, insights, and reports in alignment with funder expectations

Project Operations & Oversight: 

- Be on the field for about 50% of the time. Oversee execution of multiple concurrent projects on the ground

- Ensure timely delivery of project outcomes with a focus on quality and impact

- Collaborate with internal teams (Solutioning, Impact, Admin/Finance) to enable smooth field operations

What Were Looking For

• Over 15 years work experience, with at least 10 years leading operations, or rural development, people management - preferably in the development/social sector

• Past entrepreneurship experience will be highly preferred.

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills

• Empathy and ability to work with field teams and rural communities

• Problem-solving and execution mindset

• Proficiency in Hindi (spoken and written); knowledge of Marathi is a plus

• Willingness to travel frequently to rural locations in MP and Maharashtra

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Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on April 29, 2025 on GroundZeroJobs.Org

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