Regional Coordinator, Swayamshree - Odisha

Role: Regional Coordinator, Swayamshree, Odisha
Experience: 5-years
Salary: Upto 12 LPA
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Organization profile

Reliance Foundations initiatives have in areas of Rural Transformation, Health, Education, Sports for Development, Disaster Response, Arts, Culture & Heritage and Urban Renewal have reached over 71 million people since inception, creating transformational change across India.

To know more about Reliance Foundation, visit our website: www.reliancefoundation.org

Job Purpose

RCs will be playing an important role in government linkages at sub state level. RCs will play a dual role in supporting certain specific enterprises as well as government coordination and monitoring in the districts they are responsible for. The RCs will primarily be responsible for a particular enterprise in their area but they will be expected to offer support to other RCs as per their expertise and also receive the same from others.

Role & Responsibilities

• Mapping of the availability of Non-Timber Forest Produce in the area with the support from SRLM and FIAs and estimating the people dependent on the NTFP
• Understand the value chain from production/availability, development and sustainability, harvesting, value addition and marketing to identify the gaps
• Providing support in value addition, processing and marketing of the NTFP
• Establishing and strengthening collective enterprises in the NTFP
• Explore the possibilities of introducing technology for processing and value
• Identify better markets/private sector players for marketing
• Develop suitable models of backyard poultry and goatery to the local context
• Poultry and Goatery Clusters development develop plans, promotion and strengthening of units, bringing business approach into the backyard poultry and goatery, resource mobilization from the schemes/government programs for facilitating more investment into goatery and poultry etc
• Develop a cadre of service providers for providing health care, feed management, better shelter and marketing facilities to the women engaged in poultry and goatery on sustainable basis
• Establish the community enterprises with revenue model like livestock resource center/goat resource centers/poultry cooperatives for providing services (health care, input supply and output marketing)
• Promote small scale household/group enterprises for feed preparation/manufacturing
• Facilitate the linkages with technical service providers like veterinary universities and experts

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: Include Additional Certification;Required if any

• Professional qualification in the areas or PG in any relevant area
• At least 5 years of experience in the relevant enterprise sector- it is important that the candidate should have hands on experience of working on a similar enterprise in personal or private business or non-profit. 
• We dont necessarily need a person with NGO background, but even someone who has run a poultry business or dal mill is a good candidate. Or someone who has worked in a garment industry is essential for stitching centres and having design sense in that person is an additional achievement.
• Proven track record and accomplishments in the relevant enterprises
• Experience in developing marketing channels (direct, retail, wholesalers, online, reselling, franchising etc) is a must in all the enterprise areas

Preferred:

• Experience of working in the rural development projects
• Experience of working with women SHGs and SHG federations
• Adequate computer skills and proficiency in English
• Willingness to travel extensively in rural areas and stay in remote villages
• Ability to interact easily with Rural Communities
• Business (business planning, product knowledge, technology etc) and marketing skills

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Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on Dec 9, 2024 on GroundZeroJobs.org

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