Job ID: 288193

District Project Manager

Harishchandrapur Pally Unnayan Samity

Location: West Bengal

Apply by: 22 Mar 2026

Relevant Sectors

Administration, HR, Management, Accounting/Finance

Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy

Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation

Job Description
Organization Profile:
Harishchandrapur Pally Unnayan Samity (HCPPUS) was established in 2006 and has 20 years of experience working with the marginalized people of Malda and adjoining districts of the state of West Bengal. The organization's administrative office is situated in village Ronthol, post-office.-Boroi, Police station-Harishchandrapur, District Malda, State-West Bengal, Pin-732140, India. This is a state-level not-for-profit, non-political organization predominantly focused on wholistic community development and addressing the issues of rural Bengal. The organization tried to extend its assistance in every small and big matter like education, health, environment, sports, skill building, and empowerment. With vast empirical grassroots experiences, we focus on rural communities, especially children, women, and non-formal workers, to bring socio-economic change. Our intervention is based on the philosophy that a community has its potentialities and resources, and we only can acknowledge and reconstruct those. The organization also believes in a bottom-up approach where the organization works as a catalyst to empower the community and ensure sustainable development.
HCPPUS works with innovative approaches like understanding grassroots issues, diagnosing the problems, applying preventive measures, curative services, and systemic change, and adopting a holistic end-to-end strategy. Our approach is community-centric, and our strategy is to strengthen the system through holistic intervention. The organization's prime objective is to create opportunities for the vulnerable community without discrimination, ensuring the means to lead a life with dignity. To spread awareness among the stakeholders on various issues and provide need-based skill enhancement training. To come up with various poverty alleviation programs and ensure sustainable economic growth.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES/SCOPE
The primary accountabilities:
• Input to critical organizational level decisions, as part of the key staff. This includes the annual strategic/operating plans and budgets for the organization, in line with the organization's goals.
• Facilitate and guide the development of the annual work/implementation plans and budgets for all program units in line with the organization’s program goals, quality principles, standards, best practices, and local context.
• Collaborate with and support WASH/JJM and other field program units/teams/staff and ensure quality and focused implementation and program management. Ensure transparency, credibility, quality, cost consciousness and fulfilment/delivery timelines for all program activities across the organization.
• Undertake periodic monitoring and reviews at field sites to track timely program activity implementation and adherence to established processes, standards, and procedures. Ensure constant learning and capacity building of teams accompanies program activities throughout the program cycle.
• Identify, recruit, and train high-performance value-driven teams and promote that culture throughout the organization. Advise and oversee adherence to all protocols of the organization.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Organization Program Team, primarily Program Managers.
• Ensure quality and timely reporting as per organization and donors' requirements including annual reports, quarterly board reports, donor-specific reports, etc.
• Foster collaborative leadership and manage critical stakeholder engagements (internal and external) that support effective program development, implementation, and partnering.
• Strictly observe confidentiality and strong ethics with respect to all beneficiary information/data.
• Comply with and ensure adherence to the Organization’s policies, safety and security protocols and child safeguarding norms and guidelines by self as well as all stakeholders both internal and external.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Strategic Planning and Organizational Support
• Direct Field Implementation Support
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Compliance
• Finance and Administration-Related Functions
• Manpower Management
• Stakeholder Engagement

Travel Requirement: Willingness to travel around covered geographic areas depending on the spread of villages and clusters.

Preferred - Female Candidate Only

Qualifications:
? A degree in Communication, Public Health, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field.
? Familiarity with health education, community mobilization, and social behavior change models.
? Experience working in multicultural settings or with marginalized communities is an advantage.

Working Conditions:
• Full-time position Only
• Will require occasional travel to project sites or community locations.

Salary: As per previous salary and work experience in the relevant field

All interested candidates must send their CVs with Recent Photo to : ( jobs.hcppus@gmail.com) at the earliest.

Short-listed candidates only be called for Interviews.

Job Email ID:

jobs.hcppus(at)gmail.com