JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position
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Project Associate-Financial &
Market Linkage
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Program
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Livelihoods
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Role
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Market and Financial Linkage
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Reporting
Relationship
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Project Officer Skilling &
Livelihoods
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Location
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Guwahati ( Chandmari ),
Mumbai (Kalyan),
Bhopal ( Kraudh ),
Chennai ( Tiruvottiyur),
Bengaluru (Yeshwanthpur)
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Number of
Positions
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06
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Nature of Employment:
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Fixed term Staff (One year, extendable as per individual’ performance and program need)
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s
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ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION TRUST
The American India Foundation Trust (AIFT) is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high-impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji, and the U.S. President, Mr. Bill Clinton, AIFT has impacted the lives of 21.01 million of India’s poor across 35 States and Union Territories of India. Registered as a Trust in India, with an independent Board of Trustees, AIFT adheres to strict financial and governance standards, ensuring transparency, accountability, and responsible management of resources. As per statutory mandates, AIFT is registered under 80G, and 12A. These registrations and certifications are tangible evidence of the organization's existence, credibility, and compliance with the applicable legal and regulatory frameworks while demonstrating a firm commitment to its vision and mission. Learn more at www.aif-india.org
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
AIFT’s Livelihoods program drives a unique market-relevant approach, harnessing the power of technology, to provide knowledge, skills, and opportunities to underprivileged youth, marginalized women, and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) to secure jobs, manage enterprises, and access dignified and sustainable livelihoods while building climate-resilient communities. With a keen focus on the areas of remote jobs, ecosystem support for enhanced female labor force participation, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities for PwDs, street vendors, and artisans around the country, AIFT Livelihoods aims to lead nationwide, industry-led, collaborative skills and entrepreneur development initiatives to meet India’s growing need for a skilled workforce. Since 2006, the program has served 3.8 million underserved citizens across India.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Generational Urban Poverty Alleviation Program (GenUP) is conceived to address the persistent cycle of generational urban poverty affecting communities like street vendors, migrant workers, women, youth, and persons with disabilities. Decades of evidence from AIFT’s on-ground work revealed that families engaged in low-income urban occupations for generations struggle to break the cycle due to limited skills, low financial access, and inadequate market opportunities. GenUP aims to disrupt this cycle by empowering households through a holistic 5E framework—Employment, Entrepreneurship, Entitlements, Environment, and Ecosystem Building.
The program’s core objective is to enable multi-income, resilient households by providing 21st-century skills, entrepreneurial support, market linkages, digital inclusion, and access to government schemes.
KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct community visits and engage with 2000-2500 project beneficiaries at the community level.
- Identify and map out government and private financial institutions within the project area.
- Create batch plans for women learners for introducing different concepts to ensure effective learning.
- Connect project beneficiaries with relevant financial institutions for accessing capital, social security schemes, and various government loans. Assist them in opening bank accounts, ensuring compliance with KYC regulations, and providing guidance on tax compliance related to their entrepreneurial activities.
- Assist beneficiaries in opening bank accounts and ensure compliance with KYC regulations.
- Facilitate the generation of QR codes for beneficiaries to streamline transactions and recordkeeping.
- Provide guidance to beneficiaries on tax compliance related to their entrepreneurial activities and link them with relevant institutions for accessing capital (entrepreneurship) and social security and welfare (entitlements) schemes.
- Monitor the proper utilization of credit by beneficiaries to enhance income and facilitate timely repayment to financial institutions.
- Organize and arrange technical support for beneficiaries to ensure the continuity and success of their enterprises.
- Assist in maintaining and updating the AIFT MIS (Management Information System) database in coordination with the Project Manager.
- Facilitate stakeholder and donor visits to the field as and when required.
- To be involved in any operational activity as and when instructed by the Project Manager.
- Any other task assigned by line manager that might emerge depending upon the need and opportunity decided by AIFT.
KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
- Graduate/Post Graduate in any discipline with at least 3-4 years of experience in urban livelihoods and creating market and financial linkages.
- Experience in working with micro-entrepreneurs and local vendors will be an advantage.
- An understanding of the market with forward and backward integration.
- Ability to develop relationships and engage with multiple stakeholders including Government.
- Documentation and report writing skills with good proficiency in computers.
- Consistently approaches work with positive energy and a can-do attitude.
- Possesses a variety of skill sets including time management, multi-tasking, interpersonal and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to develop a local level network of useful resources to support project implementation.
- A team player who is supportive, flexible and ready to take on additional tasks.
- Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal excellent and confident communicator.
OTHERS: Salary shall commensurate with experience.
POSITION AVAILABILITY: Immediate
APPLICATION PROCESS: To apply for this position, please click HERE
Only applications of shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.