Vacancy Announcement
Date: March 27, 2026
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Position title:Field Officer, Programs (Grade 5)
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Location:Gogunda, Udaipur, Rajasthan
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ChildFund office:India
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Manager/Supervisor title:Senior Field Officer, Programs
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Position type: Full-time fixed term
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Work environment: On-site
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About ChildFund
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ChildFund India works towards ensuring that children from the most marginalized sections of the society become able, confident, and responsible adults.
ChildFund’s Values
ChildFund's core values are the principles and beliefs that guide behaviour, decision-making, and culture. Our values of Connection, Honesty, Innovation, Learning, and Diversed Lived Experiences reflect our highest aspirations for how we go about our work every day in the communities we serve and with each other.
ChildFund’s Commitment
ChildFund International has a zero-tolerance policy regarding sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH) and all other forms of harm by its staff, partners, and other representatives in the delivery of its mission and services for children. ChildFund is committed to creating a safe environment in the workplace as well as in the communities where it delivers programs and services. ChildFund expects every staff member, partner, and representative to adhere to this commitment and to ensure all organizational policies and standards are followed. This position is subject to a range of vetting checks, including a criminal records check and/or disclosure to ensure program participants are safeguarded.
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Position Role
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The Field Officer, Programs will be responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring livelihood, economic empowerment and skilling interventions at the field level in Rajasthan state. The role focuses on mobilizing communities, coordinating with stakeholders, facilitating skill development and income-generation activities, and ensuring effective delivery of project outcomes. The role will provide technical guidance and support to field level implementation across all projects and partners.
Remain alert and responsive to any child safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills which will enable you to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the safeguarding policy and procedures and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with ChildFund’s Safeguarding Policy
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Primary Responsibilities
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- Implement livelihood interventions such as employability skill training, enterprise development, agriculture-based livelihoods, and wage/self-employment initiatives.
- Support beneficiary identification, profiling, and mobilization in project villages/communities.
- Facilitate formation and strengthening of SHGs, youth groups, producer groups, or collectives.
- Ensure timely execution of project activities as per approved work plans.
- Coordinate with the team for life skills, vocational skills, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy training programs.
- Closely work with RSLDC and Liaising with training partners, skill institutions, NSDC partners, KVKs, RSETIs, ITIs, etc. Leveraging PMKVY, MMKVY, DDU-GKY, PM- NAPS, etc
- Support on-the-job training, apprenticeships, exposure visits, and mentoring.
- Establish and maintain linkages with government departments and schemes (SRLM, NRLM, Skill Missions, Agriculture, Horticulture, Tribal Welfare, etc.).
- Coordinate with Panchayat Raj Institutions, community leaders, and local NGOs.
- Facilitate access to entitlements, credit, markets, and support services.
- Provide mentoring to CDP teams to ensure timely delivery of project targets (mobilisation, capacity building, enterprise development, market linkages, and training etc.).
- Monitor progress against KPIs and donor commitments, and ensuring corrective actions where required.
- Track and analyze project performance through MIS, dashboards, validation of data and quality checks.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for internal teams, donors, and review forums
- Build strategic partnerships with government departments, technical agencies, and other stakeholders listed above.
- Represent the project in state-level meetings, and other forums to strengthen visibility and convergence.
- Leverage partnerships to for providing technical support to project beneficiaries.
- Ensure adherence to project guidelines, financial protocols, compliance requirements, and risk management processes, including grievance redressal and safeguarding.
- Document best practices, innovations, success stories, and learnings emerging from field implementation.
- Flexible to travel as required to implement the project efficiently
- Any other task assigned by the line manager
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Required Experience and Education
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- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Rural Development, Economics, or related field. Master’s is an added advantage.
- Experience: 4-5 years of experience in livelihood, skill development, or community development projects. Experience working with rural, tribal, or marginalized communities.
- Skills & Abilities: Strong community mobilization and facilitation skills. Ability to work independently in field conditions. Strong documentation and reporting skills. Proficiency in MS Office; digital data collection tools preferred. Fluency in local language(s) is essential.
- Knowledge: Good understanding of livelihood models, value chains, and skill ecosystems and government and non-government stakeholders on livelihoods and skilling. Knowledge of government livelihood and skill development schemes.
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Required Competencies
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ChildFund’s Core Competencies
- Teamwork: the ability to work effectively and collaborate with others; values and respects individual differences.
- Communication: demonstrates empathy and tact when communicating with others and uses a storytelling approach when appropriate.
- Result orientation: get things done; takes proactive steps to achieve organizational goals and quality standards.
- Decision making: uses good judgement, critical thinking, and non-traditional ways to evaluate problems and opportunities; reflects and innovates to improve decisions and outcomes.
- Resilience: thrives and grows in rapidly changing, demanding, and complex environments.
- Digital literacy: adopts and champions new technology to relevant contexts, stays aware of technological trends and embraces technological solutions to business challenges.
Other Required Competencies
- Be an organized, team player, self-starter and results-oriented individual.
- Be gender sensitive with strong conviction and skills for the empowerment of excluded and disadvantaged children.
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Disclaimer: This JD is not an exhaustive list of the skills, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the assignment.
How to Apply:
i) Please send your updated CV to recruitment@childfundindia.org (renaming your CV with your name is appreciated). Attaching a cover letter to demonstrate your suitability for the position is highly recommended.
ii) Please include answer to the following question in your email for application –
Do any of your relatives or members of your family/household work for ChildFund or if any child related to you is being currently sponsored/enrolled by ChildFund?? If yes, please provide the following details:
Name, Relationship, Current Position, and Location
iii) Please mention in the subject line of your email “Application for Field Officer, Programs – Gogunda, Rajasthan”
Kindly pay attention to all of the above three points under “How to Apply” section as missing information may result in disqualification of the application.
Application Deadline: April 02, 2026.
Note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.