AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION TRUST
JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position:
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Center Head cum Placement Officer
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Program:
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Livelihoods
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Reporting
Relationship:
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Project Officer - Skilling & Livelihoods
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Location:
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Mumbai
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Nature of
Employment:
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Fixed term Staff (Till March 31, 2027)
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Number of
Positions:
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One
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Grade Level
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F
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Nature of Employment:
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Fixed Term
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About American India Foundation Trust:
The American India Foundation Trust (AIF) 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, AIF has impacted the lives of 20.47 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, AIF adheres to strict financial and governance standards, ensuring transparency, accountability, and responsible management of resources. As per statutory mandates, AIF 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:
AIF’s Livelihoods program envisions a world where poor and vulnerable communities have access to dignified work opportunities, empower them with sustainable livelihoods. Since 2006, the Livelihoods Program has directly and indirectly served 2.20 million people from vulnerable communities. Leveraging technology to provide financial and market linkages, knowledge, skills, and dignified work opportunities, the program helps the communities secure jobs, manage enterprises, and make a respectable living. Since its inception in 2006, through its flagship programs Market Aligned Skills Training (MAST) and Ability Based Livelihood Empowerment (ABLE), AIF Livelihoods has provided program support to 825,960 disadvantaged youth, women and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), and impacted 343,727 livelihoods.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
AIF aims to influence the skilling and employment ecosystem for inclusion and empowerment of youth from the marginalized and economically weaker section of the society through a project over a period of 17 months in 5 districts across the country. This program aims to empower the Sales professionals to excel in their roles by focusing on skilling in credit processing, store security, product expertise, personalized customer support, improved communication skills, interpersonal skills and continuous service improvement. This project endeavors to benefit 25,000 individuals across these four locations through interventions.
KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Project Planning and Implementation (50%)
- Manage and coordinate the day-to-day affairs related to the implementation of projects aimed at benefiting the target group.
- Oversee the hiring and orientation of project team members in alignment with project goals.
- Ensure adherence to project timelines and efficient utilization of budget to fulfill project commitments
- Supervise mobilization and community engagement activities to ensure project deliverables.
- Coordinate with the project team to achieve project targets.
- Assess and evaluate aptitude of the target group after mobilization
- Assess target group aptitude and facilitate onboarding on LMS/MIS
- Regular interaction with the Target Group to share information about existing programs that can benefit them
- Facilitate the target group in onboarding the digital platforms and access govt and non govt. digital services that are relevant to them.
- Develop the training plan with the team and ensure adherence to achieve targets.
- Ensure smooth delivery of training on different modules along with soft skills
- Ensure regular follow up and connect with the target group during and after the training engagement and gather feedback
- Respond to target group’s queries regarding training/ capacity building, placement, self-employment in a timely manner.
- Ensure proper guidance for the target group through job readiness / self – employment/income enhancement workshops.
- Collaborate with employers/vendors/ businesses to ensure adequate placement/ market linkage/ expansion opportunities for program participants.
- Regular visits to the respective communities/ stakeholders/Govt bodies to ensure project deliverables
- Ensure placement and self-employment deliverables are timely and effectively achieved as per the given plan.
2. Documentation (20%)
- Consistently provide excellent quality data and documentation that meet the quality standards of the organization;
- Produce accurate and timely reporting of project status throughout its life cycle.
- Develop reports and manage project documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
- Document and share success stories periodically for program communication.
- Conduct timely and effective baseline and endline community need assessments and mapping exercises of stakeholders to mobilize and enroll eligible candidates
3. Financial Management (20%)
- Monthly monitor and report budget utilization, project expenses internally & externally;
- Local expense management incl. approvals, expense approvals, management of advances & reimbursements, local procurements
- Optimal utilization of funds as per the donor budget.
4. Reporting (10%)
- Proactively seek approvals from reporting manager for project operations
- Ensure timely and accurate documentations related to project implementation activities, including but not limited to contracts, budgets, expenses, fund utilization, manpower, administrative expenses etc.
5. Qualification & Experience:
- Graduate but preferably post-graduation in any stream
- Minimum 5-6 years of experience in the skilling and livelihood space
KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
- Strong PowerPoint presentation design & delivery skills.
- Demonstrated excellence in time management, multi-tasking and problem-solving ability.
- Adaptability, flexibility, and openness to feedback.
- Ability to deliver under pressure and work on tight deadlines.
- Ability to work in a fast-changing environment and continuously evolving needs.
- Ability to work independently with large volumes of data with initiative.
- Ability to work across teams and supervisors.
Others :
Position Availability : Immediate
APPLICATION PROCESS : To apply for this position, please click HERE
Only applications of shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.
AIFT is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and ensures equal opportunity for all, without discrimination.