AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position:
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Project Assistant-Community Engagement
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Department:
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Livelihoods
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Role:
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Mobilizer
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Reporting Relationship:
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Project Officer
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Location:
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Pune
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Number of Positions:
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01
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Grade
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H
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Nature of Employment:
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Fixed Term (31st March 2027)
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ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
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, empowering 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.
KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- To ensure candidates enrolment and onboarding over the learning platform as per the batch size for the selected courses
- To support training delivery for employability skills and for tech. driven courses in offline mode for college completed, dropouts’ youth
- Building rapport with colleges and universities for the tie-up and MOU for students’ training.
- To coordinate/monitor enrolment and schedule for online/offline employability skills training of candidates over learning platform
- To support AIF MAST candidates in career guidance from different parts of the country.
- To support in filtration and screening of the candidates for long term employability courses.
- To organize various activities for students’ exposure on regular basis
- To reach out to the colleges of the geography and tie up with them
- To handle student queries and help them understand different available courses on Learning platform
- To develop social media posts, communication materials, case stories for the project
- To maintain and update necessary periodic report and documentation as required in the project
- Any other task/responsibility assigned by the line manager
Qualification & Experience:
- Intermediate / 12th / Bachelor’s degree in communication, psychology, Commerce, Arts, B.C.A., B. Sc or related field, Social Work preferred.
- Two (2) plus years’ previous experience as Mobilizer / student counselor/ Training / admission executive/students / Sales & marketing executive or related positions
KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
- Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel), and instructional software
- Strong presentation skills.
- Experience with technologies and best practices for instructional manuals
- Good knowledge and network with colleges of the geography
- Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management
- Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
- Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills
- Ability to work under pressure and disciplined
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.