Organization: Anode Governance Lab
Position: Training Specialist
Location: Bangalore
Minimum Eligibility Requirements:
Educational Qualification: Bachelor’s / Masters or an equivalent degree, preferably in management, development and/or social work
Experience: 8+ years of curriculum development, training and facilitation, with 3 to 5 years in implementation of development and capacity building initiatives at district or village level in any sector such as health education, water etc. Working with the government system at State or district levels is an added advantage
Skills required:
— Well versed in spoken and written Hindi.
— Keen to partake in the systemic shifts towards improving development and governance goals. Creating strategy and tools for actual transformation and impact on lives of people inspires you.
— Should have strong facilitation, communication, interpersonal, problem solving, documentation, data analysis, planning and organizing skills.
— Pay attention to details and capture critical nuances while designing intervention and training strategy and tools.
— Should be a people’s person with ease in teamwork, negotiation and conflict resolution.
— Independent responsibility for results and deliverable
Position Overview: You will be engaged in designing intervention and training tools and knowledge transfer mechanisms, providing the critical resource for implementation of conceptual frameworks. You will research and interact with NGOs, SIRDs, training organisations, and grass roots movements to understand efforts and access tools towards strengthening governance at the last mile. You will formalize curriculum and tools for project delivery, with objectives of enabling field teams to immerse themselves in day-to-day activities and struggles of the panchayats, citizens and other target audience as the case may be, implement different project steps and identify and analyse problems.
Role and Responsibilities:
— Design and develop tools/training curriculum for different project steps, assisting project staff with targeted modules and materials
— Establish close relationships with field teams, partner organisations as well as government officials to continually gauge needs and improve design and implementation of intervention and training tools.
— Cultivate a compendium of intervention/training tools from NGOs, SIRDs, training organisations, and grass roots movements etc., suited for project deliverables.
— Identify and manage vendors required for execution like translation services etc.
— Organize and implement knowledge transfer mechanisms, including material and handbooks, Facilitator Training programs, capturing learning outcomes etc.
— Participate in initial stages of implementation at the field to feedback into design of tools
Interested candidates can send their detailed resumes at sonali@anodegovernancelab.in
The last date to apply: 23 October 2016
Note:
— The job may require travel to the field to different states (our present work is in Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh) to meet partners, gram panchayats, government officials, field teams etc.
— Please feel free to reach out and have a discussion
About Anode Governance Lab:
Anode Governance Lab is a Bangalore based organisation that works towards strengthening governance and enabling public institutions to function effectively. The team at Anode has been working with rural local governments (Gram Panchayats) over the last few years, understanding systemic challenges and arriving at possible responses. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment, 1992 added a third tier of government, with the purpose of decentralising powers and responsibilities to local self governments closest to people, who are charged with mandate of economic development and social justice. There are approximately 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats (GPs) in India, which can access multiple government funds and raise their own revenue, and have responsibility for as many as 29 functions listed in the Eleventh Schedule of the Constitution. However, there is an acute misalignment between institutional capacity and responsibilities of panchayats.
Anode Governance Lab pulls in people from different disciplines: management, planning, social work, government, academics etc. to analyse the myriad issues and also enablers impacting governance at the last mile. Most of our work is anchored in the field with panchayats, and supported by research. We are also exploring usage of technology to reduce information asymmetry between GPs and other tiers of government.
Our team has worked with close to 50 GPs in partnerships with Arghyam Trust, Grama Vikas, Foundation for Ecological Security, Union Ministry of Panchayat Raj, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department, Karnataka, Abdul Nazir Saab Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Avantika Foundation, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Pradan, in states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Jharkhand. We have evolved a panchayat strengthening framework, which has demonstrated encouraging results, but there is need for more critical work and field projects for achieving targeted results.
Anode aims to incorporate learning at each step and eventually use these tools at scale.