Organization: SRF Foundation
Position: Program Officer
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana
Reporting to: Director – SRF Foundation
Minimum Eligibility Requirements:
Educational Qualification: Masters degree in social/humanities/management
Experience: 3-4 yrs in managing Vocational Skills / Development Sector Programs associating with a NGO or Foundation. Working experience in building relationship with Government and corporate.
Skills required:
— Good communication skills, both verbal and written in English and Hindi
— Mobility, speed and initiation
— Operational excellence in program management
— Ability to work with the both internal and external stakeholders
— Ability to work with both private and government sector
— Ability to manage things on own capacity
— Good at using computers
— Familiarity with both public and private vocational skills program
Job Description:
Purpose:To design, develop and operationalize trainings / workshops / camps / programs / activities in the area of vocational skills targeting the villages, schools and plant locations where SRF Foundation is operational.
Dimensions:
People Related: Has to coordinate with Village Leadership, Education Officials, Program
Schools, SRF Officials (HO / Plant Location), Field Staff, Resource
Persons (Training Facilitators), Alliances and Partner Agencies
Financial: The incumbent has to prepare all program related budgets from time to time and mobilize the resources through partnerships, manage and monitor it
Organizational Relationships
— Director, SRF Foundation
— Program Officer – MRVP & CSR within SRF
Principal Accountabilities & Responsibilities
— Conceptualize, design, and manage Vocational Skills program aimed at youth.
— Liaison with Stakeholders.
— Build, guide and coordinate the efforts of field staff at ground level and facilitate program implementation.
— Mobilize and engage community in program planning and execution process.
— Facilitate partners, donors and interns / volunteers visit to the project locations
— Prepare annual action plans / budgets and monitor the progress
— Document the process and best practices and disseminate
— Represent Foundation at various district, state and national forums
— Work with Director – Foundation in promotion of CSR within SRF
— As a member of the leadership, take ownership in building the brand of SRF Foundation by fulfilling the needs of all stakeholders of MRVP & CSR within SRF in line with the values of SRF Foundation.
Nature of Program Staff Support
Field Team, Project Team of MRVP and CSR teams at plant location would be supportive to the Program Officer – MRVP & CSR within SRF.
Working Relationships with
— Director, SRF Foundation – Overall guidance in designing and conducting of the Programmes and activities offered by MRVP & CSR within SRF.
— CSR champions and teams at plant locations.
— Resource Persons (Training Facilitators) – day to day coordinating and overseeing their activities in relation to conducting the Programmes and Activities
— SRF Foundation Administrator – Day to day
— SRF Foundation team members – as necessary
— External ( and Internal- TSRS) Stakeholders- as necessary
Challenges /Complexity of Job
— Program visioning and ownership.
— Ability to influence the Stakeholders.
— Ability to develop need based proposals interacting with different stakeholders and customizing the solution
— Ability to customize solutions based on the needs of target audience.
— Knowledge of contemporary Vocational Skills Program and models in private and public sector
— Ability to facilitate training / workshop sessions both with targeted employment, entrepreneur and marketing linkage.
— Ability to travel extensively to the field
— Maintaining timelines towards deliverable
Decision Making Boundaries
–Full freedom has been given to run the program as a CEO / Full Life Cycle Leader taking end to end responsibility of the Vocational Skills Program.
Interested candidates with relevant experience may e-mail their application to shakeb.alam@srf.com.
Contact Person: Mr. Shakeb Alam, HR & Admin, Contact: 08826127479
Last date to apply: 16 September 2016
About SRF Foundation:
The SRF Foundation (www.srf-foundation.org), formerly known as the Society for Education and Welfare Development, was primarily set up by SRF Limited (www.srf.com), with the intention of providing support and relief to the needy in the fields of education, to run and maintain schools, colleges, and to promote fine art and culture. It has been built on the heritage and vision of its founders; late Sir Shri Ram and the late Dr Bharat Ram, believing in contributing to society in the areas of education, with the establishment of educational institutions as the Lady Shri Ram College, Shri Ram College of Commerce, The Shri Ram Schools; among many others in Delhi.
Vocational skills is one of the flagship programs of the Foundation, it wishes to attempt the initiative in two ways:
- Launching of the village based / product based / service based vocational skills program for youth of Mewat where Mewat Rural Education Program is operational in 19 villages of Nuh Block impacting the lives of 16,000 children and 300 teachers, and
- Promotion of CSR within SRF in association with Director – SRF Foundation.
