Consultant-Field Coordinator

Qualification required: Bachelor s degree in a relevant field (e.g., social sciences, agriculture, business).

Experience required:

At least 1-2 years of experience working with urban poverty alleviation programme, preferably work in urban slums in a related field (e.g., livelihoods, health, gender, community development).

Skills and Attributes:
Fluency in local languages of Bihar and Hindi/English.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills; ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Own Vehicle: Willingness to travel extensively in urban slum and peri urban areas. Should have two wheeler vehicle (bike/scooty/etc) for field visit, the fuel cost will be reimbursed by the organization as per policy on submission of log book and vehicle registration documents.

About the position:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Field Co-ordinator to work with our PMU team and in sync with Jeevika team at district and block unit. The Field Co-ordinator will be responsible for providing handhold support and guidance to the graduation coaches called MRP- master Resource Person. Along with that the providing handhold support to program participants, facilitating training sessions, and ensuring the overall success of the program.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Handhold Support to Master Resource Persons: Provide individualized support and guidance to graduation coaches, helping them to set and achieve goals, overcome challenges, promote individual and cluster-based livelihood activities, skills training and skill-based jobs, to manage the micro- enterprise or access (self) employment opportunities.
2. Training and Facilitation: Facilitate training sessions on topics such as livelihoods, financial literacy, and life skills, using participatory and interactive methods for Programme participants.
3. Community Engagement: Build relationships with community leaders, local government officials, community-based organizations such as SHGs, CLFs, ALFs and other stakeholders to promote the program and leverage resources. Social empowerment through regular check-ins with Graduation coaches and life-skills support that builds confidence and resilience.
4. Facilitate Data collection, digitization and Reporting: The Filed facilitator will be responsible to facilitate MRPs to ensure books of record maintenance at enterprise promoted under SJY urban programme. Support MRPs in data digitization through mobile based Application to track program participant progress, outcomes, and challenges, and submit regular reports to the program team.
5. Team Collaboration: Work closely with the program team to ensure seamless implementation, work in sync with Jeevika s district and block teams, share best practices, and contribute to program development.
6. Facilitating social protection: to support basic income security and immediate needs, such as food consumption support, insurance, Pension scheme, and access to health, sanitation and education through linkage with govt. schemes.

Reporting to: City Graduation Officer (Patna & Gaya District respectively)

About the Project:

Similar to the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY) program in rural Bihar, there was a felt need for a graduation-focused program in urban areas of Bihar for the urban ultra-poor. Project Concern International, under the aegis of BRAC India, is therefore, working towards poverty alleviation of urban ultra-poor, in the two districts Gaya & Patna. The Bihar Urban Poor Graduation Program (BUPGP) is envisaged to build on the knowledge of the SJY program and partner with key stakeholders in urban Bihar to pilot this Graduation program in an urban context. The BUPGP is being piloted in the aforementioned geographies. The BUPGP is envisaged to have four pillars -
(1) facilitating social protection to support basic income security and immediate needs, such as food consumption support, crisis relief, and access to health, and education.
(2) Livelihoods promotion consisting of an asset transfer and/or skills training, or cash transfer, to manage the asset or access (self)employment opportunities.
(3) Financial inclusion to ensure direct access to convenient, formal or informal financial services, accompanied by financial literacy training; and
(4) Social empowerment through regular check-ins with Graduation coaches and life-skills support that builds confidence and resilience.
To successfully execute, the above-mentioned program, PCI would embed a team of 5 officials under JEEVIKA (BRLPS) to set up a program management unit (PMU). The farsighted approach of the program is to enable the co-designing and implementation of the program in close coordination with the government department to attain program sustainability. For this the PMU is closely working with the following government departments; BSDM, the State Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM), the Urban Development and Housing Department (UDHD), and JEEViKA for converging efforts of multiple departments towards the program. Over the period, the program is expected to develop urban graduation coaches, enabling access to government entitlements for the program participants, building an urban graduation ecosystem, establish linkages for financial inclusion through leveraging government programs, develop IEC & capacity building products along with robust MIS, for systemic program adoption and upscaling.