Assistant Director

Atmashakti Trust is an organization working for socio-economic and political empowerment of the most marginalized communities. Founded in 1995 with a broad mandate to support a mix of development initiatives in rural areas as well as urban slums, Atmashakti is now engaged in a long term mission to bring the benefits of government programmes to the poorest of the poor with a focus on Livelihood and food security, Sustainable agriculture, Health, women rights and gender equality, Education, Disaster intervention and community-centered empowerment initiatives through training and capacity building, leadership development and mentorship, Sangathan building, research, advocacy, campaign and communications based on a rights-based framework. Because we truly believe that none of us can truly rest as long as poverty, injustice and inequality persist in our society.

Our Vision: We envision a world without poverty, inequality, injustice, and patriarchy and where everyone enjoys the right to life with dignity.

Our Mission: Our mission is to reach out to 8 million underprivileged families in the poorest states. We strive to work in solidarity with the poor, marginalized and other excluded communities to bring about systemic and social change to defeat poverty, inequality, discrimination, patriarchy, and social injustice.

Organizational History

Since 2009, Atmashakti works in Odisha and Uttar Pradesh with the broad objectives of creating awareness on rights and entitlements among the most marginalized rural community with an emphasis on Adivasis and Dalits. We facilitate the formation of rural level Sangathans who then take up various issues that concern them, to resolve. To learn more, visit www.atmashaktitrust.com.

YOUR POSITION WITH ATMASHAKTI

Assistant Director will be reporting to the Executive Director while will interact with the Core Team members. The position will be based in Noida, India, with extensive travel in the project locations. During the engagement tenure, person may be required to relocate to any workplace decided by organization; therefore, the person must have willingness to be based/placed in intervention districts for an extended period of time or deployed for extended periods in humanitarian response programs in the field.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The specific functions include:

·        Programme Implementation including but not limited to Plan, Team Coordination, Reviews and Support.

·        Resource Mobilization including but not limited to Donor Management, Proposal Writing, Report Generation.

·        Stakeholder engagement.

·        Advocacy & Networking including but not limited to building alliances, solidarity network.

·        Communications – Programme updates / newsletters / reports

·        Inter departmental coordination for integrated work approach

·        Framework and strategy formulation.

·        Impact assessment & process documentation

·        Budget and resource allocation to ensure financial sustainability

·        Liaising with different government departments.

·        Expand social media presence and reach.

·        Strategy for developing the positioning of organization and brand

·        Any other task assigned time to time.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

·        MSW/Masters in Rural Management from premier institute with strong field experience

·        Demonstrable experience and competency of working with government and multiple stakeholders in managing diverse objectives.

·        At least 10-12 years of managerial experience of working with big teams

·        Result oriented.

·        Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

·        Experience working within NGO sector

·        Ability to handle a variety of assignments under pressure of deadlines.

·        Excellent presentation skills.

·        Good liaison and networking experience.

·        Must have knowledge and experience of proposal writing and fund raising.

·        Good network of national and international alliances would be an added advantage.

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