KAUSHALYA Foundation is a non-profit organization working with rural and farming communities of Bihar. KF has promoted 4 farmer producer companies and has been in the process of forming 3 more FPCs. More than 10,000 farmers are part of a strong community network of KF and around 5000 of them are active shareholders of FPCs.
At KF, we are committed to society and people. We work towards creating an environment in which our employees can perform their best and thus provide quality works.
We Enable, Encourage and Empower Employees to learn. We look for the following attributes in individuals when we hire:
- Communication
- Team Work
- A desire to work at the grassroots level
- Caring & dedicated to the cause, and
- Result Orientation
If you believe you have these attributes, you can be a part of KF family. You can send in your resume to:
NEW JOB OPENINGS (5) - April 12th, 2021
Job Description – Consultant - Crop Husbandry
| Designation |
Consultant- Crop Husbandry |
| Location |
Bihar & UP |
| No of Positions |
2 |
| Employment Type |
Renewable fixed term contract |
| Report to |
Manager Programs |
| Direct reportees |
Field Team |
Position
The Consultant- Crop Husbandry is directly responsible for all the agriculture activities planning, extension and support to the community and team.
Job Responsibilities
- Managing, leading and guiding the field team in the project area
- Support, Guidance and monitoring of FPOs
- Collection and consolidation of all relevant data
- Provide advisory services to farmers/ABC through demo-coordinator on agri. Practices, plant protection, disease management, farm mechanization etc.
- Prepare weekly plan for himself/herself and try to achieve those in coordination with team members under him/her
- Participation in the meeting of Groups and visit to filed for regular monitoring of the progress
- Documentation of information, relevant photo be captured of the activities
- To ensure timely supply of input services to the farmers
- To ensure all steps of POP is followed by the farmers as per the timeline
- Facilitation of the visits of external persons in the project locations.
- Day wise reporting on the work done will be shared to the concerned reporting authority.
- Conduct training, meeting, workshop and other project activities
- Motivating farmers for demonstration of crops.
- Collect demonstration data and also crop data from time to time as required in the project
- Organizing farmers visit to demonstration plot
- Organizing farmers training and exposure visit related to demonstration
- Identifying farmers training needs and communicating to the project team
- Organizing training program in villages
- Regular & periodical visit to demonstration plot of the area
- Identification of farmer for front line demonstration of agriculture inputs
- Facilitation of demonstration at farmers’ plot
- Recording progress of demonstration plot and feeding into MIS system of the project
- Taking video, photos of all interventions regularly and periodically
- Taking photos and videos and updating it regularly and periodically and timely at google drive and WhatsApp and any other cloud platform suggested by KF
- Practicing Maintaining the organization’s norms/ethics/work culture
- Perform other related duties as and when it is asked and required
- Any others tasks/ activity which organization asks to perform although not mentioned above for overall benefit of organization and community
- Ensure quality and timely implementation of activities in line with the project workplan.
- Participate in training sessions and program level review meetings.
- Ensure daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting as per projects requirement or organization guidelines.
- Undertake all other duties and responsibilities which commensurate with the role
- Any other responsibilities given by the organization for program and organizational development.
Education, Qualification and Skills Needed
- Graduate in Agriculture from a recognized University with 5+ years of relevant experience in crop production techniques, technology intervention and working with FPOs/Large Farmers' Groups etc. Graduation in Human Resources, or Social Sciences or in any other subject
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience
- Good knowledge of computer - Windows and Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Excellent communication skills, Fluent in Hindi, good in English
- Should be able to work in an environment of ambiguity and handle pressure
- Must be goal oriented and proactively seeks results.
- A career in NGO will be an asset
Salary:
Rs 3.6 L per annum.
How to apply?
Please send a CV & a one page cover letter detailing how you meet the eligibility requirements to career@kaushalyafoundation.org and cc to kaushalyafoundation@gmail.com
Note: Please clearly state the role that you are applying for in the email subject line. For further details about organisation please visit www.kaushalyafoundation.org
Job Description – Consultant - Agri Marketing /Value Addition /Processing
| Designation |
Consultant- Agri Marketing /Value Addition /Processing |
| Location |
Bihar & UP |
| No of Positions |
2 |
| Employment Type |
Renewable fixed term contract |
| Report to |
Manager Programs |
| Direct reportees |
Field Team |
Position
The Consultant- Agri Marketing /Value Addition /Processing is directly responsible for market linkage and value addition of the supply chain of FPOs.
Job Responsibilities
- Form and promote FPOs by adopting cluster approach
- Facilitate and guide the FPOs in constitution of Board of Directors (BoDs) and management
- Training and capacity building of FPOs/farmer groups
- Design, prepare and execute Business Plan for long-term sustainability of the FPOs
- Facilitate availing of credit from financial institutions, Credit Guarantee, Equity Grant etc.
- Facilitate convergence of various Government programmes
- Providing Incubation/Handholding Services for Sustainability of FPOs
- Facilitate for establishing necessary common pool production, marketing and processing infrastructure facility by the FPOs
- Facilitate undertaking complementary and supplementary income generating activities
- Assist in rating of FPOs promoted by the AGENCY under the Scheme,
- Assist / undertake federation of FPOs
- Assist FPOs in compliances including; financial management and utilization of funds, book-keeping and timely submission of statutory returns/documents, etc.
- Any other activity related to implementation, management and monitoring of the programmee implemented by the AGENCY
Education, Qualification and Skills Needed
- MBA in Agribusiness Management or equivalent from a recognized University/ Institute with 3+ years of relevant experience in Agribusiness/ Agri. Marketing/ Value Chain Development including Post Harvest Management and working with FPOs/Large Farmers groups etc.
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience
- Good knowledge of computer - Windows and Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Excellent communication skills, Fluent in Hindi, good in English
- Should be able to work in an environment of ambiguity and handle pressure
- Must be goal oriented and proactively seeks results.
- A career in NGO will be an asset
Salary:
Rs 3.6 L per annum.
How to apply?
Please send a CV & a one page cover letter detailing how you meet the eligibility requirements to career@kaushalyafoundation.org and cc to kaushalyafoundation@gmail.com
Note: Please clearly state the role that you are applying for in the email subject line. For further details about organisation please visit www.kaushalyafoundation.org
Job Description – Consultant - Social Mobilization
| Designation |
Consultant - Social Mobilization |
| Location |
Bihar & UP |
| No of Positions |
2 |
| Employment Type |
Renewable fixed term contract |
| Report to |
Manager Programs |
| Direct reportees |
Field Team |
Position
The Consultant- Social Mobilization is directly responsible for mobilization of minimum 500 farmers in each FPO.
Job Responsibilities
- Mobilisation of 500 farmers in each FPO
- Identify new villages for mobilisation
- Create weekly / weekly plan for mobilisation
- Form distribution and mobilisation of men and women candidates from intervention area to identify potential lead farmers
- Daily reporting, monitoring, tracking, record keeping and entry for daily activity
- Update daily activity on regular basis
- Regular involvement with community and conduct meetings with farmers on regular basis
- Liaison between potential stakeholders, regular interaction with stakeholders
- Be the point of contact for the smooth coordination in the region and with HO
Education, Qualification and Skills Needed
- Graduate in Rural Development/ Social Work or Graduate with Diploma in Rural Development/Social Work from a recognized University/ Institute with 5+ years relevant experience in mobilization of farmers, field demonstrations, organizing village level meetings etc.
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience
- Good knowledge of computer - Windows and Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Excellent communication skills, Fluent in Hindi, good in English
- Should be able to work in an environment of ambiguity and handle pressure
- Must be goal oriented and proactively seeks results.
- A career in NGO will be an asset
Salary:
Rs 3.6 L per annum.
How to apply?
Please send a CV & a one page cover letter detailing how you meet the eligibility requirements to career@kaushalyafoundation.org and cc to kaushalyafoundation@gmail.com
Note: Please clearly state the role that you are applying for in the email subject line. For further details about organisation please visit www.kaushalyafoundation.org
Job Description – Consultant - Information Technology / MIS
| Designation |
Consultant - Information Technology / MIS |
| Location |
Bihar & UP |
| No of Positions |
2 |
| Employment Type |
Renewable fixed term contract |
| Report to |
Manager Programs |
| Direct reportees |
Field Team |
Position
The Consultant- Information Technology/ MISis directly responsible for maintaining the MIS and IT management for project and FPOs.
Job Responsibilities
- Development of MIS tools and template for project monitoring and data capturing
- Preparation of Reporting format, format for data collection
- Preparation of reports on field visit, activities, Monthly progress, workshop, meetings
- Preparation of training module, session plan
- Timely submission of reports
- Analysis of data
- Ensure effective communications, visibility and knowledge management
- Support Programme staff in organizing and managing seminars, workshops, press conferences
- Produce reports and stories of the seminars/workshops organized by the Project
- Provide technical support to the project team in producing various evaluation andknowledge products of the project
- Undertake periodical field visits to assess the systems and verify data Provide orientation training for MIS, Computerized MIS, Interpretation, analysis & Reporting for the project staff members
- Monitoring the core and performance indicators of the project
- Develop evaluation plan and conduct annual evaluation of the project
- Responsible for ensuring all research related activities
- Designing the Formats and procedures for quality improvement activity
- Provide analysis of the indicators to support and enhance programming
- Implement and maintain the MIS of the Project and contribute to the preparation of MIS reports as required;
- Preparation of daily/monthly/quarterly/half yearly/ yearly MIS reports
- Assists the Project Manager/Agriculture Specialist in preparing other relevant reports
- Prepare and maintain data base for the Programme
- Regular and weekly back up of database. Storage of all project related documents in Google Drive, One Drive.
- Ensuring Data security and theft
- Develop the various Monitoring and Evaluation Tools at all levels to assess the performance of the project.
- Any other work needed in project or organization.
Education, Qualification and Skills Needed
- B.Tech/ BCA in Computer Science/ Information Technology or equivalent from a recognized University/Institute with 3+ years of relevant experience of handling IT related assignments, MIS development, software development etc.
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience
- Good knowledge of computer - Windows and Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Excellent communication skills, Fluent in Hindi, good in English
- Should be able to work in an environment of ambiguity and handle pressure
- Must be goal oriented and proactively seeks results.
- A career in NGO will be an asset
Salary:
Rs 3.6 L per annum.
How to apply?
Please send a CV & a one page cover letter detailing how you meet the eligibility requirements to career@kaushalyafoundation.org and cc to kaushalyafoundation@gmail.com
Note: Please clearly state the role that you are applying for in the email subject line. For further details about organisation please visit www.kaushalyafoundation.org
Job Description – Consultant - Law/Accounts
| Designation |
Consultant - Law/Accounts |
| Location |
Bihar & UP |
| No of Positions |
2 |
| Employment Type |
Renewable fixed term contract |
| Report to |
Manager Programs |
| Direct reportees |
Field Team |
Position
The Consultant- Agri Marketing /Value Addition /Processing is directly responsible for market linkage and value addition of the supply chain of FPOs.
Job Responsibilities
- Up to date books of records of KF and FPO
- To monitor delegated budgets and provide detailed budget v/s actual variance analysis in accordance with delegated budget to Head office and District office.
- Visit the project in the field, attend meetings, provide support all financial matters with regard to the total delegated budgets.
- To orient and ensure donor compliances with respect to financial reporting.
- To receive and deal with financial queries and enquiries from departments or Project office.
- To provide induction on financial matters in accordance with financial management manual to new recruits in the District offices.
- To provide support to line manager on the day to day operation of all financial information system.
- To contribute to the analysis of financial information, preparing reports and making recommendations for corrective course of action, in liaison with line managers.
- To provide training sessions with the support from line manager to finance and non-finance staff.
- To monitor procedures in respect of checking and authorizing accounts for payment, as part of the finance team.
- To ensure the books of accounts are maintained as per the standards and timely manner
- Review monthly bank reconciliation statements of all bank accounts and update the line manager on its timely compliance.
- To adhere to existing working practices, methods, procedures, undertake relevant training and development activities and to respond positively to new and alternative systems.
- It will be necessary to work with information technology and associated systems in accordance with company policy.
- To carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities within the overall function, commensurate with the grading and level of responsibilities of the position.
- Prepare the budget for program
- Implement financial policies and procedures
- Reconcile the general ledger
- Prepare and reconcile general bank statements
- Establish and maintain supplier accounts
- Ensure data is entered into the system
- Ensure transactions are properly recorded and entered into the manual & computerized accounting system
- Prepare income statements, Prepare balance sheets, Prepare receipts and expenditure statements
- Assist with the quarterly & annual audit, Maintain financial files and records
- Issue, code and authorize purchase orders, reconcile the accounts payable
- Reconcile the accounts receivable, Reconcile weekly deposits
- Reconcile weekly expenditures, Manage payment of utilities bills and collections of accounts
- Administer employee files and records in order to ensure accurate payment of benefits and allowances
- Verify and report on benefits payments
- Maintain the leave management system
- Supervise completion of the payroll
- Maintain employee registration system
- Maintain employee documents related to their job like certificates, records etc.
- Prepare payroll reports
- Prepare monthly attendance sheets
- Review payroll reports
- Manage the filing, storage and security of documents, goods, stationeries and other office assets
- Respond to inquiries
- Manage the repair and maintenance of computer and office equipment
- Maintain insurance coverage’s
- Maintain office decorum
- Administer and monitor the financial system in order to ensure that the organization finances are maintained in an accurate and timely manner
- Assist with preparation of the budget
- Oversee the accounts payable and accounts receivable systems in order to ensure complete and accurate records of all moneys
- Manage payment of utilities bills and collections of accounts
- Administer employment agreements
- Review remittances
- Assist with preparation of Bylaws
- Administer contracts
- Tracking of Insurance and Road Tax, Pollutions fitness of Vehicle.
- Preparing and maintaining the Fixed assets and Inventory Register.
- Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually reporting
- Perform other related duties and responsibilities as asked and required
Education, Qualification and Skills Needed
- B.Com with 5+ years/Chartered Accountant/Company Secretary with 3+ years of relevant experience in accounting, auditing, statutory compliance, legal matters, arbitration etc.
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience
- Good knowledge of computer - Windows and Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Excellent communication skills, Fluent in Hindi, good in English
- Should be able to work in an environment of ambiguity and handle pressure
- Must be goal oriented and proactively seeks results.
- A career in NGO will be an asset
Salary:
Rs 3.6 L per annum.
How to apply?
Please send a CV & a one page cover letter detailing how you meet the eligibility requirements to career@kaushalyafoundation.org and cc to kaushalyafoundation@gmail.com
Note: Please clearly state the role that you are applying for in the email subject line. For further details about organisation please visit www.kaushalyafoundation.org
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