Manager - Rural Solutions, Shirpur [MH]

Role: Manager - Rural Solutions, Shirpur [MH]
Experience: 3-5 year experience 
Salary: Upto 12 LPA
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About Udhyam:

Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) is on a mission towards Making Bharat Entrepreneurial. We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individuals potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.

Our programs:

Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted ~24,00,000 learners across 12 Indian states.

Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled up to a 27% income uplift for 5000+ entrepreneurs.

The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.

About the Program:

Udhyam Vyapaar is working with Nano Entrepreneurs in the rural segment, mainly women and helping them with their businesses. Once the nature of the business is understood, various templatised solutions in terms of Sourcing, Market Linkage, Innovative practices and Business centric trainings are conducted with the ultimate goal of income increase and entrepreneurial mindset creation so that the business becomes sustainable in the long run. Typical engagements vary from 3 to 6 months per Vyapari. Currently this program is running across multiple villages around Indore and intends to expand to other adjoining Districts.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Lead the identification and seamless onboarding of potential beneficiaries into the program and map the comprehensive understanding of their needs and aspirations.
• Engage with Vyapaaris on-field building strong connections, understanding problems , creating innovative strategies to empower Vyapaaris and continuously monitor progress.
• Coordinate closely with the Core Solutioning team to identify and understand potential solutions in detail.
• Dedicate a significant portion of the time to on-field interactions and hands-on mentoring of Vyapaaris through conducting targeted training sessions to enhance their business management skills.
• Independently address challenges promptly, ensuring the ongoing success of their businesses.

• Conduct thorough data collection for baseline and end-line assessments.

Skills, Experience :

• Must be willing to be based in Shirpur, Maharashtra and willing to travel to rural areas throughout the duration of the project.

• 3 to 4+ years of experience working on medium-scale programs.

• Excellent communication skills in Hindi and English.

• Planning and Execution Comfortable working with a diverse group of individuals to meet project objectives within established timelines; can effectively move from strategy to details in a seamless way.
• Bias for action Hands-on with operations, willing to pilot and experiment with different strategies, interact regularly with beneficiaries and various stakeholders

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment

• Experience in the social development sector or Program Management Unit

• Comfortable with MS Office