Regional Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Leading a multi-thematic team of professionals in the areas of natural resources, agriculture, livestock, enterprises, education, skill development, etc. along with support departments like accounts, M&E, reporting and administration.
• Liaise with donors and government officers and interact with field staff and community members.
• Budget management and new resource mobilization.
• Actively engage in developing systems and indicators from existing areas of work.
• Capacity building of the team and prepare senior team members towards new challenges and new geographical areas.
• Integration of all programmes and projects of AKRSPI to achieve maximum impact at household level.
• Ensuring timely submission of all reports to donors, government and AKRSP head office.
• Motivate team members to deliver optimum outcomes.
• Develop conceptual clarity of the Organization vision, mission & objectives to team on long term development issues and ensuring the peoples participation in programmes.
• Provide overall administration for the team and all offices and financial oversight
• Set up and operationalize the monitoring and evaluation systems for all the work in the regions
• Provide leadership and overall guidance to the area managers working in the regions

Preferred candidate profile

• Good understanding of development needs of rural and tribal communities, government priorities and schemes, new trends and future opportunities.
• Strong program implementation and management skills including strategic planning and work plan development with a strong focus on maintaining quality across project milestones.
• Strong orientation for long term vision achievement along with annual and quarterly milestone achievement.
• Confident communicator, with the ability to dialogue on complex issues with different stakeholders.
• Efficient at multitasking with field orientation.
• Skilled at interacting and developing relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Willing to travel and maintain a very flexible working pattern.
• Secular orientation and non-discriminating on any basis.
• Sound knowledge about budget and finance
• Proficiency in English with a working knowledge of Hindi.

Key Benefits:

• Opportunity to work with a renowned NGO.
• On-site and off-site training opportunities.
• 5-day work week.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for employee, spouse, and children.
• Maternity and paternity leave as per organizational policy.
• 15 General Leaves and 16.5 earned leaves annually (earned leaves can be encashed if not utilized).
• 10 declared public holidays and 3 optional holidays.