• Leadership and Project Management:

• • • Lead and facilitate project design briefing, project planning and monthly review with the project team and other cross-functional focal persons;
    • Manage & update the programmatic calendar;
    • Ensure appropriate follow through on actions, decisions, and commitments made by the Director-THI by working with the cross functional teams at the offices in Gangtok and Bengaluru;
    • Attend functional team meetings to keep a pulse on the progress and help connect dots with others across the organization;
    • Assist the Director-THI in facilitating effective decision-making;
    • Lead financial planning and monitoring budget utilization and ensure compliance with organizational standard operating procedure and donor guidelines.

• Operational Oversight:

• • • Accountable for ensuring the project activities and expenses are done as per expected project goal, outcome, outputs and work-plan
    • Facilitate creating quality benchmarks in the project and communicate the results and outcome expected through appropriate planning, regular monitoring.

• Monitoring and Reporting:

• • • Ensure project MIS and reports submission on time and as per donor timeline
    • Ensure adherence to project design through regular, careful and continuous monitoring of the project deliverables

• Stakeholder Engagement:

• • • Act as ATREE’s representative to external stakeholders, including government officials, community leaders, and other partners.
    • Gather feedback from stakeholders to enhance project delivery.

• Documentation and Learning:

• • • Maintain detailed documentation of implementation processes.
    • Identify and share best practices and lessons learned.

• Team Management:

• • • Supervise and motivate the project team, ensuring alignment with project goals and outcomes.
    • Facilitate capacity building and provide necessary technical support.
    • Facilitate cooperation among landscape-level teams and thematic groups of ATREE including the Academy and the Centre for Policy Design.

• Additional Responsibilities:

• • Participate in organization-wide activities to advance ATREE’s mission.
  • Undertake additional tasks as assigned by the Director- THI.

• Other responsibilities as determined by the Director – THI and Executive Director of ATREE.

Competencies

• Knowledge: Possess state-of-the-art knowledge on subjects related to the action areas, with the ability to represent ATREE in national forums.
• Management and coordination: The ability to plan and manage large-scale programs and projects, including financial overview, people management, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Networking/stakeholder management: The ability to identify relevant partners, build new linkages, and effectively facilitate stakeholder processes, manage conflict, and negotiate major programmatic issues.
• Communication and outreach: The ability to effectively present, discuss, convince, and influence people and target groups on different levels with tailored messages and ensure effective channels of communication across ATREE.
• Results/impact orientation: The ability to apply a proactive strategic approach within and outside the ATREE to generate concrete results leading to impacts.
• Social/team competency: The ability to build effective teams including people from different disciplinary and cultural backgrounds and across the THI and ATREE; give and receive constructive feedback; provide information and share resources across ATREE to help make decisions collaboratively and solve mutual problems.
• Report and proposal writing: The ability to write and coordinate the preparation of complex project and program reports, write successful proposals, and synthesise results from different research projects.

Interested individuals can apply using the ‘Apply Now’ button.