Program Officer

Roles &Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive baselineof the identified underprivileged communities & identify campaign issues.
• Identify and implement the key interventions while engaging with the partner NGOs and the employees to attain sustainable poverty alleviation through investment in relevant, mainstream education, livelihood, health(including water & sanitation and nutrition) and environment supportto communities that are otherwise deprived of basic human rights.
• Community mobilization to achieve their engagement in their own development. This will include regular visits to the community, working hand in hand with the NGO partner and HCLTech employees, including the weekends, to ensure that HCLFoundation is in full control of the projects.
• Develop the given project into a high-quality demonstrative model of urban development that showcases that holistic development is possible only by mainstreaming displaced, migrated and underserved populations.
• Grant Management: Ensuring timely flow and effective utilization of funds by closely working with the NGO partners.
• Monitoring, evaluation and MIS of the given project – including quarterlyand annual reports.
• Ensure that employees realizetheir immediate social responsibility and contribute to the project.

Responsibilities also include, but are not limited to, supporting other HCLFoundation projects, assisting the Director, HCLFoundation in developing and implementing policiesand procedures, carryingout the objectives of the department, as well as providing recommendations on new programmes and ensuring engagement of employees as mentors and implementers.

Additional Responsibilities -

1. Providing regular coordination support for the day-to-day functionsto the partner NGOs.
2. Coordinationwith volunteers & maintaining a database of volunteer activities across the projects.
3. Maintaininga pictorial databaseof activities, eventsand functions.
4. Conducting floor walks with business account volunteers as and when required to ensure effective engagement of volunteers in the project.

Attributes and Experience:

• Excellent track record of having worked in the development sector (

  4-5 years

  of experience), especially in the area of developing partnerships with variousstakeholders, on-ground monitoring and implementation of programmes including community mobilization, data collection, analysisand documentation.
• Ability to deliver on time, independently, to work with a range of stakeholders, including ability to perform in a corporate environment and present the work at various forums.
• Experience of managing complexand time-sensitive processes.
• Experience in programme management, volunteer engagement and networking.
• Experience in working with sports projectswould be desirable.