Multiple Positions (Project Associate, Associate Project Coordinator, and Project Coordinator) – HCL Foundation (HCLF)

Apply by 15th April 23

HCL Foundation (HCLF) was established in 2011 as the CSR arm of HCL Technologies. It is a not-forprofit organization, that strives to contribute towards national and international development goals, bringing about lasting positive impact in the lives of people, through long-term sustainable programmes. The foundation aims to alleviate poverty and achieve inclusive growth and development.

Active community engagement ensures optimal long-term gains and upward accountability. HCL Foundation works through Life Cycle Based, Integrated Community Development Approach with a thematic focus on Education, Health, Skill Development & Livelihood, Environment, and Disaster Risk Reduction & Response. Child protective strategies, inclusion, and gender transformative approaches remain central in all initiatives of the HCL Foundation, thus ensuring comprehensive development. Presently HCL Foundation is implementing five flagship programmes, namely HCL Samuday & HCL Grant – Rural Development programmes; HCL Uday & Clean NOIDA – Urban Development programmes; HCL Harit (The Green Initiative) – Environment Action programme and 4 special initiatives – Power of One, Sports for Change, HCL Foundation Academy and My E-Haat.

For more details, please visit our website – https://www.hclfoundation.org/

VISION

To be the source code for sustainable socio-economic and environmental development.

MISSION

Nurture clean, green and healthy communities where everyone is empowered and equipped to reach their full potential in partnership with its employees, communities and stakeholders, while promoting volunteerism and establishing international standards of strategic planning, implementation and measuring impact

Link to Video:

HCL Foundation Video – https://youtu.be/DK1wtWG_zJQ

About HCL Samuday:

HCL Samuday, a flagship program of HCL Foundation, is an outcome of HCL’s commitment to uplift rural India. Established in 2015, Samuday intends to develop a sustainable, scalable, and replicable model – a source code for the economic and social development of rural areas in partnership with state governments, local communities, NGOs, knowledge institutions, and allied partners. This is being done through optimal interventions across Agriculture, Education, Health, Environment, Livelihood, and WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) in selected villages. The program is designed to help the local people identify their problems, co-create solutions, and then implement the same on their own with professional support from team Samuday, thereby, lending the dimension of sustainability and ownership to the vision of development. Currently implemented in Uttar Pradesh, HCL Samuday is operational in 524 Gram Panchayats.

Job Description:

Roles & Responsibilities

Under the leadership of the Director – HCL Foundation and the assigned personnel, the incumbent’s primary responsibilities will include planning, strategizing and implementation of Education, Skill Development, Health, Environment related projects of HCL Foundation’s rural flagship Program – HCL Samuday in Hardoi.

HCL Foundation is looking for Project Associate, Associate Project Coordinators and Project Coordinators to help scale our growing organization and interventions in different areas of rural development including livelihood; agriculture; water and sanitation; infrastructure; health and education.

The Strategy & Operations team is responsible for setting and driving key initiatives across the interventions and functional teams and is tasked with identifying and tackling difficult operation challenges. Strategy & Operations operates much like an internal consulting team, working on a broad range of mission-critical projects. As part of this team, the candidate will be required to immerse themselves in data collection, draw insight from analyses, and then step back to develop compelling, structured recommendations. Beyond strategy, the candidate will also be required to communicate recommendations to the project management team, and to help drive real, sustainable implementation. The candidates will work on a wide range of projects and strategic initiatives linked to rural development and operational strategies, including those in functional domains of finance, operations, supply chain management, analytics, planning, marketing, etc. This is a great role for a motivated self-starter looking to gain a deep understanding of a social development organization.

Specific sectoral requirements:

Sector – WaSH

Areas of experience – Prior Experience in working with environment/ waste management/ water conservation/ rural development projects/ climate change/ quantification of environment of implemented social programs. (ex – Carbon Credit estimation)

Education – Masters in Social work/ Environment/ MBA from a reputed institute

Sector – Agriculture

Areas of experience – Prior Experience in working with agriculture extension/ institutional buyers/ crop disease and pest identification/ crop advisory/ soil and water conservation/ farm mechanization/ marketing and sales of processed food/ food processing sector/ marketing or trading of agro produce/ rural development projects

Education – Masters in Agriculture (Specialization in Plant Pathology/Entomologist, Vegetable Science/ Horticulture/ Agronomy, Soil Science, farm mechanization, soil and water conservation and agro food processing) / MBA in agribusiness management / MSc or MBA in Food Technology

Sector – Environment and Infrastructure

Areas of experience – Prior experience of working with electrical infrastructure and electrical revamp works/ electrical infra facility/ electrical BoQ estimation & finalization/SLD & Layouts design finalization/ Wiring diagrams/ electrical calculations & installations/ Environment, ESG, and SDG reporting

Education – MBA/ Masters in Social Work/ Masters in Environment/ B. Tech (Electrical or Solar experience will be an additional benefit)

Sector – Livelihood

Areas of experience – Prior experience of working with enterprise development (individual and group-based)/ MSME projects/ Cluster-level federations/ NRLM-partnered projects/ designing and production of garments/ designing and production of handicrafts/ craft cluster promotion and production supervision/handicraft marketing and portfolio sales, value chain, cluster development

Education – MBA in Rural Management or Rural development/ Master in Textile designing/Bachelor in designing/ Masters in Social Work

Sector – Education

Areas of experience – Prior experience of working with Adult literacy/ Financial literacy/ Girls’ education/ Digital content creation/ Open educational resources/ Government schools/ Government education system (government schools, officials, teachers, etc.)/ Teachers’ capacity building/ Designing and conducting assessments/ Rural development projects

Education – MBA/ Masters in Social Work/ Masters in Development/ Masters in Education

Core Competencies –

• Excellent documentation and report-writing abilities
• Creative thinking and ability to design frameworks and proposals
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Sound understanding of finances and audit
• Well-versed with MS-Office
• Effectively analyse and present information
• Ability to multitask and work in challenging environment

Work Experience:

Project Associate– 0-2 years

Associate Project Coordinator– 2-4 years

Project Coordinator- 3-5 years

Qualifications and Skills:

Excellent communication skills with the ability to break down complex issues into structured frameworks and concrete action plans; Enjoys identifying problems and implementing solutions; Social organization experience or strong, demonstrable desire to work at the such organization; Ability to define, execute, and draw conclusions with minimal guidance; Extremely detail oriented with great organizational skills.

Remuneration:

Project Associate – 5-6 LPA

Associate Project Coordinator/Project Coordinator – 6-8 LPA

How to apply

Please send your application to priyanka.mishra@hcl.com, in with cc to Saurabh.kg@hcl.com in the format: Name_Position_Location To promote inclusion & diversity, female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Last Date of Application- 15th April, 2023 Kindly note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.