Marine & Coastal Conservation Coordinator – HCL Foundation (HCLF)

Last date for submission 30th Jan 2022

HCL Foundation (HCLF) was established in 2011 as the CSR arm of HCL Technologies. It is a not for-profit- 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 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 HCL Foundation, thus ensuring comprehensive development.

Presently HCL Foundation is implementing four flagship programmes, namely HCL Samuday & HCL Grant – Rural Development programmes; HCL Uday & Clean Noida – Urban Development programmes and 3 special initiatives – Power of One, Sports for Change and HCL Foundation Academy.

HCL Foundation invites applications for the post of Associate/Deputy Manager – Coastal Conservation under its flagship programme ‘HCL HARIT’

Vacancy code HCL/ Harit/14012022/AMCC

Programme name HCL HARIT

Vision To be the source code for sustainable socio economic development.

Mission Nurture clean, green and healthy communities where everyone is empowered and equipped to reach their full potential in full engagement with our employees and partners, showcasing and establishing international standards of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in community development.

HCL Harit – the Green Initiative

‘HCL Harit – the Green Initiative’ is HCL Foundation’s distinct flagship programme for Environment Action. HCL Harit is a multi-year, ongoing programme, addressing environment, operational in nine states of India, with multiple long-mid-short-term projects under its ambit.

HCL Foundation is committed towards conservation of environment and the indigenous flora and fauna; with the primary objective to conserve, restore and enhance local ecosystems and respond to climate change in a sustainable manner through community engagement.

Vision – To conserve, restore and enhance indigenous environmental systems and respond to climate change in a sustainable manner through community engagement.

Background – the Environmental Complex

We are all interdependent and share the same environment. The pressing issues such as Environmental Degradation and Climate Change are complex, boundary agnostic and are triggered by different drivers; exacerbating environmental risks and leading to deteriorating quality of life and human health. Many a times issues that seem local would require a landscape approach to deal with. World leaders have identified education as a key solution towards sustainable development of countries; as creating a strong link between the environment and the quality of human life is crucial to ensure conservation of environment and natural resources

Against this context, ‘HCL Harit – the Green Initiative’ is aimed towards restoring the environmental balance; with the primary objective to conserve, restore and enhance indigenous ecosystems and its services and respond to climate change in a sustainable manner through community engagement. Throughout the process, Harit focuses at building scalable and replicable models that are economically viable, socially acceptable, environmentally sustainable, holistic and inclusive.

An integrated and strategic broader-scale approach to environment action and conservation enables to bring in stakeholders and partners together to work on a common and shared environment and deal better with both the site-level and wider landscape needs. This will also enable to better understand feedback of the interventions, optimize resources and prioritize actions

Key intervention areas

• Increase in green cover, carbon sequestration, native biodiversity through afforestation and habitat improvement
• Conservation and rejuvenation of waterbodies through community engagement
• Reduction in CO2 emissions
• Improvement of Coastal and Marine Habitats for native biodiversity
• Improving lives of stray animals and addressing human-animal conflict inside community areas
• Enhancing environment awareness among communities by environment education with the help of innovative tools and techniques

Achievements We have successful existing partnership models on mass afforestation and water bodies rejuvenation in various cities across India.

Till now, HCL Foundation has planted 250,000+ saplings on 46+ ha area across India, with more than 90% survival rate. Around 71+ waterbodies are being rejuvenated with an increased water holding capacity of 5,000+ mn litres. Through the afforestation and carbon reduction initiatives, we have been able to sequester/ reduce emission to around 285 tons of CO2e, along with that 91+ tons of stubble were stopped from being burnt. We worked towards improvement of 2 km of coastal habitat in Chennai by removing 4,000+ kg of plastic waste and 3,000+ kg of glass bottles. We have been able to treat 21,000+ street animals and around 247,000+ meals were provided to street animals during COVID-19 lockdown. Through our outreach and environment education programme we have been able to reach to 20,000+ people pan India.

VACANCY DETAIL

Position: Marine & Coastal Conservation Coordinator

Location: Odisha

Under the leadership of the Director-HCL Foundation, the assigned personnel will be responsible for planning, strategizing and monitoring of the various Marine and Coastal Conservation related projects of HCL Foundation under HCL Foundation’s distinct flagship programme – HCL Harit with Special emphasis on abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) and coastal and Marine debris. The incumbent will be responsible for coordinating and implementation of such projects and providing technical inputs in developing, reviewing and adding value to the strategies. The incumbent will report to the Project Director, HCL Harit or the personnel assigned by her/him.

Attributes and experience:

1. Education: Master’s Degree in Marine Biology/ Wildlife Science or related field

2. Experience: Min. 5 years of experience in implementing Marine and Coastal conservation project with experience with abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) and coastal and marine debrisrelated projects for at least last 2 years will be an additional advantage. Possession of Scuba diving advance certificate will also have added advantage.

3. Compile and submit regular project updates and activity reports.

4. Assess and manage risks, measure and report on progress, anticipate and resolve bottlenecks, provide escalation management, time management.

5. Result-oriented with solid experience in creative project planning, managing budgets, developing and managing resources, working closely with both internal team and third party agencies.

6. Identification of potential environmental interventions as per relevant needs of Sustainable Development Goals.

7. Ownership and accountability of the project, with a holistic approach to see it through beyond completion – measure the results of the launched initiatives and drive improvements through scalable, efficient processes to optimize resources at all times.

8. Perform other relevant duties as assigned by the Director.

9. Liaising and networking with the concerned local and Government authorities and ensuring that the projects are in sync with the larger policy framework so as to leverage their support.

10. Organizes activities and other public events. Makes presentations, initiate strategic communications with targeted groups.

11. Prepare materials and publications. Support organizing conferences/ symposiums/ stakeholder’s meetings.

12. Effective engagement of HCL employees across various environment projects of HCL Foundation through creative and engaging strategies.

14. Ability to network well and collaborate/ liaise with other stakeholders including Government stakeholders. Flexible and adaptable to respond to changing circumstances.

15. Assist in development of various awareness and communication campaigns for urban/peri-urban areas related to environment.

16. Prepare activities & events calendar for environment initiatives under HCL Harit programme.

17. Provide necessary support to the internal & external communications teams.

18. Develop and maintain contacts with emerging strategic players for impact scaling up in local geographies.

19. Fluency in verbal and written English is a must.

Remuneration: Salary commensurate with experience.

Child Safeguarding: We hold ourselves accountable to children. Adherence to comply with HCL Foundation’s Child Protection Policy and procedures with respect to child safeguarding is non-negotiable. A range of pre-employment checks can be undertaken in conformity with HCL Foundation’s Child Protection Policy.

How to apply:

1.      Please submit your CV and Cover Letter with

• Email subject line: Associate/Deputy Manager – Coastal Conservation_ (Insert your name)
• Resume file name: (AMCC/location name_Candidate’s name_CV)
• Cover letter file name: (AMCC/location name_Candidate’s name_CoverLetter)

2. Send your application to abhishek.narayanan@hcl.com with ruchira.sarkar@hcl.com.in cc, latest by 30th Jan 2022.

3. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

HCL Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and promote culture of inclusivity. We would encourage females, people with disabilities, people with different gender identities and all orientations to apply