Program Lead- Junoon – Lighthouse Communities

Lighthouse Communities (formerly Pune City Connect) is a non-profit organization working towards building inclusive communities in India. Our programs include Quality Education, Sustainable Livelihood and Digital Empowerment.

Our vision is “Sampoorna Pune. Every Life Enriched”. Our unique ‘collective action’ model is thriving, thanks to a Public-Private-Partnership between Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and corporates. Active participation by citizens and other non-profit organizations contributes further to the goal of inclusive and equitable growth in Pune.

PCC’s programs focus on three development areas targeting all age groups in low-income communities:
1. Quality Education – for children
2. Sustainable Livelihood – for youth
3. Digital Empowerment – for adults including senior citizens

While the collective action approach enables scale, there is equal emphasis on depth. Our program design stands out for its focus on enabling agency and full potential of individuals.

About Global Opportunity Youth Network:

The Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) is a global initiative catalysing systems shifts for youth opportunity in communities around the world through the creation of sustainable training, employment, and income-earning pathways. GOYN works with “Opportunity Youth” — young people aged 15-29 who are out of school, unemployed, or working in informal jobs.

The Global Opportunity Youth Network, Pune is aimed at unlocking the economic potential for “opportunity youth” in Pune. Working on the principle of “Collective Impact”, GOYN Pune facilitates a deeper level of ecosystem collaboration and coordinated action to transform livelihood opportunities for Opportunity Youth at the city-level. The program is directed towards fulfilling the vision of access to dignified, productive, and sustainable livelihood for every Opportunity youth in Pune, with LCF as its anchor partner.

Click to know more: https://punecityconnect.org/goyn/

About the Project:

A pioneering project aimed to deploy GOYN’s place-based, collaborative approach, for developing and nurturing home-based micro enterprises, and supporting the entrepreneurs with skills, market linkages and mentoring support.

This one of its kind ‘Entrepreneurship Hub’ makes start up dreams come alive for urban disadvantaged youth. The Hub offers end to end services – from shop act licences to networking to branding and marketing support – the Hub is a one-stop shop for catering to young entrepreneurs from low-income communities. In FY 22-23, 100 such entrepreneurs are being incubated in Pune.

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Implement the incubation program end to end from idea stage to income generation for the entrepreneur. Make changes in design as required. Some of the activities required to run the program are as below-

• Enrol appropriate youth through assessments and interviews
• Conduct personality, aptitude and interest assessment of mobilized youth and map their requirements
• Conduct one on one and family counseling with youth entrepreneurs
• Conduct preparatory course on business basics, soft skills, accounting, customer centricity, digital skills etc
• Coordinate with organisations providing entrepreneurship support to youth
• Be up to date with any developments in the ecosystem and forge new partnerships with organizations
• Select mentors from the ecosystem according to the youth needs and connect them
• Arrange events and networking sessions of entrepreneurs and mentors
• Connect entrepreneurs to various partners for funding, networking and market linkages support
• Ensure that as a team, we are a ‘coach’ to each entrepreneur as they navigate through this challenging pathway.

● Manage donor relationship and reporting

● Design the program strategy for scaling to multiple locations/ cities

Preferred Skill sets, Years of Experience, Professional Background:

● MBA with 7-8 years of experience of which minimum 2 years are preferably in a start-up venture

● Basic know-how of nano start-up ecosystem in India

● Strong people management, project management and problem-solving skills

● Self-driven, time management and multitasking skills

● Strong verbal and written communication skills

Base Location: Pune, Maharashtra

Compensation: Rs. 10 Lacs per annum

Reporting Structure: You will be reporting to the Director – GOYN

If interested, send your CV to careers@lighthousecommunities.org