Name of the Organisation:- Development Alternatives

Position: Deputy Manager

Qualification: Master of Social Work/ Master’s Degree in Rural Development Management/ Rural Development Studies/ Public Policy/ Environmental Management/Other relevant background

Job Type: Regular after 6 Months’ Probation or a company contract updatable annually

Location: Bundelkhand

No. of Position: 01

Professional Experience: 2 - 8 years’ experience

About the Organization:

Headquartered in New Delhi, India, Development Alternatives (DA) is the world's first social enterprise dedicated to sustainable development.  We are a research and action organisation striving to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound, and economically scalable development outcomes. Over the past 40 years, our green technology and delivery system innovations for habitat, water, energy and waste management have reached millions of families, empowering communities through strengthening people’s institutions and enhancing their access to basic needs goods and services; enabling economic opportunities through skill development for green jobs and enterprise creation; and promoting low carbon pathways for development through natural resource management models and clean technology solutions.

Our Mission is to create models that generate sustainable livelihoods in large numbers and fulfil Our Vision of a world where every citizen can live a secure, healthy, and fulfilling life, in harmony with nature. Our Theory of Change is to work across the value chain of Innovation of technologies, institutional systems and business models, Incubation of high potential systemic solutions, Implementation to demonstrate practical and scalable approaches and solutions and influence public policy, market systems and societal behaviours and build capacities for creating impact at scale.  Our Operational Strategy is to work through partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders to build resilient futures for all together. 

Our work addresses three global challenges namely,

• Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy-Accelerating the transition to inclusive and circular modes of production and consumption by reducing carbon and material footprints across the lifecycle of economic activity while promoting local value and wealth creation.
• Climate Resilience and Ecosystem Restoration-Regenerating lost biodiversity and degraded ecosystems and building resilience to climate change and extreme events in a manner that also generates prosperity.

• Livelihood Security and Inclusive Entrepreneurship-Innovative business models and institutional ecosystems to empower local entrepreneurs for creating businesses that generate jobs and deliver basic needs.

Job Description:

• Manager / Deputy Manager will execute the field activities of the project in the thematic area of natural resources management including agriculture, water management, IVD etc.
• Implement which include design financial planning, resource management and quality of deliverables.
• Develop knowledge products with new knowledge management and non-project resources.
• Outlay and evaluation of existing projects.
• Strengthen partnership and establish new partnership.
• Business development of projects in Bundelkhand and providing inputs for BD to all domains.
• Ensure financial probity at all times.
• Any work assigned by the senior management.