Job Description

Mission: To Create a community of practitioners for inclusive growth, while protecting and restoring the environment through environmental education and action for sustainability

About the Program: Building Climate Resilient Village

In order to cope with the change in climate, EcoPrism will design and implement a a comprehensive integrated model ‘Climate Resilient Village’ (CRV) in Benipur Khurd Village of Haruaha block of Varanasi. The programme will aim to promote affordable and replicable adaptation and mitigation practices to enhance livelihood of vulnerable communities and explore alternative farming practices. The programme will be designed on the key principles of climate literacy and sustainability while working with the local community to design localised solutions that will bring behaviour transformation among key stakeholders for climate positive actions. EcoPrism Collective Foundation will strengthen its work with marginal Farmer’s to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices and production to ensure food security as well as boost their annual income. The Multipurpose Education Environment Centre will engage with the Women SHG group in enhancing their knowledge and skills for economic independence while adopting green livelihood. ECOPRISM will work with/enable a set of Eco Change Makers to design and implement integrated programme based on the key principles of climate literacy and sustainability through individual and collective actions:

• ADOLESCENT’S CLUB: Adolescent’s clubs to lead the efforts to influence neighbourhood communities to promote sound environmental behaviour and taking up meaningful environmental projects.

• FARMER’S CLUB: Farmer’s Club to bring the farmers together to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices and production to ensure food security.

• WOMEN’S CLUB: Women ’s Club to create economic independence among rural women while breaking gender barriers and providing access for sustainable livelihood practices

About the Role

Programme Fellow being part of the Ecoprism Collective team and will work closely with, youth farmers and community members and will be responsible for implementing community led activities in selected villages. Programme fellows will capture information, data, stories and insights from the field and will share in the form of documentation and report.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Programme Implementation

• Take responsibility for effective program delivery in community, review and monitor the implementation with team lead.

• Take responsibility of programme operations and logistics in respective village as per organisation guidelines.

• Ensure that any incidents of child abuse, child marriage or any other violation of child rights are reported to the team lead

• Build relationship with influencers and community members for effective implementation of programme

• Participate in team progress review on continuous basis, give and complete feedback loop.

• Serve as a role model at all times among community to share learning and to exchange skills

• Make regular visits and meeting with community stakeholders.

• Facilitate process and conduct activities for farmers club, women’s club, youth club and community level engagement.

• Develop and conduct change projects for youth, farmers and Women’s club

Content Development and Capacity Building

• Participate and co- facilitate training sessions with Community stakeholders

• Contribute in developing and customize relevant content for programme delivery.

• Contribute in designing training programme and training modules.

• Synthesize insights from training into meaningful and actionable steps. Bring in field insights into the capacity building and content design and review.

• Organise meetings and workshops with community stakeholders

Documentation and Reporting

• Prepare and Share monthly reports with the team lead.

• Implement monitoring tools as per the project framework.

• Capture and document the progress of program activities and best practices/ case studies

• Adhere to data management plan and systems for School/community program and contribute effectively

• Support coordination of baseline/ endline and other assessments.

• Ensure on regular basis data is updated in the database.

• Ensure block/school/community level reports are prepared and shared.

Qualification and Experience:

A Graduation degree in social science or other development disciplines, with 0-2 years of work experience preferably who have worked with women, youth and farmer and engaged with community directly

• Good verbal and written communication skills in Hindi/English

• Ability to capture and write

Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Eligibility Criteria

Not Specified

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - B Arch

Organization Details

• Organization Name:Ecoprism Collective Foundation
• About Organization:About Organisation: ECOPRISM Collective Foundation ECOPRISM Collective Foundation is a non-profit organization incubated by the alumni of Social Work Students from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India with the objective to collectively contribute towards building healthy ecosystems that can enhance education advancement, people's livelihood, counteract climate change and stop the collapse of biodiversity. Registered under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs as Non-Profit Organization and Headquartered at Varanasi (UP), the organization focuses on climate literacy to empowers learners of all ages to make informed decisions and take individual and collective action to change society and care for the planet. Vision: To Co-Create an enabling ecosystem based on environmental ethics and sustainable practices to achieve social and economic development for all and more specifically among Farmer, Women and Adolescents.
  
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