About PCI India

PCI India, a registered Indian society, has been working in India for the past 28 years. We drive interventions to transform the lives of communities at scale by solving complex development problems. In the past year, PCI India reached more than 2 crore (20 million) people across 200+ districts in 23 states.

Our Vision and Mission

Vision – A happy, healthy, safe and a sustainable world for all.

Mission – Rooted in community realities, we co create and scale sustainable solutions to complex development problems.

Our Values

• Excellence – Quality in everything no matter how small, is paramount.
• Respect – There is inherent value in all people for who they are and what they contribute.
• Collaboration – Only through collaboration we can address complex development problems.
• Boldness – Boldness requires disruptive thinking backed up by courage and conviction.
• Creativity – Creativity ensures dynamic responsiveness, relevance and impact.
• Integrity – Integrity is non-negotiable in both personal and professional domains.

PCI is an Equal Opportunity Employer

PCI is committed to providing equal opportunity to all working for it and in creating an inclusive work environment. We respect the diversity of our people and follow a fair, non-discriminatory approach in terms of gender, age, nationality race, caste, religion, community, marital status, physical challenge, and sexual orientation.

We promote diversity in the workplace and ensure a culture of zero tolerance to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment whether sexual, physical or psychological.

PCI provides equal opportunity in recruitment, appraisals, promotion and career progression. Our people policies are fair, objective and non-discriminatory and everyone is expected to adhere to them.

About the Position:

Position Title: Project Manager – WEE

Number of Position: 1

Reporting: Associate Director

Location: Patna, Bihar (with travel across project districts)

Type:  Project Based

Qualification Required: A post-graduate degree/diploma in management, development studies, rural management, or a related field.

Experience Required: 

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in managing large-scale development programs, preferably in livelihoods, financial inclusion, or SHG/community-institution contexts.
• Prior experience working with state-level government missions (e.g., SRLM/State Rural Livelihoods Mission) or financial-inclusion programs is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-district teams and programs.

Skills & Attributes:

• Strong program management and team-leadership skills.
• Strong understanding of SHG/CLF federated structures and rural livelihoods ecosystems.
• Willingness to travel extensively within the assigned district, including to remote blocks and clusters.
• Good facilitation and training skills for working with SHG members and Bookkeepers.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Strong digital literacy, including MS Office, data/MIS systems, and budget management.
• Familiarity and understanding of LoKos system will be an advantage.

About the Project

PCI intends to work on supporting JEEViKA in “LokOS Data Digitization for Enhanced Credit “, through a 12-month intensive engagement (September 2026 – September 2027) covering 4 districts of Bihar – Patna, Bhojpur, Muzaffarpur and Nalanda – across 70 Cluster Level Federations (CLFs) and 5.95 lakh SHG women.

The assignment requires a field-led implementation approach to translate LokOS digitisation into sustained, accurate and credit-relevant transaction data at scale. Working closely with Jeevika (Bihar State Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society), PCI will drive SHG and VO transaction-data training and adoption, data-quality assurance, handholding, operational problem-solving and structured reporting, contributing to the plan of supporting 0.8 million active, regularised transaction-data records by September 2027.

The project centres on moving Bihar’s SHG/VO ecosystem beyond one-time training towards sustained usage, regularised transaction data, strengthened Bookkeeper (BK) capability, and clean, integration-ready CLF-level data to support future credit-model integration.

About the Role

The Project Manager will hold end-to-end responsibility for the LokOS – program in Bihar, covering 4 districts, 70 CLFs and 5.95 lakh SHG women. S/he will work in direct coordination with the State team of JEEViKA to align priorities and delivery, and will be accountable for overall program performance, timelines and reporting to internal PCI leadership. S/he will serve as the primary escalation point for state-level risks and bottlenecks and will drive coordination between state and district team while ensuring achievement of project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Leadership & Implementation

• Hold end-to-end responsibility for the LokOS – program in Bihar, from planning through close-out.
• Lead state-level program planning, phased CLF rollout, and execution aligned with the project workplan and timelines.
• Work in direct coordination with State team to align priorities, troubleshoot delivery challenges, and ensure consistent implementation of the program approach.
• Oversee achievement of SHG and VO transaction-data adoption, training completion, and data-quality targets across all 70 CLFs.

Performance & Risk Management

• Monitor program performance against targets, flag deviations, and drive corrective action.
• Identify and mitigate program risks, including delivery delays, data-quality gaps, and stakeholder-coordination challenges; ensure contingency planning.

Stakeholder & Partnership Management

• Serve as the point of contact with Jeevika (BRLPS) at the state level, ensuring PCI’s support is valued and effectively utilised.
• Build and nurture relationships with state officials and institutional partners to enable systemic impact.
• Work closely with internal PCI teams to address other key stakeholder needs.

Reporting & Documentation

• Ensure timely, accurate reporting to internal PCI leadership as per the agreed reporting cadence.
• Consolidate learnings, best practices and program updates for dissemination to donors, partners and government stakeholders.
• Review and finalise key reports, briefings and presentations prepared for national and state audiences.

What can you expect in PCI:

• A warm, inclusive, and happy work environment.
• Performance driven reward mechanism.
• The best of the class benefits from competitive remunerations.
• Health Insurance coverage for self, spouse & Children.
• Group Terms Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance for Self.
• All other statutory benefits.
• Regular Recognition of performance and PCI Value display in work
• An empowering organization structure which values individual’s skills, competencies and potential.
• Opportunities to operate in a cross functional role.
• Higher responsibilities and larger roles are merit based.
• Young Talent Programs for developing future leaders.
• Leadership roles for women are encouraged and given preference in selection and training.