Job Description
About PCI India
PCI India, a registered Indian society, has been working in India for the past 26 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 1.7 crore, i.e. 17 million people in 204 Districts in 15 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
- Job Title: Regional Manager-WEE
- Number of positions: 02
- Reporting: Project Lead
- Location: Fatehpur and Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh
- Salary Range: Competitive salary commensurate with experience
- Type- Project Based
- Qualification required: MSW, PGDRM or Postgraduate in Agriculture, Rural Management, Agri business Management, Economics and other allied subjects.
- Experience required: minimum of 5 years’ experience in the field of Livelihoods Promotion. Previous experience of at least 3 years in working with State Rural Livelihoods Mission will be given preference.
- Skill and Competencies:
- Previous experience of Managing large scale project at District or Regional Level.
- Good computer knowledge, management, ambiguous and training skills.
- Good written and verbal communication.
- Willingness to travel frequently to the field and ability to work against tight timelines
- Able to handle quantum of work in a time bound manner
- Able to guide, mentor and supervise team members to achieve outputs and deliverables.
- How to apply: Interested candidates can apply for the Position by using the following link:
Application closure date: 27th August 2025
About the Role
The position requires the professional to closely work with the district & block team of UPSRLM, actively supporting in managing Fishery and Beekeeping intervention. Key responsibilities include anchoring the implementation of aforesaid project as per the prescribed package of practices, managing field teams & building coordination with the mission team, capacity building of field team & community cadre and establishing local market connects. This role requires a dynamic professional with strong project management, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Anchor the implementation of Fishery & Beekeeping Intervention in their respective regions as per the prescribed package of practices.
- Managing the field team of PCI and ensuring their timely on boarding, capacity building and deliverables.
- Facilitating the mobilization process and ensuring the timely formation & capacity building of livelihood based community institutions.
- Anchoring the identification and capacity building of community cadre to be on boarded under the project.
- Ensuring the timely review of community cadre and ensuring timely disbursement of honorarium to cadres.
- Work in close coordination with project leads of Fishery & Beekeeping for achieving the targets.
- Ensuring the on-field support to project teams, community cadre and project beneficiaries through frequent field visit to districts & blocks.
- Establishing robust coordination with UPSRLM District and Block teams & seeking their support in achieving the project goals.
- Develop the pitch notes, jingles, audio-visuals, training collaterals and other knowledge product in consultation with the project lead.
- Develop case studies, district level proposals on fishery & beekeeping in consultation with the project lead.
- Ensuring timely feeding of data on MIS and other reporting formats; preparing descriptive reports and decks on the project progress, challenges & issues in the field.
- Conducting regular review of project team and ensuring handholding support to them in handling the field level issues & challenges.
- Establishing robust relations and communication with the line departments at district level & facilitating the application process and due diligence for leveraging benefits under various schemes & loan products meant for Fishery & Beekeeping.
- Establishing strong market connect and facilitating the backward & forward linkage for the projects at regional level.
- Any other task assigned by supervisor.
- The position is based at Regional level and incumbent will be required to work in close coordination with the project leads.
About the Project:
The Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission (UPSRLM) is mandated to implement DAY-NRLM – a national flagship program of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India that envisions addressing multi-dimensional poverty in rural India by organizing the poor and vulnerable women into self-help groups (SHGs). These SHGs are federated into Village Organizations (VOs) at the village level and further into cluster level federations (CLFs).
Encouraged by the results of PCI’s engagement with the Bihar State Rural Livelihoods Mission, the UPSRLM collaborated with PCI to establish a technical support unit in the state. This unit works with an objective to strengthen UPSRLM’s overall systems and processes; strengthen UPSRLM’s community institutions and platforms; and devise evidence-based strategies and interventions, integrate Health and Nutrition (HN) and Take Home Ration (THR) into UPSRLM’s core operational model to achieve sustainable improvement in HN outcomes.
PCI has been recently expanding its work into livelihoods with UPSRLM and has been supporting UPSRLM in conceptualizing and devising subsector interventions around Fisheries and Bee keeping with community Platforms promoted by UPSRLM. PCI in partnership with Gates Foundation will support UPSRLM in upscaling Beekeeping with SHG members. The project will ensure subsector intervention on apiculture and promotion of bee keeping value chain interventions in UP. The incumbent will be required to devise strategies for promotion Bee Keeping, building capacity of Beekeepers, organize them into colony/institutions of Beekeepers, aggregate the beekeepers value chain and ensure marketing of Honey and other allied products. The incumbent will also be required to support UPSRLM in taking forward livestock and subsector interventions in UP.
The scope and approach specific to employment generation entails co-creation strategies with UPSRLM for system strengthening of UPSRLM in its core business areas, Strengthening UPSRLM’s internal system, structures, institutional mechanisms and processes, and strengthening and mobilizing the community institutions of UPSRLM in its core business areas for apiculture and livestock-based sub sector interventions.
What can you expect in PCI
- A warm, inclusive and happy work environment.
- Performance driven reward mechanism.
- Best of class benefits with 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 cross functional role.
- Higher responsibilities and larger roles are merit based.
- Young Talent Programs for developing future leaders.
- Leadership roles for women is encouraged and given preference in selection and training.
Recruitment Process
- Applications will be shortlisted based on the specified criteria mentioned in the Job Description.
- Shortlisted candidates will appear for a written assignment (if required).
- Group Discussions may be part of the interview process for certain positions.
- The process could also include presentation of the assignment.
- Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend one or more rounds of panel interview/s.
The complete process usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. If your application is not shortlisted, you will receive a mail from the People & Culture team. Those moving to the final round of interviews will be hearing from the People & Culture team. We prefer in person meetings but in case of location distances, we are happy to meet you virtually.
After the final round, if you are not selected for the position advertised, we will inform you over a mail. However, we invite you to apply to other open positions. We always look forward to engaging with talent that add value to our endeavors in various capacities.
PCI is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct