Aajeevika Bureau Looking For Regional Lead (Western India) at Mumbai, Maharashtra, Full Time

Aajeevika Bureau is a public service organisation dedicated to providing solutions and security to India’s vulnerable migrant workers and their communities. AB offers legal aid, skilling, counselling, social security, financial services, health care and destination support to migrant workers. Through its workers’ facilitation centres, AB works in several districts of rural Rajasthan and urban destinations of Gujarat and Maharashtra. In western Indian states, AB works across multiple work streams including informal manufacturing, construction, recycling, transportation and logistics. It covers some of the densest migrant locations such as Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra and Ahmedabad, Surat and Ankaleshwar in Gujarat.

AB has worked and impacted well over half a million migrants and its research and policy work occupies a significant space in the understanding of informal work and labour migration. It has incubated new initiatives and organisations in the space of financial services for migration-dependent households, migrant housing and health care.

Please visit www.aajeevika.org for more details on AB’s programmes and team.

AB is now expanding to newer geographies in western India and it intends to drive new action, research, advocacy and policy work. We are seeking a highly committed, skilled and experienced development practitioner with a labour rights perspective for the position of Regional Lead for our multiple teams. The Regional Lead is a key position and the selected candidate will become part of AB’s core management and leadership team. S/he is expected to infuse a spirit of high performance in the teams and help gain new visibility and impact.

Responsibilities

Programme Implementation, Supervision and Monitoring

• Provide strategic and operational inputs to the field centres and teams
• Ensure planning, execution and monitoring of initiatives;
• Oversee, nurture and support teams in diverse locations
• Facilitate and overview all programmatic services and activities
• Participate in designing research, media and communication plans and ensuring high-quality outputs.

Advocacy with state, industry and other relevant stakeholders

• Build strategic partnerships with stakeholders across government bodies, industry, workers’ organisations and CSO community;
• Actively engage with employers, and industry representatives to influence fair labour practices and measures;
• Design and incubate initiatives in partnership with like-minded CSOs, Trade Unions to further migrant workers’ welfare
• Represent AB in forums and platforms working to further workers’ welfare

Administration, Training and HR

• Oversee general administration and management of all centres in Maharashtra
• Mentor, guide, supervision, handholding and training of teams for effective implementation of programmes

Qualifications

The Regional Lead must have at least a post-graduate degree or a PhD in the fields of labour studies/ development economics/development studies/social sciences /management or similar disciplines. S/he must have at least 10 years of relevant work experience including in the field of informal work, labour migration, labour rights or inclusive urban development. Work experience with informal workers and migrant communities in urban areas will be a strong asset.

The Regional Lead must possess excellent fluency in English and Hindi. Knowledge of Marathi will be a tremendous advantage. The position needs high-order writing, presentation and representation skills. Solid experience in the field and community engagement is required to support teams engaging directly with worker communities. Above all the position requires a bold, outgoing individual who is familiar, especially with Mumbai and Pune and comfortable working with its migrant neighbourhoods and its working-class communities.

We have a preference for women and diverse candidates – they are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENT

Please send your bio-data with a short cover letter stating clearly why you consider yourself suitable for the position. Resumes without a cover letter will not be considered.

Please also share an independent writing sample which could include reports, studies, articles or blogs. We assure these will be reviewed strictly for this selection process.

REMUNERATION & BENEFITS

We look forward to hearing from a wide range of interested individuals for this position. Salary will be attractive and it will be determined based on qualification, experience and leadership ability. Please note that we are a non-profit and we can offer salaries comparable to similar professionally run, grassroots organizations in Mumbai within our reliable resources.

Please send your resume, cover letter and writing sample to jobs@aajeevika.org