State Project Manager ||Agriculture || Orissa || upto 15 LPA

We need a strong state lead or project lead to manage the execution of carbon process related and input sales related tasks in our project regions in Odisha. Through our implementation partner, we will have a field force of ~100 field extension agents, ~20 field officers, and ~5 cluster managers to support us on all tasks. You will be responsible in ensuring partners meet their targets and execution happens seamlessly. To meet this requirement: - How do we ensure partners are meeting their tasks as per a pre-defined roadmap? - How do we continually streamline systems and processes to ensure execution? - How do we continually train, re-train, and support the field agent force? - How do we hold field agents and partners accountable, and how do we help them problem solve and find solutions? We seek a driven task master, who has the ability to rally internal and external teams - and has strong interpersonal and communication skills to meet the end goals. Key Responsibilities : 1. External Partner Operations Management Maintain strong relationship with implementation partners teams, at managerial and execution level Strategise solutions with implementation partners basis problems Continually build and update SOPs and systems to ensure performance Collaborate with local stakeholders involved in the program, including agriculture universities, government bodies, NGOs, KVKs, Agriculture Departments, etc. Daily standups with Ops Execution team, QA/QC team, and implementation partner’s teams (at managerial and operational level) Ability to create network of human resource providers, local resources to support tasks 2. Internal Communications Work with internal teams on carbon processes compliance, product, R&D to ensure smooth implementation and communication of improvements Daily/weekly analytics on performance on carbon processes and offer insights on Ops Execution and Product to internal stakeholders Offer support on Science Ops, R&D ops, agronomic demos, etc. 3.

Operational Execution and Leadership Take initiative as a leader of the program, manage state level teams, project coordinators and field agents to ensure on-ground execution Building and maintaining granular task sheets and roadmaps, to ensure timeline and execution of projects are meeting requirements Drive farmer engagement programs through trainings, awareness campaigns and demonstration plots Ensure field agents are trained, and operating as per SOP, make quick corrections when deviations are observed Maintaining, updating and improving document repository of SOPs, Training Manuals, Processes Build marketing material in coordination with on-ground teams to represent progress/success/wins basis data collected from fields Strong analytical skills, ability to look at data and infer