Vikasit Zilla - Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Fellow

Vikasit Zilla - Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Fellow

Job Summary

The Vikasit Zilla - Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Fellow will build and strengthen the presence of Pratham s Youth and Skilling program in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district in Maharashtra by cultivating relationships with key stakeholders across the local ecosystem. The Fellow acts as Pratham s anchor for ecosystem development in the geography - mapping industry, government, and institutional stakeholders across CSN s two big engines of opportunity - manufacturing (Waluj, Chikalthana and Shendra MIDC, and the upcoming Toyota-anchored AURIC-Bidkin belt) and heritage hospitality (Ellora, Ajanta and the district s wider heritage circuit) - feeding that intelligence into a geography-centric skilling strategy, and converting relationships into employment, apprenticeship, and collaboration opportunities for youth over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and nurture relationships with local industries - automotive and component manufacturers across the MIDC belts and the emerging Toyota/AURIC-Bidkin ecosystem, and heritage hospitality businesses along the Ellora-Ajanta circuit - to create employment, apprenticeship, and collaboration opportunities, following a train only against verified demand approach.
• Engage Nath School of Business and Technology (NSBT), government departments, and other institutional stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and identify opportunities for joint initiatives.
• Support the development of a geography-centric skilling strategy for Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, aligned with local industry demand and workforce needs.
• Map ecosystem stakeholders - employers, industry associations, educational institutions, and government bodies - and build a live, ongoing demand-mapping exercise with local industry.
• Coordinate meetings, follow-ups, and partnership activities with external stakeholders.
• Identify new opportunities for programme expansion and collaboration within the district.
• Support documentation, reporting, and tracking of partnership outcomes and progress.
• Anchor ecosystem development for the geography, enabling Pratham to build a strong, locally relevant skilling programme over time.

Role Responsibilities

• Daily/weekly outreach (calls/visits/meetings) to industry contacts, government offices, and institutional stakeholders; log interactions and follow-up actions.
• Maintain and regularly update a live stakeholder- and demand-mapping tracker covering employers, industry associations, educational institutions, and government bodies.
• Prepare meeting notes, action-item trackers, and partnership status updates for the central and Hub teams.
• Draft and coordinate MOUs, partnership proposals, and collaboration agreements with support from the central team.
• Compile and share periodic partnership progress reports with the programme and central team.
• Support employer engagement for placement and apprenticeship tie-ups, working closely with training and placement teams.
• Feed ecosystem and demand insights into the ongoing development of the geography-centric skilling strategy.
• Travel regularly within and around Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar for stakeholder and field visits.

Qualifications Experience

• Graduate degree in any stream preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience in community work and relationship management.
• Prior experience in stakeholder engagement, partnerships, business development, or field-based community mobilisation is preferred (NGO/skilling/industry-liaison background a plus); familiarity with CSN s geography and presence
• Comfortable with regular fieldwork and willingness to travel to different locations.

Skills competencies

• Excellent communication; fluency in Hindi and Marathi is expected, with working knowledge of English.
• Strong relationship-building, networking, and negotiation skills with industry, government, and institutional stakeholders.
• Strong presentation skills - able to represent Pratham Skilling credibly in front of industry, government, and institutional stakeholders.
• Quick and comfortable with data - able to organise stakeholder/demand-mapping data, spot patterns, and turn it into clear inputs for strategy and reporting.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and MS Word is mandatory, for maintaining stakeholder trackers and reports.
• Ability to think strategically - translating ecosystems and demand insights into actionable inputs for a local skilling strategy.
• Proactive and self-driven; comfortable working with a degree of independence to anchor a new geography.
• Strong organisational and documentation skills; timely and accurate reporting.
• Comfortable coordinating across multiple external and internal stakeholders simultaneously.

Location

Khultabad, Maharashtra

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