Organisation Name: Drishtee

Organisation Description: Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in 6000 villages across India, we have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few initiatives in parts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, M.P., Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and other North Eastern states. Drishtee aims to develop and nurture 500,000 sustainable rural enterprises in the next 5 years, the partnership is with local communities and in collaboration with other stakeholders. To accomplish the objective of formation of enterprises Drishtee requires to play the role of a facilitator for community building within the villages, this entails a continuous and holistic understanding of rural landscape for sustainable development of enterprises and possibilities of forging partnerships.

Approach: Progress and development of villages is possible only when families realise and accept the value (intangible & tangible) of coming together as a community for fulfilling their basic common needs. It is important that they recognise that their economic unsustainability may have external influence but the core of the solution lies in their aggregation.

Drishtee is relying on the willingness of rural families to commit, invest, and contribute towards this common cause of unification and working towards their own empowerment.

When the village embarks on the path of organising themselves, the focus is on identifying their core needs, existing skill set and resource requirements. These would be broadly – capacity needs (training & development, design, management, planning & structuring) , capital needs (human capital, financial) and channel needs (marketing, networking, linkages) for accessing global markets.

Drishtee analysis these needs and connects with relevant stakeholders such as local government, civil society organisations and CSR of large corporations seeking partnership support on behalf of the community organisations.

Sectors Addressed: Agriculture and allied services, Apparel, Construction, Beauty and Wellness, Banking and Finance, Tourism and Hospitality, Plumbing, Handicrafts, IT.

Vision: Drishtee envisions a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared prosperity.

Mission: To facilitate development of rural community organizations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a model of sustainable living on the planet.

*Community Organisation: An organised & registered collective of groups, where members are open to share resources & responsibilities in order to achieve sustainable common well being

Website: http://www.drishtee.org

City: Noida State/Province: Uttar Pradesh Country: India

Description of Volunteer Opportunity

• Job title: Ambassador – Community Development Fund

• Job Function: Business Development

• What is the specific project? Development and strengthening of community origanisation.

• Why is this important to your organisation? Core of Drishtee mission is the development of community organisations and considering the non-economic nature of this objective it fails to attract resources from the typical CSR pool. Drishtee is therefore approaching family foundations (primarily foreign) who are known to believe and promote the values underpinning community living and shared prosperity.

• What is the goal? To represent Drishtee while pitching for funding to eligible prospects for the above cause.

• What tasks will you want the volunteer to do?

  • Understand the project’s approach, challenges and execution on ground

  • Documentation of strategies & approach etc

  • Program management

  • Presentation: Present/Pitch it to the potential prospect

  • Research and business development

  • Database management & Coordination

  • Communication & Relationship management

• Language Requirements: English.

• Location: Virtual (Across US preferably Bay area and NY)

• Duration & time: Long term and part time.

Support

• Stipend: Can be considered

• Housing & meals: Applicable on site.

• Certificate: Applicable on successful completion of tenure.

• Miscellaneous: Mobile expenses would be covered by Drishtee as per the policy.

Application process : Interested candidates to email their resume with a covering letter to volunteers@drishtee.in

Organisation Name : Drishtee

Organisation Description : Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in 6000 villages across India, we have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few initiatives in parts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, M.P., Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and other North Eastern states. Drishtee aims to develop and nurture 500,000 sustainable rural enterprises in the next 5 years, the partnership is with local communities and in collaboration with other stakeholders. To accomplish the objective of formation of enterprises, Drishtee requires to play the role of a facilitator for community building within the villages, this entails a continuous and holistic understanding of rural landscape for sustainable development of enterprises and possibilities of forging partnerships.

Approach: Progress and development of villages is possible only when families realise and accept the value (intangible & tangible) of coming together as a community for fulfilling their basic common needs. It is important that they recognise that their economic unsustainability may have external influence but the core of the solution lies in their aggregation.

Drishtee is relying on the willingness of rural families to commit, invest, and contribute towards this common cause of unification and working towards their own empowerment.

When the village embarks on the path of organising themselves, the focus is on identifying their core needs, existing skill set and resource requirements. These would be broadly – capacity needs (training & development, design, management, planning & structuring) , capital needs (human capital, financial) and channel needs (marketing , networking , linkages) for accessing global markets.

Drishtee analyses these needs and connects with relevant stakeholders such as local government, civil society organisations and CSR of large corporations seeking partnership support on behalf of the community organisations.

Sectors Addressed: Agriculture and allied services, Apparel, Construction, Beauty and Wellness, Banking and Finance, Tourism and Hospitality, Plumbing, Handicrafts, IT.

Vision : Drishtee envisions a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared prosperity.

Mission: To facilitate development of rural community organizations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a model of sustainable living on the planet.

*Community Organisation : An organised & registered collective of groups, where members are open to share resources & responsibilities in order to achieve sustainable common well being

Website: http://www.drishtee.org/

City: Noida State/Province: Uttar Pradesh Country: India

Description of Volunteering Opportunity

Project : Momo – Rangoli Shop partnered with RICOH, Japan

Title for this position: Relationship  Manager for Rangoli, Women Rural Retail Stores in Bihar

Job Function: Project Management

Language Requirements: English & Hindi.

1. What is the specific Project?

Rangoli was designed and developed in conjunction with RICOH Japan and executed by Drishtee. With the principal goal of rural women empowerment, Rangoli seeks to leverage the issue of retailing women’s products to improve their health, wellbeing, and quality of life.

2. What is its goal?

To empower the women of the rural communities, by providing access to a variety of women’s products and by creating livelihood opportunities to improve the quality of their lives.

3. What tasks will you want her/him to do?

The role of Relationship Manager is absolutely necessary to fulfill the mission of Rangoli. He/She is truly the heart of the team and will be focused on entrepreneur personal development and change at a household level. A passion and commitment to women’s empowerment in the rural space and drive to be a change instigator.

Lead for team commitment/adherence to rangoli mission and vision

Responsible for implementing quality of life metrics for Rangoli entrepreneurs, tracking progress/developmental gaps over time, and actions for corrective measures as required

Conducts reoccurring collective SMG team assessments

Facilitates group discussions during initial SMG ramp-up period

Mentors SMGs to promote healthy group dynamics, meetings conduction, and techniques for conflict resolution

Leads development and conduction of curriculum for soft-skills training modules

Full ownership over development and execution of innovative rural customer service strategy

40-60% travel to rural areas

4. Why is this important to your organisation?

Rangoli stores are simply a lever for female entrepreneurs to supplement their household incomes in order to gradually gain more decision-making power personally and within the community. In recent years, there has been an undeniably encouraging trend of growth, access, and demand in the rural women’s retail market. This is mainly due to changes in consumer exposure and acknowledgement of revenue potential in this previously dismissed retail segment by for-profit corporations. Increasing access to entertainment, exposure to brand-driven marketing is leading preferences towards brand name commodities. At Drishtee, we are focusing to add the value proposition of improving access to women’s products (4 As: Availability, Approachability, Affordability, Awareness) Rangoli shops are not only the anchor roles of individual women entrepreneurs but an open accessible marketplace for other women in surrounding community.

Desired Skills and Expertise:

1. Education requirements : Masters/ Post Graduates in any stream.

2. Experience : Min: 3-5 years in similar type project management.

3. Skills & interests :

Ability to inspire change

• Strong need for previous academic and/or work experience in women’s psychology or counselling.

• Effective  communication skills both in english & hindi.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and work in teams.

Prior work experience in rural areas

Passionate about women empowerment in rural space

Result oriented & enthusiastic to achieve the mission

Energetic & proactive

Location:

On site in Village : Saurath, Madhubani, Bihar

Logistics:

1. Estimated Time Commitment (Hours per Week): 40 hrs

2. Estimated duration of project :  1 year

Support:

1. Stipend: Can be considered upon suitability (attitude, aptitude & experience)

2. Mentoring & Support by the team on ground.

3. Certificate: Applicable, upon completion of the volunteering duration.

4. Housing & meals: Applicable. Managed by Drishtee Foundation.

5. Travel expenses: Applicable. As per HR policy.

6. Mobile reimbursement: Applicable. Upon approval by the mentor.

Application Process: Interested candidates to email their resume with a covering letter to volunteers@drishtee.in

Organisation Name : Drishtee

Organisation Description : Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in 6000 villages across India, we have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few initiatives in parts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, M.P., Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and other North Eastern states. Drishtee aims to develop and nurture 500,000 sustainable rural enterprises in the next 5 years, the partnership is with local communities and in collaboration with other stakeholders. To accomplish the objective of formation of enterprises, Drishtee requires to play the role of a facilitator for community building within the villages, this entails a continuous and holistic understanding of rural landscape for sustainable development of enterprises and possibilities of forging partnerships.

Approach: Progress and development of villages is possible only when families realise and accept the value (intangible & tangible) of coming together as a community for fulfilling their basic common needs. It is important that they recognise that their economic unsustainability may have external influence but the core of the solution lies in their aggregation.

Drishtee is relying on the willingness of rural families to commit, invest, and contribute towards this common cause of unification and working towards their own empowerment.

When the village embarks on the path of organising themselves, the focus is on identifying their core needs, existing skill set and resource requirements. These would be broadly – capacity needs (training & development, design, management, planning & structuring) , capital needs (human capital, financial) and channel needs (marketing , networking , linkages) for accessing global markets.

Drishtee analyses these needs and connects with relevant stakeholders such as local government, civil society organisations and CSR of large corporations seeking partnership support on behalf of the community organisations.

Sectors Addressed: Agriculture and allied services, Apparel, Construction, Beauty and Wellness, Banking and Finance, Tourism and Hospitality, Plumbing, Handicrafts, IT.

Vision : Drishtee envisions a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared prosperity.

Mission : To facilitate development of rural community organizations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a model of sustainable living on the planet.

*Community Organisation : An organised & registered collective of groups, where members are open to share resources & responsibilities in order to achieve sustainable common well being

Website : http://www.drishtee.org/

City: Noida State/Province: Uttar Pradesh Country: India

Description of Volunteering Opportunity

Job Title: Training Service Design & Business Plan

What is the specific Project? Drishtee has a mission to facilitate development of rural community organizations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a model of sustainable living on the planet. While farming has been a major livelihood option for rural communities, the returns have been diminishing. Drishtee aims to help develop micro business models in the form of value chains in the field of farming, food processing, textile and handicraft. However each of these or any livelihood option would require certain level of skill set. The said project aims to develop a service offering for villagers to building trade/livelihood skills which can thereafter be employed in above or any other livelihood opportunity of the trainee’s interest.

Why is this important to your organization? Capacity building is an integral part of Drishtee’s approach and this will lead to develop an eco-system for Micro Enterprises.

What is the goal? To design a self-sustainable, franchisee based service delivery model, that offers calendar of trainings on employability/trade skills.

Job Function: Service model design and development

What tasks will you want the volunteer to do?

1. Conduct Market (village) research on nature and demand of skills.

2. Study the potential franchisee network.

3. Design a service solution of calendar tracings

4. Develop a complete business plan for the above service

5. All documentation required for successful roll out of the plan

Location: Sonoshi village (near Nasik)

Duration & Time: Full Time for 1- 3 months

Desired Skills & Expertise:

1. Language Requirements: English and Marathi/Hindi

2. Education Requirements: MSW / Any other degree in Rural Development /PG

3. Experience: Total experience of minimum 6-7 years of which at least 2-3 years in designing self-sustainable service models, preferably in skill development.

Competencies:

1. Enthusiastic about setting up a rural based service enterprise models.

2. Passionate about service of skill building.

3. Open to working and living in a safe village environment with humble urban amenities.

4. You are efficient with use of basic computing and internet tools.

5. You enjoy interacting with people and have a knack of assessing their interest and needs.

6. You have basic research skills and high business planning skills.

Interests: Enterprise development

Housing & Meals: Food and accommodation will be provided in Sonoshi.

Certificate: Applicable upon successful completion of your tenure.

Laptop: Organised by the volunteer.

Mobile reimbursement: Applicable as per organization’s policy.

Traveling allowance: Only local expenses are covered by Drishtee.

Application Process: Interested candidates to email their resume with a covering letter to volunteers@drishtee.in

Description of Volunteering Opportunity:

Organisation Name : Drishtee

Organisation Description : Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in 6000 villages across India, we have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few initiatives in parts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, M.P., Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and other North Eastern states. Drishtee aims to develop and nurture 500,000 sustainable rural enterprises in the next 5 years, the partnership is with local communities and in collaboration with other stakeholders. To accomplish the objective of formation of enterprises, Drishtee requires to play the role of a facilitator for community building within the villages, this entails a continuous and holistic understanding of rural landscape for sustainable development of enterprises and possibilities of forging partnerships.

Approach: Progress and development of villages is possible only when families realise and accept the value (intangible & tangible) of coming together as a community for fulfilling their basic common needs. It is important that they recognise that their economic unsustainability may have external influence but the core of the solution lies in their aggregation.

Drishtee is relying on the willingness of rural families to commit, invest, and contribute towards this common cause of unification and working towards their own empowerment.

When the village embarks on the path of organising themselves, the focus is on identifying their core needs, existing skill set and resource requirements. These would be broadly – capacity needs (training & development, design, management, planning & structuring) , capital needs (human capital, financial) and channel needs (marketing , networking , linkages) for accessing global markets.

Drishtee analyses these needs and connects with relevant stakeholders such as local government, civil society organisations and CSR of large corporations seeking partnership support on behalf of the community organisations.

Sectors Addressed: Agriculture and allied services, Apparel, Construction, Beauty and Wellness, Banking and Finance, Tourism and Hospitality, Plumbing, Handicrafts, IT.

Vision : Drishtee envisions a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared prosperity.

Mission: To facilitate development of rural community organizations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a model of sustainable living on the planet.

*Community Organisation : An organised & registered collective of groups, where members are open to share resources & responsibilities in order to achieve sustainable common well being

Website: http://www.drishtee.org/

City: Noida State/Province: Uttar Pradesh Country: India

Description of Volunteering Opportunity

Project Name: Financial and Banking Service Design & Business Plan

What is the specific Project? Drishtee has a mission to facilitate development of rural community organisations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a model of sustainable living on the planet. Such an ambitious vision is relying heavily on the ability of the rural communities to sustain economically. Villages in India are rich in assets. They have land, access to water, skilled Human Resource but have very low income. Drishtee aims to add the necessary transactional impetus through production and efficient processing. However, lack of free capital to convert a rich balance sheet into a profitable PnL is presently missing. It can only come through aggregating and recording transactions through Banking Channel providing confidence to lenders. In addition, age old method of cashless, commodity exchange system or modern day block chain method can also be adopted to minimise the cost of transaction and increase the self sufficiency.

Why is this important to your organisation? Providing a range of financial services is central to the overall mission. It would have a direct role at every stage of development. From aggregating the savings of community organisation, providing capital support for the growth of MEGs to the market access and realisation of the sale of rural product. The development of this service is critical for our success.

What is the goal? To design a simple to use, easy to integrate, financial service tool. Develop relationships with financial service providers, banks and technology providers to ready the product for rollout.

Job Function: Service model design and development.

What tasks will you want the volunteer to do?

• • Understand the requirement from Drishtee team, Customer service points, partners etc.

  • Study the potential franchisee network.

  • Design value offering which can create efficiency within the system

  • Develop a complete business plan for the above service

  • All documentation required for successful roll out of the plan

Location : Sonoshi village (near Nasik)

Duration & Time : Full Time for 3 – 6 months

Desired Skills & Expertise :

• • Language Requirements: English

  • Education Requirements: Engineering, MBA (Finance)

  • Experience: Total experience minimum 6-7 years of which at least 2-3 years in financial space.

Competencies : Check your fit;

• • Enthusiastic about setting up a rural based service enterprise models.

  • Passionate about bringing financial services to the grassroots.

  • Open to working and living in a safe village environment with humble urban amenities

  • You are efficient with use of basic computing and internet tools. Good to have design skills.

  • You enjoy interacting with people and have a knack of assessing their interest and needs

  • You have basic research skills and high business planning skills

Interests : Enterprise development

Support :

• • Housing & Meals: Modest accommodation & meals will be managed by Drishtee

  • Certificate: Applicable upon successful completion of your tenure.

  • Laptop: Organised by the volunteer.

  • Mobile reimbursement: Applicable as per organisation’s policy.

  • Traveling allowance: Only local expenses are covered by Drishtee

Application Process: Interested candidates to email their resume with a covering letter to volunteers@drishtee.in

Organisation Name: Drishtee

Organisation Description : Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in 6000

villages across India, we have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few

initiatives in parts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, M.P., Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka,

Uttarakhand and other North Eastern states. Drishtee aims to develop and nurture 500,000

sustainable rural enterprises in the next 5 years, the partnership is with local communities and in

collaboration with other stakeholders. To accomplish the objective of formation of enterprises Drishtee

requires to play the role of a facilitator for community building within the villages, this entails a

continuous and holistic understanding of rural landscape for sustainable development of enterprises

and possibilities of forging partnerships.

Approach: Progress and development of villages is possible only when families realise and accept the

value (intangible & tangible) of coming together as a community for fulfilling their basic common

needs. It is important that they recognise that their economic unsustainability may have external

influence but the core of the solution lies in their aggregation.

Drishtee is relying on the willingness of rural families to commit, invest, and contribute towards this

common cause of unification and working towards their own empowerment. When the village embarks on the path of organising themselves, the focus is on identifying their core needs, existing skill set and resource requirements. These would be broadly – capacity needs (training & development, design, management, planning & amp; structuring) , capital needs (human capital, financial ) and channel needs ( marketing , networking , linkages ) for accessing global markets. Drishtee analyses these needs and connects with relevant stakeholders such as local government, civil society organisations and CSR of large corporations seeking partnership support on behalf of the community organisations.

Sectors Addressed: Agriculture and allied services, Apparel, Construction, Beauty and Wellness, Banking and Finance, Tourism and Hospitality, Plumbing, Handicrafts, IT.

Vision: Drishtee envisions a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared prosperity.

Mission: To facilitate development of rural community organizations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a model of sustainable living on the planet.

*Community Organisation: An organised & registered collective of groups, where members are open to share resources & responsibilities in order to achieve sustainable common well being

Website: http://www.drishtee.org/

City: Noida State/Province: Uttar Pradesh Country: India

Description of Volunteering Opportunity

Job Title: Corporate relationship development

What is the specific Project?

Drishtee envisions a happier and connected world. Needless to say, the organisation understands that it can only play the role of a facilitator in realizing a vision as ambitious. Such a task has to be the common dream of every dreamer. If we want a better world, we need to start with holding hands and walking together. The project is about relationship development. The focus is on corporate as they have the resources such as skilled manpower, technology, tools and funds. What they lack is a common vision for the world. Most of the CSR projects are only treating the symptoms and not even coming close to solving the core issues. In addition, the image of a corporate in the minds of an average citizen is more in the zone of problem rather than in the realm of solution. The volunteer would help the Business Development team to brand position, develop communication material and position Drishtee as a preferred partner of potential like minded corporates.

Why is this important to your organization?

Drishtee has built a strong scalable network without depending on grants and donations. The core strength lies in building partnerships with rural youth to establish a rural franchising network. However, one way partnerships leaves critical resource gaps which can be fulfilled with the help of corporates. Drishtee aims to expand its partnership base to achieve its vision.

What is the goal?

The goal is to introduce and develop Drishtee’s Brand image within the corporate sector and towards the vision of Drishtee resulting in long enduring partnership.

Job Function: Develop and demonstrate the Corporate partnership model.

What tasks will you want the volunteer to do?

We would start one month of orientation – Visiting Assam, Bihar and spending 2 weeks or more in Sonoshi Maharashtra . After that we would prefer the candidate to spend time at Nasik for developing the collaterals.

1st – Collaterals for BD which should include messaging through PowerPoint deck, Introductory letter, Website updation (limited to BD).

2nd – identifying Target audiences – Database aggregation of like minded organisations. Seeking references.

3rd – Fixing meetings and up the clients for relationships.The candidate would be visiting Corporates at different locations mostly metros.

Location: Sonoshi village (near Nasik), Maharashtra.

Duration & Time: Full Time for 8 to 12 months.

Desired Skills & Expertise:

Language Requirements: English

Education Requirements: Graduate or Postgraduate.

Experience of At least 10 years in business development.

Competencies: Check your fit:

1. Enthusiastic about bringing about a change towards a happier world.

2. Passionate about bringing livelihood support to the grassroots.

3. Open to working and living in a safe village environment with humble urban amenities.

4. You are efficient with use of basic computing and internet tools. Good presentation skills.

5. You enjoy interacting with people and have a knack of assessing their interest and needs.

6. You have basic research skills and high business planning skills.

Interests: Enterprise development

Support & Takeaways :

Intangible:

1. Learning Opportunities.

2. Warm welcome and Hospitality.

3. Mentoring & Handholding on daily basis at personal & professional level.

4. Diverse cultural experience with feeling of “ a home away from home ”.

5. Exposure to Indian rural landscape, diverse culture and working conditions.

6. Ongoing and continuing leadership development.

7. Active engagement on site.

8. Opportunity to travel and interact with rural communities.

9. Enhance self confidence and platform to contribute to a cause.

Tangible:

1. Housing & Meals: Food and accommodation will be provided on site.

2. Certificate: Applicable upon successful completion of your tenure.

3. Laptop would need to be organised by the volunteer.

4. Mobile reimbursement: Yes , Applicable as per organisation’s policy.

5. Traveling allowance: Yes, Only work related , local expenses are covered by the organisation.

Application Process: Interested candidates to email their resume with a covering letter to volunteers@drishtee.in

Organisation Name: Drishtee

Organization Name: Drishtee

Organization Description: Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in 6000 villages across India, we have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few initiatives in parts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, M.P., Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and other North Eastern states.Drishtee aims to develop and nurture 500,000 sustainable rural enterprises in the next 5 years, the partnership is with local communities and in collaboration with other stakeholders. To accomplish the objective of formation of enterprises Drishtee requires to play the role of a facilitator for community building within the villages, this entails a continuous and holistic understanding of rural landscape for sustainable development of enterprises and possibilities of forging partnerships.

Approach:

Progress and development of villages is possible only when families realise and accept the value (intangible & tangible) of coming together as a community for fulfilling their basic common needs. It is important that they recognise that their economic unsustainability may have external influence but the core of the solution lies in their aggregation.

Drishtee is relying on the willingness of rural families to commit, invest, and contribute towards this common cause of unification and working towards their own empowerment.

When the village embarks on the path of organising themselves, the focus is on identifying their core needs, existing skill set and resource requirements. These would be broadly – capacity needs (training & development, design, management , planning & structuring), capital needs (human capital, financial) and channel needs (marketing, networking, linkages)  for accessing global markets.

Drishtee analyzes these needs and connects with relevant stakeholders such as local government, civil society organisations and CSR of large corporations seeking partnership support on behalf of the community organisations.

Sectors Addressed:

Agriculture and allied services

Apparel

Construction

Beauty and Wellness

Banking and Finance

Tourism and Hospitality

Plumbing

Handicrafts

IT.

Vision: Drishtee envisions a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared prosperity.

Mission: To facilitate development of rural community organizations and delivery of business services to demonstrate a mode of of sustainable living on the planet.

*Community Organization: An organized & registered collective of groups, where members are open to share resources & responsibilities in order to achieve sustainable common wellbeing.

Organisation Website: http://www.drishtee.org/

Organisation Address (Head Office):

Drishtee Development & Communication Ltd.

108, First Floor,

H-15, Rise Tower, Sector 63, Noida – 201307,

Uttar Pradesh, India. Telephone: +91-120-4661000

Internship Opportunity Details

Project Name: Insurance Product Analysis for Rural India

Job Title: Intern for Insurance Product Analysis for Rural India

Job Function: Research & Analysis, Insurance

Language Requirements: English and Hindi

Description of Opportunity

What is the specific Project? To facilitate and support our Financial Inclusion function, this project aims at discovering the best suitable Insurance Product/Plan/Scheme for rural India, in terms of suitability, affordability, time quotient, risks involved, etc.

What is its goal? To work in alignment with the vision of Drishtee.

What tasks will you want her/him to do?

The main responsibility is to discover the best insurance product for Rural India by :

1. Researching the plethora of Insurance products online.
2. Analysing their suitability in respect of Drishtee’s target customers. (Need Assessment)
3. Meet with the potential Insurance partners for exploring opportunities.
4. Categorise the various insurance products/plans and arrive at a list of key insurance products which aligns best with Drishtee’s CSP/Customer.

Why is this important to your organization?  This project is important as it’s successful application and implementation will support in Drishtee’s initiatives for revenue generation.

Desired Skills and Expertise

1. Education requirements: Graduate in any stream
2. Relevant Experience: Minimum 6 months in insurance sector.
3. Skills & interests: Good Communication Skill (Reading & writing), Good understanding and knowledge of Insurance products, Excellent Analytical skills, Penchant for research and analysis, Keen interest in Rural India.
4. Essential/Mandatory: Working knowledge of MS word, MS Excel, Analytical skill.

Location: Noida, U.P.

Address : BSI Business Park, H-15, First Floor, Suite -107 & 108, Sector – 63, Noida, U.P. – 201307

Number of Candidates for the Opportunity: 2

Opening Date: 01/04/2018

Closing Date: 15/04/2018

Preferred Date of Joining: 1/5/2018

Logistics:

Estimated Time Commitment (Hours per Week): 45 Hours

Estimated duration of project : 1-3 Month(s)

Support:

Stipend: 2000 per month

Certificate: Applicable upon successful completion of internship tenure.

Mentoring and consistent support by the team.

Application Process: Interested candidates to email their resume with a covering letter to hr@drishtee.in

Project Role: Product designers

Location: Base as Nashik (Maharashtra), with expected travel to locations such as Varanasi
(U.P), Madhubani (Bihar) & Guwahati, Kamrup district (Assam) or working in any of the
relevant Hub location as per the availability of producers and resources for production.
Time frame: 3 – 6 months
First 3 months in development and design of products, and launch within 6 Months
Project:
Swavlamban: is a community led Integrated village development initiative of Drishtee to
enhance local livelihood opportunities and access to basic services (food, Housing clothing),
with in community. This approach focuses on building self-reliant, sustainable,
interdependent community organization and enable community organizations to design and
develop community led economic and social solutions for the betterment of their villages.
This encompasses Sakhi-Swavlamban: Self-reliance for rural women: through enabling and
empowering women by their engagement into community-led micro-enterprise
development, capacity building and sustainable market connect for their MEs.
In doing this, products are needed to be designed in order to services the capacity of these
upcoming and pre-existing Micro-enterprises. Such products would should be:
 Need based, with continued demand (Frequency should be suitable to make product
viable)
 Main produces would be woman, however the family/community engagement and
involvement in multiple and varied trades would make the overall family/community
much more stable and sustainable.
 Innovation is needed at various levels of product development and production so as
to achieve greater acceptance and cater to the ever-evolving demands of the
market.
 There are two types of markets that are to be targeted; first been higher middle-
class segment of urban families or middle segment of rural and semi-urban families
(e.g. Textiles/apparels).

Second target is the rural market where be low cost, high demand products would
need to be developed to compete with large scale mass production (e.g. low-cost
clothing, Accessories)
 Product should speak for themselves and denote a culture of community well0beng
and shared prosperity. These should be a possibility of a small unit of producers
working on these produces instead of individuals.
 Product range and innovation of design would be very critical for the success of the
micro-enterprises developed in the initiative.

Types of products/ industry’s:
All industry’s whereby a product is made that would service a market within the basic
services of Food, Housing and clothing for either or both of the two desired targets markets.
Textiles, sports, homewares, furnishing, food produces, personal care, traditional festival
products, Partial products, etc.
Job Description:
 Product development
 Capacity development of the local producer groups (mainly women)
 Team Coordination: understanding market need and also connecting with best of
production capacity. Organizing training for the producers with the help of local
trainers;
 Train the trainer: preparing the local trainers by building their capacity.
 MEG Support: Micro-enterprise groups of the local area to be developed through
training, communication as well as handholding and monitoring support;
Aptitude:
 Innovation for the need and market acceptance: Forecasting new and emerging
trends
 Using the local and more cost-effective material and techniques
 Deep appetite for learning and contributing to community
 Self-driven, positive, problem-solving approach and responsible
 Skills of enterprise development; Market connection, brand building etc. Would be
an added advantage.
 Strong value system and commitment to make a change, alignment to Drishtee
vision of “a wold where all communities are empowered to achieve shared
prosperity’

About Drishtee
Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in 6000 villages across India, we
have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few initiatives in parts of
Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, M.P., Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand
and other North Eastern states.
Our Vision: Drishtee envisions a world where all communities are empowered to achieve shared
prosperity.
Drishtee aims to develop and nurture 500,000 sustainable rural enterprises in the next 5 years, the
partnership is with local communities and in collaboration with other stakeholders. To accomplish
the objective of formation of enterprises Drishtee requires to play the role of a facilitator for
community building within the villages, this entails a continuous and holistic understanding of rural
landscape for sustainable development of enterprises and possibilities of forging partnerships.

Nashik Camp Office:
F-06, First Floor,
Club House,
Shree Ganesha Valley Apartments
Sinnar Phata, Nashik Road,
Nashik – 422101
Maharashtra, INDIA
Web: http://www.drishtee.in
Email: hr@drishtee.in or swapna.m@drishtee.in