Job Role: Centre Manager

Job Location: Najibabad, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh

Empower Foundation is looking for a Centre Manager who will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of a community resource centre for food processing training being implemented at the Najibabad centre. The role will involve ensuring programme delivery, managing local partnerships, achieving programme outcomes and supporting the long-term sustainability of the centre. This position will require close engagement with trainees, trainers, stakeholders and ecosystem partners, while ensuring that programme milestones and deliverables are achieved effectively.

This is a project-based role aligned to a defined implementation cycle, with responsibility for transitioning the centre to community ownership by project completion.

Job Responsibilities: ●Manage day-to-day operations of the skill training centre, including coordination with trainers, trainees and programme teams.

●Report to the Programme Head at Empower Foundation and oversee the centre's trainers and assistant trainers (typically 2–3 team members), while coordinating closely with the head office team.

●Ensure timely achievement of programme milestones and deliverables as defined in project agreements.

●Monitor training quality, attendance, assessments and certification processes.

●Build and maintain partnerships with local ecosystem stakeholders (landlords, panchayat members) and institutional/retail buyers such as kirana stores, SHG-operated outlets, the Vidur brand network, and regional wholesalers — to generate consistent demand for jaggery-based products, pickles,



chutneys and dehydrated goods, and sustain the centre's order pipeline

●Support mobilisation and outreach activities to ensure adequate enrolment in training programmes.

●Manage the CRC Maintenance Fund — track collections and spending, and keep records clear and ready for handover

●Maintain CRC records (attendance, production logs, asset register) and prepare periodic progress reports for IOCL, including case studies and photo documentation.

●Lead the CRC's transition to a women-led governance structure (SHG cluster, producer group, or federation) toward the end of the project cycle — including formation of the CRC Management Committee, and handover of asset registers, production records, buyer contacts and operating protocols.

●Represent Empower Foundation in local forums and ecosystem engagements

Who Should Apply? ●Individuals passionate about working in the livelihoods and skill development sector. ●Candidates who enjoy working closely with communities and building local partnerships.

●Individuals comfortable not just running a centre, but also building the local group's capacity to eventually run it independently

●Robust communicators who can engage with trainees, local institutions

●Professionals who can work independently and take ownership of programme outcomes.

Preferred Candidates Self-driven candidates with 2–4 years of work experience in programme implementation, community development, skill training or livelihoods programmes. Experience working with government schemes or community-based programmes in and around Bijnor/Meerut will be an advantage.

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