Program Field Executive in Puducherry | Suryoday Foundation

Suryoday Foundation

Suryoday Foundation is a Section 8 not for profit organisation based in Belapur, Navi Mumbai. It works for the inclusive growth of low-income and underserved communities in urban, rural and tribal areas, supporting their economic and social wellbeing. Its programmes focus on financial education, social security benefits, livelihoods and health, and run across Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Gujarat. This role sits within Suryoday Foundation's financial education programme, which delivers training in communities, slums and schools.

Role

The Program Field Executive works directly with low-income families in Puducherry, especially children aged 15 to 18 and their parents. You will bring women informal workers and young people into financial education training, run the sessions yourself, and help people open and use accounts with banks and the post office. This is a field job, spent in the community rather than at a desk.

Responsibilities

• Mobilise women informal workers in slum communities and nearby areas for financial education training.
• Conduct financial education sessions for community members and school children.
• Conduct digital literacy sessions and help participants use digital services.
• Assist participants with product linkages to banks and the post office.
• Identify local resources and community leaders who can help sustain the programme over the long term.
• Approach schools and colleges for permission to run financial education training.
• Build and keep working relationships with community members, parents and school staff.
• Meet the targets set for the programme, measured by outcome and impact.
• Capture programme data accurately during and after each session.
• Manage and submit that data using a computer or mobile phone.

Requirements

• Any para-professional qualification, or a graduate or post graduate degree, is preferred.
• 0 to 2 years of work experience.
• Fluent in Tamil, both reading and writing.
• Working knowledge of English.
• Basic computer literacy.
• Basic mobile literacy.
• Good communication skills, strong enough to lead a training session.
• A positive attitude towards working with low-income communities.
• The temperament to work with school children as well as adults.
• Comfortable working independently inside slum communities.
• Willing to travel within the community as part of daily work.
• Only candidates who are open to a field-based job should apply.
• Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

• Direct field experience in financial and digital literacy with an established Section 8 organisation.
• Work that reaches women informal workers, young people aged 15 to 18, and their families.
• Training and session delivery experience that builds facilitation and community mobilisation skills.
• A place in a programme that runs across four states, with room to grow alongside it.

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