We always need talent to work with the craft persons, to learn with them and to grow with them. Field travels, challenging working conditions and a place in a young, driven team are what we offer. If you're someone who believes in "Career and Cause", we would love to hear from you. People with a genuine interest in contributing to community and the maturity to understand that working with the marginalized requires the best talent and not a "last career option" can apply

At KRITI, we value the following traits in our employees:

  • A perspective to look at this job as a cause rather than as a career
  • Commitment and compassion to work on the third largest marginalized community in India
  • Ability to look at crafts from the perspective of livelihoods
  • Patience to rework the crafts value-chain to make it affordable for different income segments
  • Commitment to quality

Current Openings

Field coordinator – Project Pehchaan

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

Salary: Commensurate with the industry. Read more

Digital marketing lead and visual merchandiser

Organisation name: Kriti Sustainable Livelihoods

Location: Hyderabad, India

Salary: Depends on experience. Read more

Field coordinator – Project Pehchaan

Job title: Field coordinator – Project Pehchaan

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

www.kriti.org.in

Kriti is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes skills training and livelihoods for women and education of children. We have been working in Hyderabad slums since 2009. Kriti has trained over 700 women in tailoring, hand embroidery and paper bag making since 2015. In the last year alone, Kriti has trained 300 women through four vocational training centers in the Tolichowki area.

We are now starting a new project, Project Pehchaan, through which we will support women who do home based work such as lac bangle making, karchop embroidery, tailoring, garlic peeling and other such economic activities. Kriti plans interventions like SHG formation of these women, getting their artisan cards, government program linkages, market linkages and capacity building of artisans. This project will be carried out in the old city area.

A full time filed coordinator is required for managing the field activities. They will have the following responsibilities:

Identification of a suitable place for field office and project

  • selection of slums- profiling of slums
  • Conduct HH surveys
  • Help in identification of suitable rooms for field office and trainings

Mobilisation of women for training:

  • Dissemination of information through slum leaders, any centres present in the slum
  • Distribution of pamphlets for mobilizing women
  • Home visits to talk to women about the training and courses

Identification/formation of SHGs and linkage to banks

  • Identify the SHGs already functioning in the slum
  • Linkage to banks and GHMC if needed
  • Formation of new SHGS

Organizing SHG meetings :

  • Prepare a calendar for SHG meetings
  • Facilitate regular group meetings
  • Maintain SHG records

Organizing capacity building trainings/workshop

  • Arrange logistics for training
  • Inform participants for the training
  • Documentation of the training

Coordination of training centres (Tailoring training centres)

(Other than project pehchaan, there will be 3 more training centres

  • Coordinate with the trainers for any requirement
  • Mobilisation of candidates for the training
  • Enrolment of students for the training

Facilitation for making of artisan cards/market linkage

  • Visit development commissioner for liaising
  • Visit boutiques/shops for getting orders
  • Organise the documents of the women for making artisan cards

Skills/qualification required

  • Bachelors degree in social work or related field
  • 1- 2 years of experience of working in the field with the marginalised community
  • Experience of conducting surveys
  • Experience in skill development programs livelihood linkages will be a plus
  • Strong communication skills in Hindi and Telugu

Compensation: Based on experience and ability to take on program responsibility

To apply send your CV to : ranjana.kumari@kriti.org.in

Skills training center coordinator

Job title: Skills training center coordinator - Tailoring and hand embroidery training

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

www.kriti.org.in

Kriti is a not for profit organisation that promotes skills training and livelihoods for women and education of children. We work in the slums in Hyderabad. Kriti has number of centers where training on skills such as tailoring and hand embroidery is given to women. We aim to expand these centers and establish proper training procedures so that training can be followed by jobs creation and job placements.

Kriti plans to train over 400 women in the areas of tailoring, hand embroidery and machine embroidery in the next year and ensure atleast 70% of the trained women are involved in income generation activities. This will be done through a combination of placement in other industries and direct wage generation by Kriti through manufacture and sale of products.

A full time coordinator is required for the manage the different training centers. They will have the following responsibilities:

Technical training delivery:

  • Ensure that the content for the tailoring and hand embroidery courses is well structured and designed to ensure candidates are best placed to take up industrial programs
  • Help to establish the training centers including identification of suitable locations and recruitment of staff
  • Create pamphlets etc to help mobilise candidates at the centers
  • Create enrolment process to ensure candidates who join program are serious about job placement at the end of the training
  • Create clear job descriptions and monitoring plan for the trainers – the trainers should be trained to provide high quality sewing, hand embroidery and machine embroidery training
  • Monitor training delivery and maintain visual documentation to show the progress of training delivery at each center
  • Provide written monthly reports on performance of each center and the concerned trainer
  • Conduct the assessment of candidates at the end of the training before certification

Other key program roles:

  • Coordinate with trainers and other team members on the enrolment of candidates and selection into the program. Right selection of candidates who are more likely to have mindset and skills towards full time working, will ensure better success of the program
  • Coordinate with other team members on the placement of candidates at the end of the training to ensure that placement targets are met.
  • Coordinate with other team members or external agencies for delivery of soft skills training to the candidates.
  • Provide inputs to the improvement of production efficiency in the production centers for manufacture of bags and garments
  • Once the training programs are well set up, the role will shift towards management of the production centers

Documentation:

  • Assist the program manager in preparation of process manuals for the training centers – enrolment process, training schedules, assessment process and placement activities.
  • Formalisation of curriculum.
  • Monthly reporting and MIS

Key Performance Indicators:

  • Enrolment into training programs plan vs actuals
  • Placement of candidates – plan vs actuals
  • Quality of training delivery –
  • Centre operating costs – plan vs actuals

Skills / qualifications required:

  • Experience of working in industrial garment industry – either as a designer or production supervisor. Should have excellent technical knowledge of sewing operations
  • Experience in skills training program delivery
  • Excellent computer skills – Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
  • Good communication skills in English, Hindi and Telugu
  • Any graduate degree
  • Should have own vehicle to be able to commute between the centers

To apply for this job, write to admin@kriti.org.in

Product Manager

Job title: Product Manager

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

Location: Hyderabad, India

The Product Manager will work on the development of technology solutions to help scale up social enterprises on a global scale by improving their business operations. This will entail understanding the needs and mapping into effective solutions. The primary focus will be social enterprises that are providing skills training and livelihoods to women artisans in both rural and urban areas.

The product manager will be responsible for concept development and documentation that will be the basis for detailed engineering work. Of primary interests are solutions that simplify hand embroidery design processes and workflow management system that engage with the artisans who work from home. The product manager will need to understand the needs and capabilities of the artisans who will also be users of the technology platform. The business requirements document will be developed with constant inputs from the business leads at Kriti Social Initiatives. This project is being undertaken in partnership with Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Conduct field work amongst the target beneficiaries at various social enterprises to identify the common issues that can be improved through a technological solution
  • Develop solution requirements, working backward from the stakeholder and business needs
  • Work on defining product features and develop a product roadmap
  • Co-ordinate with Software Development Partners, Social Entrepreneurs, and academicians at a leading US research university (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
  • Execute and track progress throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Monitor the usage of the product and develop product roadmap for the launch of the next update
  • Demonstrate leadership and taking the lead overseeing the activities of cross-functional teams
  • The selected candidate will be reporting to the Trustee of Kriti Social Initiatives and also to Senior Faculty at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.

Basic Qualifications:

  • A Bachelor’s degree from a good college
  • The demonstrated ability to work independently and autonomously
  • Minimum 2-3 years of relevant work experience in any of the following fields:
    • Product management in an IT company
    • Social enterprise management
  • Proficient in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
  • Detail oriented and data-driven
  • Strong Work Ethic
  • Ability to work well in Cross-Functional Teams
  • Ability to work with different stakeholder and also manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Problem solver and initiative taker
  • Motivated, driven and organized
  • Proven passion for Social Entrepreneurship
  • Able to travel

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MBA
  • Successfully launched products from inception to delivery
  • Involved in the development of marketplace platforms
  • Start-up experience will be an added advantage
  • Experience in working on projects involving Social Causes, Women Empowerment
  • Currently located and worked in Hyderabad

To express interest, please write in to admin@kriti.org.in

Digital marketing lead and visual merchandiser

Job title: Digital marketing lead and visual merchandiser

Organisation name: Kriti Sustainable Livelihoods

Reporting to: Director of the organisation

Website: www.kriti.org.in   http://kriti-kala.com

Kriti Sustainable Livelihoods is a social enterprise that promotes hand crafted products providing marketing support and design interventions to artisans. Kriti is building an e-commerce store and also sells its products through other online and offline channels. Kriti is involved in direct manufacturing of garments, bags and homelinen products.

Kriti aims to grow its sales rapidly over the next two years and is looking for someone with experience to build the online brand and increase both organic reach and advertising impact to drive sales for the brand. We need to build a long term brand visualisation strategy and then ensure that the brand strategy is applied consistently across all points of engagement with our customers. We are looking for someone who is creative, understands e-commerce and has an interest in sustainable fashion.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Visual merchandising for the brand – planning for photoshoots of products, developing concepts to do low budget shoots that maintain brand look and feel, and building overall creative strategy for the brand across different sales and social media platforms
  • Plan activities to promote sales and to ensure maximum visibility within the budgeted advertisement cost and justify the same with a cost benefit analysis.
  • Manage social media and ensure positive visibility on social media platforms. Good knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+ and other social media best practices.
  • Should have working knowledge of Google Analytics to ensure that the we get the required reporting on our key performance metrics on conversions, click through rate, bounce rate and other metrics
  • Should have working knowledge of “search engine optimisations” through enablers such as meta tags to guide teams on how to achieve better results in search
  • Content writing skills to manage the content for product descriptions, social media captions, generating blogs, etc
  • Basic video making skills to come up with short product and behind the scenes videos to make our content engaging for customers and followers
  • Implement sales & marketing activities as per set targets & business plans.
  • Responsible for the merchandising activities within the Channel.
  • Responsibility to suggest competitive activities, distribution, and pricing strategies
  • Building & maintaining excellent relationship with the customers.
  • Liaison between the backend to ensure 100% fill rate for the online orders.
  • Coordinates with various internal departments to ensure good quality service to the customers and other stake holders.

Skills needed :

  • Creative design and ability to standardise design concepts or rules for the organisation
  • Good working knowledge of photography and videography to develop inhouse content
  • Analytics skills to understand our KPIs across sales and marketing channels
  • Goal orientation and attention to detail
  • Working knowledge of SEO, google ads, facebook ads, and building social media outreach

Qualifications :

  • Undergraduate degree in design or communications from a reputed college
  • Post graduate degree in similar field and qualifications in digital marketing are preferred

Salary: Depends on experience

Please contact Himani Gupta on 9963577727 or write to himani@kriti.org.in for more information