Fellow - Knowledge, Agriculture Innovation

SELCO Foundation, a not-for-profit, engages in field-based R&D and ecosystem building for development of decentralized renewable energy solutions that alleviate poverty in urban, rural, and tribal poor areas. The organization works across verticals such as energy access, build environment, health, skill development, energy entrepreneurs and partners from various developmental sectors. Foundation seeks to inspire and implement socially, financially, and environmentally inclusive solutions by improving access to sustainable energy.

As one of the priority development verticals, we are working to develop sustainable energy driven solutions for Agriculture. Under the Agricultural vertical we have been working on specific value chains such as millets, rice, spice, tomato, potato and with agriculture cooling as a solution cutting across all horticulture produce. SELCO Foundation seeks to develop sustainable energy solutions across agriculture commodity specific value chains to improve, diversify farm incomes and reduce drudgery across practices and processes - on farm and in post-harvest processing. Specifically, we are looking at clean and efficient technologies that bring about value among small marginal farmers and entrepreneurs, FPOs, FPC's, SHG and other stakeholders.

About the Position

As a Program Fellow- Knowledge in the Agriculture Innovation team, the candidate should have strong sectoral knowledge of agriculture-based livelihood systems, communication design, content development, research and documentation skills. He/she is expected to be entrepreneurial and adapt to varying situations and organizational requirements.

Key responsibilities

• To work closely with the Agriculture Innovation programmatic and implementation team to keep abreast of the programs being implemented, to capture learnings in a timely manner.
• Work with the data pieces of the Agriculture Knowledge to Develop Innovation benchmarking decks and documentation to handover for Scale.
• Support the team in developing program specific content, partner outreach and communication by capturing learnings through crisp documentation, engaging templates and analyzing information gathered from multiple sources for quantitative and qualitative briefs/reports
• Assist, write, translate content for other organizational needs that may arise from time to time, including but not limited to reports, presentations, proposals.
• Design engaging articles, curate reports, newsletters, website content, blogs, and edit/refine existing content to improve readability & increase communication engagement for programs and partners to inform the sector on the team's key learnings in Innovation
• Coordination with partner organizations, end users, field coordinators, consultants and myriad other stakeholders to gather qualitative, quantitative data and information for required documentation.
• Conduct quick research to substantiate documentation and to be able to develop research pitches for larger documents and papers.
• Derive meaningful relationships in the existing documentation and data sets to draw meaningful (communication design) insights

Desirable Profile

• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in Development - Agriculture sector
• Education background in Agriculture BSc preferred, Mass Communication/Journalism, Development Studies, MSW
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Strong networking capabilities and demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills suitable for collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• Ability to process information and create compelling documentation- reports, impact analysis and case studies analysis for the sector
• Experience in working with a large amount of content and data and developing user friendly documents
• Ability to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office- Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to perform field-assessments, on-site evaluations and producing comprehensive reports
• Willingness to learn, grow and develop at personal and professional front, at a rapid pace with a steep learning curve
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary and multicultural environment
• Willingness to travel for 2-5 days in a month