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Role Name: Communications Officer, Safe in India Foundation (SII)

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Role description: SII is looking to recruit a full time executive, with proven passion for and impact in
social causes, to lead its communication function. Key deliverables include the following:

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1. Design SII’s strategic roadmap for communications (for both physical and virtual channels) for
all its key stakeholder groups, including workers, the government and its agencies, the
automotive sector, and other strategic partners.

The roadmap will aim to empower our key stakeholder - workers with knowledge of ESIC (target
audience: 5 crore+) and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) for Hindi worker audience, mainly
in automotive sector (target size: 1 crore+), informed by and building on SII’s recent work on its
online channels and its on-the-ground experience with workers.

It will also aim to inform other stakeholders of the issues of worker safety and ESIC, and
influence implementation of corrective solutions.

2. Implement the above roadmap, by creating and/or managing creation of this content (eg.
effective video/multimedia content), to empower 100,000+ workers in 2 years – both online and
in physical meeting formats. Deliver impact on agreed communication approaches through
measured improvement in engagement and quality of engagement, with evidence of increasing
knowledge of these subjects among target audience.

3. Advocate improving worker safety/ESIC services among auto sector executives, government
officials/agencies, the media, the public, and other influencers by developing and disseminating
the right content through online and offline communication approaches eg. Twitter, English
Facebook page, LinkedIn, FB etc. Demonstrate impact through increase in quality followers,
engagement, and evidence of actions taken by these groups.

4. Lead the communications and event management aspect of flagship programs that SII might
organize from time to time, such as the release of its annual reports, worker events etc. to
maximize the observable impact of these events.

Skills and experience needed in/for:
 Creation of strategy/roadmap under the direction of/support from SII CEO and Advisors
 About 5 or more years of relevant experience
 Proficiency in Hindi (excellent), English (Good-very good)
 Demonstrated experience in creating communications content, both for physical and virtual
channels. Specific experience in YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Zoom, and/or Wix
preferred.
 Experience in online and offline event management preferred
 Managing others (staff, external vendors etc.) to deliver content and social media activities
 Understanding and articulating social security/workplace safety rights and responsibilities for
workers in Hindi
 Understanding and articulating advocacy arguments in English

The role requires a self-driven individual who works well in small teams and who aligns with SII’s
values; central focus on worker well-being is essential. The role will be supported by a part/full time
social media executive for day-to-day management of communications activities.
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Remuneration: Competitive and negotiable based on skills and seniority. Please feel free to state your
expectations. For the right candidate, SII would make an attractive offer. Please do not expect a
commercial sector compensation.
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Location: Ideally Gurgaon/South Delhi.

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To know more follow this link: Communications Officer, Safe in India Foundation

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Role Name: Communication/Social Media Executive, Safe in India Foundation (SII)

Role description: SII is looking to recruit a part time/full time executive, with passion for social causes,
to run its social media platforms. Key deliverables include the following:

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1. Help deliver the manager SII’s strategic roadmap for communications through disciplined and
high quality activities on SII’s social media platforms in Hindi and English within agreed
deadlines (for both physical and virtual channels) for all its key stakeholder groups, including
workers, the government and its agencies, the automotive sector, and other strategic partners.

The roadmap will aim to empower our key stakeholder - workers with knowledge of ESIC (target
audience: 5 crore+) and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) for Hindi worker audience, mainly
in automotive sector (target size: 1 crore+), informed by and building on SII’s recent work on its
online channels and its on-the-ground experience with workers.

It will also aim to inform other stakeholders of the issues of worker safety and ESIC, and
influence implementation of corrective solutions.

2. Create audio/video/canva/etc content on worker safety and ESIC healthcare and
compensation services (eg. effective video/multimedia content), to empower 100,000+ workers
in 2 years – both online and in physical meeting formats. Deliver impact on agreed
communication approaches through measured improvement in engagement and quality of
engagement, with evidence of increasing knowledge of these subjects among target audience.

3. Post the above Hindi and English content various SII platforms, track and analyse the data of
these platforms, create ongoing learnings and improvements for improving impact on the
target audience among workers, auto sector executives, government officials/agencies, the
media, the public, and other influencers by developing and disseminating the right content
through online and offline communication approaches eg. Twitter, English Facebook page,
LinkedIn, FB etc. Demonstrate impact through increase in quality followers, engagement, and
evidence of actions taken by these groups.

4. Support in any online/offline event management aspect of flagship programs that SII might
organize from time to time, such as the release of its annual reports, worker events etc. to
maximize the observable impact of these events.

Skills and experience needed in/for:

 Implementation of strategy/roadmap under the direction of/support from SII CEO and Advisors
 About 2 or more years of relevant experience
 Proficiency in Hindi (excellent), English (Good-very good)
 Demonstrated experience in creating communications content, both for physical and virtual
channels. Specific experience in YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Zoom, and/or Wix
preferred.
 Experience in online and offline event management preferred
 Managing others (staff, external vendors etc.) to deliver content and social media activities
 Understanding and articulating social security/workplace safety rights and responsibilities for
workers in Hindi
 Understanding and articulating in English
The role requires a self-driven individual who works well in small teams and who aligns with SII’s
values; central focus on worker well-being is essential.
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Remuneration: Competitive and negotiable based on skills and seniority. Please feel free to state your
expectations. For the right candidate, SII would make an attractive offer. Please do not expect a
commercial sector compensation.
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Location: Ideally Gurgaon/South Delhi.

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To know more follow this link: Communication/Social Media Executive, Safe in India Foundation

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Role Name : Worker-Safety Programme Manager

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Do you believe that for workers in Indian manufacturing we can create a safer and better working
environment through research-based advocacy? Are you keen to manage a number of initiatives
that we are pursuing with the government bodies and/or private sector entities and/or workers to
improve Occupational Safety and Health in Indian MSMEs? Would you be able to conceptualize a
solution, with strong analytical thinking, articulate it for the targeted audience, get a buy-in from
stakeholders, and deliver the solution with clear mile stones and high impact?

This role will be responsible for strengthening Safe in India Foundation’s (SII’s) programme
management and advocacy efforts in its Pillar 2 (see background below). In this highly impactful and
scalable role, you will engage with key internal and external stakeholders to make a difference to
especially the large migrant Indian worker community, while also helping improve India’s labor
productivity.
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Background : SII is a community service organization that was founded by a group of alumni of
IIMA in 2016. It was set up in response to shocking evidence on crush injuries in the factories in the
automobile manufacturing hub(s) of India.

 

Currently, SII is being advised by a prominent Council of Advisors to forward its mission in its four social-impact areas : 

• Assisting workers injured in factories in accessing ESIC’s healthcare and accident compensation

• Using this evidence to improve safety in the Indian auto sector supply chain benefitting over one crore workers

• Advocate improvements in ESIC processes, potentially benefiting over 14 crore Indians who are dependent (directly or indirectly) on ESIC

• Empowering workers with knowledge of occupational safety and ESIC.

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Since 2016, SII has assisted over 4,000 injured workers with ESIC healthcare and compensation,
enabling around Rs 25 crores in reaching its rightful beneficiaries. SII has also embarked upon a
number of accident prevention initiatives with leading auto-sector brands, with Central and State
authorities as well as the sector’s apex industry associations, and ESIC. To learn more about SII’s
activities, read this blog and see this brief video.

Role description : SII is looking to recruit a full time middle management executive in its Worker-
Accident Prevention/Safety Team, reporting to the CEO. This role will design and implement high
impact projects and initiatives to improve safety for industrial workers in India, specifically in the
Indian auto-sector supply chain, which employs 10m+ formal and informal workers.

The role will also support larger SII programmes and participate in OSH advocacy with government and

private sector stakeholders. The role can be expanded depending on seniority and experience of the person.

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Five role components :

1. Conceptualizing evidence-based solutions: To be able to analyze evidence available
and (to be) surveyed/researched, conceptualize a solution, get buy-in from internal and
external stakeholders, and communicate it effectively.

2. Programme/project Management: To be able to design and implement agreed initiatives and
projects by making a time bound plan with clear milestones/activities, follow up on agreed
actions and ensure impactful execution.

3. Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Identifying stakeholders (government/private
sector/workers) and their leverages, and working with them effectively and constructively, to
achieve programme/project aims within agreed deadlines and to high quality.

4. Worker Engagement: Interacting with workers at SII’s Worker Assistance Centers and in the
community and building relationship with both injured and non-injured to learn from them and to
understand them to be able to achieve real impact. (There may be initiatives with workers too).

5. Developing safety awareness concept/communication (optional): Develop safety
awareness ideas/materials to empower workers with knowledge of safety through face to face
interactions and social media. See SII’s Hindi fb page for workers.

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Skills, education and experience expectations:

 

• An experience of at least five years in a number of role components listed above. 10 years+ desirable.

• At least a graduate, ideally a post-graduate, and a strong academic record relevant to the role.

• Technical Safety/OSH skills/Engineering education (ideal but not necessary).

• Passion for the development space with appreciation for the right of worker to safe working conditions, especially in manufacturing/MSMEs.

• Strong analytical skills (to build qualitative and quantitative understanding of the unsafe working conditions for the organization)

• Good communication skills in Hindi to converse with workers

• Strong communication skills in English – verbal and written

• Demonstrated ability to grasp concepts quickly.

• Alignment with SII’s values; central focus on worker well-being is essential

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​Since the successful candidate for this role is expected to lead several long-term systemic-change initiatives,
we request those looking for a stop-gap job between other roles to not apply.
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Remuneration: Competitive and negotiable based on skills and seniority.

Please feel free to state your expectations. For the right candidate, SII would make an attractive offer.
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Location: Gurgaon, Faridabad or Manesar. South Delhi can be considered.
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Applications/questions: Please send your CV with a (mandatory) covering letter setting out reasons for your
interest, your strengths for the role and any expectations, any evidence of your skills as above, and/or ask any
clarifications should you wish, in confidence, to sandeep.singh@safeinindia.org by 30 th June 2022. The sooner
the better.

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Accountant – Full time/part time

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We are looking experienced Accountant and Administrator to manage SII’s financial transactions and who can also manage the assigned administrative task.  The person should be ready to develop SII accounting systems, procedures and policies and ensure that they are being followed and practiced properly.

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The role has the following key components : 

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• Managing and analyzing accounts

  • Responsible for preparation and review of monthly accounts.

  • Must have sound knowledge and experience in accounting

  • Maintaining proper accounts w.r.t. Receipts, Payments, Cash, Bank and Journal.

  • Maintain the donation received sheet, issue the receipt and collect corpus letter, where required

  • Calculating salary as agreed in uniformity with HR Policies of the foundation and Payroll processing considering the applicability of TDS & ESI.

  • Deposit TDS and ESI on time and file returns for the same.

  • Maintaining and updating fixed asset register through asset tagging and ensuring all new inventories are tagged and captured in the system and ensure that existing assets are in good working condition.

  • Providing regular administrative support for day-to-day activities and special events

  • Analysis of financial information and drawing trends using various financial management tools to control costs and help maximing impact within budgets.

  • Ensure that policies of financial transactions approved by the organization are adhered too.

• Documentation and Compliance

  • Maintaining all necessary documentation that would enable the external auditors to conduct satisfactory audit.

  • All vouchers and supporting files and documents should be maintained as required under the Income Tax Act or under any other law applicable or as guided by the auditors.

  • Maintaining all necessary compliance documentation as prescribed by the ROC like copy of resolutions, record of members meeting and copy of annual forms filed with ROC.

  • Maintaining and updating human resource files, staff contracts and documentation.

  • Taking care of Statutory Audits and donor audits.

• Budgeting and donor reporting

  • Annual budgeting of all the programmes activities with Senior Management

  • Managing utilization of funds as outlined by senior management

  • Providing updates on fund flows and budget utilization to senior management

  • Prepare financial statements of all the Project funding and prepare financial reports required by the donors and the Management.

  • Ensure that there should not be underspent/overspent of the budget. In case there is any then document the reasons for the same.

• Cash Management and Accounting

  • ​Preparing monthly cash flow statements and projected cash deficits

  • Ensuring timely availability of cash requirements of branch teams

  • Monitoring cash management by branch teams

  • preparation of cheques, payment vouchers and ensuring that all expenditure payments have proper approval and documentation and that all invoices and payments are paid in a timely manner.

  • Monitoring and providing support to branch teams for maintenance of accounts as per office norms

  • Preparing monthly reconciliation statements

• Cost Monitoring

  • Collating and allocating cost data under relevant heads

  • Preparing cost trends and monitoring irregular costs on a monthly basis

  • Reporting cost information to senior management on a monthly basis

 

Requirements: The job holder must believe in SII’s Values and:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Finance and Accounting, Commerce, or Business Administration and Management from recognized Institution.

• Minimum 7 years of working experience in accounts, preferably with an NGO organization.

• Thorough knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and practical applications of financial system.

• Should be well versed with accounting software Tally/ERP

• Should have good knowledge of ESI/PF compliances and other compliances as applicable to the NGO eg. 12A and 80G. Knowledge of FCRA regulations and compliance would be a plus.

• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrate ability to communicate clearly and effectively

• Proficient in usage of accounting and financial management software such as Tally and a strong knowledge and experience of Microsoft Excel (ability to use think of and input simple formulae and making graphs is a must. Knowledge of Macros is useful but not necessary)

• Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision.

• Must be honest and trustworthy in all financial transactions.

• Ability to handle donor and investor communications

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Remuneration:  Negotiable depending on skills and experience.

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Location: SII head office, Manesar

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Apply: Please apply in Hindi or English, in confidence to Safe in India at sandeep.singh@safeinindia.org

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Your application should include:

• Your full Bio data

• A covering letter stating why you would like to do this role and the skills you have to carry out each of the above listed tasks. If you do not already have the skills/experience required for some of these tasks, please state how you would compensate for that.

• Your current salary (approx) and optionally, your remuneration expectations (approx.)

• Any other information you feel appropriate.

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Full time/Part-time consulting/Volunteering roles:
 

1. Part-Time Paid/Volunteer Roles:

We are looking for passionate part-time assistance (depending on seniority, experience and delivery commitment, we will offer an honorarium) in the following areas. Location ideally Gurgaon/Manesar/Delhi though some of these roles can be done remotely.
 

• Industrial Safety especially on Power Presses.

• Factory Act and other laws relevant to our work. Indian Labour Laws

• Research/Surveys, data collection, data-analysis and presentation.

• Digital Marketing/Social media/web-site management to improve our digital presence among various stakeholders including Hindi speaking workers.

• Communication collateral for workers in Hindi/Oriya.

• Management of contact with Investors in Indian auto-sector to push the safety agenda.

• Training especially for Industrial workers (we need your soft training skills; we can provide content).

• Senior contacts in government (ideally retired IAS, etc officers who now want to give back to the society)

• Creating Audio-visual content eg. build a storyline with us, shoot content and create short videos.

• SME factory experience and contacts in Gurgaon-Manesar especially in auto-sector manufacturing to obtain information from government departments. RTI (Right to Information)

• Fund-Raising of donations from individuals/CSR (Indian passport holders only can donate to us). We do not pay commissions on donations received so CSR-agents need not contact us.

 

Should you be interested and wish to discuss any of these opportunities, please contact Co-Founder & CEO Safe-in-India Foundation, Sandeep Sachdeva, at sandeep.sachdeva@safeinindia.org in confidence.

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We look forward to any assistance you can provide to help us help Indian workers better.

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