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Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN)

E-1A, Kailash Colony, New Delhi 110 048. Tele: 01140407718, Email: recruit@pradan.net

Website:www.pradan.net

Title of position offered :Development Apprentice is PRADAN's Development Apprenticeship Programme for Development Professionals.This is a twelve-month long training programme. Those who complete apprenticeship are offered a position as

Executive in PRADAN.

Number of Vacancies : All those who are found suitable. We make approx. 200-250 offers of appointment for Apprenticeship in a year.

Scope of Responsibilities : Working in villages is an unconventional career for most university educated people and could entail social stressand physical and cultural hardship which everyone may not be able to cope with. Taking these into account, werecruit graduates and post graduates from selected campuses and provide them opportunity to make a consciouschoice about working in villages and PRADAN is able to make considered selection.

It takes no less than 12 months of rigorous reflection and learning by doing for an apprentice to graduate. It issubsequent to this training that PRADAN makes her/him an offer as Executive. An Executive then takesresponsibility, as a member of a PRADAN team, for directly implementing a programme within the framework of a 

PRADAN project within a few villages. 

Eligibility criteria:

Those with minimum of 16 years of education (A four year bachelor degree in Agriculture, Veterinary sciences,Engineering etc. or A Master’s degree in Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Commerce, Management, SocialWork etc. which is the qualifying degree).

a.  60% and above throughout career. b.  The student would also be eligible if s/he has scores between 50-59% in any one degree (this is not

applicable for the qualifying degree). c.  For humanities and social science courses*: 55% and above in the qualifying degree.

d.  Medium of instruction and examination of the last qualifying degree should be English .e.  S/he should have cleared all back papers before joining DAship.

* Humanities and social sciences include courses in anthropology, archaeology, criminology, economics, education, government, i nternational relations,political science, sociology, geography, history, law, psychology, ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and visual and

performing arts such as music and theatre. 

Place of first posting: In any of the following project locations, based on PRADAN’s requirements and the individual preference (projectlocation may change over time). Banka district of Bihar, Bastar, Dhamtari, Kanker and Raigarh districts ofChhattisgarh; Bokaro, Dumka,Godda, Gumla, Hazaribagh, Khunti, Koderma Lohardaga and West Singhbhumdistricts of Jharkhand; Balaghat, Betul, Dindori, Mandla and Sidhi districts of Madhya Pradesh; Kalahandi,Keonjhar, Kandhamal, Mayurbhanj and Rayagada district of Odisha; Bankura, Purulia and Paschim Medinipurdistricts of West Bengal.

Stipend/Pay: As Apprentice:  (in 2014-15), stipend of `15,000 per month. In addition to these, medical reimbursement of

` 6,000 p.a., mobile allowance of `500 per month after the first 4 months and accident insurance policy up to

` 2 lakh is offered.

As Executive: ** in (2015) with minimum eligibility qualification, cost to company will be approximately `33,000

which includes Basic Pay, HRA, Conveyance Allowance, LTA, Provident Fund, provision for gratuity and leave.Apart from that medical reimbursement of `  15,000/year, hospitalisation insurance up to `  2 lakh for self and

dependants and accident insurance policy up to ` 2 lakh.

**Additional increments for extra relevant qualification and work experience.

**We review our salary structure every three years and 2014 is our next review year.

PRADAN’s brief profile: PRADAN is one of the largest professionally managed field-based rural development organizations. PRADAN has been a pioneer in professionalising rural development by systematically recruiting deploying large numbers of well-educated youth at the grass roots. Today there are over 375 professionals working in about 5100 villages spreadacross the project areas in 7 states. PRADAN has a highly professional ethos and a collegial culture.Our workinvolves creating livelihoods for the rural poor in agriculture, natural resource management, livestock, ruralenterprises and micro credit. For more information kindly visit www.pradan.net.