Project Associate - Tiruppur

Key Responsibilities

1. Responsible for day-to-day field execution of the Heat-Resilient Workforce Project across assigned factories in the Tiruppur industrial cluster, under the guidance of the Cluster Manager.
2. Responsible for factory-level activity coordination with HR teams, welfare officers, supervisors, worker representatives, and other factory stakeholders to ensure planned activities are scheduled and completed as per the agreed workplan.
3. Responsible for rolling out factory readiness assessments, worker mobilisation, training logistics, workplace heat-safety activities, feedback collection, and follow-up actions at the factory level.
4. Responsible for worker-facing implementation activities, including worker trainings, Climate Care Champion mobilisation, peer-led health education sessions, heat-risk awareness activities, and field follow-ups.
5. Responsible for identifying, onboarding, and regularly engaging Climate Care Champions within assigned factories to support early identification of heat-related risks, first response, referrals, and preventive health promotion.
6. Responsible for factory-level documentation, including attendance records, training reports, field visit notes, meeting minutes, worker feedback summaries, activity trackers, and photo documentation, as per project requirements.
7. Responsible for routine data collection and field-level monitoring for baseline, midline, endline, worker feedback, implementation fidelity, workplace measures, and Climate Care Champion activities, in coordination with the MEAL team.
8. Responsible for following up with factories to ensure agreed workplace heat-safety measures are implemented, including hydration, rest, cooling, first response, referral pathways, heat-risk communication, and worker feedback mechanisms.
9. Responsible for coordinating factory-level referrals and linkages for workers requiring heat-related first response, follow-up care, ESIC or government health services, and other relevant heat-health support.
10. Responsible for tracking field-level issues, implementation delays, worker concerns, factory-level barriers, and operational risks, and escalating them to the Cluster Manager with clear updates and suggested actions.
11. Climate and health expertise.
12. Understanding of supply chains and multi-stakeholder engagement.

Qualification

A graduate degree in social work, public health, community development, social sciences, rural development, development studies, or a related field, with 2–4 years of relevant experience in programme support, field implementation, stakeholder coordination, documentation, and operational follow-up.

The candidate should have experience supporting field-level activities, coordinating with community members, workers, factories, partners, or local stakeholders, maintaining trackers, assisting with training logistics, and supporting reporting and documentation.

Candidates with strong field experience in community- or worker-focused programmes may also be considered.

Skills and Competencies Required

1. Demonstrates accountability, integrity, confidentiality, and respect while maintaining professional working relationships with team members, partners, factory management, workers, and field stakeholders.
2. Takes ownership and responsibility for completing assigned activities, follow-ups, documentation, trackers, and field deliverables on time and to the required quality standards.
3. Is self-driven, proactive, and solution-oriented, with the ability to identify coordination gaps, flag challenges early, and recommend practical field-level solutions.
4. Has relevant experience supporting field-based programmes, preferably in public health, worker wellbeing, labour rights, occupational health and safety, climate resilience, supply chains, or community development.
5. Has a sound understanding of climate and health, particularly heat-related health risks, prevention measures, early identification of heat-related illnesses, first response, and referral. Alternatively, demonstrates the ability and willingness to rapidly build this expertise.
6. Understands or is willing to develop an understanding of apparel and textile supply chains, factory operations, production systems, workforce structures, buyer or brand requirements, and the realities influencing workplace interventions.
7. Has strong multi-stakeholder engagement and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively with factories, industry associations, government departments, ESIC and health facilities, worker representatives, brands, civil-society organisations, implementation partners, and internal technical teams.
8. Has strong skills in training support, field facilitation, documentation, report writing, data collection, data entry, record maintenance, and activity-tracker management.
9. Understands or is willing to build an understanding of worker vulnerabilities, gender and migrant-worker concerns, labour rights, occupational health and safety, factory systems, and worker-sensitive engagement approaches.
10. Has good communication and facilitation skills in Tamil, Hindi, and English, with the ability to support meetings, training sessions, field visits, and stakeholder consultations, and is willing to travel extensively within the cluster.