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GIAN is an Ahmedabad based NGO established and supported by Gujarat Government, SRISTI and NIF for supporting / commercialization of grassroots innovations by linking them with investment and enterprise. GIAN wants to recruit highly motivated professionals who have faith in the potentials in innovations at grassroots. It suits initiative driven and performance oriented people.
Job Profile:
1. General Manager (Value Addition)::
At least degree in mechanical / agriculture engineering or allied fields and a minimum 5-7 years experience in product development for mechanical and agricultural innovations.

Emoluments
: Consolidated 15,000/- to 20,000/- per month


Job Profile :
Coordination and management of all activities relating to value addition, research & development, to undertake prior art search, designing and product development, product standardization, to extend help to innovators for refinements of ides/prototype development and standardizations, technological and market benchmarking of innovations, Research and value addition with the help of various stake holders, internal and external agencies through formal engineering inputs, mobilizing resources by submitting proposal to various funding organizations, coordination with local and national level technical institutes / engineering colleges, IIT's etc. To extend technological support to the CIM and GM (BD) in projects, to mange in-house workshops and mobilize outside workshop support for making prototypes, testing/validation through reputed agencies etc. To prepare technological write-ups, engineering drawings for filing patents etc, to monitors the prototype development / production at innovators end being undertaken with the help of GIAN. To extend support to CIM for project management , report righting etc.

2.Manager (Finance and Admin) : CA (Inter) or M.com/B.com or allied fields and a minimum 5 – 7 years experience in dealing with accounts, project accounting and general administration. Work experience in NGO sector will be given preference.

Job Profile : Coordination and management of all activities relating to accounts and administration. To manage finance & accounts, to coordinate internal & external payments, to extend managerial support to innovators and held them to maintain their accounts, to coordinate with internal /statutory auditors, to finalize annual account. ,to coordinate with bankers and manage investment efficiently, to develop a financial MIS system so that resources are utilized properly, to prepare budget for GIAN and follow the accounts norms, implementation of various systems for day to day administrations, extending helps to the project managers in projects, workshops for organizing the same, to manage the Micro Venture Innovation Fund (MVIF) operated at GIAN and NIF, to provide active support in organizing Governing Body meeting, to prepare agenda and other relevant papers. Overall general administration work of GIAN, to liaison with sister organizations. to follow up with market inquiry , purchase and orders , maintaining stocks of various products and prototypes etc.

Emoluments: Consolidated 10,000/- to 15,000/- per month

Application duly typed mentioning the position applied for, with a detailed CV, passport size photograph, sample of work/report and a note explaining their suitability for the post applied for and letter from two referees should reach within 10 days at Honorary Secretary, GIAN, Bungalow No.1, Satellite Complex, Nr. Satellite Tower, Premchandnagar Road, Satellite, Ahmedabad Or email gian@gian.org