Harish Ranjan
Patna
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
State coordinator
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES INDIA (IDEI)
Patna
01.2022 - 06.2024
- Engaged as state coordinator to provide services in connection with the Company’s goal to reduce poverty, hunger and malnutrition amongst rural poor; especially; smallholder farm families
- Responsible for the overall program implementation and management including financial and staff management of state program
- Sales promotion and adoption of high value crops by small and marginal farmers and create vegetable product market linkages
- Responsible for community mobilization, organizing trainings, workshops, meetings, reporting & documentation
- Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and ensuring all the data is updated on timely basis through MIS system
- Hiring and managing a team of several Program Executives at district levels
- Ensure that funds are spent responsibly and are accounted for in a transparent and secure manner
- To review the required documents and give program related approvals (including work related travel of program team, procurement, etc.), as necessary including necessary administrative tasks in a supervisory role.
Manager – farm prosperity
Transforming rural India foundation Ranchi
Ranchi
03.2019 - 12.2021
- Increasing the income of the farmers through intervening the rural agriculture production system
- Identification of value chain actors at village level by the help of Community institutions ( VO / SHGs)
- Training and capacity building of the selected value chain actors
- Capital and Technical support to the Value chain actors in establishing small enterprises around various agriculture input output services
- Crop planning around high value agriculture with the members of the VO/ SHGs by involving the frontline staff of BMMU and Value chain actors
- Training and Capacity Building of members of the VO/ SHGs on selected High value crops
- Exposure of the VO/ SHGs to the establishing demonstration sites around selected high value crops
- Liasoning with agriculture line department, KVK to channelize the benefits of schemes and knowledge extensions to the farmers and members of the VO/ SHGs
- Subsidized Solar irrigation facilities
- Soil management inputs, micronutrients, vermin compost
- Unconventional irrigation facilities – drip irrigation, Rain gun, sprinkler
- Subsidized farm based implements
- Training and capacity building of the farmers (VO/ SHG) by KVK scientists
- Market linkages: Selling the aggregated produce from the various farmers (VO/ SHGs) through the aggregation center run and managed by VCA
- Identifying the institutional linkages in nearby markets to sell the produce.
Project coordinator- Nonfarm livelihood
United nation development programme, JSLPS
Ranchi
06.2017 - 05.2018
- Support the medicinal and aromatic plant project - MKSP
- Support the Block level team to nurture the beneficiaries around collection and cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants and products
- Support the district and block level staff to establish fully function rural service centers for storage and process
- Ensure the market linkages for the produce and technical support required from external agencies
- Achievements: Finalized the DPR for the medicinal and aromatic plant project with the MKSP team
- Prepared training materials for the cultivation of lemon grass, vetiver, plamarosa, Tulsi
- Prepared training materials for collection of Harra, Bahera, karanj
- Provided training to CC, FTC, block lebel managers around collection and cultivation of aromatic plants and collection of medicinal plant products
- Coordinated the set up of RSC centre and installation of distillation unit at one block
- Coordinated with CIMAP for technical inputs
- Scientists from CIMAP regularly visited different blocks to ensure proper production and yield of lemon grass and Tulsi.
Livelihood coordinator
Water for people,sheohar, bihar
- 06.2017
- Coordinate the livelihood component which is one of the components of the ABC model ( A- access to water and sanitation, B- behavior change, C- capital(microfinance and livelihood)
- Identification of implementing partner( TOR preparation, field visit of the prospective partners, screening the budget proposal of prospective partners, documents verification)
- Planning of the yearly activities (agriculture based income enhancing activities) and budget preparation
- Orientation of the implementing partner about the project and explaining the activities to be done in the stipulated time period
- Rapport building with KVK, Agriculture department and Jeevika
- Handling donor visits and timely submission of the quarterly progress reports for quick fund approvals
- Weekly and fortnightly review of the implanting partner to monitor their progress
- Preparing different case studies to fulfill the documentation requirements
- Supported other two components – behavior change and water sanitation
- Achievements: 750 farmers mobilized to form 50 farmers club across 5 blocks of Sheohar
- Benefitted the farmers in terms of irrigation sources (50 bore wells, 50 rain guns, 20 set of sprinklers), promoted best practices like SRI, multilayer vegetable production, low cost herbal manures and pesticides
- Rapport building with KVK which helped farmers to get scientific advice on use of seed varieties, herbal manures and pesticides, training on SRI and zero tillage showing technique
- Scientists have attended farmers clubs meeting
- Agriculture department provided subsidies for the vermin compost units to the farmers.
Associate Program Manager
Renaissance strategic and management services pvt ltd
Kaling nagar
07.2012 - 07.2014
- Identification, training and capacity building of the beneficiaries for poultry rearing in blocks Trijanga, Gobarghati, sansilo(Resettled and rehabilitated blocks due to Tata steel project)
- Arranging the financial support for the beneficiary from banks for shade construction
- Vendor identification for chicks, medicines, rice husk, feed, brooding kit etc
- Head hunting and nurturing field facilitator to assist the beneficiaries and monitor the production
- Establishing retail counter for the sales of the bird
- Support other livelihood initiatives like pickle making, stitching
- Achievements: I have identified around 50 beneficiaries and provided end to end support to them – like training, capacity building, input support, shade construction
- Established two retail counters at different locations
- To improve sales of chicken, we did sales agreement with Suryansh and other local restaurants
- FSSAI certification for the pickle unit.
Marketing officer
Madhya Pradesh women poultry producer company pvt ltd
Bhopal
04.2011 - 05.2012
- Sales and marketing of poultry and allied products for the Kesla poultry society
- Daily tracking of the price of poultry in nearby market and based on same opening the rates of cooperative
- Maintaining good relations with the existing wholesalers
- Design and procurement of the promotional materials
- Bird lift plan for different villages
- Preparing the chick’s placement plan according based on the forecasted demand and previous year trends
- Achievements: Identified few local wholesalers within 100kms who agreed to lift birds from kesla poultry on immediate payment basis
- Arranged meeting of wholesalers and retailers with the women of the kesla poultry society to share their challenges and experiences
- Successfully serviced the exiting wholesalers(daily bird lifting was around 8 ton-12 ton except the lean season like Sawan and Durga Pooja
- Explored the possibilities of establishing retail outlets in Bhopal, Nagpur.
Business development officer
Professional assitance for development ACTION (PRADAN)
kesla, hoshangabad
06.2009 - 03.2011
- Sales and marketing of fresh and dry mushroom
- Value chain analysis of fresh and dry mushroom
- Servicing the existing distribution network for dry mushroom in metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai and other cities like Nagpur, Pune, hyderabad
- Servicing the existing institutional sales linkage with HUL and Testy bytes
- Identify new market segment for dry and fresh mushroom
- Sales and marketing of pickles manufactured by Lakshmi Mahila Prasanskaram Samuh
- Achievements: The sales volume has increased by 1 ton(dry mushroom)
- Identified market (cosmetics, and as nutrient supplements) for dry mushroom powder and established links with ITC choupal Sagar
- Explored the nearby market to increase the sales of the fresh mushroom- Ordinance factory canteens, coal mines area local Haats
- Designed promotional materials to promote the sales of the fresh mushroom in local market and change the perception of the local customers about the same
- Identified a group of local resource person who can sale mushroom in their respective areas on commission basis.
Education
Post graduate diploma in sustainable rural development -
National institute of rural development & Panchayati Raj(NIRD
PGDM (Marketing and rural banking and microfinance) -
Institute of chartered financial analyst of India (ICFAI)
B. Tech (Biotechnology) -
Vellore Institute of Technology
Skills
- Administrative Leadership
- Resource Allocation
- Budget Planning
- Staff Management
Certification
01/15/2021, Ranchi, Harish Ranjan
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 04/22/81
References
- Suvakanta Nayak, State consultant (PVTGs), Jharkhand state livelihood promotion society, Ranchi, 9771334133, suvakantanayak@gmail.com
- Anish Kumar, Managing Director, Transforming Rural India foundation, Delhi, 9868284648, Anish@trif.in
- Vikas Saini, CFO , IDEI, New Delhi
9811158792,vikas@ide-india.org
Timeline
State coordinator
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES INDIA (IDEI)
01.2022 - 06.2024
Manager – farm prosperity
Transforming rural India foundation Ranchi
03.2019 - 12.2021
Project coordinator- Nonfarm livelihood
United nation development programme, JSLPS
06.2017 - 05.2018
Associate Program Manager
Renaissance strategic and management services pvt ltd
07.2012 - 07.2014
Marketing officer
Madhya Pradesh women poultry producer company pvt ltd
04.2011 - 05.2012
Business development officer
Professional assitance for development ACTION (PRADAN)
06.2009 - 03.2011
Livelihood coordinator
Water for people,sheohar, bihar
- 06.2017
Post graduate diploma in sustainable rural development -
National institute of rural development & Panchayati Raj(NIRD
PGDM (Marketing and rural banking and microfinance) -
Institute of chartered financial analyst of India (ICFAI)
B. Tech (Biotechnology) -
Vellore Institute of Technology
01/15/2021, Ranchi, Harish Ranjan
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