Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network-North (GIAN-North)

Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network-North (GIAN-North)

GIAN-North, based at Jaipur, is constituted by National Innovation Foundation Admedabd (under DST, GOI) and Government of Rajasthan as an autonomous society registered under Rajasthan Society Act 1952 in November 2002. GIAN-North wants to recruit highly motivated professional who have faith in the potential of innovations at grassroots to make India innovative and a global leader in green sustainable technologies. Work culture at GIAN-North is that of a non-governmental organization and it suits initiative driven and performance oriented people. GIAN-North works in close coordination with grassroots innovators on one hand and qualified professionals, government officials and formal/ informal individuals on the other hand to develop the innovations into products and viable enterprises. Applications are invited for the following position.

Experience: The incumbents should have minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Projects/ Business development and institutional Networking.

• Develop portfolios of business development activities and projects independently with specific milestones and targets to be completed in time bound manner.
• To coordinate with innovators, institutes, business houses, NIF and other GIANs in developing similar portfolios with viable business plans.
• To organize incubation support for various technologies taken up by GIAN-N other collaborators.
• To plan, implement, monitor and evaluate the entire business development function at GIAN-N and keep the CIM and the Governing Board informed through CIM from time to time.
• To prepare monthly report of the progress and identify the areas of policy or procedural improvement and pursue them with the CIM and other colleagues.
• To coordinate all the activities of MVIF as per the norms and commitments to the stakeholders.
• To network with various organizations, NGOs, state and central governments and other institution fulfilling different objectives of GIAN-N.
• To update the relevant information about these activities on GIAN-N’s website in consultation with CIM.
• To coordinate SCAI activities in northern India in coordination with NIF and ensure commercial and non-commercial diffusion of technologies which are taken up for business development.
• To develop policy proposals for strengthening the capacity of GIAN-N to support grassroots innovators traditional knowledge holders at different levels and in collaboration with different institutions.
• To assist CIM in various activities assigned from time to time in fulfillment of GIAN-N’s missions.
• To encourage various industry associations and other developmental bodies to set up mechanisms licensing innovations for business development and equitable benefit sharing with the innovators.

1. Position is for a Contractual tenure for one or two year/ and extendable on satisfactory performance.
2. Position is for Jaipur but may require relocation.
3. Women candidates/or from SC/ST/OBC categories/handicapped / Ex-servicemen are encouraged to apply.
4. Employees of Government/Semi Government Departments/ Public Sector Undertaking / Autonomous bodies must apply through proper channel or produce “No Objection Certificate” at the time of the interview.
5. GIAN-N reserves the right to raise experience level or use other criteria to restrict the number of candidates called for interview.
6. Deserving candidates may be offered higher start of pay within the specified range.
7. GIAN-N may recruit professionals through selection or search process