IEC (Information, Education and Communication) Consultant/Specialist: – As the public participation and empowering the society in the project area plays a key role, therefore this job includes huge responsibility and can play deciding role in the successful completion of the project. The traditional job designation in this category are- IEC Consultant/ Social development consultant/ Community Mobilization consultant etc. Taking the objectives of the mission to the public and make the people believe on your project is very challenging job, but your skills in social development/ public management and dedication towards the social development can make the things easy. Understanding demographic diversity and social fabric of the project area is very crucial to take this challenge. Developing IEC material like poster/banner/slogan/leaflets are also included in this job responsibility.

To get into this job, the department/agency/project generally looked for people from Social science background preferably from sociology, social work and rural management. For state level or district level consultant/specialist position, the required qualifications are post graduate degree in social science with 3-7 years experience which varies from project to project. To get into this kind of job in Blok/Gram-Panchayat level, a fresh graduate is also found to be eligible, but they need to show their keenness to work for the people and ready to travel in far flung and rural areas. Proper communication skills, writing skills, IT savvy and self confidence to motivate to people are highly desirable for this kind of job. If you are aiming for consultant/specialist jobs, initially you can start your career in some good NGOs/ Govt. project so that you can gain experience and apply for those positions. The selection process usually follows written test (both subjective and objective), Group discussion, Case Study, Presentation personal interview.

All these three jobs are traditionally contractual in nature where you have to deliver in mission mode. Renew of contract (generally after one year) of your job solely depends on your performance. But, don’t consider it only as a contractual job of one or two years, if you perform well, no one can stop you in getting job one after another. Once you obtain the expertise, you will be in high demand and different agencies will look for you instead of you look for job. These sectors are booming in faster pace and still there is shortage of right people. Though the Salary varies from project to project, usually everyone use to get a handsome salary; and salary for right people is never a constrain. If you can carry out the good performance with dedication, there will not be any retirement age and you can witness/ become part of several success stories. One can get the information about these jobs through different online job portal like www.devnetjobs.in