Thursday, July 21, 2022

TOTALSTART

 TotalStart Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Developers is well founded on the basis of three premises.

Premise 1: The foundation of our country lies in the rural and district heartland.

Premise 2: The foundation of the country is build by micro & small enterprises, scalable SHGs, industrial and agricultural cooperatives, who provides the socio-economic baseline for the country’s stability, growth and mass employment and engagement.

Premise 3: The foundation of our country can only be built strongly if Wealth is created by the Underprivileged Community for the Underprivileged Community

Based on these three premises TotalStart launched it’s mission.

Mission: “Fostering Entrepreneurship in the Underdeveloped Regions and the Underprivileged Communities”

of our country through a structured engagement process. It started with two states of Sikkim and West Bengal, very intensely at the beginning, from the year 2010 till 2014 and then from it’s learning evolved it’s

National Flagship Program 1: “Incubating and Scaling Micro & Small, Rural and District Level Entrepreneurs”

National Flagship Program 2: “Incubating and Scaling Underprivileged Community Enterprises”

which presently is working out in 25 Regional District Hubs (an RDH is constituted of 3 or 4 districts in a state) across 12+ states, at different levels of engagement, depending on the budget availability and the focus for the state for that year. This national program is mostly funded by the founding members of TotalStart and some select exceptional support through CSR funding. The struggle of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Builder TotalStart has been equally uphill, as that of it’s beneficiaries and impactees – the micro and small enterprises at the rural and district levels. But the passion and dedication as entrepreneurs to make an impact as to where it matters the most is so very much ingrained in the DNA of the organization, it’s founding members and it’s Chief Visionary and Chief Catalyst Dr Suryanil Ghosh, that though it has been a tough struggle against all odds with hardly much support from any corner, the unrelenting spirit of “engaging and mentoring towards scaling rural and district enterprises” has carried on strongly and with higher intensity every year.

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TotalStart’s National Flagship Program 1 focuses on scouting for at least 50+ select micro or small rural and district level prospective or existing potentially scalable enterprises across 25 Regional District Hubs in 12+ select states, through it’s structured year long engagement, every year. Once scouted through a very engaged process of intensive workshops and onsite due diligence, the selected ones are supported by TotalStart almost as a co-founding team member (but always a mentor, but with skin in the game) to possibly scale them to become an INR 30 to 50 crores company in the next 5 to 7 years. Thus creating local rural and district level socio-economic growth and for sure larger scale of rural and district level employment, and with where possible, close engagement and association with the District Industries Centres (DICs) in each District where it is engaged. A very tough journey TotalStart has had with more pitfalls and failures then successes with respect to the number of engagements with mentees and incubatees, the enterprises which gets on board and who goes for the long haul of scaling. It has touched hundreds but ultimately select few stays on the path. But it has been constantly and dynamically learning, adapting, keeping in mind the sole mission of fostering entrepreneurship in underdeveloped regions and underprivileged communities.

TotalStart’s National Flagship Program 2 focuses on underprivileged community based enterprise development engagement. TotalStart has a unique focused engagement which it started in 2016“TotalStart Blind Entrepreneurship Development Initiative” which has now culminated in the formation of the Private Limited Company in the country whose co-founders are Visually Challenged and Differently Abled Youth with the formation of the organization MushroomAg Private Limited,  It is headquarterd in Sheoraphuli, Dist. Hooghly and the Field Project Site is in the river island of Chhoto Salbari, Sitalkuchi, Dist. Coochbehar, both in West Bengal www.mushroomers.inThe vision is to create one large Farmer Producers Organization (FPO) and several Farmer Interest Groups (FIGs) across the country in 10 states, with 8 from the North East, engaging marginals farmers, all focusing on Mushroom Cultivation and building a large ecosystem to provide the best supply across the country and globally of traditionally organically grown mushrooms.

TotalStart’s engagement with the Tribal youth and the tribal communities’ existing and prospective micro and small entrepreneurs in the districts of East Singbhum, West Singbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan, partially supported by a Tata group company TSDPL www.tsdpl.in needs a special mention, as this model of corporate engagement and support through affirmative action programs can be across the whole country, by enabling many more organizations like us. The outcome of this is a Public Limited Company TribalAg Limited owned and run by Tribal Farmers and Tribal Agripreneurs.

2.   Company URL: Totalstart www.totalstart.org  www.totalstart.inTSFE-The School For Entrepreneurs -  www.tsfe.in  www.tsfe.org.in

 

3.    Subsidiary Company URLs: TribalAg Limited www.tribalag.in  MushroomAg Private Limited www.mushroomers.in  Tribalindus Industries Private Limited www.tribalindus.com  TNFC Private Limited www.tnfc.in

 

4.    Location: a. Salt Lake, Sector V, Kolkata; b. Jadugoda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand; c. Sheoraphully, Hooghly, West Bengal

 

5.    Position: location a – 1, location b – 1, location c - 1

 

6.    Full time / Internship *: Fulltime

 

7.    Student background: We are looking for BScAg / MScAg / MBA Agriculture  / B Tech Agriculture Engineering /BA / MA / MBA / BSc / MSc  background students.

Expected skills – a. Oral Communication Skill in English b. Written Communication Skill in English c. Understanding of Business wrt Business Plan, Financial Plan, Detailed Project Report, Value Proposition Canvas, Business Model Canvas, etc c. Understanding of the role they will be playing either at TribalAg Limited or MushroomAg Pvt Limited or TotalStart Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Developer wherever they are recruited d. Willing to relocate to Jadugoda,  East Singhbhum, Jharkhand for TribalAg or Sheoraphully, Hooghly, West Bengal for MushroomAg ( They should be able to speak in Bengali in that case) immediately e. Organization Skill e. Technical Skills computer and any relevant skills useful for running our organizations

 

8.    JD in detail: The recruits will be developed as an all-rounded management executive with developed capabilities

·         at field level campaigning for onboarding farmers, aggregating farmers and providing them with inputs and selling their outputs , forming FPOs, engaging with farmers to develop them to increase their income and coming up with solutions to do so and also

·         at the office level where they will have to write business plans, finance plans, project plans and implement them, fund raising through CSR Grants and Donations

 

9.    CTC / Stipend *: CTC - The entry level position will have a fixed component of Rs. 8,000 per month and a performance component of Rs. 3000 per month, so a total CTC of Rs. 1,21,000/- (One Lakh Twenty One Thousand Only per year. For excellent candidates we may consider a favourable higher CTC. After 6 months of probation, based on performance a higher CTC may be considered based on his/her contribution to the impact he or she is having on the top line of the company.

 

10.                Joining date: 1st August 2022

 

11. Recruitment process: Submission of at least 10 qualified CVs from SXC for group discussion over Google Meeting, followed by one on one meetings over google meeting and then a final meeting with all candidates at the campus for final placement.

 

Interested....please share your RESUME at: totalstart@totalstart.org  CC:  secretariat.totalstart@gmail.com  within 10 days

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