Consultant- Financial Inclusion (State & District Level)

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS), an autonomous society under Rural Development Department, Govt. of Bihar has been designated as State Rural Livelihoods Mission by Rural Development Department, Government of Bihar to scale up the "JEEVIKA" model in all 534 Blocks of 38 Districts in Bihar under National Rural Livelihood Mission with key objectives of Development of Model CLFs, Digital Financing, Value Chain, Intervention, Organic Cluster Development, Enterprise Promotion, Skill Development & Placement, Digitization of CBOs’ transactions and Capitalization of CBOs’ etc.

So far JEEVIKA has been able to reach out to nearly 135 Lakh rural poor households by organizing them into 10.63 Lakh women Self Help Groups under 71000 Village Organizations and 1600 Cluster Level Federations. These institutions have generated nearly Rs. 1350 Crore as their own saving and have leveraged more than Rs. 46,000 Crore from the Banks.

Consultant- Financial Inclusion (State & District Level)

Eligibility: PG or higher degree with minimum 3 years of experience in relevant field with reputed state or national level institutions/assignments.

Key Responsibility:

The consultant has to ensure the following outputs in his area of activities:

1. Ensuring timely savings & credit account opening of SHGs and their Federations, Liaison with project staffs and the Banks for timely disbursement and recovery.

2. Rollout of Bank- Mitra concept in the districts from identification to training and review on periodic basis.

3. The Consultant will provide a supportive role for the BPIU and DPCU officers in the related BLBC and DLCC meetings respectively.

4. To be prepared for extensive field visit for providing handhold support to BPIU and DPCU in dealing with core issues related to financial services.

5. To liaison with Bank officials of the district and ensuring their exposure to the field operations of the JEEVIKA area in order to muster better confidence amongst the banking fraternity.

6. Working on the concept of “Community Auditor” and making it a model for the implementation at the field level.

7. S/he will help in implementation of Lok OS also, particularly in updating books and preparation of cutoff data at SHG/VO/CLF level.

8. Ensuring training to Community Cadres on issues related to insurance for ensuring sensitization at the level of members from community.

9. Working on product design & implementation related to insurance for the community members. At first the priority needs to be given for Life Insurance (PMJJBY/PMSBY/any other scheme) and then on non-life with claim settlement process.

10. Actively participate in the designing and implementation of the Financial Literacy and Credit Counselling module at the level of community institutions.

11. Work towards designing a model on pilot basis to facilitate community institutions take up the role of BC/BF/CSP of BC to ensure inclusion of the poorest in its fold.

12. Working on end-to-end solution for utilizing the services of alternate banking for taking other services like old age pension, pension for differently enabled people, widow pension and similar other social entitlements from the government department.

13. Any other related task as and when required by BRLPS.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to appear for participating in further stages of recruitment (Personal Interview) in a phased manner. List of applications received, shortlisted applications, date and venue of tests for selection etc. would be posted in due course on www.brlps.in(http:/brlps.in/web/brlps/career ). Candidates are requested to visit the website frequently for announcements. All communication will be made through website only.

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