Manager - Institutional Strengthening and Women Empowerment

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About the Organization

TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty. Unlike typical giveaways or subsidies, our approach uses your donations to achieve lasting impact. We empower individuals and communities to lift themselves out of poverty, helping them fulfill their dreams of a better life.

Job Description

TechnoServe is working to support the livelihoods of small holder farmers and connect them with leadership and business skills. The initiative is to support enterprising rural people to transform their roles in their households and farming businesses, and to strengthen the agribusiness for their local communities by taking on leadership roles in local farmer producer organizations. The incumbent will be placed at our Solapur location.

The programs will support farmers through their institutions, addressing four key areas for growth:           

• Strong women farmer producer organizations and their federation,
• Improved market access for women farmers,
• Inclusive access to financial services for farmer producer organizations and
• Empowered women leaders with entrepreneur skills.

The Manager – IS&WE will be responsible for anchoring the following for the program:

• The incumbent will be the focal point for implementing women empowerment activities under the project, focusing on women empowerment & entrepreneurship development.
• Responsible for mobilizing Women’s Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) to come together and form women women-owned FPC Federation by establishing transparent governance system & process.
• Building the capacity of directors and office bearers on Federation structure & function, Operation & Management and Compliances system & process, Capacity building and Training
• Building capacity of member FPCs on backward & forward linkages, aggregation process & system and Standard Operating Business Procedure, primary value addition & supply chain management etc.
• Federation is legally registered and governance structures, revenue model, and grievance redressal mechanisms of Federation are successfully established, will be her roles and responsibility.
• Responsible for motivating the program women to move towards a gender transformative approach through institutional innovation and income diversification.
• Establishing sustainable entrepreneurship model with women leaders linking to the business portfolio of FPCS and their federation.
• Liaison with resource institutions, agencies, SRLM, Govt. schemes & programs and mobilizing the resources for Federation Infrastructure development, value addition & processing.
• Working closely with the program team, stakeholders, and in coordination with program leaders & managers throughout the implementation,

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Post Graduate in Rural Development/ Management, Agri- Business Management, Social Studies with at least 4 years’ specific work experience in women empowerment program/ FPC operation & management/ Women IGA/ women in Agriculture program/ SHGs & their Federation and having knowledge of ongoing government schemes and program for women.
• Minimum 9-12 years of experience in development sector with specific experience in implementation of women focused projects, conducting women empowerment activities in rural context with proven results in relation to capacity building, adoption, income enhancement, and experience of introducing new activities to women farmers in line with agriculture and expertise to capture and document technical practices, processes and results from field scale interventions.
• Experience of managing operations team in large scale projects, people management experience, training and capacity building, institutional building of women enterprises
• Sound knowledge M/S Word/ Excel/ PPT, Regular reporting mechanisms on weekly/monthly/ quarterly/Annual basis as and when required
• Should be familiar with creating Data centric stakeholder reports, Dashboards, Proficient in MS-Excel (Intermediate to Advanced level)
• Demonstrated ability to drive project activities independently, create and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, institutional buyers, senior project leadership team.

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