Program Officer- Agri Capacity Building Program – Friends of Women’s World Banking (FWWB) 

Apply before 10 Dec 22 

Friends of Women’s World Banking (FWWB) was promoted in 1981, as an affiliate of Women’s World Banking, a global network created to focus on the need for women’s direct access to financial services and recognizing women’s role in building a nation’s economy. At the core of the vision behind FWWB’s creation are millions of women from low income households, who do not have access to any financial services. We attempt to harness the collective power of these women by supporting self-help groups, federations, co-operatives, and farmer producer companies. We believe in the bankability and credit-worthiness of women, knowing that economic empowerment is crucial to fight injustices of all kinds. However, we are not a lending agency. As a facilitator of access to financial services, we catalyse the formation of a credit history by becoming the first lenders. A big part of this process also includes building capacities of the women we work with. We enable them to overcome barriers of gender, poverty, and lack of access to knowledge in the path of lifting themselves out of poverty. Our experience of over two decades shows that the combination of loan support, capacity-building and collective action is one that yields rewards, creating a positive and lasting impact on the lives of the women we work with. We provide loans and capacity building support in the following four areas: agriculture finance, solar energy, financial education and women entrepreneurship support, and water and sanitation. Cumulatively, we have reached out to more than 1 million women across India through our interventions.

Program Officer- Agri Capacity Building Program at Friends of Women’s World Banking, India

About the Position: He/she will drive FWWB’s Capacity Building Program in the Barpeta/Goalpara/Darrang district of Assam and provide necessary programmatic and technical support towards the achievement of project objectives. He/she will report to Program Coordinator and will have responsibility for strategize and implement FWWB’s Agri-Capacity Building activities with the FPO CEO, Board and lead farmers as part of capacity building and to ensure effective implementation in their respective district by working closely with them, as well as provide them technical guidance and support to achieve the overall project objectives.

Education Qualification: Post graduate (Agri/Rural Development/Finance/Social Work).

Experience: Min. 2 years, with exposure to leading assignments related to rural development, agriculture, microfinance and agri-credit.

Location: Barpeta/Goalpara/Darrang districts of Assam.

Roles and responsibilities (which are indicative but not exhaustive) of the incumbent are indicated below. The roles and responsibilities may change depending on the priority areas of the organisation.

• Strategize and implement FWWB’s Agri-Capacity Building Activities with Partner organisations and beneficiaries in the state.
• Support Program Coordinator in undertaking customization of the Capacity Building program as per project objectives and needs of the beneficiaries
• Conduct Baseline assessments and rapport building exercises with FPOs.
• Undertake Need Assessment and Scoping Study of FPOs, identify their current activities, gaps in their operations and opportunities for scaling up
• Evaluate the overall capacity building requirements of FPOs.
• Develop customized training programs and Business Plans for each FPOs.
• Develop capacity building modules, tools for ensuring quality capacity building for demonstration & replication.
• Deliver trainings and conduct seminars and workshops to build capacities of FPOs on regular basis.
• Conduct regular monitoring meetings with FPO CEO, Board and lead farmers as part of capacity building and to ensure effective implementation.
• Study the existing market linkages of FPO, evaluate potential linkages and scope for value addition of the agricultural produce. Hand hold FPOs to become market ready and meet quality criteria of institutional buyers and lenders
• Liaise with potential market players and large institutional buyers like major e-commerce, modern retail stores, e-NAM etc. and provide facilitation support for building value chains and linkages for FPOs
• Coordinate with FWWB Agri-Finance team to evaluate credit needs for FPOs wherever required and ensure financial linkages wherever possible.
• Facilitate use of tools i.e. social research, monitoring, evaluation and framework to assess the quality of
• Capacity building & identify appropriate follow-up actions.
• Develop and maintain process documents, training feedbacks, evaluation methods and similar training related documents and tools of assessment.
• Prepare and ensure the timely submission of Monthly Progress Reports with the Reporting Manager and as and when instructed.
• Update the progress to FWWB HQ / Board at specified intervals

Salary Range: INR 25-28K per month.

How to apply

Interested candidates are requested to apply before 10th December 2022 and share their resume’s at : fwwb@fwwbindia.org