Job Overview
Rural Women Development Center -RWDC
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Rural Women Development Centre-RWDC- (Gramin Mahila Utthan Kendra) was founded in 1993 in Dang district with a vision to “Create a Self-reliant and empowered society”. RWDC has been working for educational rights, women empowerment, reproductive health, income generation, governance, accountability; disaster risk management, climate change resilience, gender equality, and human rights for rural backward and marginalized communities with “Zero Tolerance” to gender violence.
DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION / REQUIREMENTS:
Rural Women Development Center-RWDC (Gramin Mahila Utthan Kendra) is a non-profit making organization registered with the government of Nepal as a non-government organization in 1993 at Dang district administration office and affiliated with Nepal government’s Social Welfare Council. RWDC is going to implement “Reducing Post-Harvest Losses through Access to New Technologies (RePlANT) funded by USAID in various Rural Municipalities and Municipalities of Dang district in partnership with iDE Nepal. The project aims to deploy an innovative model to scale the adoption of hermetic storage technologies (HSTs) and improve smallholder resilience. Adopting a last-mile supply chain approach, the project will strengthen the capacity of private-sector actors to reach smallholders in weak rural markets to improve access to these post-harvest storage solutions while also increasing smallholders’ access to capital to invest in improved technologies and reducing their exposure to climate shocks and stressors. Further, it aims to promote HSTs bundling up with finance and crop insurance. For this, RWDC is recruiting the following key positions.
Program Officer
Required No: One
Duty station: Dang
Job Summary:
The overall responsibility of this position is to drive and deliver the outcomes of the RePLANT objective to accelerate smallholder farmers’ adoption of post-harvest hermetic storage technologies by extending last-mile delivery networks, and incorporating non-collateral agriculture loans and insurance.
Major duties and responsibilities:
- Design and implementation of various activities in coordination with private sector partners and government/non-government stakeholders to drive and deliver the project outcomes and targets.
- Liaise closely with the private sector partners of the project and their staff to expand their output/services and networks for the smallholder farmers to promote hermetic storage technologies
- Support local level agri-input suppliers/retailers to forge productive alliances with other actors in the value chain; facilitate market integration and sustainable demand creation.
- Coach, mentor, and train interested sector entrepreneurs (Farmers, Cooperatives, Private Firms, and Companies) to promote HST, loan finance and crop insurance.
- Conduct various training for the farmers, partners, and stakeholders to build their capacity to foster market system upgrading.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and backstopping to the field supervisors to enable them to function as facilitators; network and influence important stakeholders.
- Organize various informational, networking and capacity development events in the project area; data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Integrate gender, climate, and digital technologies as cross-cutting areas across the work.
Key Requirements:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, economics, business management, socio-economic development, development planning, or other related fields.
- At Least 3 years’ professional work experience in the field of the agriculture value chain, implementing direct field activities with market system development and private sector engagement. Some exposure/experience in hermetic storage technologies will be preferred.
- Good coaching, and mentoring skills, and a track record in designing and rolling out training programs for business development services.
- Strong communicator with the ability to influence diverse stakeholder groups.
- Proficiency to use standard software at an advanced level; knowledge of common ICTs and their use in agricultural extension systems.
- Demonstrated ability to write reports, success stories, and promotional materials.
- Knowledge of USAID programs and procedures, with emphasis on monitoring and evaluation procedures.
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, and multicultural environment.
- Candidates must have a valid motorbike license.
Loan Supervisor
Required No: One
Duty station: Dang
Job Summary:
The overall responsibility of this position is to drive and deliver the loan target of the project aligning with its objective to accelerate smallholder farmers’ adoption of post-harvest hermetic storage technologies by extending last-mile delivery networks, with non-collateral agriculture loans and insurance.
Major duties and responsibilities:
- Support to the last mile of supply chain actors/CBFs for the creation of demand for agriculture loans and the post-harvest hermetic storage bag and technologies.
- Implementation of all field activities in close coordination with local government and stakeholders and linking the smallholder farmers to the financial institutions for adoption of hermetic storage technologies.
- Work with all branch teams of the partner financial institutions to develop the appropriate mechanism to pursue agricultural loans for smallholder farmers.
- Organize various mass media campaigns and other promotional activities to stimulate demand for loans or financial products.
- Involve in different capacity development activities, conduct interaction meetings between financial institutions and potential smallholder farmers in need of loans and link them.
- Involve in the development and strengthening activities of last-mile supply chain actors and link them with the agri-input enterprises to promote access to inputs and finance.
- Participate and supervise group sales meetings being organized by the last mile supply chain actors.
- Report to program officer and support in updating progress in the MIS system.
Key Requirements:
- Minimum secondary level education or equivalent (agriculture, business management, or other related fields )
- At least 2 years of professional work experience in the financial sector, agriculture value chain, implementing direct field activities with market system development, and private sector engagement.
- Strong communication ability to interact and influence diverse stakeholder groups.
- Good coaching, and mentoring skills, and a track record in rolling out training programs for business development services.
- Good computer skills with the ability to use standard software and tools in agricultural extension systems.
- Demonstrated ability to write reports, success stories, and promotional materials.
- Preference will be given to candidates from the same districts.
Insurance Supervisor
Required No: One
Duty station: Dang
Job Summary:
The overall responsibility of this position is to drive and deliver the crop insurance target of the project aligning with its objective to accelerate smallholder farmers’ adoption of post-harvest hermetic storage technologies by extending last-mile delivery networks, with non-collateral agriculture loans.
Major duties and responsibilities:
- Support to the last mile of supply chain actors/CBFs for the creation of demand for crop insurance and the post-harvest hermetic storage bag and technologies.
- Implementation of all field activities in close coordination with local government and stakeholders and linking the smallholder farmers to the insurance company for crop insurance.
- Work with all branch teams of the partner insurance companies to develop the appropriate mechanism to pursue crop insurance for smallholder farmers.
- Organize various mass media campaigns and other promotional activities to stimulate demand for crop insurance.
- Involvement in different capacity development activities, conduct interaction meetings between financial institutions and potential smallholder farmers in need of loans, and link them.
- Involvement in the development and strengthening activities of last-mile supply chain actors and link them with the agri-input enterprises to promote access to inputs and crop insurance.
- Participate and supervise group sales meetings being organized by the last mile supply chain actors.
- Report to the program officer and support in updating progress in the MIS system.
Key Requirements:
- Minimum secondary level education or equivalent (agriculture, business management or other related fields )
- At least 2 years of professional work experience in crop insurance, agriculture value chain, implementing direct field activities with market system development, and private sector engagement.
- Strong communicator with the ability to interact and influence diverse stakeholder groups.
- Good coaching, and mentoring skills, and a track record in rolling out training programs for business development services.
- Good computer skills with the ability to use standard software and tools in agricultural extension systems.
- Demonstrated ability to write reports, success stories, and promotional materials.
- Preference will be given to candidates from the same districts
Marketing/Agriculture Supervisor
Required No: One
Duty station: Dang
Job Summary:
The overall responsibility of this position is to drive and deliver the project objective to accelerate smallholder farmers’ adoption of post-harvest hermetic storage technologies by extending last-mile delivery networks, with non-collateral agriculture loans and crop insurance.
Major duties and responsibilities:
• Support to the last mile of supply chain actors/CBFs for the creation of demand for the post-harvest hermetic storage bag and technologies.
• Implementation of all field activities in close coordination with local government and stakeholders and linking the smallholder farmers to the private sectors for adoption of improved agri-inputs and hermetic storage technologies.
• Organize various mass media campaigns and other promotional activities (such as demonstrations) to stimulate demand for HSTs.
• Involvement in different capacity development activities, conducting interaction meetings between input suppliers and potential smallholder farmers.
• Involvement in the development and strengthening activities of last-mile supply chain actors and link them with the agri-input enterprises to promote access to HSTs.
• Participate and supervise group sales meetings being organized by the last mile supply chain actors.
• Report to the program officer and support in updating progress in the MIS system.
Key Requirements:
- Minimum secondary level education or equivalent agriculture, business management or other related fields (preferred-JT in Ag )
- At least 2 years of professional work experience in the agriculture value chain, implementing direct field activities with market system development and private sector engagement.
- Strong communicator with the ability to interact and influence diverse stakeholder groups.
- Good coaching, and mentoring skills, and a track record in rolling out training programs for business development services.
- Good computer skills with the ability to use standard software and tools in agricultural extension systems.
- Demonstrated ability to write reports, success stories, and promotional materials.
- Preference will be given to candidates from the same districts
Interested Nepali citizens who are eligible for the above positions can submit their recent CV, cover letter, relevant documents, and testimonials, clearly mentioning the position applied via email at [email protected] no later than 13 December 2022, 5 PM. Hard copy applications can be submitted at the central office of RWDC given below. As per the gender and workforce diversity policy of RWDC, female candidates and/or candidates from disadvantaged communities are highly encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further process. No telephone inquiries will be entertained.
Office Address
Rural Women Development Center -RWDC
Ghorahi Sub Metropolis-15, Bhanu tole
Telephone no for location: 082-560837, Dang
Email: [email protected]