Job Description

 Program Name- Swayamshree (SHG & Women Entrepreneurship)

 Position Name- Regional Coordinator (Gujarat and Odisha)

 Please drop in your resume at - careers.rf@reliancefoundation.org 

Position Brief

We want Regional Coordinators who will play a dual role of supporting certain specific enterprises as well as government coordination and monitoring in the districts they are responsible for.

The RCs will primarily be responsible for a particular enterprise in their area but they will be expected to offer support to other RCs as per their expertise and also receive same from others.

Specialization areas required

Considering the number of potential of the enterprises and geographies, following are the specializations required

Homemade Food products like pickles, namkeen, condiments etc– Tapi, Gujarat 

NTFP like honey, lemon grass etc – Odisha

Geography and Language  

Between the RCs (as a team) we would like to cover at least three languages Oriya, Hindi and Gujarati.

Regional Coordinator – Homemade food products (Gujarat)

Identify the potential areas for promoting enterprises in homemade food products such as namkeen, aachaar, pickles, jams, condiments etc 

Work with the women on the product development, improvement – quality raw material use from own sources or procurement, products design and development, diversification of the products portfolio etc 

Introduce technology to improve the quality, efficiencies in production 

Support women in obtaining necessary licenses – GST, FASSAI etc 

Support in enterprises in developing marketing channels – wholesale, retail, online, intermediation etc

Regional Coordinator - NTFP (Odisha)

 

Mapping of the availability of Non-Timber Forest Produce in the area with the support from SRLM and FIAs and estimating the people dependent on the NTFP

Understand the value chain from production/availability, development and sustainability, harvesting, value addition and marketing to identify the gaps

Providing support in value addition, processing and marketing of the NTFP

Establishing and strengthening collective enterprises in the NTFP

Explore the possibilities of introducing technology for processing and value addition

Identify better markets/private sector players for marketing

Specific Skills and Competencies for Gujarat

Experience of working in homemade food products business 

Academic background in food processing or food technology

Specific Skills and Competencies for Odisha 

Non-Timber Forest Produce

Experience of working in 2-3 Non-Timber Forest Produce with community

Experience of facilitating market linkage of NTFP with market players or managing a NTFP based community enterprise or private company/business engaged in NTFP

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Mapping of existing enterprises, women engaged in the specific activities and also identify potential geographies for promotion of enterprises in their respective field 

Identity critical gaps in the existing enterprises at different levels (raw material sourcing, product development, packaging, branding, orders from the market etc) to provide necessary solutions for business growth 

Work closely with the Field Implementation Agencies to develop prototypes for wider replication 

Promote enterprises with end to end support in the new areas as per the prototype 

Documentation of the prototype models, business plans for replication 

Apart from the specialist functions, candidates are expected support State Program Manager in coordination with the FIA teams in the districts, convergence between district administration and district teams of FIAs and documentation

Qualifications and experience: 

mhaves / Essential: 

Professional qualification in the areas or PG in any relevant area 

At least 5 years of experience in the relevant enterprise sector- it is important that the candidate should have hands on experience of working on a similar enterprise in personal or private business or non-profit. We don’t necessarily need a person with NGO background, but even someone who has run a poultry business or dal mill is a good candidate. Or someone who has worked in a garment industry is essential for stitching centres and having design sense in that person is an additional achievement. 

Proven track record and accomplishments in the relevant enterprises 

Experience in developing marketing channels (direct, retail, wholesalers, online, reselling, franchising etc) is a must in all the enterprise areas 

Preferred: 

Experience of working in the rural development projects 

Experience of working with women SHGs and SHG federations 

Key Competencies: 

Adequate computer skills and proficiency in English 

Willingness to travel extensively in rural areas and stay in remote villages 

Ability to interact easily with Rural Communities 

Business (business planning, product knowledge, technology etc) and marketing skills

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