Hiring for: Program Lead (1 Position)

Location: Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra, India (with frequent travel to project districts)

Position Overview

The Program Lead will provide overall strategic, managerial, and technical leadership to ProRISE Phase II. The position will be responsible for ensuring successful implementation of the project across participating FPOs, achievement of project outcomes, donor compliance, team performance, stakeholder engagement, and institutional partnerships.

The Program Lead will serve as the principal liaison between WOTR, the donor agency, participating FPOs, government agencies, financial institutions, market actors, and other ecosystem partners. The role requires robust leadership, programme management, agribusiness understanding, and experience in managing large-scale rural development and FPO strengthening initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership and direction for planning, implementation, monitoring, and successful completion of ProRISE Phase II.
- Ensure alignment of project activities with approved objectives, logframe,



KPIs, budgets, and donor commitments.
- Lead preparation of quarterly and annual implementation plans, work plans, budgets, and performance reviews.
- Ensure effective coordination between PMU, DPMUs, FPOs, consultants, and partner institutions.
- Guide adaptive management and strategic decision-making based on implementation learnings and emerging opportunities.
- Provide strategic oversight for FPO strengthening, governance improvement, business planning, market integration, and enterprise development.
- Guide development of sustainable and scalable business models for participating FPOs.
- Support expansion of input businesses, aggregation systems, value-addition enterprises, and market-led production systems.
- Monitor business performance indicators including turnover, profitability, member participation, and market outreach.
- Provide strategic guidance on climate-resilient agricultur

📌 Program Lead (Mumbai)
🏢 Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
📍 Mumbai