Hiring for: Social-cum-Gender Expert (FPCs) 1 Position (Women candidate preferred)

Location: Sangamner (Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra)
Position Overview

The Gender Expert will be responsible for promoting women s participation, leadership, and entrepreneurship within Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs). The role will involve working closely with women farmers, Self-Help Groups (SHGs), FPC members, community institutions, and local stakeholders to ensure that women and marginalized communities actively participate in and benefit from FPC business activities.

The position requires extensive field engagement and hands-on support for implementing women-centric livelihood, enterprise, leadership development, and social inclusion initiatives.
Key Responsibilities

Women Mobilization Institution Strengthening
- Mobilize women farmers and rural women entrepreneurs to participate in FPC activities.
- Facilitate women s membership, shareholding, and active participation in FPCs.
- Strengthen women producer groups, SHGs, commodity groups, and village-level institutions.




- Promote collective action among women for production, aggregation, processing, and marketing activities.

Women Entrepreneurship Livelihood Promotion
- Identify and support women entrepreneurs linked to FPC value chains.
- Facilitate women-led business activities such as:
- Primary collection centres
- Input retail outlets
- Seed production groups
- Nursery enterprises
- Processing and value addition units
- Custom hiring services
- Aggregation and marketing activities
- Support women in preparing business plans and accessing enterprise development opportunities.

Gender Mainstreaming in FPC Operations
- Ensure women s participation in FPC meetings, trainings, exposure visits, and business activities.
- Support implementation of gender-sensitive interventions across production, aggregation, processing, and marketing activities.
- Facilitate inclusion of women in FPC governance structures and decision-making proces

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