This is a high-impact, field-driven opportunity for a dynamic Gender Specialist to champion women’s economic empowerment within a large-scale agricultural transformation program in Bihar.
Working closely with the Bihar State Rural Livelihoods Mission (Bihar SRLM), you will play a key role in turning gender strategies into real, on-ground impact, enhancing women’s participation, leadership, and incomes across value chains. We are looking for someone who thrives in action-oriented environments, collaborates effectively with government systems, and is energized by delivering measurable change.
If you’re passionate about driving meaningful impact, taking ownership, and seeing your work translate into tangible outcomes for women and communities, this role offers a powerful platform to make a difference at scale.
We are seeking a Gender Specialist to drive the integration of Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment (GE/WEE) across a large-scale rural livelihoods and agricultural transformation programs in Bihar. The role will focus on translating the program’s gender-intentional design into actionable, field-level strategies across agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture value chains. The consultant will work closely with Bihar State’s Rural Livelihood Mission (Bihar SRLM), farmer institutions, and community cadres to enable women’s transition into higher-value economic roles, strengthen their agency and control over income, and embed gender-responsive approaches within systems and markets. This is a highly execution-oriented role requiring strong ownership, the ability to work independently within government systems, and a focus on delivering measurable gender outcomes at scale. It includes:
1. Translate gender strategy into implementation: Operationalize the program’s GE/WEE approach into actionable plans across production, market systems, and value addition pillars, with clear pathways for women’s economic advancement.
2. Drive women’s participation in higher-value roles in agriculture: Identify and enable opportunities for women to transition from subsistence roles to enterprise, aggregation, and market-facing functions across value chains.
3. Embed gender across institutional systems and community platforms: Work closely with Self-Help Groups (SHGs), federations, farmer producer organizations (FPOs/FPCs), and community cadres (e.g., extension workers, para-vets) to institutionalize gender-responsive practices in extension, market linkages, and enterprise models.
4. Strengthen women’s agency, asset ownership, and income control: Design and support interventions that improve women’s decision-making power, ownership of productive assets, and control over enterprise incomes.
4. Lead gender-responsive program design, tools, and capacity building: Develop frameworks, toolkits, and training modules; build capacity of field teams and partners on gender-integrated value chain development.
5. Engage with government and ecosystem stakeholders: Collaborate with Bihar State’s Rural Livelihood Mission (Bihar SRLM) and other state stakeholders to align gender interventions with government priorities while ensuring delivery against program timelines.
6. Track outcomes and generate insights: Define gender indicators (agency, participation, income control), support MEL systems, and produce high-quality documentation, briefs, and presentations for internal and donor use
