Technical Support and Training Associate

UNDP has been working in India since 1951 in virtually all areas of human improvement. Together with the Government of India and improvement companions, we now have labored in direction of eradicating poverty, lowering inequalities, strengthening native governance, enhancing neighborhood resilience, defending the atmosphere, supporting coverage initiatives and institutional reforms, and accelerating sustainable improvement for all.

With initiatives and programmes in each state and union territory in India, UNDP works with nationwide and subnational authorities, and various improvement actors to ship people-centric outcomes, notably for probably the most weak and marginalized communities. As the integrator for collective motion on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inside the UN system, we’re dedicated to supporting the Government of India’s nationwide improvement imaginative and prescient and priorities and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs for the individuals and the planet.

UNDP India’s new Country Programme (2023-2027) builds on our prior work and goals to offer an built-in strategy to improvement options in three strategic portfolios:  

• Strong, accountable and evidence-led establishments for accelerated achievement of the SDGs.
• Enhanced financial alternatives and social safety to cut back inequality, with a concentrate on the marginalized.
• Climate-smart options, sustainable ecosystems and resilient improvement for diminished vulnerability.

South-South cooperation, gender equality and social inclusion are promoted throughout the pillars. The programme is supported by a framework of renewed partnerships and blended finance options, strategic innovation and accelerator labs, and knowledge and digital structure.
You are invited to affix a staff of future-smart improvement professionals to help India in reaching the nationwide and globally agreed objectives. As a part of the UNDP staff, your focus can be to work with various stakeholders to seek out country-specific options that result in sustainable improvement and attain these furthest behind first.

The Government of India’s flagship schemes KCC/MISS and Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) have change into vital instruments to strengthen the resilience of Indian farmers. The schemes guarantee most advantages for the farmers by offering credit score beneath 5 classes and monetary threat safety towards pure calamities and catastrophic occasions together with pests, local weather uncertainties and environmental shocks. To handle agrarian misery, the Kisan Credit Card/ Modified Interest Subvention Scheme (MISS) was launched by the Government of India to offer low cost and hassle- free credit score for tens of millions of farmers and to make sure continued funding into agriculture to usher in mechanization, modernize agriculture practices and finally improve productiveness. Additionally, PMFBY additionally supplies complete threat protection for the whole crop cycle, PMFBY additionally permits direct declare switch into farmers’ accounts by e-remittance.

UNDP’s Country Programme Document (2023-2027) meant Outcome 2 states that “By 2027, people will benefit from and contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth through higher productivity, competitiveness and diversification in economic activities that create decent work, livelihoods, and income particularly for youth and women”. UNDP leverages its experience in techniques strengthening to help the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare (MoA&FW) by organising of a Central Program Management Unit (CPMU) for the implementation of PMFBY and KCC, to enhance institutional and programme responsiveness, improve protection and higher entry amongst marginalized and excluded farm households, providing modern measures and help mechanisms for Agri-value chain financing. The PMU may also concentrate on offering Capacity Building and Training help to taking part state-level authorities departments concerned in PMFBY and KCC and advancing the scheme amongst new states for improved uptake.

• Conduct complete coaching wants evaluation to establish ability gaps in PMFBY/RWBCIS, agriculture credit score, and worth chains.
• Focused area space – Learning Management System and Content Development pertaining to PMFBY/RWBCIS, Agriculture Credit and Value Chain.
• Identify coaching wants and ability gaps and design focused coaching applications to 
  handle them.
• Contribute to assessing the effectiveness of coaching applications

Learning Management System (LMS) Administration and Optimization

• Overall administration of LMS and guarantee its functioning and updating.
• Work on coaching content material for data repository and trainings by LMS.

Specialized Content Development 

• Develop a well-written and complete coaching content material in numerous codecs, making certain readability and alignment with studying aims.
• Design visually partaking and interactive coaching supplies together with infographic, interactive/partaking audio video and so forth. to reinforce learner engagement.  
• Create and refine Scripts for video tutorials and collaborate within the manufacturing of concise, efficient coaching movies.
• Write set up and edit content material coaching supplies.
• Develop a spread of supporting supplies corresponding to handouts, checklists, manuals, exams/quizzes, displays, scripts, video, audio, and so forth. 
• Produce, edit, and ship partaking coaching content material by web-based, instructor-led, and digital classroom studying codecs.

Strategic Partnerships 

• Collaborate with Apex/Training Institutes and different stakeholders to broaden the community of Master Trainers and Resource Persons.
• Collaborate with numerous companions to reinforce the coaching curriculum and effectiveness.

Organizing Trainings, Events

• Support in organizing trainings/conferences/workshops/conferences and so forth. 
• Create detailed agendas and session outlines that present a transparent construction for the occasion.
• Compile experiences summarizing the occasion’s/trainings outcomes, participant suggestions, and any classes discovered

The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed needed for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.
 

• Achieve Results: Level 1: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: Level 1: Open to artistic concepts/identified dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancements 
• Learn Continuously: Level 1: Open minded and curious, shares data, learns from errors, asks for suggestions
• Adapt with Agility: Level 1: Adapts to alter, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile 
• Act with Determination: Level 1: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured
• Engage and Partner: Level 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in direction of others, varieties constructive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

• Minimum 7 years (with Secondary Education/High School) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s Degree) of demonstrable expertise in studying administration techniques and e- studying expertise, improvement and implantation of E-Learning techniques, content material improvement and methodology requirements and practices in ideally agriculture/insurance coverage/finance/banking sector in India or internationally.
• Additional years of demonstrable expertise in dealing with studying administration techniques and e-learning expertise, improvement and implantation of E-Learning techniques, content material improvement and methodology requirements and practices in ideally agriculture/ insurance coverage/finance/banking sector in India or internationally.
• Relevant expertise on the nationwide stage working with Governments and personal entities within the insurance coverage/finance/Banking sector.
• Experience of engaged on interactive content material improvement together with video creation, picture modifying and associated fields.
• Strong understanding of extension strategies in speaking with totally different set of stakeholders.
• Direct working expertise within the design and implementation of consciousness/training and coaching applications for farmers.
• Relevant Experience on the    nationwide stage working    with Governments and personal entities within the insurance coverage sector.
• Sound Technical Knowledge within the design and implementation of economic literacy and crop insurance coverage consciousness/training and coaching applications for useful resource poor farmers.
• Broad based mostly data present rural insurance coverage and finance, outreach to insurers and implementing businesses, farmers.
• Knowledge of Agriculture Insurance nationwide insurance policies and current schemes, regulatory legal guidelines associated to crop insurance coverage, associated ideas, insurance policies and practices.
• Demonstrates substantive and technical data to satisfy obligations and necessities of the submit with excellence.
• Possesses the capability for strategic planning, consequence – based mostly administration and reporting
• Good facilitation and communication expertise
• Ability to hold out analysis and talk strategic items that information selections on strategic programme instructions.
• Tailors and presents info to various audiences utilizing a wide range of communication supply strategies (e.g., written, digital, oral, interpersonal) Documentation.
• Good interpersonal expertise and skill to determine and keep efficient partnerships and working relations with individuals in a multi- cultural, multi-ethnic atmosphere with sensitivity and respect for range.
• Demonstrated expertise in constructing, mobilizing, and connecting with a variety of stakeholders – insurance coverage businesses, farmer organizations, state businesses and so forth.
• Hands-on expertise in design, formulation, implementation, monitoring and analysis.
• Ability to steer consultative conferences at nationwide and state stage with companions and senior stakeholders to establish priorities and handle the well timed supply of undertaking actions.
• Reliable in delivering personal elements of the work as a part of a staff effort
• Demonstrates glorious work/undertaking planning expertise.
• Is open to alter and skill to handle complicated, ever-changing environments.
• Familiarity with worldwide insurance coverage practices is a bonus.
• Experience of working with Central and/or State Governments/ worldwide businesses/ on related assignments can be most popular.
• Prior expertise of technical advisory providers within the 
  insurance coverage sector.

Required languages:

• Fluency in English and Hindi is required.