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Access Livelihoods Group

Access Livelihoods Group was established in 2005 in Hyderabad, Telangana. It is a collective of social enterprises that by choice works with women and youth from marginalized communities to reimagine and transform their livelihoods. The group comprising of six entities extend comprehensive services to enable enterprise incubation and employment opportunities. As a group, we offer end to end support including pre-incubation, incubation, and acceleration support programs. These professional services are delivered by a team of 60+ passionate individuals who have graduated from some of India's best institutions and have consciously chosen the road less traveled. Presently AL Group is working with 65000 women producers across five states. To know more about AL Group, visit www.alcindia.org/

Women Entrepreneurship Programme

In a unique and first of its kind attempt to empower and train semi-literate women to take up entrepreneurial ventures, Access Livelihoods launched the Women Entrepreneurship Programme, a mini-MBA for rural women.

We partnered with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)– IKEA - DISHA for delivering the pilot phase. In the pilot phase of the programme, 100 participants from 4 clusters, with about 3 farmer producer organizations, across Telangana and Maharashtra were selected, to be imparted managerial and leadership skills. We are about to scale-up the program with 400 rural women in two states in next two years. The vision of the program is to scale up to 10,000 rural women in 3 phases in the next 10 years.

Women imparted with these entrepreneurial skills are expected to become role models at two levels– start-up enterprises helping their household income multiple three times and also, take up leadership responsibilities in Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs - FPOs’) in a cluster of villages. This programme is built on the experiential learning framework, with 75% of time spent on structured practicum exercises covering foundational managerial concepts and 25% of the time allocated for facilitated classroom learning to reinforce the theoretical frameworks related to the concepts. The curriculum was structured around four pillars–Self-Transformation, Enterprise Skills, Enterprise Mindsets & Enterprise Excellence.

For this initiative, we are looking for: Program Lead

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU:

1. Lead the design of women entrepreneurship programme based on the principles of the

learning foundation.

2. Lead the scaling up of the programme to 10,000 rural women leaders across the country in the next five years

3. Build and maintain partnerships for the scaling up and implementation of the programme

4. Raise resources for the scaling up of the programme

5. Support in various aspects of program such as course selection, its scheduling, accessing financial aid and completing assessments.

6. Develops systems to identify, manage and monitor learning needs and progress of trainees in an effective and efficient manner.

7. Coordinate the development of reports and other analytics regarding trainee engagement

including attendance, academic progress and interventions etc.

8. Coordinate requirement of resource persons, select resource persons, build and maintain relationships with resource persons of diverse backgrounds.

SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES ESSENTIAL:

1. Passion for social change and entrepreneurship

2. Passion for alternate and non-conventional methods of teaching

3. Demonstrated ability to design curriculum, schedule and coordinate program.

4. Demonstrated ability to identify and build relationships with resource perso