Under the overall guidance of UN Women’s Deputy Country Representative and in direct supervisionof the Head of Sub Office KP, the Consultant will be responsible to contribute towards enhancing the skills of 1800 rural women and women farmers in district Khyber, Mohmand and Bajour around community financial literacy, savings, financial concerns, microfinance products, investment planning and collective market actions.

• Conduct assessment of the target audience to determine the financial literacy needs, current practices, methods of financial management, access to finance and identify gaps. Based on the assessment make an informed plan for achieving objectives of the assignment.
• Through strategic steps in advancing women economic empowerment; plan capacity development of target population in coverage area. Capacity development should include financial knowhow to work out simple arithmetic & calculation-oriented tasks, calculating cost of production in Inputs & services costing, Gross, and Net Profits after deducting liabilities, Profit and Loss statements with determination of net profits at individual or gross terms, Inventory & Stock positioning for available stocks after supplies etc.
• Support understanding on use of savings, investments, profit & loss, and financial opportunities, arrange groups for community savings and adoption of basic investment at community level, individual’s share and share in profit & losses, planning for individual and collective investments, roles & responsibilities to shoulder by nominated members in the collective bargaining/marketing structure.
• Provide guidance and facilitation in case of need to register & link marketing collectives with appropriate authorities.
• Facilitate access to micro financial products through commercial and state-owned banks and institutions.
• Enhance leadership qualities and skills to muster women members to gather for collective action in response to market demands and trends etc.
• To encourage and support rural women to embrace leadership roles in businesses and day to day domestic life matters.

Requirements: 

• Master`s Degree in finance, business, economics, management sciences or relevant fields.
• Trainings undertaken relevant to the assignment are an asset.
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in financial development, financial literacy, community development and facilitation to train and support rural women /female framers at field level.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting research and assessments and developing modules and plans as per the results achieved from the research reports.
• Must have work experience at KP/FATA level and familiarity of the local context, challenges, and opportunities with respect to supporting women economic and social empowerment.
• Must have access to and good working relations with centers having ample learning and expertise resources to main and sub sectors in thematic areas of the assignment.
• Demonstrated experience of leading women groups in agriculture, livestock and farm enterprises/businesses.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity development and support roles to help rural women and female farmers.
• Adequate knowledge of gender issues, legislations, human rights issues specifically in the context of rural areas of KP including merged districts.
• Good liaison and working relations with women networking forums, public & private sector office bearers etc. for access to technical and support services etc.
• Proved good report writing skills in English.
• Excellent communication skills in local languages, to communicate sensitively, effectively, and creatively.
• Experience of working with the Government, Academia, NGOs and/ or international organizations.
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.