Lead Consultant For Capacity Building Of Farmer Cooperative On Governance And Financial Management
We are an International Development Organization putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.
We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.
We are a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Our Vision
Practical Action’s vision is of a world that works better for everyone.

Our Aims
We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Our aims are to:
• Make agriculture work better for smallholder farmers, many of them women, so they can adapt to climate change and achieve a good standard of living
• Help more people harness the transformational effects of clean affordable energy and reduce avoidable deaths caused by smoke from indoor stoves and fires.
• Make cities in poorer countries cleaner, healthier places to live and work.
• Build disaster resilience into the lives of people threatened by hazards – reducing the risk of hazards and minimizing their impact on lives and livelihoods.

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How We Work
We work on holistic solutions that change systems and have a framework to help us achieve our aims:
• Analyze the root causes of a poverty and vulnerability
• Define the change at scale we need to make
• Develop activities along three complementary paths: Demonstrate, Learn and Inspire.
• Demonstrate that our solutions are sustainable in the real world
• Learn by capturing evidence and adapting our approach
• Inspire wider support to multiply our impact.

Our Organisation
Practical Action is an unconventional, multi-disciplinary change making organization
• A highly innovative community development charity operating in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Practical Action community projects use ingenious ideas to design, test, refine and prove new ways to overcome poverty and disadvantage and then ‘open-source’ knowledge of what works so that it can be implemented at a greater scale by others.
• A world-class consulting operation that helps socially responsible business, government policy makers and other development organizations. This draws on learnings from our own development work as well as the combined brainpower of a roster of over 2,000 expert consultants. Practical Action Consulting helps to extend the reach of our influence by providing the best advice to others, whose work can make a bigger difference.
• A well-respected specialist development publisher. Practical Action Publishing brings together development practitioners, researchers and thought leaders to create publications that stimulate discussion, strengthen peoples’ capabilities and inspire sustainable change.

Practical Action Rwanda
In Rwanda, we are recognized leaders in clean cooking and sustainable energy solutions. This includes ground-breaking work in solar, wind and water powered electricity generation, often delivered through independent mini-grids. We bring rural communities, people in refugee camps, energy providers and decision makers together to put sustainable, clean energy solutions to work for the people who need them most.
In our strategic business plan 2021-2025, we propose to extend our current reach and scope in Rwanda by deepening our energy work and stretching our portfolio to work with small holder farmers to make agriculture work better for them.
Within our agriculture ambition, Practical Action is implementing a 22 -months solar powered irrigation project in Mahama. The objective of the project is to improve lives and livelihoods in Mahama using productive use of energy for agriculture. This project works with both the refugees and host community in Mahama to demonstrate community-managed micro-irrigation systems to diversify livelihoods and enhance food security using regenerative agriculture system.

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About The Role
Background
Since the project has started its activities, the project aims at grouping individual farmers into cooperatives composed by the host community and refugees in Mahama camp. In particular, the cooperative capacity for operational management and financial management needs to be enhanced through specific training and close coaching program. Trainings on cooperative governance and management will better position the cooperative to improve operations, the overall business performance and profitability.

Job Purpose
The governance and financial management training and coaching program aims to enhance smallholder cooperative capacities in governance, financial and operational management.

The overall objectives of the consultancy provision are:
• To strengthen cooperative governance and establish transparent management systems
• to build capacity and equip the cooperative members with practical knowledge in governance leadership, the support services to be provided by cooperative board to their members, communication, gender, youth and people living with disabilities integration processes
• to build capacity and to equip Cooperative members with practical knowledge in business management with a focus on accounting, finance, and operations.
• to enable cooperative farmers to get basic concept of how to manage business ventures effectively and efficiently.
• To develop a long-term strategic plan and business plan in consultation with the cooperative board and members
• To develop a Manual of administrative and financial procedures and conduct related trainings

Submission Procedure
A detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) can be accessed from Practical Action WEBSITE
If you have the experience, skills and the ability we are looking for; please forward your application letter and updated CV by email to: recruitmentrwanda@practicalaction.org clearly indicating the subject as the Job title you are applying for.
The application deadline is 14th September 2022
Practical Action is an equal opportunities employer, and we encourage applications from under-represented groups. We stay committed to cultivating an inclusive and diverse working environment and believe that people from different backgrounds or cultures give us different perspectives, and the more perspectives we have, the more successful we will be. By building a culture where everyone feels heard, respected and valued we give everyone working with us the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further process