TOR for Program Manager – Central India

Vacancy Announcement: Program Manager – Central India

Location: Remote

Fairtrade Network of Asia and Pacific Producers:

Fairtrade NAPP is a Network of Fairtrade certified Producers in Asia Pacific region registered in Singapore as a nonprofit entity. NAPP is a part of a global organization Fairtrade International, working to secure a better deal for farmers and workers in Asia and Pacific. Currently NAPP has 284 Producer Organizations across 20 countries in Asia and Pacific Region supporting more than 260,000 farmers and workers. NAPP's mission is to facilitate the incorporation of more producers to be able to join the Fairtrade movement in Asia and thePacific through an existing wide range of products and services. For more information please visit:

Fairtrade Network of Asia and Pacific Producers (NAPP) is seeking
Program Manager – Central India
. The position is envisioned to start on
25
th
Sep 2025.

Fairtrade NAPP (Network of Asia and Pacific Producers) is committed to supporting certified producer organizations to meet Fairtrade standards, enhance their capacities, and contribute to sustainable development. The Program Manager (PM) will play a key role in delivering field support, building partnerships, and expanding Fairtrade's impact in
Central India
. NAPP is seeking a dynamic, results oriented development professional with excellent grassroots training skills and motivation to continue working at the grassroots level. The candidate must possess excellent critical thinking and conflict management skills, as well as communication skill suitable for remote team participation.

Deliverables:

1.    Producer Services

• Assess needs and situation and propose custom recommendations to best support Producer Organisations (POs) - SPO/HL/CP organisations in Fairtrade system assigned to you.
• Work as a seamless conduct in transfer of information from producers to NAPP management and vice versa
• Responsible for supporting PO's in the development and improvement of Fairtrade development plans and responsible for supporting premium committees in the development premium plans
• Provide direct technical assistance to Members in development of business strategic plans, marketing plans related to business development and growth requirements
• Act as a key point of contact for member and producer organization queries, ensuring that, as far as possible, issues are dealt with promptly and efficiently
• Coordinates NAPP and other stakeholder contact with member organisations
• Advises NAPP regional team on how best to meet membership needs and the packaging of such support, and leads the roll out of such support
• Prepare and submit project field reports within the approved MEL framework

2.  Identify business Opportunities and Programs

• In liaison with the Regional General Manager for your region, and the fundraising team identify opportunities for programmes and projects development
• With the Regional General Manager and the Markets team, coordinate responses to market queries regarding Fairtrade market opportunities
• Support trader engagement function in your country in coordination with markets and supply chain support team
• Assess value chain interventions for producer organization to ensure that they are dynamic, competitive and robust.
• Ensure value chain interventions make the products more internationally competitive price and quality-wise

3.    Certification Advisory support

• Oversee support in pre and post certification support mainly conducted by Fairtrade officers of various producer organizations
• New applicant support – on gap assessment on certification benchmarks and current status
• Preparation of the PO for audit – for both existing POs and new applicants.
• Post: support POs in corrective measures
• Flagging major non compliances to the Regional General Managers and planning support on corrective measures
• Follow up of PO performance to prevent getting to suspension stage

4.    Stakeholder Management Support

• Represent NAPP in appropriate country level events / forums
• Build strong relationships with external and internal stakeholders to determine needs and requirements
• Understand producer needs and concerns and ensure these needs are communicated appropriately among stakeholders for NAPP's benefit

5.    Program and Project Management Support

• Establish a business case for each project, supported by budget information and income projections.
• Monitor operational activities and effectiveness of results, and outcomes
• Lead the project implementation in your country, with support from Regional General Manager, participating POs, hired resource persons/partner organisations, and move provide effective project management as required
• Develop programmes and work plans for Training of Trainers (ToTs) for Fairtrade Officers of POs or other relevant stakeholders

6.    Financial responsibilities

• Overall responsibility in ensuring the implementation of NAPP financial and accounting SOP and rules
• Work with Finance and Admin officer and consolidate reports from the region and submit to CEO, COO ,Finance controller and MEL Manager
• Prepare and manage overall annual regional budgets
• Involved in financial resource mobilization for the region programmes through regional fundraising strategy and plans
• Participate in audits and submit the required reports on as needed basis

7.    Required Qualifications & Experience

• A graduate degree in Agriculture & or allied subjects like Horticulture/Forestry with a management degree from a reputed institute.
• Experience in working with agriculture value chains.
• Desired work experience – 5 years in agri-business environment.
• Language proficiency in English, Hindi and local language a must. Knowledge of Oriya and Marathi an added advantage
  .
• Must be self-motivated individual who can work on minimal supervision.
• Should be a team player and must be comfortable working with cross – cultural and cross – functional teams.
• This job and will require 10-12 days of travel per month.

8.    Reporting structure

• The position reports into The Regional General Manager (South Asia).·

9.    Employment type & Fees

• Type of Job:
  Full -time employment
• Consultant Fees
  : The compensation will be based on the Qualification and experience in alignment with the salary structure of the organization.

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If interested, please send your resume to

before
17
th
September 2025
. Kindly send us 750 words write up on how you will use your skill sets to contribute to the organization and provide two references. NAPP is an equal opportunity employer and women candidates are encouraged to apply. There will be a mandatory probation period as per HR policy.

How to apply

Interested candidates are requested to share the CV with motivation letter to on or before
17
th
September 2025.