Position Overview
Position Summary
Women’s World banking is seeking an experienced and motivated Consultant to lead the strategic implementation and execution of a project focused on strengthening, standardizing, and leveraging digital financial records within the self-help group (SHG) ecosystem. This role will involve intensive collaboration with State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs), financial institutions, and community-based organizations to drive the adoption and utilization of digital platform (LokOS) for widespread economic benefits, primarily through enhanced credit access.
The ideal candidate will be a blend of a data strategist, project manager, and ecosystem expert with a proven track record of translating data into tangible business cases and social impact.
Roles and Responsibilities
The consultant will be responsible for executing the project's strategic pillars:
- Strengthening and Standardizing Digital Records
- Data Verification & Quality Assurance: Lead collaboration with NRLM & SRLMs, SHG federations, and e-book keepers to verify and validate LokOS data collected to date, ensuring high standards of accuracy and completeness.
- Data Standardisation & Alignment: Define and implement standardised data formats and indicators within LokOS, ensuring direct alignment with the underwriting requirements of financial institutions (lenders) and specific Government scheme guidelines.
- User-Centric Reporting: Design and facilitate the development of member-facing dashboards/reports and guided reporting tools that enable SHG/VO/CLFs/SRLM to derive meaningful insights and operational value from their own data.
- Leveraging Credit as Primary Adoption Driver
- Use Case Development: Serve as the primary liaison with financial institutions to directly integrate LokOS data with their lending workflows. This includes designing the technical and process-level solutions for the seamless, secure transfer of verified data into credit appraisal systems.
- Credit-Linked Adoption Strategy: Define and map user journeys and processes where timely and appropriately sized credit becomes a direct, predictable outcome of maintaining accurate digital records, thereby reinforcing the sustained practice of digital data management.
- Institutionalizing Integration, Convergence and feedback loop
- Scheme Mapping & Targeting: Analyse and map the LokOS architecture and data fields to relevant Government schemes to enable precise beneficiary targeting and seamless enrolment processes.
- Market Linkage Pilots: Support and guide market linkage pilot projects where authenticated enterprise data from LokOS can be leveraged to secure credit from lending institutions
- Policy & System Feedback: Institutionalise robust feedback loops between all key stakeholders—SRLMs, federations, lenders, and the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)—to guide ongoing LokOS enhancements, feature development, and overall policy alignment.
Required Qualifications
Experience
- A minimum of 6-8 years of professional experience in project management, data strategy, business analysis, or consulting, preferably in the financial inclusion and social development.
- Proven hands-on experience with data analysis, modelling, and visualization tools to extract insights, and define use cases.
Knowledge & Skills
- Deep understanding of the NRLM/SRLM ecosystem, its governance structure, community institutions (like SHGs and Federations), and operational processes.
- Familiarity with digital financial inclusion platforms, specifically LokOS, is a significant advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable use cases and design simplified, effective user journeys for diverse stakeholders.
- Strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and presentation skills.
Education
- A master’s degree in a relevant field such as Management, Economics, Data Science, Public Policy or Rural Management.
How to Apply
- Applications must be received no later than November 10, 2025 at midnight IST.
- Please include the below in your application:
- Cover letter
- Availability; and
- Resume / CV
- Applicants may submit their question(s) in writing until November 5, 2025 to pfs@womensworldbanking.org. Please include in the e-mail subject line “Questions: Consultant: Digital Ecosystem & Data Strategy".
Note: This RFP/RFQ does not guarantee or commit Women’s World Banking to proceeding with the above-described work. Due to the overwhelming responses, not all candidates will be contacted.
Women’s World Banking is an equal opportunity employer for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
Women’s World Banking will be unable to contract with any individual who is US citizen or resident without an LLC or LP or similar structure.
About Women's World Banking
We believe in being a force for the greater good, devoted to accelerating and growing the financial inclusion of women. With rapidly changing markets, influenced by technology and social behavioral expectations, we are embarking on a new chapter to transform the way we design and implement solutions.
For over 40 years, Women’s World Banking has partnered with financial institutions, showing them the benefit of investing in women as customers. We equip these institutions with in-depth research and data driven insights to develop financial products and educational programs. While our clients are financial service providers, our mission is to engage consumers – women who are marginalized by financial systems.
Women’s World Banking and WWB Asset Management is an equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.
