External Trainer for Capacity Building Program
Job Summary
Job Description
WRI India seeks external training providers for a capacity-building program focused on decarbonization and productivity improvement for MSMEs in the automotive component manufacturing sector in Chennai and Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The program aims to enhance the climate resilience of MSMEs and their workers. Training will cover topics like energy conservation, energy efficiency, waste management, and lean tools application. The learning design includes classroom training, on-site workshops, and individual unit-level training for MSME owners, managers, and workers. The engagement duration is 8 months, with training activities spanning resource efficiency and energy efficiency across various participant groups.
Must have:
- Experience in training MSMEs and their workers.
- Expertise in decarbonization, energy efficiency, and lean tools.
- Ability to co-create training plans.
- Conduct training programs and provide updates.
- Handle training presentations and share materials.
- Conduct virtual advisory sessions.
Good to have:
- Experience with automotive component manufacturing MSMEs.
- Access to training facilities like laboratories and instruments.
1 skill required
Job Details
About the Organization
WRI India, an independent charity legally registered as the India Resources Trust, provides objective information and practical proposals to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable development. WRI India’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, WRI India puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being. We are inspired by and associated with the World Resources Institute, a global research organization. Currently over 400 researchers are working with WRI India in our offices at Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
About the Project: Background and objectives -
MSMEs and their workers are the backbone of our economy, and while they are known to be resourceful and nimble to work within their resource constraints, they are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate change poses risks to MSMEs, including damage to physical assets, infrastructure services, increased financial risks, regulatory uncertainties, market fluctuations and supply chain disruptions. This is potentially devastating to economies and livelihoods. Furthermore, Indian MSMEs find it difficult to access finance and build climate resilience. Their response to the climate crisis is also plagued by limited awareness, regulatory challenges, and complex policy norms.
Given this context, WRI India is undertaking capacity building of Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs) to support them in building climate resilience, with the objective to support MSMEs and their workers with the right capacity to respond to threats posed by the climate change. We aim to support Indian MSMEs in Automobile industry in Chennai and Coimbatore city of Tamil Nadu undertaking work to strengthen their resilience and taking necessary steps to future proof their business models within a changing climate. In building the sector's resilience, we intend to ensure that marginalized MSMEs and the people employed are included in the discussions and are engaged in shaping the outcomes. We also want to focus on bringing about gender parity in the selected sectors.
Program participants, profile and status (as on date)
This focussed capacity building trainings will comprise of topics under the pillar of decarbonization, which includes energy conservation and audit, lean tools application etc .The training will support MSME workers to practically understand how to decarbonize unit operations, undertake energy efficiency and waste management measures in their unit through lean tools applications.
Learning Design
The program offers a blended learning design starting with classroom type trainings, practical on site workshops , and individual unit level trainings.
Scope of work
WRI India plans to utilise services of external training providers for undertaking capacity building program focussed on the topics of decarbonization and productivity improvement with experience of training MSME and its workers. We are seeking proposals from established training service providers/ professionals/ institutions for the same.
Approach
The training program will involve:
- Training program for MSME owners , mid level managers and shop floor workers.
- Unit level trainings to support MSME in understanding implementation of productivity improvement tools.
Deliverables
The training partner, will be responsible for undertaking the following field activities with support from the WRI India team:
- Co-creating a training plan along with the WRI India team. The training plan can be subject to modification to account for any changes in the conditions on the ground with the agreement of both the training Partner team and the WRI India team.
- The training partner will conduct training programs and WRI Team will identify and provide logistic support for the training of MSME units for the selected cluster.
- Training partner will assign lead trainers from conducting training programs and will discuss regular updates on the trainings and the progress of the work with the assigned member from the WRI India team.
- Training partner will handle training presentations (PPT/on-site discussion) – and will share all training material including photos and videos taken during training. All training material shared will be property of WRI India.
- In consultation with WRI India team, Training partner will conduct one-on-one virtual advisory sessions (30 minutes to 1 hour each) with 10 MSMEs — 5 each in Chennai and Coimbatore — with two sessions per MSME over the course of the engagement. The engagement can be increased to 50 MSME units based on mutually agreement after the conduct of this pilot intervention.
Intervention Type |
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Target Audience | Automotive component manufacturing MSME units – MSME owners and workers. |
Location | Coimbatore and Chennai |
Engagement Duration | 8 Months period from the date of contract. |
Beneficiaries to be trained | WRI team will provide the list of MSME workers to be trained. Number of workers to be trained per batch will be mutually decided. |
Duration:
We aim to complete the training program within 8 months of selecting a suitable agency/ professional. Proposed Training schedule will be as under:
Sno | Venue | Training Topic and Expected duration | Expected Participants |
1 | Three MSME Units | Resource Efficiency (Lean) Unit-level Trainings: 3 Units x 2 Half Day Sessions each | List to be provided by WRI India team. |
2 | To be shared by WRI team | Resource Efficiency (Lean) Worker Training: Half Day Session | |
3 | To be shared by WRI team | Energy Efficiency Worker Training: Full Day Session | |
4 | Three MSME Units | Energy Efficiency Unit-level Trainings: 3 Units x 1 Half Day Sessions each | |
5 | To be shared by WRI team | Resource Efficiency (Lean) mid level managers TOT Training: 2.5 Days | |
6 | To be shared by WRI team | Energy Efficiency Supervisor TOT Training (Training using demonstration approach - Energy efficiency lab expected) : 2.5 Days |
Selection Criteria
We are looking forward to receiving technical and financial proposal to undertake the aforesaid capacity building activities. The technical proposals will be assessed on the following criteria:
- The technical expertise of the trainer/organization on the subject matter.
- Training Facilities (e.g laboratory, instruments etc) available with the agency
- Prior training experience with MSMEs and with other reputed clientele of the agency.
Location: Chennai and Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
Request for Proposal:
The financial proposal should include a breakup summary of all cost heads proposed including expenses, service fee, travel (if any), etc.
Table 1: Milestones, Timelines and Payment Schedule
S. No. | Milestone | Tentative Timeline | Tasks and Deliverables | Payment Schedule |
1. | Award of Contract | T (Date of signing of contract) |
| After completion of each training session and receipt of hard copy of invoice along with all necessary original receipts and approval by program manager. |
Training program content and date finalisation & start of project execution. | T+1month |
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2. | Completion of all training programs and submission of invoices | T+ 8 months. |
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Start date:
Interested parties are requested to submit their proposals by 27 June 2025 at arunachalam.venkatraman@wri.org and supratheesh.t@wri.org
For any queries, contact:
Mr. Arunachalam Venkatraman, Program Manager
Chennai
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