Job Description

About The/Nudge: The/Nudge is an action institute working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime. We partner with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. We are a collective of some of India\'s best leaders and entrepreneurs from across the industry, academia, government, and development sectors, and our work is organized across three impact streams: Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE): exists to enable underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives Centre for Rural Development (CRD): exists to enable families to come out of extreme poverty Centre for Social Innovation (CSI): exists to nudge top talent to solve India\'s biggest challenges About Asha Kiran: Asha Kiran - the hope project is rebuilding the lives of extremely poor affected post-COVID-19 via a network of credible non-profits in partnership with the government. The project targets poor rural women, migrant/construction laborer families to provide immediate and long-term support with women at the center and by building on SHG networks. This role will drive the delivery of livelihood models in partnership with Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission. The/Nudge is working with Uttar Pradesh\'s State Rural Livelihood Missions, non-profits, and private sector organizations to help scale the livestock models targeting the poor. In this effort, the delivery team needs to work with the UPSRLM to implement goatery and backyard poultry models on the ground. Delivery includes demonstrating prototypes which are then to be scaled across the state. This role will work with UPSRLM\'s state, district, and block units, provide them technical and implementation support, set up SoPs, guidelines, and processes from the state to the village organization level. This role will ensure operational excellence including strong field implementation, capacity development of the team, adherence to processes, strong data collection and reporting, implementation of strong governance mechanisms, and relationship management with key stakeholders at the state, district, and block levels. At The/Nudge you will: support State Rural Livelihood Mission build strong relationships with departments responsible for welfare access and sustainable rural livelihoods set-up and run project management units to aid government departments to improve outcomes identify unmet needs, break down problem statements, and help implement solutions help CSOs improve relationships, partnerships, and meaningfully leverage expertise, infrastructure, and resources of government departments Support program strategy and implementation build implementation design, processes for geo-specific and thematic-area specific interventions align strategy and implementation of priorities of the program undertake missions to onboard participants through innovative and highly effective methodologies support the design of key products for rural livelihood and implement the same ensure adoption and retention of livelihoods by enrolled participants work with program management and M&E team to track, record, and disseminate progress collect feedback and close loop; ensure timely and organized communication Apply if you have: graduate, post-graduate degrees 2 to 4 years of experience working with government departments - especially rural portfolios (agriculture, irrigation, tribal & social welfare, SRLMs) experience managing work on welfare access and/or sustainable livelihoods in private and non-governmental organizations experience working with community cadre, SHGs, and Community Institutions a strong personal drive to excel and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills strong result-orientation and ownership demonstrated ability and willingness to learn continuously, to collaborate, and to be open-minded demonstrated ability to deliver results under pressure and the ability to work with internal and/or external stakeholders, especially the government willingness to travel intensively in state and designated districts/block/panchayat and as per the needs of the program\'s goals written and spoken fluency in Hindi and English We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.

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