The/Nudge Hiring for Consultant, Operations – End Ultra Poverty; Ranchi Job at Rānchī

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

What are we solving for in the End Ultra Poverty program?

End Ultra Poverty (EUP) program is solving for households in ultra-poverty through a targeted, multi-faceted and sequenced model called the graduation approach which has demonstrated that ultra-poverty can be conquered.

At The/Nudge we have been piloting this program for the past 3 years and are in the process of catalyzing propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to ending ultra-poverty in India. EUP will:

• continue to implement on its own to iterate the design for impact at scale

• enable more NGOs to adopt technical and capacity-building support

• enable govt to adopt by providing research, design, and implementation support

• continue to generate data on ultra-poverty and evidence on graduation approach to nudge governments to adopt at scale

• build technology solutions for NGOs and governments to adopt and implement at scale & with quality.

At The/Nudge you will:

• Hire, Motivate, Manage and help grow the field team for /up

• Implement the project activity as per Project Guideline / Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) and also help in improving and innovating

• Community mobilization, identification of social leaders and facilitate their capacity building process on health and nutrition issues, other social issues and sustainable livelihood activities

• Work in coordination with the social leaders of the community and overseeing their day to day activities to ensure quality inputs to the community and expected outcomes of the project

• Organize awareness building programs, training and workshop as per project implementation process & timeline

• Hand-holding and coaching support to community members through individual household visit, group facilitation for awareness generation on health and social issues, promotion of nutrition garden and sustainable livelihood activities

• Develop overall growth plans, quarterly, monthly and weekly action plans and implement the activities as per project guideline/SoP (Standard Operating Procedure)

• Collect project related data, maintain MIS as per M&E guideline of the project and report indicators in weekly/monthly/quarterly review meetings

• Facilitate the convergence process for ensuring entitlement of community members in coordination with field level staff and community resource persons

• Conduct field visit and observations to interact with the community and monitor overall progress of the project

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with local NGO staff, Panchayat and Block level development Officials and Govt.

• Documenting the best practices adopted in the project and make the overall program operationally efficient

• Work closely with Head of Program, Program Design team, Team Lead and senior program staff to shape program, drive growth, complete project deliverables within timeline

• Organize, Design, Plan and administer staff capacity building programs

• Coordinate with Head of Program, Head of Finance and adhere to finance & accounting SoPs

• Work closely with the accounts team to ensure that field level expenditure is managed in accordance with project budget

Apply if you have:

• Demonstrated growth mindset – learning continuously, improving, updating points of views & knowledge

• Demonstrated success in starting and leading initiatives

• Demonstrated ability to work under uncertainty, ability to articulate vision and secure buy-in from stakeholders

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

• Ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated ability to keep aside personal bias and do what is right for the community

• Written and spoken fluency in Hindi, English

• Graduation and post-graduation

• 2-5 years of experience preferably in working with communities and leading initiatives

• Openness to travel intensively and stay in state and designated districts/block/panchayat & as per the needs of the program’s goals

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.