The/Nudge Hiring for Consultant, Operations – EUP, Ranchi Job at Rānchī

About our Organization

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.

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

We are solving for the bottom ~5-10% of the population in India which is tucked away and invisible to the outside world on the edges of remote villages, geographically isolated, socially and financially excluded, and economically excluded. Both markets and governments find it difficult to meaningfully support this segment.

• A typical ultra-poor household in India may have following indicators:
• annual household income of less than INR ~25000-35000
• tied to unpredictable wage labour
• living on less than 2 meals a day
• ownership of little or no land or productive asset (like livestock, bicycles)
• no savings (spend 80% of income on food)
• little or no access to social entitlements

Women in ultra-poor households are especially vulnerable; hence we directly engage with them at each household level.

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.

What are some of the principles/approaches we use to solve problems?

• First principles thinking
• Human-centered design (thoughtful, action-oriented, experimental & iterative process) with a gender lens
• Systems thinking (analytical, stakeholder-oriented, and holistic)
• Strategic planning (result oriented, logical, and coherent with clearly defined outcomes, grounded on the current realities)

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  Project Implementation and Monitoring (directly / indirectly) of the following
  • 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
  • Working 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
  • Organizing 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

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  Financial Management
  • 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

• Must have demonstrated growth mindset – learning continuously, improving, updating points of views & knowledge
• Must have demonstrated success in starting and leading initiatives
• Must have demonstrated ability to work under uncertainty, ability to articulate vision and secure buy-in from stakeholders
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
• Must have strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Must have the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups in a fast-paced environment
• Must have 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