The/Nudge Institute Looking for Senior Associate/Associate Manager, Tech-Product Program Rollout at Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

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.

About the role:

As part of our partnership with the government on the EUP program, The/Nudge Institute has been given the mandate to build out a tech product to enable the implementation of the Graduation Approach; in conjunction with the National & State Rural Livelihood Missions (NRLM/ SRLMs). You will play a pivotal role in rolling out this first-of-its-kind tech product intended for use in Graduation Approach programs for 2 state schemes in Jharkhand.

In this role, you will:

• Plan and manage rollouts of the tech product in 2 Jharkhand state schemes in conjunction with product and operations teams

• Work with government stakeholders at the SRLM to coordinate on and manage rollout related dependencies

• Plan for and manage go-live and ongoing support for our users (field operation teams) for these 2 programs

• Engage closely with our Ultra Poor Change Makers (who are our primary users) to ensure that they have the best possible user experience

• Create and disseminate training materials for the tech product

• Coordinate testing efforts with tech analysts in the program teams and collate feedback (within the dev cycle/ on an ongoing basis/ for field user tests)

• Manage user and role access as part of the program rollout

Apply if you:

• have a strong motivation to contribute to poverty alleviation efforts in India

• are willing to make periodic field visits to understand the program and the users for whom the tech product is being built

• have a strong user focus and are enthusiastic about delivering the best possible user experience

• work with a high level of rigor – especially in project planning and in mapping dependencies

• have 2-5 years of work experience in project management in tech related projects

• have the ability to work in a fast paced, ambiguous startup environment (bias for action and curiosity to learn)

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