Location: Can have a base in Bangalore or Ahmedabad, but frequent travel will be required to program locations (States: Karnataka, Rajasthan and Gujarat)
Preferred Qualification: Graduates, Post-Graduate
Experience:
~15 years of experience
Experience in managing operations at scale / building operations to scale
Experience in managing and coaching high performance teams
Experience in building and driving partnerships to scale within rural development and government ecosystems.
Must haves :
Must have willingness to travel to remote rural locations in India to set up / run operations
Must have demonstrated growth mindset - learning continuously and improving
Must have the willingness to listen to feedback and work to improve
Must have high self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses
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
Requirement: Should be open to stay and travel in deep rural areas
Remuneration: Competitive w.r.t Development Sector Organizations
Languages: Written and spoken fluency in Hindi, English
Position Overview
While the top 5-10% of India is benefiting from a growing economy and is exposed to opportunities that are unprecedented in India’s history there is a bottom 5-10% in the same India tucked away and invisible to the outside world on the edges of remote villages, geographically isolated, social and financially excluded, economically excluded and unable to meaningfully participate or gain from this growth of the country.
Thankfully, we now have evidence from multiple global studies of approaches that are targeted, multi-faceted and sequenced that have demonstrated impact that is scalable.
Our goal is to help serve 1 million households in the next 5 years in partnership with government and non-profit organizations. We have made good progress towards the goal with presence and partnerships across 7 Indian states and a 200+ member team.
We are looking for an Associate Director, Head - Operations, West & Central, End Ultra-Poverty to join us in this journey, own the growth and scale of our programs in West & Central regions of India, in partnership with the government and non-profit organizations.
Key outcomes
To delivery impact at scale for our programs targeting the poorest of poor in partnership with government and non-profit organizations
To build a high performance operations team across multiple states that will deliver on above outcomes in partnership with government and through direct implementations
To partner with and manage partnerships with state governments to support them with implementation at scale
To deliver on results as well as to uplevel partnerships with governments for scale-up
To deliver quality & operational excellence by way of strengthening capacity of teams and implementation of technology and processes
To collaborate with Product teams, who are accountable to design, in partnership with operations and other stakeholders, for impact and scale
To collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure high quality implementation
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.