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.
In this role, you will:
- Investigate legislation and policies to determine their effects on larger society and intended target groups
- Conduct research and collaborate with MoSJE and those with aligned mandates
- Gather and analyze data and statistics from various sources, like surveys and databases, to plug into existing mandates
- Write reports of research findings and summaries/reviews of current policies
- Write policy proposals explaining the potential impacts, costs and benefits of the change
- Present reports and proposals to government employees, politicians and public audiences
What are we looking for:
- Strong understanding of databases, analytical tools, and research methodologies
- Strong experience with Excel including the ability to use data visualization software is required; experience with SPSS or other statistical software is preferred.
- Prior experience in working with government/s preferred, between 5 and 8 years of work experience overall.
- Master’s Degree in Public policy, Political Science, Public Administration, Statistics, International Relations, Legal studies, Sociology, Economics
- Strong written and oral communication skills
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.