Job Opportunity for Research Consultant at Sattva in Gurugram

Position: Research Consultant | Digital Platforms

Contract: 12 months
Work Experience: 4-6 years
Location: Gurugram

About the organisation 

We are an organisation driven by the mission to end poverty in our lifetime. Our work focuses on scalable solutions for sustainable social impact. We work with our clients – corporations, philanthropists, foundations and social organisations – to achieve social impact goals effectively and maximise the social return on their investment. Deep understanding across sectors and collaboration with multiple stakeholders drive our work. This approach helps us and our clients develop holistic solutions for solving critical societal problems.

We are driven by impact and powered by knowledge. We bring the right balance of the head-heart-hand to our work. Our work is powered by the passionate energy of our mission-driven young team, guided by strong leadership and an advisory board with multi-dimensional experience in business and social sectors.

Our team of 500+ across offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi comes with stellar professional credentials from diverse backgrounds and is bound together by our common commitment to social impact.

About SKI 

Sattva Knowledge Institute (SKI), established in 2022, is our official knowledge platform at Sattva. The SKI platform aims to guide investment decisions for impact, shedding light on urgent problems and high-potential solutions so that stakeholders can build greater awareness and a bias towards concerted action. Our focus is on offering solutions over symptoms, carefully curating strong evidence-based research, and engaging decision-makers actively with our insights. Overall, SKI aims to shift intent and action toward greater impact by influencing leaders with knowledge. All our content proactively leverages the capabilities, experience and proprietary data across Sattva.

The Opportunity 

The Research Consultant will be integral to the Digital Platform practice team. The team focuses on knowledge at the intersection of Social Impact and Technology. The team focuses on digital public infrastructure, digital public goods, digital platforms, deployment of platforms for impact and imagining use cases for impact. In the past 12 months, we have covered topics such as Aadhar, India Stack, Open credit enablement network, Open network for digital commerce, Digital Ecosystem for Skilling and Livelihood, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, National Digital Education Architecture and so on. The sectors the team will focus on are digital financial inclusion, education, livelihoods, jobs, health, India for the world and climate in the coming months.

The role not only explores deep research but gives exposure to take your research to a broader audience, engage the ecosystem, influence leaders and work with Sattva’s Consulting team to develop investible ideas for the philanthropic ecosystem, thereby closing the loop from imagination, validation and action.

• Develop and lead end-to-end knowledge properties (KP) for the practiceIdentifying and developing key topics to signal the ecosystem with the knowledge outputs.
• Conducting rigorous secondary and primary research to uncover the insights.
• Structuring and performing analysis, synthesising the information to write critical insights, forming new understanding and voice.
• Lead developing ideas, insights and research pieces through strong writing in long format, develop
• PPT presentation with diagrams and representations of ideas.
• Ensure end-to-end completion of knowledge outputs.
• Package the knowledge for consumption by the audienceSupport communications team with proofreading and quality control of the knowledge properties
• Support the Design team with the packaging of the KPs.
• Support communications team with publishing
• Ensure wide reach of the KPsDevelop a strong social media presence on LinkedIn and Twitter by regularly reaching out to the ecosystem with knowledge outputs.
• Develop 2-3 recycle blog posts for external publications
• Support with developing Infographics for existing knowledge outputs
• Regularly guest posts on mainstream websites where Sattva has developed partnerships.
• Lead internal communications of KPs to Managers, leadership and client teams.
• Support in ecosystem engagement to develop influence, networks and actionSupport in curating online webinars of the KPs.
• Participate in offline and online events to network, develop perspective
• Support in curating closed-door roundtables for deep engagement with ecosystem leaders
• Support in developing partnerships with ecosystem organisations

Key qualifications and experiences

• Minimum 4 to 6 years of professional experience in either role of knowledge, research, or business consulting.
• Interest in the digital platform, technology and social impact sectors and/or research (relevant working experience would be an advantage)
• Demonstrate strong writing, articulation, research, communication, consulting, problem-solving, and insight-generation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to identify business issues, form hypotheses, design and conduct analyses, and synthesise conclusions into recommendations.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with people at all levels in an organization
• Demonstrated curiosity to learn more
• Good time-management skills and a flexible attitude, with the ability to meet tight deadlines and handle simultaneous work streams
• Willing to work in a highly demanding and result-oriented team environment
• Entrepreneurial and a self-starter who enjoys the challenges and rewards of knowledge consulting work in a dynamic and changing environment
• Exception skills to communicate and writing complex ideas effectively in English through PPT, Word, or Excel