Job Opportunity for Project Manager – Entrepreneurship at NASCOMM Foundation in Noida

Location: Noida
Reporting To: Sr. Manager, Programs

About Us

As the social arm of NASSCOM, NASSCOM Foundation is working with industry in achieving its goals of social transformation and impact through technology. Over a decade of our existence, we have touched more than one million lives through our efforts towards providing digital literacy, skills for livelihood, supporting Persons with disabilities, empowering Non-profits with technology and engaging in volunteerism. Our vision is to Leverage technology to create an inclusive and progressive India.

Key Responsibilities

NASSCOM Foundation’s ‘Skills Initiative and Entrepreneurship’ works to bridge the skilling gaps and support in building and upskilling entrepreneurship ecosystem in India towards its goals of social transformation and impact through technology. The Foundation helps the donor organizations finalize various aspects of the Skill-based CSR intervention targeted towards empowering women entrepreneurs. These include skill-need discovery and identifying gaps with women entrepreneurs that can be addressed with tech-based upskilling, course curriculum and the region of intervention. We work with training partners to plan for entrepreneurship training, upskilling and setting up SME’s/Startup’s, targeted towards women and the marginalized. The Foundation has a strong focus to nurture entrepreneurship ecosystem in order to provide sustainable economic growth especially involving women, youth and people with disabilities. We work towards equipping beneficiaries with multiple skill sets including digital and financial with a special focus on technology. vision to build an inclusive and sustainable India by leveraging the capabilities and competencies of the IT/BPM industry.

As key member of the team, s/he/they will be managing the Skilling and Entrepreneurship initiatives of NASSCOM Foundation. Broad structure of responsibilities is noted below.

• Manage and be part of large-scale entrepreneurship /CSR projects.
• Work with state teams and local partners/NGO’s to implement scalable entrepreneurship strategies for testing locally appropriate and innovative projects.
• Contribute to identifying research priorities, initiate research in key areas towards entrepreneurship development and upskilling.
• knowledge in project monitoring & evaluation (M&E), project-implementation-plan (PIP), impact evaluation and ToC framework’
• Experienced with the entrepreneurship development ecosystem, maintains and builds trusted relationships with key donors, partners, and stakeholders in the sector.
• Adept with documentation and reporting as per internal / external requirements.
• Ensure all projects are delivered on time within the stipulated scope and budget
• Coordinate with internal and external parties for the flawless execution of projects.
• Manage budgets or grants as per the expectations and compliance.
• Develop & execute projects and services that generate value for all stakeholders, own the overall responsibility for the successful execution of the project.
• Ensure adoption of best practices in projects created and executed.
• Any other incidental work as and when required.

Key Requirements

• Updated on relevant technology initiatives/components/tools adding value to the entrepreneurship ecosystem with experience in related project implementation.
• Contribute to planning entrepreneur portfolio development, determining resource requirements and resource mobilization strategies.
• Support efforts to develop new institutional mechanisms/arrangements for entrepreneur program strategy.
• Identify key public and private institutions and pursue partnerships towards developing entrepreneurship projects.
• Updated on emerging technologies and can provide need based technical assistance to stakeholders across assigned entrepreneur projects of NF.
• Establish professional linkages with individuals / institutions to develop partnerships in line with the entrepreneur strategy-guided partnership maps
• Experience of managing Stakeholder/government relationship would be an added advantage.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills (fluency in Hindi is desirable)
• Experience in rural project implementation and team management.
• We need change makers to drive our inclusive tech agenda.
• Passion and commitment towards bringing a social change.

Experience

• Master’s degree or above in business administration/engineering/arts with 8+ years of post -qualification in skilling and entrepreneurship.
• Proven track record of entrepreneurship project management.
• Experience in multi-sector development and non-profit organisation is desirable.
• Demonstrated expertise in sectoral writing-for-sharing, knowledge curation and dissemination.

If you are looking for a challenging assignment and the above profile sounds like you, please send your resume at hiring@nasscomfoundation.org

NASSCOM Foundation is an equal opportunity & diversity sensitive employer and women, person with disability, LGBTQIA+ are especially encouraged to apply.