Job Opportunity for Value Chain Lead, Asha Kiran at The Nudge Institute in Lucknow

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

About Asha Kiran:

Asha Kiran – the hope project is rebuilding the lives of extremely poor affected post-COVID-19 via a network of credible non-profits in partnership with the government. The project targets poor rural women, migrant/construction laborer families to provide immediate and long-term support with women at the center and by building on SHG networks. The/Nudge is working with Uttar Pradesh’s State Rural Livelihood Missions, non-profits, and private sector organizations to help scale the livestock models targeting the poor.

In an effort to promote rural livelihoods centred around small livestock management, we are working and scaling the livestock initiatives by providing research, value-chain design, capacity building, and technical support. This role will be part of the product team responsible for the design and development of livelihood solutions for the communities we serve.

At The/Nudge you will:

• own the end-to-end value chain development of backyard poultry and goats
• own operations and delivery of key metrics in value chain (input negotiations, output negotiations, linkage to backward and forward stakeholders)
• conduct strong negotiations with the input suppliers for sourcing the best product at competitive prices in order to reduce the cost of production of SHG members 
• develop and demonstrate high-quality marketing models for backyard poultry and goats
• put in place a market intelligence process so that SHG members can understand the market better and make decisions on selling their produce
• work closely with our program partners including but not limited to technical partners and manage relationships with all key stakeholders
• establish a robust technology-driven platform for input and output aggregation to leverage  scale advantage as well as to bring transparency in the whole system and ensure adoption by users through capacity building
• manage real-time data for both buyers and sellers for effective negotiation and liquidation of produce on time

Apply if you have:

• graduate, post-graduate degrees
• at least 8 years of work experience
• experience in the value chain of development of smallholders in the farm sector specific to livestock
• demonstrated ability to research, design, develop, pilot, and implement activities related to value chain and market linkages
• a strong bias for action and result-orientation
• excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
• demonstrated ability and willingness to learn continuously, collaborate and be open-minded
• a strong sense of ownership and the ability to work independently
• willingness to travel intensively in state and designated districts/block/panchayat and as per the needs of the program’s goals
• written and spoken fluency in Hindi, English

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.