Internship Opportunity – Junior Consultant/Intern at The Udaiti Foundation in Lucknow

Position: Junior Consultant/Intern (short-term engagement)

Location: Delhi/Lucknow

Tenure: 2-3 months

About The Udaiti Foundation

The Udaiti Foundation (TUF) is a not-for-profit organisation working on advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in India. Our focus is on improving the availability and accessibility of quality work for women, engaging the private sector to address demand side barriers to women’s work and entrepreneurship, and creating enablers that can allow for the WEE ecosystem to engage in proven models for creating impact.

The Udaiti Foundation is a portfolio organisation under The Convergence Foundation (TCF) and is backed by Ashish Dhawan, a private equity investor turned philanthropist and founder of TCF. Udaiti is supported by an eminent panel of advisors that comprises Sri Ranjan (Former Chairperson – Bain & Co.), Dr. Sekhar Bono (Former Director, NITI Aayog & ADB), Aditya Ghosh (Business Leader – Indigo, OYO, SEWA), Manisha Dhawan (Trustee, The Convergence Foundation), Prof. Ashwini Deshpande (Founding Director, CEDA, Ashoka University), Shaveta Sharma-Kukreja (MD, Central Square Foundation) and Megha Chawla (Partner, Bain & Co).

About the Project and Technical Support Unit

Uttar Pradesh is a front-runner in India’s economic success story. The state has the third highest gross state domestic product among states, growing at 7.6% CAGR over the last 5 years (at par with national average). However, despite a strong demographic advantage, the state has one of the lowest labour force participation rates (LFPR) among top state economies primarily due to a low female participation in the labour market. Uttar Pradesh ranks at 25 out of 28 states with female LFPR of 22.6%.

The state envisions building a USD 1 trillion economy by 2027. To achieve this transformative 4x economic growth, the government must bring in women as key partners in the state’s economic growth story. To realise this potential, The Udaiti Foundation is supporting the setting up of a WEE technical support unit (Policy Innovation Unit) under the Department of Planning, Uttar Pradesh. This unit would provide strategic support to advance the WEE agenda in the state and accelerate meaningful participation of women in the workforce, and also ensure alignment with the trillion dollar economy mission.

Position Summary

We are looking to hire a junior consultant/intern for a period of two months. The candidate  should be self-driven, diligent, intellectually curious, and passionate towards working on government projects, and should have strong analytical, presentation, and writing skills.

The intern would be responsible for supporting the team working on the UP engagement for undertaking landscape analysis, prioritisation of intervention areas, and development of M&E frameworks. Specific activities would include:

• Conduct secondary research on public policy issues across multiple departments and sectors (labour, industry, skills, education, employment, MSME etc.)
• Undertake extensive analysis of the economic, industry, employment and labour trends within Uttar Pradesh and across other states and translate the findings into reports and presentations
• Support the team in creating frameworks and processes for the M&E systems
• Support consultations with multiple government departments and implementation stakeholders as advised and undertake any other responsibility that may come from time to time
• Support the team in creation of knowledge products, lead the documentation and reporting work related to the interventions/pilots

Required Qualification, Skills & Abilities:

• Currently in Bachelor or Masters’ degree in relevant fields, including business or development sector management, economics, public administration, public policy or gender studies or a recent graduate
• Familiarity with gender, livelihoods or entrepreneurship programs is desirable.
• Technical skills for data analysis (strong proficiency in Excel, working knowledge of statistical software such as R, SPSS or Stata), presentations (PowerPoint) and report writing
• Entrepreneurial self-starter with high intellectual vitality and willingness to learn
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, planning and organisational skills with high attention to detail, accuracy and deadlines
• Strong communication, writing, interpersonal
• Fluency is required in Hindi spoken skills and desirable for written skills.

Remuneration

Remuneration will be in the range of INR 12500 to 25000 per month based on qualification of the candidate.