Job Opportunity for Data Analyst, MoSJE at The Nudge Institute in Delhi

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:

• Facilitate process of evidence-based policy making at all levels through efficient data gathering, data processing, data cleaning, data testing and, finally, data analysis
• Using technology as a primary policy lever — a means of gathering data, exploring and modelling various policy options, and continuously monitoring and improving outcomes.

What are we looking for:

• Experience working with Structured Query Language (SQL) – how to manage and store data, relate multiple databases or build or change those database structures altogether
• Strong experience with Excel including the ability to use data visualization software is required; 
  3 -5  years in a data analyst/management role role
• Bachelor’s Degree in B.Tech, Mathematics or Computer Engineering or in a related field
• Understanding of Machine Learning
• Prior experience of working with government preferred
• Critical Thinking – to uncover and synthesize connections that are not always clear

Presentation 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.