Job Opportunity for District Lead; Gujarat at The Nudge Institute in Gandhinagar

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 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 poverty can be conquered. 

At The/Nudge Institute, we have been piloting this program for the past 3 years and are in the process of catalyzing the propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to ending 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

Position Overview:

The/Nudge is working with the Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company Limited (GLPC), Government of Gujarat, to help increase adoption of the graduation approach by targeting Antyodaya Anna Yojana card holder women in identified Aspirational Blocks in the state. As part of this effort, a State Project Management Unit (SPMU) is being set up at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to help the GLPC to design and implement the special program. This position is for the Leads  Districts who will be positioned at identified districts within the state, and will report to the state head. 

About the Role :          

– To understand and practice the Spirits of The/Nudge Institute and GLPC

– Selection of Antyodaya vulnerable women in identified Aspirational Blocks in Gujarat

– Mobilization of such vulnerable women into hamlet level small groups and SHG

– Selection, placement and capacity building of community cadre from local villages/ gram panchayats to provide tight handholding and facilitation support to the targeted vulnerable women/ families

– Facilitate such vulnerable family’s access to eligible Government entitlements and social security schemes through various convergence platforms like community cadre, community institution, social capital, district / block level line departments, internal convergence within the GLPC etc.

– Effective livelihood planning for these families and facilitate them to access and avail formal credit/ loans from the community institutions to start the livelihood activities

– Capacity building of the community institutions and community cadre for the welfare of these vulnerable women in long-run (enhance community’s ownership through communitization process)

– Ensure all project activities are implemented on time with utmost quality as per approved Project Implementation Plan (PIP)/ Standard Operating Procedure (SoP)/ Package of Practice (PoP)/ Community Operational Manual (COM)

– Timely collection/ entry, processing and reporting of data

– Develop case studies and to add content/contextualisation to the overall knowledge management component of the program

– Good stakeholder management at the grassroots level

Qualifications:

• Candidates must have 2-5 years of experience in the development sector/ rural development projects/ poverty eradication projects/ livelihood promotion projects/ tribal development projects.
• Candidates with work experience working in district-level positions in National Rural Livelihood Mission/ State Rural Livelihood Missions in Institution Building, Capacity Building, Social Inclusion, Social Development, and Livelihood promotion will be preferred.
• The candidate must have her/his own bike with a valid driving license as it is a field-based job.
  Preference will be given to local residents, especially women candidates, and candidates belonging to ST, SC social categories and any other marginalised communities.