Job Opportunity for Entrepreneur Educator at Wadhwani Foundation in Bengaluru

Position Name:

Entrepreneur Educator

Work Location:

Bangalore/ Remote

Department

WE NEN

 About Wadhwani Foundation (www.wfglobal.org):

Mission: Accelerating economic development in emerging economies through high-value job creation

Objectives: Enabling the creation of 10M jobs and placement of 25M by 2030 across 20-25 emerging economies

Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation and skills development. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, today the Foundation is scaling impact in 25 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America through various Initiatives.  More details on the various programs at the end of the document.

Job Description:

The Role Context: We are looking for a high-energy, passionate individual excited to work in the entrepreneurship and startup domain. The focus of the role will be to design a curriculum for NEN and upgrade the existing program content to meet the market trends and enable startups to become commercial ventures. 

Key Responsibilities:

The candidate will be responsible for

• Researching and upgrading content for the various programs offered as part of the Wadhwani Entrepreneur
• Developing and designing a new curriculum as per the market requirement, feedback from stakeholder, and aligning it with the vision and outcomes of the foundation
• Benchmarking the existing courses/program and introducing improvements in them
• Identifying subject experts and assigning different modules for program content vetting
• Prepare the conceptual decks based on curriculum and solution kits for support the faculty delivery & program outcomes
• Deliver sessions for the cohorts and mentor start-ups
• Ensuring course materials are made timely available at the NextGen digital platform
• Coordinating with the platform team, content curation team and assisting in managing the learning platforms

Skills & Experience:

·         Fellowship Programme in Management / Doctorate in disciplines related to Business and Management / Master’s in disciplines related to Business and Management with M Phil from a reputed Institution (viz. Azim Premji University, IIM Fellow, JNU, TISS, Shiv Nadar University, etc.)

·         Good academic record

·         An exposure to an entrepreneurship course / Start-up Environment is preferred

·         Must have an inclination towards teaching , facilitation and supporting start-ups

·         Experience in Research and Teaching

·         Experience in Curriculum design, development and measuring program outcomes

·         Minimum of 4-5 years

·         Good Communication Skills

·         Interpersonal skills

·         Must have a strong work ethic

·         Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office skills

·         Must be incredibly organised and able to help others get organised

·         Must have ‘no job is too small’ attitude

·         Must be willing to take on responsibilities beyond own job description when necessary