The Nudge Institute
## Head, Operations, West & Central – Economic Inclusion Program
**The/Nudge Institute** 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.
**Job Location:** Can have a base in Bangalore or Ahmedabad, but frequent travel will be required to program locations (States: Karnataka, Rajasthan and Gujarat)
**About the Role:**
We are solving for households in poverty who are also financially and socially vulnerable through a targeted, multi-faceted, and sequenced model called the graduation approach, which has demonstrated that we can durably pull households out of poverty.
Our goal is to help serve 1 million households in the next 5 years in partnership with government and non-profit organizations. We have made good progress towards the goal with presence and partnerships across 7 Indian states and a 200+ member team.
We are looking for an Associate Director, Head – Operations, West & Central, End Ultra-Poverty to join us in this journey, own the growth and scale of our programs in West & Central regions of India, in partnership with the government and non-profit organizations.
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Deliver impact at scale for our programs targeting the poorest of poor in partnership with government and non-profit organizations.
* Build a high performance operations team across multiple states that will deliver on above outcomes in partnership with government and through direct implementations.
* Partner with and manage partnerships with state governments to support them with implementation at scale.
* Deliver on results as well as to uplevel partnerships with governments for scale-up.
* Deliver quality & operational excellence by way of strengthening capacity of teams and implementation of technology and processes.
* Collaborate with Product teams, who are accountable to design, in partnership with operations and other stakeholders, for impact and scale.
* Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure high quality implementation.
**Experience Required:**
* ~15 years of experience
* Experience in managing operations at scale / building operations to scale
* Experience in managing and coaching high performance teams
* Experience in building and driving partnerships to scale within rural development and government ecosystems.
**Must Haves:**
* Willingness to travel to remote rural locations in India to set up / run operations
* Demonstrated growth mindset – learning continuously and improving
* Willingness to listen to feedback and work to improve
* High self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses
* Demonstrated ability to work under uncertainty, ability to articulate vision and secure buy-in from stakeholders
* Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
**Additional Requirements:**
* Should be open to stay and travel in deep rural areas
* Remuneration: Competitive w.r.t Development Sector Organizations
* Languages: 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.**
To apply for this job please visit thenudge.freshteam.com.
