Job Opportunity for Lead, Centre for Collective Wisdom At Selco Foundation In Bangalore

Key Responsibilities:

Partnerships & collaboration

• The Centre Head will be responsible for identifying and nurturing the right ecosystem, forge partnerships for curation and consumption of the Collective Wisdom across a variety of stakeholders;
• collaborating with social organizations, change leaders, key influencers including Govt and sectoral leaders, funding partners etc.
• A focus on partners in agriculture, rural development, community development with be prioritized.
  Stakeholder management
• The Centre Head will play a lead role in managing all nodal persons, communities and institutions engaged with the development of the Centre – both internally and externally.
• They will be responsible for day-to-day coordination with all key stakeholders.
• The Centre Lead should be able to leverage their networks and experience of working in relevant sectors of agriculture, rural development, entrepreneurship and community development.
  Strategic leadership
• The Centre Head will play a strategic role of conceptualizing and setting up the Centre for Collective Wisdom, as a digital and physical infrastructure.
• Right from the purpose, the value proposition, the user journey, to its manifestation through specific outputs and outcomes, the Centre Head will design the strategy and processes.
• Most importantly, constantly fine tune the pathways to scale.
• The Centre Lead must be able to build key connections between problem statements in agriculture and other relevant fields and the use cases of Apurva.ai technology to be able to solve for them.
  Program development & management
• The Centre Head will be accountable for multiple programs required to achieve the Centre’s objectives.
• It includes strategizing and prioritizing the program and following them through to closure.
  Insights & learnings
• The Centre Head will design for capturing the insights and learnings emerging across the programs, domains and geographies.
• This will enable better decision-making internally and help share them with the wider ecosystem.
  Knowledge Dissemination
• The Centre Head will design a strategy to share the emerging knowledge from the various initiatives of the Centre in a simple, useful and relevant fashion with the wider ecosystem.
  Supporting team:
  The Centre Head will build a strong dedicated team based on the requirements and the growth trajectory. This will help mobilize the resources at the right pace and achieve the objectives.
  Who should apply:
   
• Interested candidates should have at least 12-15 years of work experience, preferably in a leadership role in the development sector in the themes of agriculture, rural and community development
• Deep understanding of the contexts of problem-solving, ability to identify the right course of action in an agile fashion with relations to the overarching themes
• Experience in building ideas from the scratch, strategic thinking, leading multiple programs and teams
• Excellence in fostering long-term and productive partnerships, and managing diverse stakeholders for program sustainability
• Self-driven, creative and energetic. A go-getter with self-efficacy
• Keen interest in working and engaging with early-stage platform development
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary and multicultural environment
• A Masters certification (or higher) in Agriculture, Rural Development, Community Development is preferred.
• Exhibited expertise in these domains is relevant.
• Experience in exploring use cases for tech products for stakeholders engaged in agriculture and rural development is also desirable.
  How to apply:
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