Website Indus Action

Brief about the organization:

Indus Action’s mission is to support 1 million vulnerable families to move out of poverty by 2030 via a portfolio of high-leverage welfare schemes and rights. In the last 7 years, we’ve helped state governments build and implement interventions that have helped lakhs of citizens achieve better education and health access outcomes.

VISION 2030 – Enabling 2.5 million+ vulnerable families, sustainable access to legislated rights through PoWER

MISSION – Enabling vulnerable families, sustainable access to legislated rights

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include:

Monitoring and Evaluation

Design and manage Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks for the organization. ○ Set up and manage systems that can help gauge impact and inform program implementation.

Data Management:

Designing and managing data frameworks and workflows across the organization.
Analysing program data and ensuring high quality of the data collected through periodic checks.
Standardise report formats and set up dashboards to share insights and analysis.
Engage with external organizations for advanced data analysis , when necessary, by defining objectives and tracking progress.

Citizen outreach – Helplines:

Manage Call outreach workflows, through internal systems and through external organizations.
Define and track KPIs to ensure optimum level of operations.

Strategic Planning:

Engaging in brainstorming sessions with the team to identify problems and hypothesize causes and solutions.
Supporting in active cultivation and maintenance of relationships with internal and external partners/stakeholders.
Conducting research and literature review to draw from the best practices in strategic planning, monitoring, change management and organizational development.
Supporting in strategizing operational plans of the organization.

Stakeholder management:

Managing Government Partners at the state level around common objectives
Lead partnership with onground NGOs and other civic bodies
Engage with bottom level of Government functionaries in the form the programme design, capacity building and monitoring

PMU Operations:

Support development of new project strategies and engage with partners for building strategic partnerships for PoWER.
Build decentralized capacity of team members to manage helpline work flows and data systems and reporting mechanisms.
Engage with Govt partners on impact trend analysis and support team members to refine execution plans for optimizing impact.

Requirements

Knowledge and Technical Skills:

Strong project management skills
Capable to work with Government functionaries and drive the project towards the mutual goal
Strong analytical (data/evidence gathering, analysis and interpretation, survey design, hypotheses framing and validation) and research capabilities both qualitative and quantitative.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Strong Excel capabilities
Comfort with technology usage and products
Working knowledge of Odiya will be added advantage
Facilitation skill

Competencies and Values:

Rigour and attention to detail
Time management, ability to keep calm during pressure situations
Ability to influence multiple stakeholders
Result-driven and outcome focused-approach
Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity

Education and Experience:

We believe that reaching our vision demands that we have the best and brightest group of leaders working to lead our organisation. Here are the minimum qualifications we look for:

Master’s Degree from any stream (preference will be given to candidates with background of public policy & Social Science)
Background in data required
4+ years of work experience in consulting or project management is required

Benefits

Compensation:

The Senior Manager will be compensated based on Indus Action’s compensation benchmarking rubric – 5-8 LPA

Location: The position will be based out of Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

To apply for this job please visit indusaction.zohorecruit.com.