Job Opportunity for Manager – Government Channel at Wadhwani Foundation in New Delhi

Website Wadhwani Foundation

Title: Senior Associate – Govt Channel Partners
Location: Delhi
Function/ Initiative: Wadhwani Opportunity (WO)

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.

Role Context: Engaging with Govt. skilling ecosystem to create impact by implementing 21st Century Employability Skilling program from WGO learning offerings. Large client acquisition and management of the programs, leading to the outcome set for (Enrollment, Certification, tracking Placement and career progression data).

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Build and Engage (deployment) with Govt. skilling ecosystem to create impact among Job seeking youth
  • Implement organization’s Strategize & Plan to Skill and Up-skill youth to obtain Family sustainable Livelihood.
  • Large Client engagement – plan and promote WF offerings to attract and retain learners till completion.
  • Tracking and supporting learners through entire Employment-Retention-Progression (E-R-P) Journey.
  • Organize periodic reviews/interaction with partners to ensure high level learner’s engagement
  • Organize/Facilitate periodic masterclasses, webinars, workshops to attract and build a strong learner community
  • Work closely with other internal teams (Content, platform and marketing) to ensure proper program deployment and completion meeting organization goal set
  • Keeping full focus on achieving the E-R-P goal set for self and support team to achieve Team goal.
  • Developing active alumni network
  • Help Impact team to measure the post training impact
  • Creating training plans and frameworks for partners
  • Sending reports and conducting corrective reviews with  the respective reporting bodies and Partners

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

  • A seasoned professional with at least 7-10 years of experience
  • Experience in Skilling ecosystem and working on Govt. Skilling projects, Skills Mission, VTPs is required
  • Experience in Employability/ Softskills domain and having complete understanding about govt. skilling eco-system is very important.
  • Background or exposure to Operations/marketing, Client development, new partnerships initiation and nurturing
  • Having Talent development/training experience will be considered as added value.
  • Experience in opening generation and placement will be considered as plus point
  • Should be conformable using LMS platforms and experience in using Virtual platform/Digital learning Platform to impart training
  • Strong program and project management to execute multi-location programs with Govt. and Pvt. Partners
  • Familiarity with technology and tools – especially tools like Zoom, Teams, Google Hangout etc
  • Excellent communication and interaction skills; ability to build and grow relationships

To apply for this job please visit careers.wfglobal.org.