Job Opportunity for Manager – Strategy and Operations, Fundraising at The Nudge Institute in Bengaluru

About The/Nudge:

The/Nudge 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, and our work is organized across three impact streams:

• Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE): enables underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives
• Centre for Rural Development (CRD): enables rural families to come out of extreme poverty
• Centre for Social Innovation (CSI): nudges top talent to solve India’s biggest challenges

At The/Nudge you will:

• Develop a unified outcomes framework (annual & quarterly) for all donors aligned to the commitments and goals
• Periodically review progress against stated outcomes, launch and lead initiatives to resolve challenges of strategic clarity, collaborations, resource needs, alignment and others that emerge to ensure that  100% compliance and a high degree of donor delight can be ensured
• Build robustness by developing and maintaining project management frameworks, trackers, review cadences
• Align Product, Operations, Partnerships, Fundraising, People & Culture, Tech and Impact hubs and other relevant functions on these outcomes such that each team works towards the same northstar
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the fundraising team with other internal teams (central strategy team, center heads, program teams, and enabling functions)
• Prepare teams for high quality internal reviews against quarterly and annual goals
• Work with partner (donor) managers, program and the finance teams to consistently achieve high NPS on program delivery and donor engagement
• Ensure donor budgets for all centers and programs at The/Nudge Institute
• Track timely and appropriate allocation and utilization of donor budgets

Apply if you have: 

• 7-10 years of experience preferably in strategy & ops , program management, consulting
• Passion to serve India’s poorest to help them out of poverty
• Positive & can-do attitude, hunger to learn and a growth mindset
• Comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities
• Excellent skills to organize yourself and others around you
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and demonstrated project management skills
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• The ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups in a fast-paced environment