Job Opportunity for Program Associate at CEGIS in New Delhi, India

## Program Associate – Knowledge Creation and Management

**About The Convergence Foundation (TCF)**

The Convergence Foundation (TCF) is a grant-making incubator, founded by philanthropist Ashish Dhawan, that builds and scales new foundations in key areas of India’s development sector. TCF supports organizations that are tackling some of India’s most pressing challenges, including poverty, education, and healthcare. 

**About CEGIS**

CEGIS (pronounced See-Jis) is one of TCF’s portfolio organizations. It aims to improve lives by helping Indian state governments deliver better development outcomes. CEGIS focuses on four key pillars of change: outcome measurement, personnel management, strategic public finance, and states and markets.

**Job Description**

This role is within CEGIS, located in **New Delhi, India**. We are looking for a passionate and motivated individual to join our Knowledge Creation and Management (KCM) team as a Program Associate.  

**Responsibilities:**

* Identify and organize insightful process information, process learnings, and knowledge assets for organizational utility.

* Monitor and maintain knowledge management systems, including databases, protocols, processes, and various outputs, to ensure an accurate and up-to-date knowledge management system.

* Evaluate the effective usage of knowledge management systems, templates, and adherence to quality processes for developing knowledge outputs and products.

* Contribute towards developing various knowledge enablers in the organization, such as protocols, toolkits, knowledge templates, questionnaires, facilitation guides and frameworks.

* Contribute to research, interviews, focused group discussions and workshops on behalf of project teams towards curating knowledge.

* Gather, synthesize, organize, and share knowledge produced during interaction with project teams with external and internal stakeholders, and document the learnings in suitable formats.

* Diligent execution of administrative and other necessary activities, e.g. organizing meetings, preparing minutes, follow-ups with teams, reporting updates, etc.

**Desired Characteristics and Job Skills:**

* High understanding and strong passion for working in the social development sector.

* Proficient in sourcing, collecting, curating, structuring and empirical analysis of information for required knowledge assessments.

* Competent as a team player and able to deliver outputs with minimum supervision.

* Ability to handle multiple diverse assignments simultaneously, complete assigned tasks and meet deadlines while conducting high-quality work.

* Excellent communication, narration and writing skills.

* Well-versed with MS Office tools, organizational and management tools (e.g. Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, Timesheet, etc.) and presentation skills.

* Strong work ethic and sense of self-responsibility towards the assigned tasks.

* Enthusiastic learner and active contributor towards the growth of CEGIS.

**Education and Experience:**

* Bachelor’s or Master’s in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or related fields from a reputed institution.

* 2-3 years of work experience in India with organizations working in related fields, i.e. research agencies, policy think tanks, government or private sector organizations working on government advisory or consulting.

* Working experience in delivering projects involving government collaboration.

* Candidates with interdisciplinary qualifications or specialized certifications in the associated subjects are encouraged to apply.

* Strong analytical ability and problem-solving skills are desired.

**Location and Remuneration:**

* The candidate will be located in the New Delhi Office.

* The remuneration depends on the candidate’s experience and merit.

* The pay scales are competitive with those of Indian philanthropy and the social sector.

**Travel:**

Domestic travel within India to engage with different state teams, as per requirements. The travel time distribution will vary depending on project needs and could range from approximately 10% to 15% of the working time.

**Additional Information**

* CEGIS has zero tolerance to sexual harassment. We therefore expect each applicant to self-declare related to the same. CEGIS could, if required, initiate a prevention of sexual harassment-based background verification. If an applicant is reported of misconduct, appropriate action that may include employment termination would be taken.

**We look forward to hearing from you!**