Job Opportunity for Program Manager at Piramal Foundation in Mumbai

Driven by Purpose, Piramal Foundation aims to reach out to the most underserved sections of the Nation to create sustainable impact through innovation solutions. Under Aspirational District Collaborative, Piramal Foundation in partnership with NITI Aayog has been working in 112 Districts across 26 states with a focus on Education, Health, Water for improving the Life Chances in the most underprivileged districts of India.

About the Role:

The Manager will be directly reporting to the Program Director, CoE-NEST. The vertical is responsible for maintaining an Alumni base of 2250+ Gandhi Fellows and provide Career Readiness support to 1000+ Gandhi Fellows. The role is divided into achieving day-to-day and periodic deliverables of the below mentioned tasks.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Strong Product Development skills with the ability to plan, execute & trouble shoot a project.

• Develop opportunities of employability by building relationships with Government, corporate and NGO working across Domains.

• Strong Stakeholder Relationship to manage potential recruiters, and engage with partner organizations, and policy leaders for strategic activities – workshops, communication, and related initiatives.

• Identify Program’s needs and design Leadership Development Programs in association with respective Program Leads.

• Design and execute Transformation Management and Program Management Office frameworks, practices, tools and templates.

• Oversee the execution of multiple projects within the program, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.

• Facilitate effective communication and coordination among project teams, stakeholders, and other relevant parties.

• Collaborate with senior management and internal teams to align our internal goals with new and existing partner relationships.

• Create a systematic, process-driven approach to partner outreach and relationship management.

• Act in alignment with Alumni needs and system functionalities to contribute to organizational policy.

• Expertise in data centre management and data governance.

• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.

• Have hands on experience in coding, plugins, building or designing website, UI/UX designing. (will be an added advantage)

• Prior understanding of Product Designing, Documentation and Presentation skills using different Layouts for content production to suit dynamic audience (Alumni/ Stakeholder) styles.

• Prior experience in managing, strategizing and using digital platforms and handles, sound knowledge of SEO, new innovations in the digital world to enhance and quality work.

Desired Skills and Competences:

• Comfortable working independently (remote) while planning one’s own workload throughout the day.
• Ensuring a balance between delivery of engagement activity and management of the
• Placements of Fellows according to their desired Aspirational Paths.
• Demonstrable experience in Government Partnerships and Stakeholder Management.
• Exceptional Network with Government Agencies, Corporate and NGOs, for building a strong Recruiters base.
• Experience in Signing MoUs with the partner organizations, Product Designing and organizing L&D/ Capacity Building workshops.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, such as Proposal writing, documentation etc.
• Familiarity with Teams, Zoom and other virtual means of Communication platforms.
• Excellent quantitative, problem solving, analytical and statistical analysis skills, including advanced Microsoft Excel and Presentation skills.
• Candidates with experience in Event Management, like organizing Placement Mela, corporate relations/ Placements/ Outreach/ Marketing would be given preference.

Application Process:

Please send us your Curriculum Vitae the following to qasim@gandhifellowship.org with the subject “Application for Manager – NEST”.

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