Job Opportunity for Senior Associate at Indus Action in Delhi

The Role ‘Senior Associate’: 

You will run the operations working closely with the government at senior executive levels, mobilizing the ecosystem while understanding the evolving nature of the problems our fellow citizens face everyday. 

You will work closely with the other team members in the North zone, led by a Programme Lead to design & implement last-mile governance solutions for welfare delivery to 2.5 million families by 2030, along with contributing to an enduring culture in the operations in the North zone.

Your first 100 days will include your engagement with different states across the North zone of Indus Action.

Requirements

We will trust you with the following responsibilities: 

• State Operations: lead a lean team towards unlocking the social protection benefits for the citizens in direct engagement with the state government.
• Stakeholder Management: building and managing relationships with the government and the key departments, local media, civil society, citizens, and other non-profit organisations.
• Data Management, Monitoring, and Evaluation: design, deliver and manage to inform data-driven decisions to maximise the welfare unlock.
• Civic and gov tech-focused process and design work in partnership with state governments.
• Institution Building: contribute to strengthening learning systems, coaching and supporting junior team members, and thought leadership in the organisation.

Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matters the most for this role: 

• An advanced understanding of the Indian state’s welfare ecosystems- architecture, bureaucracy, processes, policy, budgets, etc
• Programme and Project Management with a focus on delivering end outcomes.
• Structured community engagement (grassroots and government).
• Proficient in creating policy briefs, and running research sprints and analytical reports on the implementation of public welfare policies.
• Comfort with technology-related design and flow work, especially in the domain of Civic and Gov tech. Comfort with working with tech vendors and developers.
• Comfortable with English and Hindi (spoken and written).
• Comfortable with Google Suite and Microsoft Power point, excel, and so on. 

The behavioral competencies that will help you be great at work: 

• Entrepreneurial Energy: own your time and resources to deliver solutions
• Dealing with Ambiguity: grace under pressure, progressive elaboration
• People Leadership: share ‘information, resources, credit,’ coach, ask for help
• Executive Excellence: find the smallest unit of change, the bias for action, agile learning, bring your range – engage on the spectrum from strategic thinking to rolling up your sleeves to do the work when needed
• Citizen Focussed Mindset: place the vulnerable citizen at the center of every action 

Benefits

Our financial contribution towards your work: 

We will compensate the Senior Associate between a range of 6-9 LPA. This is based on the Indus Action’s compensation benchmarking rubric. 

The Process: 

We invite you to apply directly via our careers portal. Once you submit your interest via a cover letter and your CV, the process would include two rounds of interviews, a pre-work assignment, and a conversation with the leadership team. The entire process could take 30-45 days.