Website Udhyam Learning Foundation
About Udhyam:
At Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam), our vision is to “Co-create a caring world, where people fearlessly pursue their potential.” We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.
Our programs:
• Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted ~16,00,000 learners across 10 Indian states.
• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled upto a 27% income uplift for 5000+ entrepreneurs.
The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.
About the role:
Research is a new function within Udhyam Shiksha that aims to create practical and theoretical learning propositions for the education sector, development practitioners and policymakers, based on Udhyam’s work across states. The function hopes to be interdisciplinary in taking on different research areas and collaborating with scholars and specialists across the globe.
We are looking for a candidate who can work towards generating both quantitative and qualitative research papers related to Udhyam’s work.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Conceptualise the goals and deliverables of this function.
- Quantitative and/or qualitative data collection from the field.
- Conceptualise and write research papers, book chapter contributions, working papers and reports based on Udhyam’s data.
- Engage with dissemination of research through publications and seminars.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Research conceptualisation
- Data collection and analysis
- Understanding of large scale operations
- Good oral and written communication
- Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse set of people
- Adept at technology
- Understanding of research dissemination
Other Requirements:
PhD researcher from a UGC recognised University (ongoing or submitted) or an equivalent experience of five years in working with the research teams for large scale projects
Highly creative and entrepreneurial
Compensation: Aligned with the market compensation norms of the development sector.
Commitment: Full time
Location: Bangalore
To apply for this job please visit www.udhyam.org.
