Job Opportunity for Sr Manager – Deployment at Wadhwani Foundation in Delhi

About Wadhwani Foundation (www.wfglobal.org):

Mission: Accelerating economic development in emerging economies through high-value job creation Objectives: Enabling the creation of 10M jobs and placement of 25M by 2030 across 20-25 emerging economies

Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation and skills development. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, today the Foundation is scaling impact in 25 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America through various Initiatives.  More details on the various programs at the end of the document.

Job Description:

The Role Context: This role will own all activities related to launching and making the Opportunity program successful in the specified sector/regions, while working with the local partners and WF team members.  Additional responsibility would be to monitor results including jobs obtained by the students that are trained. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnership development: Reach out to various companies/associations in selected industry sectors to identify committed partners to deploy the training course
• Qualify and sign up relevant institutes as per target & within timelines
• Work with partners/industries to organize and deliver the training course logistics – schedules, venue, facilities, student registration, course completing, etc.
• Coordinate with all stakeholders including from industry, educational and training institutes and government as relevant to ensure success for the Program.
• Develop strategies/guidelines towards streamlining community mobilization and placement.
• To ensure 15% better salary than the market average.
• Responsible for retention & progression of student.
• Monitor the impact of the program through students placed

Requirements

Skills & Experience:

• Candidate should have 10-15 yrs exp. in talent supply management or worked in job portal, with experience in various delivery models and knowledge of student lifecycle.
• Should have experience in supply chain management.
• Should have experience in end-to-end Project Management.
• Very strong customer-facing skills and holistic experience in business development.
• Experience in education delivery to skilling students – student/counselling, training, skilling and placement. 
• Experience in placing students in large volumes (1000+).
• Should be a part of industry forums.
• Experience of working with MSME, CII would be an added advantage.

Various Programs at Wadhwani Foundation:

1. Wadhwani Advantage: Accelerating the growth of tens of thousands of SMEs by providing personalized, on-demand knowledge and consulting resources through an AI-enabled mobile platform to create millions of new jobs.

2. Wadhwani Entrepreneur: Inspiring, educating, and enabling Startup entrepreneurs

·         Wadhwani Venture Fastrack: Maximizes success rates of early-stage startups with enhanced business traction and funding opportunities

·         Wadhwani NEN: Empowers students with knowledge and skills through Courses and Startup Labs to create high-potential startups

·         Wadhwani Inspire: Establishes a nationwide culture of entrepreneurship

3. Wadhwani Opportunity: Empowering millions of students with 21st century employability skills that drive family supporting wages.

4.  Wadhwani AI (a partner program): A first-of-its-kind AI research institute in the world – a non-profit dedicated exclusively to applying AI for social good.

5.   Wadhwani Catalyst: Invest in high quality entrepreneurs with scalable business models across emerging markets, with a focus in India. The fund will catalyse businesses across sectors, with the overall objective of accelerating economic development by creating livelihoods/ jobs.

6.   Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP): Support government and civil society at large with the dual mission of – (1) Providing information, insights, and recommendations for the application of technology for policy making, policy implementation, and policy outcomes measurement. (2) Creating a Technology-focused Training Academy for upskilling policy makers, bureaucrats and technocrats with relevant technologies and the application of the same to their respective ministries and missions.  

Our Culture:

WF is a global not-for-profit, and works like a start-up, in a fast-moving, dynamic pace where change is the only constant and flexibility is the key to success.

Three mantras that we practice across job roles, levels, functions, programs and initiatives, are Quality, Speed, Scale, in that order.

We are an ambitious and inclusive organization, where everyone is encouraged to contribute and ideate. We are intensely and insanely focused on driving excellence in everything we do. 

We want individuals with the drive for excellence, and passion to do whatever it takes to deliver world class outcomes to our beneficiaries. We set our own standards often more rigorous than what our beneficiaries demand, and we want individuals who love it this way.

We have a creative and highly energetic environment – one in which we look to each other to innovate new solutions not only for our beneficiaries but for ourselves too. Open to collaborate with a borderless mentality, often going beyond the hierarchy and siloed definitions of functional KRAs, are the individuals who will thrive in our environment.

This is a workplace where expertise is shared with colleagues around the globe. Individuals uncomfortable with change, constant innovation, and short learning cycles and those looking for stability and orderly working days may not find WF to be the right place for them.

Finally, we want individuals who want to do greater good for the society leveraging their area of expertise, skills and experience.

The foundation is an equal opportunity firm with no bias towards gender, race, colour, ethnicity, country, language, age and any other dimension that comes in the way of progress.

Join us and be a part of us!