Job Opportunity for Sr Manager – Strategic Accounts at Wadhwani Foundation in New Delhi

Job Overview:

Position Name:        Sr Manager – Strategic Accounts

Work Location:        Delhi

Department:            W Opportunity India

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 by opening up new channels and strategic accounts. Additional responsibility would be to monitor results including jobs obtained by the students that are trained. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, pilot & deploy new models of delivery to scale (D2S)
• Identify, pilot, and deploy new models for student life cycle

o   Mentor-Mentee Application

o   Psychometric assessments

o   Placement & Post Placement solutions

• Build end to end online digital skilling model
• Work on learning pedagogy innovations (Learning patterns etc.)
• Identify and pilot: How can AI contribute to skilling innovation

o Partnership development: Reach out to various companies/associations in selected industry sectors to identify committed partners to deploy the training course

o Coordinate with all stakeholders including from industry, educational and training institutes, and government as relevant to ensure success for the Program. 

o  Develop strategies/guidelines towards streamlining community mobilization and placement. 

Requirements

Skills & Experience:

• Candidate should have 10-15yrs exp in the fintech industry in strategy building, project management or working in skill development, with experience in various delivery models and knowledge of student lifecycle.
• Should have experience in skill development.
• 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/counseling, training, skilling and placement. 
• Should be a part of industry forums.
• Experience of working with MSME, CII would be an added advantage.