Job Opportunity for Strategy & Operations- COO’s office at The Nudge Institute in Bengaluru

About The/Nudge:

The/Nudge is an action institute working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime. We partner with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. We are a collective of some of India’s best leaders and entrepreneurs from across the industry, academia, government, and development sectors, and our work is organized across three impact streams:

• Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE): exists to enable underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives
• Centre for Rural Development (CRD): exists to enable families to come out of extreme poverty
• Centre for Social Innovation (CSI): exists to nudge top talent to solve India’s biggest challenges

Key Responsibilities 

Strategy & Operations

• Own and drive strategy and operations projects (corporate/business strategy, go-to-market, capability building, business planning, due diligence, operational problem solving, etc.
• Work closely with the leadership team to shape the future direction of the organization
• Develop a deeper understanding of the development sector especially in the livelihoods domain to inform the strategic direction
• Work independently with little direction as well as collaborate with others

Program Management

• Periodically review progress against stated outcomes, launch, and lead initiatives to resolve challenges of strategic clarity, collaborations, resource needs, alignment, and others that emerge to steer the programs toward the achievement of common outcomes
• Prepare teams for high-quality internal program reviews by senior leadership against quarterly goals
• Review and build robustness of internal monitoring and project management frameworks by developing and maintaining project management frameworks, trackers, review cadences

Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives

• Analyze, develop, and drive strategic initiatives to improve the functions’ strategy, design, and implementation
• This role is expected to work on special projects that are cross-functional and are across Horizon 1,2 and 3

Apply If you have:

• 3-6 years of experience preferably in a similar role
• passion to serve India’s poorest to help them out of poverty
• positive & can-do attitude, hunger to learn, and a growth mindset
• comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities
• excellent skills to organize yourself and others around you
• strong analytical and critical thinking skills and demonstrated project management skills
• strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups in a fast-paced environment