Associate Director / Senior Lead-Lucknow

Job Description

About Indus Action

At Indus Action, we seek empathetic, driven, and action-oriented team members who align with our intention of making public welfare unlock happen as a 'Do-Tank.' We desire candidates who want to partner with the Sarkar (state) and Samaaj (communities) in service of our audacious mission of systematically making welfare access sustainable and frictionless for our vulnerable citizens and their families.

Our vision of a progressive and inclusive society is replicated internally through our equitable compensation structures, transparent organizational policies, and supportive work culture. As an aspiring Deliberately Developmental Organization (DDO) combined with our operating values of Listen.Act.Change. - we commit to nurturing active citizens and supporting enterprising individuals with a growth mindset, professionally and personally. At Indus Action, you are valued beyond your role or title Instead of an open-door policy, we have a no-door policy, where everyone has access to and collaborates with everyone. We offer high cross-functional learning within the ecosystem as well. If you are about building for impact at scale, experimenting, and learning with joy along the way, then Indus Action is the place for you, and we have been looking for you!

Position Summary

Indus Action is looking for an Associate Director / Senior Lead in Lucknow to project manage the engagements across different departments in the state to enable welfare access for the most vulnerable citizens. The projects will be in areas of sustained livelihoods (with a focus on Building and Other Construction Workers Act) and other welfare entitlements offered for poverty alleviation by the state.

Role and Responsibilities

Zonal Operations -

• Diagnose for pain points and blockers in the process towards efficient welfare access alongside the Citizen Experience Learning Lab (CELL) within Indus Action and the relevant government department.
• Collaborate with CELL, monitoring team and the tech team internally, and with the relevant stakeholders across government departments to prototype solutions that support scaling within the state
• Monitor the effectiveness of the interventions, rigorously evaluate, and engage all stakeholders proactively in making improvements
• Build structures, systems to support the execution of the programmes with a focus on continuous feedback loops from the impacted citizens and government stakeholders
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and budgets for building state capacity for sustained delivery against prototyped solutions
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners and stakeholders, including government departments, NGOs, and private sector partners
• Manage alignment between stakeholders across different government departments (planning and labour) for effective integration
• Proactively identify possible risks in the delivery of committed outputs (welfare access to citizens) and align the team to mitigate for the same

Team Management :

Financial Management :

Requirements

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Behavioural Competencies and Values

Education and Experience

We believe that reaching our vision demands that we have the best and brightest group of leaders working to lead our organisation. Here are the minimum qualifications we look for :

Benefits

Compensation

The compensation will be based on the Indus Action‘s compensation benchmarking rubric. The range of compensation will be depending on the qualifications, experience and fit to the role.

The candidate would need to use his / her own laptop and the organisation will bear the annual maintenance cost upto 12000 per year as per actuals.

Requirements

Knowledge and Technical Skills Stakeholder Management Has led and managed a team of 3+ people through a project for 1+ year Partnered with the government and built relations across levels (BDO, SPD, PS, etc) to drive large-scale projects for 1+ year Has worked with government departments at a state-level for at least 2 years Project Management Has managed and delivered projects end-to-end for at least 2+ years Is well versed with principles of designing thinking, planning and execution, budget management, quality control and monitoring and evaluation Data & Technology Is capable of understanding technology (product, not code) used to set up MIS system and envisioning the scope that technology can play to make the implementation smoother Has strong analytical skills to create strategies and analyze data Research and Analysis Has worked on at least 1 project involving fieldwork / primary research (preferred) Has experience with secondary research and data analysis