- Location
- Tripura, India
- Seniority
- Lead
- Source
- Keka
Description
About The/Nudge
The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals, and youth across rural development, agriculture, skilling, and economic inclusion, in partnership with 15+ central and state governments.
Our economic inclusion journey towards serving 25 million Indians spans 10 states and currently reaches over 1.5 million people. Through our incubator, accelerator, and grand challenges, we have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs, including Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees, Earthshot Prize winners, and nationally recognized changemakers.
Founded with the support of 130+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates, and 15+ foundations, The/Nudge is working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime."
What are we solving for ?
We are solving for households in poverty who are also financially and socially vulnerable through a targeted, multi-faceted, and sequenced model called the graduation approach, which has demonstrated that we can durably pull households out of poverty.
At The/Nudge Institute, we are in the process of catalyzing the propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to making the most excluded individuals contributing member to the economy:
- Enable govt to adopt by providing research,design, and implementation support
- Continue to implement on its own to iteratethe design for impact at scale
- Enable more NGOs to adopt technical and capacity-building support
- Continue to generate data on poverty and evidence on graduation approach to nudge governments to adopt at-scale
- Build technology solutions for NGOs and governments to adopt and implement at scale & with quality.
Position Overview:
The/Nudge Institute is partnering with the Tripura Rural Livelihood Mission (TRLM), Rural Development Department, Government of Tripura, to promote the adoption of the Graduation Approach (Economic Inclusion Program) for supporting extremely vulnerable households in achieving sustainable and dignified livelihoods. As part of this partnership, a State Project Management Unit (SPMU) has been established at TRLM, Agartala, to support the Government of Tripura in designing and implementing the Tripura - Samaveshi Aajeevika Yojana (TR-SAY) & Chief Minister's Nabadisha Abhijan (CM-NDA). This position will be based at the concerned blocks of Tripura, work closely with block officials of TRLM and will report to the Program Lead.
What will you do ?
- Own the implementation and outcomes of the program
- Provide leadership and managerial support to the field team, mainly to the Block professionals.
- Manage Block professionals to ensure quality implementation on the ground through regular meetings and field visits
- Develop process and system for onboarding and capacity building of Block professionals
- Develop process and system for regular monitoring and cont. feedback
- Work closely with The/Nudge’s financial unit to develop budgets and ensure timely and effective of such budget
- Work closely with the SRLM in developing the annual budget and preparing financial plans
- Support TRLM in the research and development of a strategy and program design to target the extremely vulnerable families through the graduation approach built on top of community institutions enabled by the DAY-NRLM
- Support TRLM in the implementation of action research of the graduation approach through a special project based on the strategy and design developed in consultation with key stakeholders
- Enable convergence of various state initiatives (social security, livelihood promotion, financial inclusion, social empowerment) and programs towards the end goal of graduating women and their households living in extreme poverty.
- Support TRLM to review the progress of the program periodically in order to iterate and scale
- Support the mission on the use of data and technology to ensure continuous flow of data from the field
- Build relationships with key government stakeholders in Tripura such that the special project is successful
- Build relationships with key government departments and support the successful adoption of strategies targeting the extremely vulnerable
What’s in it for you?
- Own your growth: An impact-led learning environment encourages Nudgesters to invest in their learning and capacity building needs through initiatives and policies, including L&D wallet, individual development plan and internal role change opportunities.
- Find your tribe: Our hiring philosophy emphasises intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order, to build a cohesive environment for Nudgesters. The organisation is committed to curating people-centric policies, enhancing how employees experience life at The/Nudge.
- Take big bets: Organisational initiatives are intended to facilitate Nudgesters with a view to the big picture, illustrated by our impact across 50000+ households, 15+ governments, 200+ social enterprises and Charcha: India’s largest social sector convening forum.
- Make it happen: A product-based approach in an action-biased environment empowers Nudgesters to implement audacious plans. Driven to fail fast, we endeavour to optimise resources in favour of programs that align with our scale ambition.
We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.
Skills
Project Management