Brief about the organization: 

Indus Action’s mission is to support 1 million vulnerable families to move out of poverty by 2030 via a portfolio of high-leverage welfare schemes and rights. In the last 7 years, we’ve helped state governments build and implement interventions that have helped lakhs of citizens achieve better education and health access outcomes.

VISION 2030 – Enabling 2.5 million+ vulnerable families, sustainable access to legislated rights through PoWER

MISSION – Enabling vulnerable families, sustainable access to legislated rights

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 Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include:

• Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Design and manage Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks for the organization. ○ Set up and manage systems that can help gauge impact and inform program implementation.

• Data Management:

  • Designing and managing data frameworks and workflows across the organization.

  • Analysing program data and ensuring high quality of the data collected through periodic checks.

  • Standardise report formats and set up dashboards to share insights and analysis.

  • Engage with external organizations for advanced data analysis , when necessary, by defining objectives and tracking progress.

• Citizen outreach – Helplines:

  • Manage Call outreach workflows, through internal systems and through external organizations.

  • Define and track KPIs to ensure optimum level of operations.

• Strategic Planning:

  • Engaging in brainstorming sessions with the team to identify problems and hypothesize causes and solutions.

  • Supporting in active cultivation and maintenance of relationships with internal and external partners/stakeholders.

  • Conducting research and literature review to draw from the best practices in strategic planning, monitoring, change management and organizational development.

  • Supporting in strategizing operational plans of the organization.

• Stakeholder management:

  • Managing Government Partners at the state level around common objectives

  • Lead partnership with onground NGOs and other civic bodies

  • Engage with bottom level of Government functionaries in the form the programme design, capacity building and monitoring

• PMU Operations:

  • Support development of new project strategies and engage with partners for building strategic partnerships for PoWER.

  • Build decentralized capacity of team members to manage helpline work flows and data systems and reporting mechanisms.

  • Engage with Govt partners on impact trend analysis and support team members to refine execution plans for optimizing impact.

Requirements:

Knowledge and Technical Skills:

• Strong project management skills

• Capable to work with Government functionaries and drive the project towards the mutual goal

• Strong analytical (data/evidence gathering, analysis and interpretation, survey design, hypotheses framing and validation) and research capabilities both qualitative and quantitative.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong Excel capabilities

• Comfort with technology usage and products

• Working knowledge of Odiya will be added advantage

• Facilitation skill

Competencies and Values:

• Rigour and attention to detail

• Time management, ability to keep calm during pressure situations

• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders

• Result-driven and outcome focused-approach

• Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity

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:

• Master’s Degree from any stream (preference will be given to candidates with background of public policy & Social Science)

• Background in data required

• 4+ years of work experience in consulting or project management is required

Benefits

Compensation:

The Senior Manager  will be compensated based on Indus Action’s compensation benchmarking rubric – 5-8 LPA

The position will be based out of Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

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