Livelihood Program Lead, Economic Inclusion Program, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Location: Gandhinagar, Gujarat

About The/Nudge:

The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals and youth on rural development, agriculture, skilling and economic inclusion, along with 15+ central and state government partners.

Our economic inclusion journey for 25 million Indians, has reached 10 states with $250M of government funding to cover 1.25M people. Our incubator, accelerator and grand challenges have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs including 17 Forbes 30U30, 3 EarthShot Prize winners, 1 Time Magazine cover and more.

Set up with support from 90+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates and 15+ foundations including Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Vinod Khosla, Nandan Nilekani, Tata Trusts, Skoll, Meta, LinkedIn, HDFC, Mphasis, KPMG and L'Oreal, we are contributing 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 catalysing the propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to making the most excluded individuals contributing members to the economy:

• Enable govt to adopt by providing research, design, and implementation support
• Continue to implement on its own to iterate the design for impact at scale
• Enable more NGOs to adopt technical and capacity-building support
• Continue to generate data on poverty and evidence on the 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:

As Livelihoods Program Lead for the G-SAFAL programme, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and expanding the programme’s impact by developing and nurturing strategic partnerships. You will be working with G-SAFAL State team, Gujarat – Economic Inclusion Programme, to align on the overall partnership strategy with programme goals, managing partner engagement, and ensuring that the expertise and resources of partners are effectively integrated into programme implementation.

At The/Nudge you will:

• Identify, initiate, new partnerships with the stakeholders to support the G-SAFAL programme’s objectives.
• Nurture and manage existing partnerships, ensuring strong collaboration and mutual value creation.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for partners, managing relationships and engagement throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Align partner activities and deliverables with the G-SAFAL programme strategy, timeline, and quality standards.
• Ensure that the expertise, resources, and innovations from partners are incorporated into programme design and implementation.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and capacity building between partners and district and block programme teams.
• Balance priorities to deliver short-term results, while enabling programme success in the future
• Track and monitor partnership outcomes, ensuring quality implementation and continuous improvement.
• Address challenges proactively and ensure timely resolution of issues affecting partnership performance.

Apply if you have:

• High energy, passion and hunger for doing impactful work
• 7+ years of total work experience, with significant part in partnership building, stakeholder management, or related roles
• Demonstrated program management experience in the implementation of large-scale livelihood programs with a focus on agriculture and livestock domains.
• Proficiency in creating and using dashboards for review and performance monitoring
• Strong bias for action and work with urgency
• An empathetic and collaborative leadership style
• Strong data-driven decision-making, problem-solving and relationship-building skills
• Exposure or experience in dealing with government and non-government external stakeholders in livelihood sector.
• Fluency in both spoken and written Gujarati.

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.