Program Manager

About our Organisation

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.

Program scope

Who are we solving for?

We are solving for the most vulnerable rural households, especially women, in India who are socially and economically disadvantaged. We believe that such women have significant potential to lift themselves out of poverty with the right support.

What are we solving for?

Our goal is to help develop clusters of backyard poultry and backyard goatery by coaching women in rural households to rear, by enabling forward and backward marketing linkage and enabling the value chain players to support these clusters.

We intend to do the above by supporting implementation and enabling innovation.

Role

• Support the Lead, PMU, DAHD, in managing the overall collaboration with the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying and relations with key stakeholders
• Study gaps between priorities, design and execution of programs
• Help the department in planning, design & execution of programs by working with State, District, and Block-level teams of the department
• Support in project management of initiatives at the department level
• Gather and analyze data and statistics from various sources, like surveys and databases, to plug into existing mandates related to the livestock sector more specific to small ruminants and backyard poultry.
• Write reports of research findings and summaries/reviews of current programs with a view to inform formulation and revisions to programs

Skills

• Strong understanding of field level challenges in rural India with respect to delivery of government programs specific to livestocks related programs.
• Strong understanding of working with and executing programs in partnership with government departments
• Strong critical and analytical thinking
• Strong skills in project and partnership  management
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong leadership skills, with a founder’s mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in animal husbandry and or master’s degree in management, rural management, public policy, Public Administration, Statistics, International Relations, Legal studies, Sociology, Economics
• Prior experience in working with government/s and livestock sector preferred, between 5 and 10 years of work experience overall.