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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, we are in the process of catalysing the propagation of the same.
- Our purpose is to contribute to making the most excluded individuals a contributing member 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 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 is working with the Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission (ASRLM), Government of Assam, to help increase adoption of the graduation approach/ economic inclusion program by targeting 14000 multidimensionally poor households through community institutions. As part of this effort, a State Project Management Unit (SPMU) is set up at ASRLM, Guwahati, to help the Government of Assam to implement the Samaveshi Aajeevika Yojana (SAY). This position is for the SPMU at Guwahati, ASRLM and will report to the State Lead, Assam Economic Inclusion Program.
The position will focus on strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality and process integrity, and generating evidence-based insights to improve the implementation of graduation approach and its outcomes. It will contribute to building robust data systems, enabling learning loops, and supporting data-driven decision-making across program districts and blocks.
What will you do?
- Track key outcome indicators and ensure adherence to monitoring frameworks, reporting formats, and timelines.
- Analyze field-level and MIS data to identify trends, performance gaps, and implementation challenges, and recommend corrective actions.
- Generate analytical reports and actionable insights to inform program strategy, decision-making, and operational improvements.
- Coordinate and maintain data tracking systems, dashboards, and reporting tools using appropriate data visualization platforms.
- Design training materials in coordination with SPMU.
- Coordinate routine monitoring and reporting processes and support improvements in the program’s MIS and digital data collection systems.
- Collaborate with ASRLM state, district, and block teams to strengthen monitoring systems and document program learnings, best practices, and knowledge products for scale-up.
- Coordinate evaluation and learning studies for quality assurance in program implementation.
- Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and user guides for MIS and app-based programme monitoring applications, defining user roles and procedures for data entry, validation, reporting and issue resolution.
Who are we looking for in this role?
- Holder of a Graduate or higher Degree in IT / Computer Science / and related field.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in tech product - roll-out and coordination for its adoption and resolving issues with field teams and community cadre / Changemakers.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proficiency in bulk data analysis and visualization tools.
- Proficiency in report writing, designing training materials, digital data collection systems and data management platforms.
- Ability to multi-task, should be a good team player, conversant with analytical skills, qualitative and quantitative research and presentation skills.
- Highly detail-oriented, with strong organizational and execution capabilities.
- Proactive mindset with an interest in system strengthening, process improvement, and automation.
- Willingness to travel extensively in the desired blocks/field areas that come under the project districts.
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 emphasizes intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order, to build a cohesive environment for Nudgesters. The organization is committed to curating people-centric policies, enhancing how employees experience life at The/Nudge.
Take big bets: Organizational 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.
We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organisation 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. Please visit The/Nudge career page to apply online. Knowing English & local language (Assamese) is a must. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
