Senior Manager - Entrepreneurship Promotion

Role - Senior Manager - Inclusive Entrepreneurship

The organization has been promoting inclusive entrepreneurship a phenomenon that is characterized by systemic change that enables under-represented groups such as youth and women to access entrepreneurship opportunities, thereby leading to social inclusion, quality employment, and sustainable economic growth. In the pursuit of the above, the organization programs leverage social innovation tools to unleash entrepreneurial energies in women & youth and build positive ecosystems.

Their approaches in flagship projects such as Work 4 Progress have been recognised as best practices by the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank for entrepreneurship led job creation. It has also been featured as a UN SDG good practice.

Responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of innovative models and tools for enabling access to credit, marketing, and training for micro entrepreneurs.
• Documentation of implementation, observations, and case studies for reporting Track progress of the models and develop potential linkages with the larger ecosystem.
• Capturing learnings and data from ground and create analytical reports for communication and knowledge products.
• Maintenance (accelerated data collection, validation and tracking new metrics) of dashboards for enterprise development programs.
• Will be responsible for directly working with field team and entrepreneurs to provide enterprise support services.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or Development Studies would be a plus.

Skills:

• This project is based on women empowerment and hence, candidates with a keen desire to work closely with rural women communities are encouraged to apply.
• Self-starter, practical, creative and problem solver.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Strong orientation towards analysis of quantitative data and developing analysis for external communication.
• Able to travel in rural India for at least 10 days a month (once travel is safer).

Experience: 5-8 years