Associate, Democracy & Governance Ecosystem Core Team  Candidate's Profile:  A minimum of 4 year's work experience  - Candidates with postgraduate degrees in relevant fields (management, public policy, and humanities and the social sciences) would be preferred, from institutions of repute  - Strong interest in the social sector, prior experience in governance related work is preferred  - Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English; candidates with proficiency in speaking languages of Indian origin, over and above English, would be preferred  - Technical proficiency in the use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint  - Strong interpersonal skills  - Comfort with a dynamic and demanding work environment  - Excellent time management and project management skills  - Ability to perform routine tasks independently, scheduling and setting individual priorities and timelines, and handling a number of tasks simultaneously  Roles & Responsibilities:  Strategic Planning and Monitoring   - Support team leader with planning around strategy and impact to strengthen the democracy and governance collaborative and implement annual action plans   - Under the guidance of the team leader, undertake due diligence efforts for identifying NGO partners, support their development interventions, identify partners- capacity building needs, build grant plans and oversee program budgets and allocations, integrate financial planning into the program, ensure budget utilizations and identify potential gaps.   - Develop and implement M&E and ensure rigorous program evaluation, regular reporting from the field for accelerating program performance   - Under the guidance of the team leader, work closely with the philanthropic partners and the governance grantees to drive forward the strategy nationally   - Regularly share field learnings - highlighting successes, challenges, risks, mitigation measures, recalibrations vis--vis the results framework and tracker/execution plan   - Assist team leader on liaisoning with all pillar teams on all deliverables towards ensuring quality of deliverables and adherence to timelines;   - Coordinate and document all internal meetings for execution, review, and recalibration   Build and manage knowledge products   - Assist team leader in creation of high-quality reports, best practices from the field, case studies and process documents   - Raise awareness on emerging issues, new innovations, and solutions within the thematic areas   - Publish program results with an emphasis on program outcomes, learnings, and challenges. Implement a knowledge exchange strategy.   - Support team leader in commissioning thematic studies/ evidence based research on specific aspects of Democracy and Governance, understand and analyze National and State Budgets for ensuring the effectiveness of on-ground programs.   Reporting & Donor Management:  - Under the guidance of the team leader, the governance ecosystem core team member will be responsible for timely reporting, quarterly check-in reports/decks and periodic review reports - tracking progress w.r.t grant plan/ results framework and tracker; maintaining events/workshops, etc.   - Responsible for all documentation w.r.t check-ins and follow-up; reporting on field visits, events/workshops, grantee partner interactions towards peer learning & collaborations on a periodic basis   - Coordinate and manage field visits for donors   - Assist team with managing requests from donors on knowledge management, dissemination & communications; capacity building and networking   Ecosystem Expertise and Outreach   - Responsible for outreach to all stakeholders, networks, working groups   - Responsible for coordinating all knowledge sessions, expert talks   New Initiatives and Pilots   - Support the core team on engaging with IA, Communications, social media and all pillar teams towards new initiatives   - Salesforce champion of the team and working closely with IA&Sysops team to develop back-end systems for institutionalizing knowledge, under the guidance of team leader

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Associate - Democracy & Governance Ecosystem Team 

Associate - Democracy & Governance Ecosystem Team  ,Job Description for Associate - Democracy & Governance Ecosystem Team  in Four A Consulting LLP in  Mumbai for (4-8) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Associate - Democracy & Governance Ecosystem Team  in Four A Consulting LLP in  Mumbai for (4-8) years of experience. Apply Now!