Director - Rural Management - NGO

Director- Rural Management

Description:

Report to- CEO

- Travel- 7-12 days a month for field monitoring, organizational events, and meetings.

- The Director - Programs will play a key leadership role in the organization. The director will set the agenda for the design and execution of Organisation's Program implementation strategy to be conducted in alignment with organizational goals.

- Currently, the team consists of four direct reportees and an overall program team strength of 1000+ people.

Key responsibilities:

- Develop/refine program design, policies, processes, and implementation strategies

- Hire, train and coach Senior Program Managers and Program Managers

- Provide troubleshooting support to resolve operational issues

- Monitor program delivery and ensure achievement of program and organizational targets

- Closely work with other internal teams such as Industry Partnerships and Government -Partnerships team to ensure achievement of organisations's system-level goals

- Closely work with the Human Resource and Finance team to ensure smooth implementation of the Program

- Support donor management and closely work with the Fundraising team to ensure smooth funder relationship

- Manage program finances and ensure proper utilization of budget

- Identify, build and nurture relationship with key external stakeholders (government, industry, other players in the ecosystem)

- Represent organization/program in external meetings, workshops, conferences

Ideal qualification and work experience:

- Post Graduate in rural management, social science, public policy, or other related themes

- 12+ years of professional experience working in the development sector (not-for-profits, social enterprises etc.)

- 5+ years of experience managing a large and widespread team from middle-level managers to field functionaries

- A strong understanding of managing people and taking people-level challenges head on

- Enthusiastic, self-starter, ready to roll up your sleeves and solve problems

- Keen to experiment and open to learning from failure, with a high degree of comfort testing varied implementation strategies

- A strong sense of appreciation for challenges facing excluded and low-income communities in India. Experience of working on issues related to internal migration, social protection, financial inclusion, last mile delivery channels, public service delivery is preferred

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Conversational ability in Hindi

- We're looking for individuals passionate about leveraging their skillsets to maximize organisation's ability to create an impact for millions of vulnerable Indians. We are in search of people who possess a strong execution bias and are critical thinkers with a high degree of resilience.