Program Officer - NGO

Program Officer

Company Name : Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Job Title : Program Officer (India)

Reporting to : Director, Family Economic Stability, India Michael and Susan Dell Foundation

Location : New Delhi, India

Purpose : Independently build and lead a projects portfolio that delivers measurable (and sustainable) positive impact on children through various interventions, play a senior, leadership role in several of the Foundation's activities in India, facilitate the overall program implementation of MSDF India (with a fanatical eye for detail), and emerge as a thought leader for the Foundation.

Operating Network :

Internal :

- India Leadership including Managing Director - International, Country Director - India

- Portfolio Directors

- Operations Manager

- Program Officers

- Executive Assistant

- Team at MSDF Headquarters

External :

- Indian Foundations

- Investees/ Grantees

- Co-funders/ investors

- Bankers

- Board members of Investees/ grantees

- Senior Government of India officials

- Multilateral/ Bilateral/ Large private donors

- Various Government agencies

Specific Responsibilities :

Support the development of the Foundation's strategy :

- Support the MSDF team in developing and updating a detailed, fact-based, action-oriented portfolio strategy that is focused on impacting the quality of life in a measurable, large-scale and sustainable manner.

Strategy implementation :

- Help implement strategy by building relationships with a variety of potential investees/ grantees at several levels and in varying agreed-upon geographies, and work with them to create new projects, engage in the problem-solving, administer them, monitor and report results - relatively independently (with fanatical attention to detail), in order to develop a successful program.

Education & Experience :

- Professional / Masters qualification from a leading university / institute with 8 - 12 years of work experience in a multinational or leading Indian business entity.

- Experience in Investments, Consulting, Operations or Strategic Project Management would be desirable.

- Demonstrated ability to think conceptually using strong analytical skills, effectively influence a wide cross-section of people across organizations, and to identify and implement solutions to address complex business problems.

- Strong spoken and written communication skills.

Skills :

- Exceptional leadership/management

- Strong communication (written & verbal)

- Strong business acumen

- Entrepreneurial & risk taking ability

- Strong - end-product- orientation

- Passion about development work (readiness to look at seemingly intractable social challenges in new ways)

- Well-developed project management skills

- Unquestioned values and ethics

- Drive to create/initiate new initiatives, and not just react to proposals

Technical Knowledge :

- Analytical, fact-based problem solving and implementation.

- Good understanding of equity investments, valuations and business planning and understanding of financial, budgeting and accounting processes