Role Summary:

The Ecosystem Lead will be responsible for end-to-end management and expansion of the skilling ecosystem in the assigned region. This includes designing and implementing skilling programs, establishing strong partnerships with employers and training partners, and ensuring high-quality outcomes in student training, placement, and career success.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Leadership & Delivery:

- Drive the complete lifecycle of skilling programs - from design, development, and partner onboarding to execution, monitoring, and impact measurement.

- Ensure alignment of skilling initiatives with national and state-level employment priorities.

Ecosystem Development

- Build and scale a demand-led ecosystem by onboarding employers and identifying sector-specific talent needs.

- Expand the supply-side ecosystem by signing up new training partners based on regional demand and industry requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Engage effectively with government bodies, vocational training providers (VTPs), ITIs, Polytechnics, and other ecosystem actors to co-create impactful solutions.

- Actively represent the Foundation in industry forums, academia, and policy platforms to shape and contribute to the broader skilling discourse.

Process Management:

- Design and institutionalize scalable processes across the student lifecycle - from mobilization, counselling, training, placement to post-placement tracking.

- Create operational frameworks that break complex implementation plans into actionable micro-processes.

Required Experience & Skills:

- 12-18 years of experience in skilling, education delivery, or talent development domains with proven experience across multiple delivery modes (digital, blended, classroom).

- Demonstrated experience in employer engagement and establishing large-scale partnerships for placement and industry alignment.

- Deep understanding of student journey, with experience in counselling, mobilization, training, placement, and post-placement tracking.

- Strong background in channel development (employers and training partners) and familiarity with the vocational training landscape.

- Prior experience collaborating with government bodies, academic institutions, and industry associations on skilling or education projects.

- Excellent project management capabilities, stakeholder relationship skills, and process orientation.

- Should be actively involved in industry or skilling forums and networks.

About Wadhwani Foundation:

Wadhwani Foundation is a high growth, not-for-profit tech organization dedicated to social good. Over two decades since its inception in 2001, the foundation with worldwide presence has focused on a simple, powerful mission: accelerating job growth and enabling millions to earn a family-sustaining wage and lead a dignified life. The foundation is positively impacting the lives of millions of individuals across multiple countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America through its four core initiatives:

The Wadhwani Foundation works in partnership with governments, foundations, corporations, and educational institutes through the below Initiatives:

1. Wadhwani Skills Network: Enables jobseekers with new-age employability skills to acquire family-wage jobs

2. Wadhwani Entrepreneur Network: Enables aspiring and practicing entrepreneurs to start, survive and thrive through customized interventions.

3. Wadhwani Global Digital Transformation: Upskills governments with emerging technologies to accelerate population-scale projects and define new-age policies

4. Innovation & Research: Accelerate academic innovation in ground-breaking tech domains of AI, biotech, and advanced computing, pushing the envelope from pioneering research to commercialization.