Wadhwani Foundation - Project Manager - Software Applications

Job Description:

The Role Context: The Wadhwani Institute for Technology and Policy (WITP) is a new institution established in India to leverage emerging technologies in ways that improve public service delivery and decision-making. We are looking for a self-motivated Software Project Manager with experience in handling project execution and client management. The candidate is expected to undertake the planning, scheduling, resourcing, execution, and delivery of software projects. The candidate must ensure the successful completion of software projects and also oversee the team performing work on the projects.

WITP is working with Govt. agencies. The candidate for this environment will be someone who is enthusiastic and collaborative.

Key Responsibilities:

The Software project manager is responsible for client interaction/management and setting the team's deadlines and ensuring a successful outcome.

- Discussing potential projects and their parameters with departments/clients, executives, and software developers.

- Planning out the blueprints for software projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, and indicating tests and maintenance.

- Assembling and leading the project team.

- Participating in and supervising each stage of the project.

- Ensuring each project stays on schedule and adheres to the deadlines.

- Creating a project effort estimation and ensuring the project adheres to the same as closely as possible.

- Tracking milestones, deliverables, and change requests.

- Delivering completed software projects to clients and performing regular checks on the project's performance.

- Must have managed at least one emerging project like Data Analytics or Machine Learning.

- Experience in interviewing and selecting a team from the outsourced vendor, coordination and management with the outsourcing vendor.

Skills & Experience:

- Should be an MBA/MCA/Postgraduate.

- Additional qualifications in around data analytics or emerging technologies will be preferred

- 4-7 years of experience

- Experience in consulting environment and project management experience will be given preference.

- Experience of working with central and/or state governments. will be preferred

- Ability to work independently with minimal oversight, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, establish priorities, meet deadlines, and solve problems.

- Interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively as part of a larger team and with a variety of colleagues, external partners, and policy leaders.

- Efficient time management and ability to multitask and prioritize competing priorities.

- Sound judgment, good analytical and technical capabilities, good oral communication and writing skills, strong conceptual and strategic thinking skills.

- Good presentation skills and Fluent in Hindi and English

- Open to travel

About Wadhwani Foundation (www.wfglobal.org):

Mission: Accelerating economic development in emerging economies through high-value job creation Objectives: Enabling the creation of 10M jobs and placement of 25M by 2030 across 20-25 emerging economies

Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation and skills development. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, today the Foundation is scaling impact in 25 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America through various Initiatives.

Wadhwani Corporate Profile:

Our Culture:

WF is a global not-for-profit, and works like a start-up, in a fast-moving, dynamic pace where change is the only constant and flexibility is the key to success.

Three mantras that we practice across job roles, levels, functions, programs and initiatives, are Quality, Speed, Scale, in that order.

We are an ambitious and inclusive organization, where everyone is encouraged to contribute and ideate. We are intensely and insanely focused on driving excellence in everything we do.

We want individuals with the drive for excellence, and passion to do whatever it takes to deliver world class outcomes to our beneficiaries. We set our own standards often more rigorous than what our beneficiaries demand, and we want individuals who love it this way.

We have a creative and highly energetic environment - one in which we look to each other to innovate new solutions not only for our beneficiaries but for ourselves too. Open to collaborate with a borderless mentality, often going beyond the hierarchy and siloed definitions of functional KRAs, are the individuals who will thrive in our environment.

This is a workplace where expertise is shared with colleagues around the globe. Individuals uncomfortable with change, constant innovation, and short learning cycles and those looking for stability and orderly working days may not find WF to be the right place for them.

Finally, we want individuals who want to do greater good for the society leveraging their area of expertise, skills and experience.

The foundation is an equal opportunity firm with no bias towards gender, race, colour, ethnicity, country, language, age and any other dimension that comes in the way of progress.

Join us and be a part of us!