Lead NITI for State

This opportunity entails leading with the Ministry to shape and scale the NITI for States digital platform - an initiative to empower state-level policymakers with actionable data, sectoral insights, and contextual tools to drive effective governance and development outcomes across India.

As the Lead for this engagement, you will drive high-quality strategic alignment with senior stakeholders across central and state ministries, ensuring the platform's relevance, adoption, and long-term impact. This role requires strong advisory and research-driven capabilities, leveraging deep sectoral expertise, evidence-based analysis, and policy insight to shape the platform's governance and strategic evolution. In addition to anchoring strategic stakeholder engagement, you will also collaborate closely with internal teams across content, data, technology, and outreach tracks to drive a user-centric, scalable, and impactful digital experience for public sector decision-makers. This role will require you to work out of the client's office 5 days a week.

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Government Engagement

• Build and manage trusted relationships with key government and non-government stakeholders.
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder consultations, co-creation workshops, and review forums to gather insights, drive alignment, and encourage shared ownership.
• Represent in strategic forums with policymakers, driving thought leadership on data-driven governance and state capability development.
• Navigate complex government structures and political contexts to enable the adoption and integration of the platform at the central and state levels.

2. Sectoral Research & Insight Generation

• Anchor in-depth research and knowledge generation across primary development sectors (e.g., education, livelihoods, skilling, etc.) to inform platform content and strategic direction.
• Enable meaningful synthesis of evidence from diverse sources into actionable insights tailored for central and state-level decision-makers
• Support in identifying use cases where data-driven decision-making can be enabled at different levels of the government using public and credible private sector data
• Work with the governments to drive effective use of Data and AI in changing last-mile behaviours in the usage of data
• Stay abreast of key trends in public policy, digital transformation, and sectoral innovations to inform content quality and the platform's evolution

3. Platform Governance & Evolution

• Work with product, content, and data teams to co-create a platform roadmap that is user-centric, impactful, and scalable.
• Manage the command center to continuously monitor platform adoption; Gauge and analyse user experience and feedback on an ongoing basis to guide iterative improvements.

4. Program & Team Leadership

• Anchor project planning, timelines, deliverables, financials, and quality assurance to ensure desired outcomes are achieved
• Manage a multidisciplinary team comprising policy researchers, data analysts, consultants, and product specialists to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between internal teams and government partners.
• Build a high-performance culture anchored in ownership, learning, and innovation; Facilitate internal learning, capacity building, and performance management within the team

Key qualifications and experiences

We are looking for individuals who align with Sattva's mission of alleviating poverty in our lifetime and have the following skill sets, experiences, and qualifications:

• 16+ years of experience in government advisory, digital governance & transformation, consulting, finance, research, or development sector leadership.
• Master's degree in Economics, Data Sciences, Statistics, or a related field. Additional certifications or executive programs in public policy, public administration, digital transformation, or data for development are a plus.
• Proven experience in working on research and data across diverse sectors.
• Proven experience in analysing public data and working with government data systems. Experience in digital product development or digital public infrastructure initiatives is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in primary development sectors such as education, health, livelihoods, etc., is highly desirable.
• Proven experience working with or advising senior government stakeholders at the central and/or state level.
• Proven track record of managing complex programs, including strategy, execution, stakeholder management, and team leadership.
• Outstanding communication skills in English and Hindi, with an ability to present complex ideas clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences.