
Wadhwani Foundation
1 week ago
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 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.
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