Chief Programmes Officer

Atma is an accelerator for Education. Our vision is to ensure quality education for all children
and we do this by accelerating the impact of NGOs working in Education. We provide
hands-on and customised capacity building support to NGOs to enable them to sustain,
strengthen and scale. We operate via two primary programmes - Accelerator & Lab.

So far, we have built the capacity of over 85 Education NGOs across various geographies in the last 14 years
through our high intensity programme offerings. We work with over 1000 NGOs a year through our low
intensity offerings.

**The Chief Programmes Officer**
Will oversee the management of the Accelerator programme, assigned Atma Partner organisations by Atma
Consultants as well as the management of other short term offerings.

Location India (Team works virtually)

Time Commitment Full Time

Reporting to Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- No. Key Job Area_

1 **Leadership**
Responsible for presenting performance of Atma programmes to the Board on a
- quarterly basis- Contribute towards building of culture in the organisation as part of the Leadership
- team at Atma- Set the vision for growth and annual goals for the Programmes vertical
- Showcase Atma’s capacity building work in the external eco-system
- Take ownership & accountability of managing a high performing programmes team
- 2.
- **Impact Measurement**
Lead any third party/donor led impact evaluation initiatives for Atma’s programmes- Take ownership of designing a clear articulation of outcomes enabled by each of the

programme offerings and strengthening impact measurement systems for the
same, in partnership with Lead Consultant
- Lead the Quarterly Assessment (QA) process every quarter at Atma towards timely

collection and reporting of Partner NGO feedback
- Ensure annual collection of EOY data to track improvements in partner NGOs
- Lead the Graduation evaluation efforts for partners graduating each year
- Assist the Communications team in showcasing Atma externally through social

media and events/conferences

3 **Team Management**
Identify potential growth & learning areas and create plans to develop skill sets and
- competencies of the Lead Consultants towards better impact of the Atma programme- Assist the Lead Consultant in doing the above for the Programmes team
- Support the Lead Consultants, in adding value to and improving the quality of, all of
- Atma’s programmatic partnerships- Evaluating training needs and developing organisation specific team trainings
- Lead programme team staffing - matching available Consultants to upcoming
- partnerships and projects- Provide mentorship and guidance to programme team members as and when required
- on OD projects and partnerships- Refine and improve Programme team KRAs annually
- Ensure high staff retention and employee satisfaction for the Programmes team

4 **Knowledge Management(KM)**
Strategically viewing KM as a source of thought leadership - driving the design of

articles, templates and frameworks so as to standardise the Atma programmes and
showcase them externally
- Overseeing the creation of SOP/Operations Manual for programmes
- Supervise the accurate recording and documentation of critical programme data
- into Salesforce and Atma drives, with the assistance of the Lead Consultant- Manage the articulation of partner case studies, outcomes enabled sheet and set

benchmarks for documenting good reference projects

5 **Programme Design & Management**:

- Accelerator_
- Identify, design and implement regular programme improvements for the

Accelerator and Lab programmes at Atma like Technology, Leadership, Governance
and Atma Alumni Support
- Accountable for the evaluation of partner performance on a quarterly basis through

the Accelerator Review process and presenting to CEO
- Ensure MoU documentation and annual renewal of existing partner organisations.
- Be the face of Atma and actively manage relationships with all partner NGOs with
- the support of the Accelerator Lead Consultant- Managing partner fees and income raised through the Accelerator programme
- Design and lead workshops and project partnerships independently
- Lab_
Design and lead the execution of Atma Lab partnerships- Be responsible for end to end executions of 1-2 partnerships
- Work closely with the CEO to identify and implement strategic partnerships
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- **Partner Recruitment - Accelerator**
Design the Recruitment strategy on an annual basis- Define clear NGO recruitment goals and ensure their timely & quality completion
- Manage the Recruitment Associate towards successful and timely partner
- onboarding- Undertake periodic improvement of the recruitment process in order to make it

more efficient, effective and competitive
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- **Other tasks**:
Taking on internal organisational improvement initiatives as they get planned- Ensure all organisational processes are being followed as per expectations
- Assisting the CEO with fundraising and donor reporting
- Engage wi