Principal, Foundations

**Position**: Principal, Foundations**Modality**: Full-time**Location**: Delhi/Gurgaon**About Sattva**

We are an organisation driven by the mission to end poverty in our lifetime. Our work focuses on scalable solutions for sustainable social impact. We work with our clients - corporations, philanthropists, foundations and social organisations - to achieve social impact goals effectively and maximise the social return on their investment. Deep understanding across sectors and collaboration with multiple stakeholders drive our work. This approach helps us, and our clients develop holistic solutions for solving critical societal problems. We are driven by impact and powered by knowledge. We bring the right balance of the head-heart-hand to our work. Our work is powered by the passionate energy of our mission-driven young team, guided by the strong leadership and advisory board with multi-dimensional experience in business and social sectors.Our team of 450 (and growing rapidly) across offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi comes with stellar professional credentials from diverse backgrounds and is bound together by our common commitment to social impact.**About Foundations as a Business Unit**

Sattva has ongoing work with several leading Global, Regional, Domestic Foundations and Multilateral organisations to create evidence and curate dialogue for policy action. Sattva’s Ecosystem and Policy Advisory practice enables foundations to amplify their influence and impact through ecosystem engagement and policy research and advisory. We enhance portfolio performance for funders, engage the ecosystem through convenings, knowledge creation and dissemination, facilitate collaboration between funders, implementation organisations, and facilitate policy research, advisory and policy engagement and communication with Central, State and District Governments.

Sattva has experience in a range of ecosystem and policy advisory work - thematic and landscape studies, narrative building, policy analysis and briefs, government engagement and facilitating partnerships— supported by leading foundations. Sattva has created strategic partnerships and influence by building data and evidence backed advisory, key stakeholder relationships in education, gender equality, healthcare, water and sanitation, and financial inclusion.

**Key roles and responsibilities**

As a Principal at Sattva, you will be expected to lead a large scale engagement with a Government institution and funded by a global philanthropy. Your roles will include:
**Stakeholder Engagement**:

- As a senior resource person, liaison with senior Government officials, partner organizations and develop a relationship with them to build a common understanding of the vision for the engagement, outcomes and expectations from the project team
- Establish credibility by working closely with senior stakeholders of the client organization and co-creating solutions with them with through high levels of sector and functional knowledge, impactful communication and great performance on deliverables

**Problem Solving**:

- Bring in a strong understanding of data and data analytics to address evolving priorities of the client organization- Ability to adapt to a fast paced set-up and influence key decisions for the client organization-
- Effective data driven decision-making to achieve project outcomes and key milestones-
- Bring in sectoral and stakeholder depth to ensure relevant and actionable solutions are achieved- Lead the overall analysis and synthesis of findings towards providing strategic insights as relevant to the project

**Delivery Excellence**:

- Take accountability to achieve successful outcomes for the client, the project and overall impact that is envisioned for the project through efficient scoping, design and execution in the stipulated time frame- Ensure continuous improvement in delivery excellence for the business unit by putting in place relevant systems and processes for medium to large-sized projects-
- Mentor and manage a team of consultants, senior consultants and engagement managers etc. in ensuring delivery excellence for the project- Ensure creation and adoption of high quality assets, methods and standards during the tenure of delivery of the project

**Key qualifications and experience**

We are looking for individuals who align with our mission of alleviating poverty in our lifetime and have:15+ years of work experience in leading consulting and advisory engagements with clients-
- Masters degree in research/development/public policy/ business or development management-
- Experience in consulting, problem solving, managing teams, creating knowledge products, ecosystem engagement and policy-
- Prior experience in data science, data analytics will be an added advantage-
- Strong business development skills with deep experience and interest to engage in sales calls, developing and owning proposals, pitch decks and pricing-
- Knowledge of the develo