Associate Principal

**Associate Principal, Foundation Business Unit**

**Location**: Mumbai/Gurgaon and will involve travel to different parts of the country**About Sattva**
- We are an organization driven by the vision to end poverty in our lifetime. Our work focuses on scalable solutions for sustainable social impact. We work with our clients - corporations, philanthropists, foundations DFIs, impact funds, private equity, venture capital investors, social organizations, and social organizations - to achieve social impact goals effectively and maximize 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 400 (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.**Foundations Business Unit**

Sattva has ongoing work with several leading Global, Regional, Domestic Foundations and Multilateral organizations 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 build strategic influence backed by data and research, enhance portfolio performance for funders, engage ecosystem through convenings, knowledge creation and dissemination, facilitate collaboration between funders, implementation organizations, 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.

**The opportunity**
- The Associate Principal forms part of the Leadership team leading a large Portfolio of accounts or Mission-mode project at the Foundations Unit in Sattva. The role involves leading key Foundations accounts, projects and initiatives to client success and impact. The role also involves contribution to key organizational level initiatives for growth in the Foundations unit. In this role, you will work closely with Sattva’s senior stakeholders, leading your team to ensure client success, carry out focused ecosystem and policy advisory assignments, conceptualize and create knowledge products, curate meaningful ecosystem engagement in the philanthropic and corporate ecosystems, and work to influence key institutions and stakeholders across the development sector. You will play an integral role in design and advisory of knowledge products, stakeholder management and policy research, advisory and engagement with Senior Government officials.**Key responsibilities**
- At Sattva we believe in outcome-orientation in everything we do. The key responsibilities for this role include:
- ** Problem Solving**:
Contribute deep strategic and sector specific expertise to the team's problem-solving.
-Lead structured hypotheses-based, rigorous problem solving with the team in all engagements.
-Bring in sectoral and stakeholder depth to ensure relevant and actionable solutions are arrived at.
-Contribute to analysis and synthesis of findings to insights as relevant
- **Delivery Excellence**:
Take accountability to achieve successful outcomes for the client, project and social impact that is envisioned for the project through scoping, design and execution in 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 direct team (consultants, senior consultants and engagement managers) in ensuring delivery excellence for their projects
-Ensure creation and adoption of high quality assets, methods and standards created during delivery
- **Stakeholder Engagement**:
Establish credibility through active relationship building and co-creating solutions with the senior management of the client organization and key stakeholders engaged with through high levels of sector and functional knowledge, impactful communication and great performance on deliverables
-Influence decision-making and action to enable