Research Associate

**About The/Nudge**: The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals and youth on rural development, agriculture, skilling and economic inclusion, along with 15+ central and state government partners. Our economic inclusion journey for 25 million Indians, has reached 10 states with $250M of government funding to cover 1.25M people. Our incubator, accelerator and grand challenges have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs including 17 Forbes 30U30, 3 EarthShot Prize winners, 1 Time Magazine cover and more. Set up with support from 100+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates and 15+ foundations including Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Vinod Khosla, Nandan Nilekani, Tata Trusts, Skoll, Meta, LinkedIn, HDFC, Mphasis, KPMG and L'Oreal, we are contributing towards a "poverty-free India, within our lifetime". **About the Team**: The Indian Administrative Fellowship is an initiative of The/Nudge Institute to accelerate the adoption of technological innovation by leveraging the strengths and capabilities of visionary civil servants across public systems and senior socially conscious and spirited executives from the corporate sector (Fellows) to deliver transformative positive impact. Each Fellow brings strong experience in leading transformational initiatives anchored in technology, strategic acumen, entrepreneurial drive as well as execution capability to steer large-scale multi-stakeholder programs. Fellows are assigned to work with civil servants (Secretary or above) for 18-month full time cohort engagements on designing and delivering interventions at the intersection of technological innovation and resilient livelihoods. Currently, the Fellowship is in progress with the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt of India and Govt of Karnataka. Recently, we completed a cohort with the Govt of Punjab. We are looking for highly energetic, meticulous, diligent, passionate, and high ownership early team members. The team is outcome-focussed and committed to supporting India’s governance ecosystem through the fellowship and the person would be extensively supporting the team with mission-critical operations support through the fellowship lifecycle. You will flourish on this team if you are: collaborative, analytical, results-driven, self-starter, love to continuously improve, and have fun while working hard. **What will you do?** Based out of Ranchi, you will- Closely support Fellows in achieving project objectives through primary and secondary research, including field visits, and support for execution.- - Assist the relevant Indian Administrative Fellows, State Head and program on operations to ensure smooth performance of the fellowship in Jharkhand.- - Coordinate and manage external stakeholders like Govt of Jharkhand officials and Civil Society Organisation leaders to ensure smooth operations through the fellowship lifecycle.- - Gather, assess and suggest measures to provide a solution for improving the state performance on welfare metrics across departments.- Are a graduate/ postgraduate and a professional with 2-4 years of overall work experience for Associate/ Senior Associate role- Are a high-performer with a successful track record in driving through tasks including independent secondary research, conducting community interviews, etc. and take ownership of end-to-end and multi stakeholder relationship- - Can stretch beyond the call of duty, are a self-starter, motivated person responsible for outcomes- - Are proficient on MS Office especially Excel and PPT, preparing reports and presentations- - Are having good spoken and written skills in Hindi and English- - Excellent research skills to analyze and draw out insights about various schemes and projects in Jharkhand, other Indian States and other Countries which would help achieve the project objectives for your assigned Fellows- - Ability to work and problem solve under uncertainty- - Excellent organizational and multitasking skills- - Excellent interpersonal skills and great written and oral communication skills- - Strong passion for social impact- - Have prior experience of being an analyst, writing/ assisting on research papers, knowledge and experience of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and formulation and execution of plans on high-stake initiatives- - Have prior experience of working with Govt or Govt Programs