Advisor- Government

Position**: Advisor**
- Location**:Delhi**
- Nature of employement**:Contract** **1 year ( Open to extension)**

**We **Partner** to deliver social impact at scale**

Sattva Consulting is a global impact consulting firm from India. Since 2009 we have been engaging with communities, business and government to achieve societal impact at scale.

We believe that Civil society, Business and Government all have a critical role to play in building an equitable and sustainable world, and we actively partner with all stakeholders to enable impact through our advisory & orchestration services, knowledge and data platforms which we have built as public goods for the ecosystem and collaborative solutions and partnerships.**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 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**

**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
Be comfortable with dynamic changes in scope of work as the majority of the work is with the central government.
Identify and manage risks for all three kind of partners
- Government, International funder and implementation agencies as well as different work streams
- **Delivery Excellence**:
- Take accountability/ownership 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 Government agency, International funder and partners onboarded during the project 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 positive and sustainable impact in the stakeholder ecosystem
Ensure high degree of client, people and impact centricity through effective stakeholder management in multi-stakeholder environments.
- **People leadership**:
- Ensure building and growth of teams through guidance, mentoring and enabling a supportive work environment
Build capability in the team on an ongoing basis and support direct reports on their career growth and development
- Create an enabling environment for the team and embedding of culture with growth
- ** Establishing Expertise & Business Leadership**:
- Spot and utilize opportunities for growing the accounts you are managing; also leverage your experience and expertise to follow through on and close new potential deals with the government.
Contribute to growing revenues through increasing share of work in current accounts, contribution towards opening new accounts through targeted bids
Contribute to Foundation Unit’s share of voice building through articles, client communication, and events.
Participate in building and strengthening internal systems and processes which contribute towards effective and efficient functioning of the business unit
Represent Sattva in front o