Associate Principal

**Position: Associate Principal, Foundation**

**Location: Gurgaon**

**Modality: Full Time**

**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 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 the Business Unit**

The Foundation’s Business Unit is high-growth, high-impact unit serving Global Foundations, Indian Domestic Philanthropic institutions, Multi-laterals, Bi-laterals and DFIs, Impact Investors and related ecosystems in maximizing their social return on investment. We work as mission partners in delivering high impact through offerings spanning advisory, research & data, performance management, MLE, anchoring collaboratives, and policy engagement.

**Your role**

As an **Associate Principal** at Sattva, you will contribute strongly to the business growth roadmap of the organization by leading initiatives in business development in key emerging markets and stakeholders for Sattva and ensure the scalable and sustainable setup and operations of sales engines that can deliver to targets. You will focus on growth in Foundations and its allied ecosystem with a lens of building and growing collaboratives to solve complex issues through multi-year engagement.

**Key Responsibilities**
- **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
- Understand the needs of the client, 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
- Contribute to growing revenues through increasing share of work in current accounts, contribution towards opening new accounts through targeted bids
- Contribute to Non-profit Advisory 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

Key qualifications and experience

We are looking for individuals who align with our mission of alleviating poverty i