Block Lead

About 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.

support from 90+ 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".

What are we solving for?

We are solving for households in poverty who are also financially and socially vulnerable through a targeted, multi-faceted, and sequenced model called the graduation approach, which has demonstrated that we can durably pull households out of poverty.

At The/Nudge Institute, we are in the process of catalyzing the propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to making the most excluded individuals a contributing member to the economy:

• Enable govt to adopt by providing research, design, and implementation support
• Continue to implement on its own to iterate the design for impact at scale
• Enable more NGOs to adopt technical and capacity-building support
• Continue to generate data on poverty and evidence on graduation approach to nudge governments to adopt at-scale
• Build technology solutions for NGOs and governments to adopt and implement at scale & with quality.

Position Overview:

The/Nudge is working with the Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company Limited (GLPC), Government of Gujarat, to help increase adoption of the graduation approach by targeting Antyodaya Anna Yojana card holder women in identified Aspirational Blocks in the state. As part of this effort, a State Project Management Unit (SPMU) is being set up at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to help the GLPC to design and implement the special program. This position is for the Block Leads who will be positioned at identified blocks within the state, and will report to the District Lead.

About the Role:

Nature of engagement: The employment engagement with The/Nudge will be contractual in nature. The candidates will be provided with a contract for 3 years and an extension for 2 more years based on the program's need.

Place of posting: Interior Districts and Blocks/ clusters with limited facilities. Support from The/Nudge Institute and GLPC will be provided to the possible extent. The seating arrangement will be within the District/Block Mission Management Units (DMMU/BMMU) of the GLPC.

Nature of work: Pure fieldwork in close coordination with the District and Block Project Managers of GLPC, district and block staff of various line departments of the State Government, local community leaders, and community institutions of GLPC like CLF, VO, SHG, Community Cadre and Gram Panchayat. Regular field visits

Roles and responsibilities:

• • To understand and practice the Spirits of The/Nudge Institute and GLPC
• Selection of Antyodaya vulnerable women in identified Aspirational Blocks in Gujarat
• Mobilization of such vulnerable women into hamlet level small groups and SHG
• Selection, placement and capacity building of community cadre from local villages/ gram panchayats to provide tight handholding and facilitation support to the targeted vulnerable women/ families
• Facilitate such vulnerable family's access to eligible Government entitlements and social security schemes through various convergence platforms like community cadre, community institution, social capital, block level line departments, internal convergence within the GLPC etc.
• Effective livelihood planning for these families and facilitate them to access and avail formal credit/ loans from the community institutions to start the livelihood activities
• Capacity building of the community institutions and community cadre for the welfare of these vulnerable women in long-run (enhance community's ownership through communization process)
• Ensure all project activities are implemented on time with utmost quality as per approved Project Implementation Plan (PIP)/ Standard Operating Procedure (SoP)/ Package of Practice (PoP)/ Community Operational Manual (COM)
• Timely collection/ entry, processing and reporting of data
• Develop case studies and to add content/contextualization to the overall knowledge management component of the program
• Good stakeholder management at the grassroots level

Qualifications:

• Candidates from development sector/ rural development / poverty eradication / livelihood promotion / tribal development educational / work experience backgrounds
• Candidates with internship / work experience working in block / district-level positions in National Rural Livelihood Mission/ State Rural Livelihood Missions in Institution Building, Capacity Building, Social Inclusion, Social Development, and Livelihood promotion
• The candidate must have her/his own bike with a valid driving license as it is a field-based job.
• Preference will be given to local residents, especially women candidates, and candidates belonging to ST, SC social categories and any other marginalised communities.

Professional fee and other benefits:

• Competitive professional fee (inclusive of 10% monthly TDS deduction, and may be claimed through ITR filing at the end of the Financial Year)
• TA, DA as per the The/Nudge Institute's policy
• Eligible for group family health insurance scheme of the organization
• Eligible for Learning and Development benefits (purchase of books, online courses etc.)
• Your action on the ground will change the lives of most vulnerable people with generational impact. You will gain first-hand experience of on-field development work with the vulnerable communities
• In-person experience of on-field implementation of large-scale welfare schemes and public policies of the Government
• Cont. learning and exposure workshops and mentoring sessions by development practitioners and sector experts
• The candidate should have full working proficiency in Gujarati

We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.