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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 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".

About the Program

The/Nudge Prize guides markets to solve for the economically excluded through grand incentive competitions. We offer incentives that meet the seed / series capital aspirations of the brightest tech-first problem solvers, demonstrate investability, and mobilize sustained attention and momentum for the problem area through our interventions. Three challenges (Cisco Agri Challenge, Ashirvad Water Challenge & DCM Shriram AgWater Challenge) have been launched so far with a strong emphasis on leveraging the potential of technology to solve the problems of India’s excluded populations.

Who are we solving for?

The/Nudge Prize is focused on building mission mode, market-led ecosystems to use technology to solve the stagnant challenges of various economically excluded populations that prevent their access to resilient livelihoods. Two of our past challenges have focused on the challenges faced by India’s smallholder farmers.

Our focus areas for FY24-25 include,

• Building the Future of Women in Work : Increase the participation of economically excluded women in productive livelihood sectors.

• Solo to Deci : Unlock the job creation potential of India’s nano and micro enterprises.

• Circularity and Livelihoods : Design circular systems to solve environmental challenges that influence and create livelihoods.

Each focus area can have multiple incentive competitions, each of which may range from 12 to 36 months.

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At The/Nudge you will:

• Be an early team member - spend time across the functions of the program and be a execution & design partner to the Program Head

• Stakeholder Management: Onboarding of relevant partners for specific prize challenges and maintain relationship with them through continuous engagements

• Process Excellence: Setting up seamless processes(design, evaluation criteria, jury, etc) for smooth execution of challenges from announcement of the prize to its completion

• Cross Functional Collaboration: Interface with Marketing, Impact, Analytics, Technology & Donor relations teams on areas critical to the success of the designed prize challenges

• Keep a keen eye on Monitoring & Evaluations across the Challenge and make sure we are moving toward identified objectives and goals

• Research: Primary & Secondary research on areas relevant for running Prize challenges and defining sharp problem statements

• Identify and foster new partnerships to aid Prize challenges and momentum for innovations to scale

• Identify areas of collaboration and media engagement avenues to aid amplification & network effects

• Design interventions and refine as per execution - to be implemented across various challenges

• Manage a data structure for challenges and identify a sustainable way to share this data, information, platform & insights across various stakeholders

• Manage & lead resources in managing communications & contestant journeys

(The actual role might evolve slightly based on your relevant experience and the overlap between organization requirements & your interests.)

Core abilities & transferable Skills

• exceptional stakeholder & relationship management skills

• ability to plan and execute on strategic plans/outlines

• strong command over communications & ability to translate progress across various media channels

• ability to conceptualize and put in frameworks

• ability to translate ambiguities into actions

• research driven

• ability to think first principles and understand 2nd and 3rd degree change / impact

• bias for action and brings in humility

Apply if you have:

• graduate, post-graduate degrees - an added bonus if graduated in social entrepreneurship & grassroots market making

• 1-3 years of work experience in high performing set-ups and in intrapreneurial roles

• strong networking and stakeholder management skills

• proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• strong written and verbal communication skills | analytical skills

• willingness to work in a fast-paced, startup environment

• a strong desire to make a difference

• comfort with some degree of ambiguity in the absence of perfect information

• comfort working with external and internal stakeholder groups

• be comfortable with nonprofit sector salaries

Would be great if you:

• understand global and various formats of the Inducement challenges and designs for large scale impact

• Comfortable in managing events & convenings to enable participation

• understand & interested in developmental economics & behavioral fundamentals

• bring a tech or data first lens to program design

• has designed programs in the social or impact sector