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". 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 have been piloting this program for the past 3 years and 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.
Key Responsibilities
You will play a pivotal role in strengthening organizational learning, capturing actionable insights, and catalyzing people-centric improvements across programs. You will be working closely with the Strategy & Operations team and People & Culture (P&C).
Learning & Development
- Identify core learning needs across different teams by engaging with program and function leads.
- Design and implement learning plans that are aligned with program objectives and individual development goals.
- Collaborate with the P&C team to roll out and institutionalize training interventions (e.g., onboarding, refresher modules, leadership training).
- Set up systems to measure the effectiveness of learning interventions—track participation, feedback, behavioral change, and skill improvements.
- Establish mechanisms to integrate field learnings into L&D design, ensuring relevance and applicability across contexts.
- Work closely with project leads and field teams to extract operational insights, implementation learnings, and innovative practices.
- Build documentation frameworks that make these insights easily accessible and transferable to other geographies or teams.
- Synthesize and package learnings in formats that support decision-making (e.g., playbooks, case studies, briefs).
- Support teams in running After Action Reviews (AARs), learning circles, or retrospectives to institutionalize continuous reflection.
Program Excellence Initiatives
- Conduct structured assessments (e.g., surveys, interviews, capability audits) to identify needs related to team performance, well-being, and engagement.
- Collaborate with P&C and other relevant stakeholders to conceptualize program excellence initiatives based on identified needs.
- Draft requirements documents, concept notes, and implementation roadmaps for new people-focused interventions such as peer learning systems, feedback mechanisms, or incentive structures.
- Support the Program team throughout execution - providing content, facilitating sessions, or helping refine approaches based on real-time feedback.
- Track progress and outcomes of these initiatives, ensuring they lead to measurable improvements in team performance or satisfaction.
- Ensure alignment between strategic program goals and people practices.
Qualifications and Skills Required
- Experience: 8–12 years in program management, people development, organization effectiveness, or a related field.
- Preferred Background: Experience in learning & development, coaching, org effectiveness, or HR strategy in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Skills: Strong facilitation, documentation, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
- Tools: Proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel, PPT), documentation tools, and collaboration platforms
- Mindset: Self-driven, reflective, growth-oriented, and collaborative.
- Bonus: Experience working in the development sector or with nonprofits with emphasis on learning and development.
- 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
