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 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 various state SRLMs to help increase adoption of the graduation approach/ economic inclusion program by targeting vulnerable rural women through community institutions.
About the Role :
- Block Leads (BLs)/ Young Professional (YP)
- To be placed in blocks designated by SRLMs in partnership with The/Nudge Institute
- *District/Block of posting, nos. posts may increase or decrease based on the program's need.
- Preference shall be given to women candidates, candidates from ST, SC social categories and belonging to the state.
- Must have a working knowledge of English and local language (read, speak and write).
- The positions are transferable at any point in time to any District/Blocks within the state with at least 15 days of notice.
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.
Nature of work
Pure fieldwork in close coordination with the District and Block Project Managers of SRLMs, district and block staff of various line departments of the State Government, local community leaders, and community institutions of SRLMs like CLF, VO, SHG, Community Cadre and Gram Panchayat.
Roles and responsibilities
- To understand and practice the Spirits of The/Nudge Institute and SRLMs
- Selection of vulnerable women in identified geographies in State
- 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 SRLMs 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/contextualisation to the overall knowledge management component of the program
- Good stakeholder management at the grassroots level
Qualifications
- Candidates from the development sector/ rural development/poverty eradication/livelihood promotion / tribal development educational (MSW / MA - in Rural Development and any similar masters degree or above) / 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 two-wheeler 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.
What’s in it for you?
- Own your growth: Our impact-led environment encourages learning and development through L&D wallet, mentorships, and opportunities to grow into new roles.
- Find your tribe: We hire for intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order. You will join a passionate team committed to people excellence and inclusion.
- Take big bets: Be part of scalable and impactful initiatives — driving change across 50,000+ households, 15+ governments, 200+ social enterprises and more.
- Make it happen: Work with high autonomy and purpose in a culture that empowers Nudgesters to take action, iterate fast and implement bold ideas.
We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organisation 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.
