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
Economic Inclusion Program is solving for households in extreme poverty through a targeted, multi-faceted and sequenced model called the Graduation Approach which has demonstrated that extreme poverty can be conquered.
At The/Nudge we have been piloting this program for the past 3 years and are in the process of catalyzing propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to ending extreme poverty in India. EIP will:
- continue to implement on its own to iterate the design for impact at scale
- enable more NGOs to adopt technical and capacity-building support
- enable govt to adopt by providing research, design, and implementation support
- continue to generate data on extreme 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.
What are we solving for?
Farmers in India have experienced newer opportunities through livestock based livelihood models promoted by govt/ markets, but there’s a need to build sustainable pro-poor models at population scale. While we are implementing livestock promotion models (backyard poultry and goatery models) in Uttar Pradesh, we also recognize and work towards building a deeper understanding of the value chain to create incentives for markets to participate & leverage govt resources to solve for:
- Infrastructure (Land & assets, Information & Technology)
- Standardization of rearing practices
- Forward & backward linkages for farmers
- Collectivization of efforts through community institutions (SHGs)
- Organized production
What will you do:
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 SRLMs will be provided to the possible extent. The seating arrangement will be within the District/Block Mission Management Units (DMMU/BMMU) of the SRLMs
Who are we looking for in this role:
- 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 communitization 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
What’s in it for you?
- 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 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.
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.
