Job Location: Bengaluru
Internship Duration: 3 Months
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". 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 now scaling it across multiple states. Our purpose is to enable the most excluded individuals to become contributing members of the economy.
We will:
- Enable the government to adopt the program by providing research, design, and implementation support
- Continue to iterate on the program design to create impact at scale through our own implementation efforts
- Support more NGOs in adopting the graduation approach by offering technical expertise and capacity building
- Build evidence on the graduation approach to nudge governments to adopt at scale
- Develop technology solutions that enable NGOs and governments to adopt and implement the program at scale and with quality
Overview: What are some of the principles/ approaches we use?
- First principles thinking
- Human-centered design (thoughtful, action-oriented, experimental & iterative process) with a gender lens (unbiased and reflective approach)
- Systems thinking (analytical, stakeholder-oriented and holistic)
- Strategic planning (result-oriented, logical & coherent with clearly defined outcomes, grounded in current realities)
What will you do ?
About the role:
Support The/Nudge’s Economic Inclusion Program by monitoring and ensuring high data quality in large-scale rural development initiatives. You will work with data collected via our in-house MIS, together with the operations and product teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review and monitor MIS data for accuracy, completeness, and quality/consistency.
- Flag, document, and report data issues or discrepancies.
- Clean and refine databases based on quality checks
- Coordinate with data teams to resolve quality issues promptly.
- Maintain clear logs and generate quality reports as needed.
- Assisting in updating automated dashboards.
- Suggest process improvements based on recurring data patterns.
Who are we looking for in this role ?
- Final-year or recent graduate (STEM, Economics, Rural Development, or a related field).
- Good grasp on quantitative analysis and comfortable managing datasets (cleaning, summarizing, analysing, and interpreting)
- Proficient with Excel/Google Sheets; familiarity with MIS tools is a plus.
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and eager to learn.
- Good communication and documentation skills.
What will you learn?
- Hands-on experience with large-scale MIS data in the social impact sector.
- Exposure to real-world program operations and data-driven decision-making.
What’s in it for you?
- Own your growth: An impact-led learning environment encourages Nudgesters to invest in their learning and capacity building needs through initiatives and policies, including L&D wallet, individual development plan and internal role change opportunities.
- Find your tribe: Our hiring philosophy emphasises intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order, to build a cohesive environment for Nudgesters. The organisation is committed to curating people-centric policies, enhancing how employees experience life at The/Nudge.
- Take big bets: Organisational initiatives are intended to facilitate Nudgesters with a view to the big picture, illustrated by our impact across 50000+ households, 15+ governments, 200+ social enterprises and Charcha: India’s largest social sector convening forum.
- Make it happen: A product-based approach in an action-biased environment empowers Nudgesters to implement audacious plans. Driven to fail fast, we endeavour to optimise resources in favour of programs that align with our scale ambition.
You can learn more about what we do and how we do it through this deck. 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.
