Block Lead, PJAA - EIP, Livelihood Program

About The/Nudge

The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals, and youth across rural development, agriculture, skilling, and economic inclusion, in partnership with 15+ central and state governments.

Our economic inclusion journey towards serving 25 million Indians spans 10 states and currently reaches over 1.5 million people. Through our incubator, accelerator, and grand challenges, we have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs, including Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees, Earthshot Prize winners, and nationally recognized changemakers.

Founded with the support of 130+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates, and 15+ foundations, The/Nudge is working 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.

The/Nudge is working in a strategic partnership with the Palash (Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society), Government of Jharkhand, to bring the rural women, involved in the manufacturing and sale of country liquor (Hadiya), into the mainstream by providing them alternate means of respectable livelihood. This initiative of the state is named as project Phulo Jhano Ashirwad Abhiyan (PJAA). As part of this effort, a State Project Management Unit (SPMU) has been set up at the State office of JSLPS, Jharkhand, to help the Palash (JSLPS) to design and implement this special program. This position is for the Block Lead who will be positioned at identified blocks within the state and will report to the Regional Lead.

What will you do ?

• To understand and practice the Spirits of The/Nudge Institute and JSLPS
• Selection of vulnerable women involved in selling country liquor in identified Aspirational Blocks in Jharkhand
• 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 JSLPS 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

Who we are looking for

• Candidates from development sector/ rural development / poverty eradication / livelihood promotion / tribal development educational / 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.

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.

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.