Udhyam Learning Foundation is Looking for Program Associate (EMC) Full Time

At Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam), our vision is to “Co-create a caring world, where people fearlessly pursue their potential.” We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world

Our programs:

• Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted ~16,00,000 learners across 10 Indian states.
• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled upto a 27% income uplift for 5000+ entrepreneurs.

The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path

About Entrepreneurship Projects (Schools):

At Udhyam we believe in the “learning by doing” approach. What better way to build entrepreneurial mindsets than trying entrepreneurship hands on?

We are scaling up an exciting model to enable students to try their hands at entrepreneurship where the students get seed money to develop a business idea into reality. Over the course of this program, the students work in teams, get inputs for coming up with ideas and receive requisite support to develop an idea into a viable business. The businesses also get assessed and the teams can advance to unlock mentorship and more resources

To deepen our impact, we are designing a number of online and offline features for the program to improve content delivery, deepen implementation quality and widen mentorship. We are looking for a Program Associate for Operations who will be a part of the core team of the program, and will work closely with the government partners and Udhyam’s internal teams to maximize reach and impact of the program

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Project Implementation: Take end-to-end ownership of executing various small and large scale components of the overall program, regularly share progress and challenges with the team and stakeholders

• Stakeholder Liaisoning: Work with multiple stakeholders and build strong working relationships including government officials, partner organizations, resource persons, school principals and teachers

• Data Collection and Organizing: Document data related to program implementation including reports from field visits, challenges and insights,

• Curriculum testing and prototyping – As a point of contact for the curriculum team, support in the contextualization, testing, and prototyping of the EMC curriculum

• Ensure the collection of data, coordinate with districts and blocks, and develop reports and proposals related to EMC in Punjab

Skills, Experience and Mindsets:

• People skills – 2+ years of experience working collaboratively with govt stakeholders, preferably in the education sector

• Planning and Execution – Should be an independent thinker and problem solver, able to navigate uncertainty and execute small scale implementations involving multiple stakeholders

• Bias for action – Hands on with operations, willing to pilot and experiment with different strategies, interact regularly with students and various stakeholders across the state, and make things happen with low budgets

• Comfortable working in a fast paced and ambiguous environment

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills

• Ability to work with multiple teams and manage specific asks and requirements