Position: Head Design Center

Organization: CARE

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Apply: www.careindia.org

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with Head Strategy in setting up the CARE India’s Design center in collaboration with IIIT-Hyderabad at Rama Reddy Centre for Social Good

• Identify top projects to be undertaken under Design Centre in close collaboration with CARE’s program team

• Co-ordinate and partner with Startups, to identify products, make it fit for larger impact which are affordable and has a potential to scale

• Responsible for anchoring and accelerating the agenda of the Design Centre

• Develop strategic operational plan with the Center stakeholders and move digital innovations to execution

• Oversee daily operations and set a leadership presence in the center

• Establish collaborative models for incubating and scaling program innovations

• Sift and analyse data from multiple angles, looking for trends that highlight problems or opportunities

• Make recommendations to adapt existing program strategies

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Post-Graduate (Preferably with Engineering background) with a minimum of 8-10 years of experience including both contributing to and managing teams (Applicant with exposure to Development sector experience would be preferred)

• Strong acumen in following areas, along with depth at least two: technology, innovation, incubation, startups, product development, stakeholder management

• Demonstrate skills in scoping problems, driving design thinking hackathons, incubating and supporting promising design innovations and scaling them

• Proven expertise in building successful startup teams and learning from failure, as an entrepreneur, investor and/or advisor. Former founders preferred.

• Being seen as a leader within the Indian startup ecosystem will be an advantage

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:
• Being a credible, authentic, purpose driven leader, with a track record of delivering results by empowering and enabling others.

• The ability to manage a broad portfolio of relationships with startups, mentors, Institutions, community and internal stakeholders within CARE family

• Results driven; strong analytical skills with extraordinary verbal and written communication skills

• Communication and ability to effectively communicate within a senior leadership capacity

• Partner-centric with a solid understanding of partner management and the start-up ecosystem

• Strong cross-group teamwork skills and ability to work across multiple stakeholders – internal and external

• Ability to work autonomously and independently

• Ability to meet hard timelines while working on different assignments simultaneously

• A team player following model codes of conduct and behaviour ensuring gender and rights-based approaches at the workplace