Position: Assistant Manager- Karnataka Rural Women Scaleup Program

Organization: NSRCEL- IIMB Innovations

Location: Bangalore

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan, lead, supervise and manage the project to build capability of rural women entrepreneurs across Karnataka and enable them to grow their businesses.
• Help the team build capacity to deliver a successful program effectively under strict deadlines and help them navigate program challenges and the uncertainties.
• Build and work with a team to evaluate and identify women entrepreneurs with tenacity and potential to scale their businesses.
• Work with a team to assess the needs, risks, strengths and weaknesses of the ventures and entrepreneurs and also build individual profiles and business development plans.
• Develop / design support and capacity building mechanisms for the women entrepreneurs and ventures that can deliver the clearly defined goals and be sustainable over time.
• Support the team in monitoring and reviewing the progress of the participating ventures and visit them periodically to understand their challenges and work with them.
• Ensure that the program runs smoothly, thereby, planning and executing a variety of tasks (including program planning, operations, budget management, marketing & outreach, communication, need assessment, capacity building sessions, workshops & mentorships, technology involvement, vendor selection and other activities as required).
• Use community-led processes and liaise, build and maintain ecosystem stakeholder collaborations (including government, academic institutions, non-profit organizations and others).
• Develop a regular communication and reporting cadence towards both internal and external stakeholders, including government and deliver the reporting periodically in formats as required.
• Identify and leverage multiple funding sources and provide entrepreneurs with market access, funding access and backward & forward integration opportunities.
• Support in creating processes, document best practices and success stories, monitor impact metrics and growth, generate reports to further improve the program.
• Bring fresh concepts, ideas, global best practices, and knowledge to the table to develop a better program design / architecture for the target beneficiaries.
• Develop, suggest, and implement strategies and tactical solutions for the problem areas, keeping a human centric and problem centric approach.
• Work with the internal cross-functional teams to synergize efforts towards entrepreneurial growth and become champions of NSRCEL.

What you will be bringing to the table

• Must have an experiment-led and be ready to explore to build goal oriented projects
• Must be a collaborative self-starter with the ability to make connections quickly, build trust, work as a team player and constantly adapt to the changing scenarios
• Ability to flex continuously between the strategic and tactical or conceptualising and execution
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with fluency in Kannada, English and Hindi
• An ability to interact in Uttar Kannada, Marathi or Telugu is an added advantage.
• Have a Post Graduate degree from a reputed institution with overall experience of 3-5 years in the relevant field
• Have worked with women across the rural landscape through SHGs, non-profit organizations
• Have on-site / field experience across districts of Karnataka and government agencies
• Think like an integrated professional with customer-first mindset
• Have a knack for spotting opportunities and anticipating operational inefficiencies
• Thrive amid complexity in a continuously evolving environment with uncertainties 
• Have a positive attitude. Must be detail-oriented and hold the maturity to interact with senior leadership
• Willing to travel extensively across remote parts of Karnataka