Senior Associate, Data & Tech Analyst, Economic Inclusion Program
Job Description
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 journey to enable 25 million Indians out of ultra-poverty, 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, Tata Trusts, Skoll, Meta, LinkedIn, HDFC, Mphasis, KPMG and L'Oreal, we are contributing towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime.
What are we solving for in the Economic Inclusion Program (EIP)
EIP is solving for households in extreme poverty through a targeted, multi-faceted and sequenced model called the Graduation Approach which has demonstrated that extreme poverty can be conquered.
At The/Nudge we have been piloting this program for the past 3 years and are in the process of catalyzing propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to ending extreme poverty in India. EIP will:
- continue to implement on its own to iterate the design for impact at scale
- enable more NGOs to adopt technical and capacity-building support
- enable govt to adopt by providing research, design, and implementation support
- continue to generate data on extreme 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.
About the role
As part of our partnership with the government on the EIP program, The/Nudge Institute has been given the mandate to build out a tech product to enable the implementation of the Graduation Approach; in conjunction with the National & State Rural Livelihood Missions (NRLM/ SRLMs).You will play a pivotal role in building this first-of-its-kind tech product intended for use in Graduation Approach programs across the country.
In this role, you will:
- Configure new modules and set up new programs on the tech platform (JSON based config + SQL queries)
- Work with data (data cleaning, manipulation and analysis) to create dashboards to generate program insights for operations teams
- Work with team members to manage the devops and build pipelines of the tech product using tools such as Sonarqube and Jenkins
- Administer and manage third party tools used for our own implementation. Eg: Survey software such as SurveyCTO
- Work with the product team to develop automations for operations teams
Apply if you:
- have a strong motivation to contribute to poverty alleviation efforts in India
- are willing to make periodic field visits to understand the program and the users for whom the tech product is being built
- work with a high level of rigor - especially in implementing development, dashboarding and devops best practices
- have 1-4 years of work experience in development, dashboarding and/ or devops:
- experience working with data and building dashboards [and/or]
- experience on scripting/ automations [and/or]
- development experience in any programming language or devops [and/or]
- working with cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
- have the ability to work in a fast paced, ambiguous startup environment (bias for action and curiosity to learn)
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