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Lead/ Associate Lead Villgro 2023

  • Deadline: Nov 07, 2023

  • Qualification (Education): Postgraduate

  • Experience Required: NA Year

About Job Profile

Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessment

The Lead/Associate Lead for Gender Lens plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the organisation's programs are designed and executed with a strong focus on gender equality and the empowerment of women and marginalised communities. 

This role involves developing and implementing strategies to mainstream gender equity within the portfolio and operations, fostering an inclusive and diverse ecosystem for social entrepreneurs, and contributing to the incubator's overall mission of creating positive social impact.
 

Primary Responsibilities include

  • Lead the implementation of gender lens strategies across the sector’s programmes and enterprises to increase the penetration of benefits to women and girls at the base of the pyramid.
  • Contribute to the selection & retention of talent.
  • Collaborate with sector teams to ensure support to incubatees in adopting gender-inclusive business strategies, with a particular focus on enhancing women end-users and the level of impact on women end-users
  • Participate in fundraising activities, in particular, content for high-quality proposals in collaboration with the ecosystem development team
  • Manage large programmes that are related to gender inclusion, including effective team management
  • Ensure proactive communications, and transparency and manage expectations with the donors, in addition to following the regular reporting protocols.
  • Take responsibility to build and maintain relationships and engagements with partners and key stakeholders to further the goal of gender inclusion through the programmes and the incubation support to the enterprises.
  • Explore creative deal-sourcing strategies to generate a more robust pipeline, and screen applicants against internal impact investment criteria including commitment to address gender equity issues/opportunities.
  • Lead the generation of knowledge products and dissemination of gender impact evidence.
  • Generate knowledge products that create evidence of gender impact to encourage/deepen industry adoption of the gender lens.
     

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Experience in large programmes with significant stakeholder management, understanding of the rural economy, livelihoods and value chains, and MSME.
  • Strong track record of team and project management including timely delivery of outputs.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to engage with senior officials and business leaders.
  • Ability to work in an interdisciplinary and multicultural environment with a willingness to support and guide the work of others in the team.
     

Other Information:

  • We pay comparably higher within the nonprofit sector and have a performance-linked variable component.
  • Employees get health insurance for themselves and their immediate family members. We have a mental health policy that provides access to subsidised performance support
     

 

Job Functions

  • Salary Range: NA LPA

  • Employment Type: Full Time

  • Work Mode: Work from Office

How to Apply

 If you are Interested in taking up the role, Please apply through this link.
 

If you qualify and are interested in taking up the role, please apply through this link.

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Villgro

  • State: Tamil Nadu

  • City: Chennai

About Organisation

We are India’s foremost impact-first incubator. At Villgro, we are addressing some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges by rapidly mobilising innovations in India. 

We do this by working on two levels. We maximise the potential of social enterprises building disruptive solutions through our highly customised, hands-on approach to incubation. We enable innovative partnership models & financing solutions that bring all stakeholders in the marketplace together to actively engage and support these innovations.
 

  • State: Tamil Nadu

  • City: Chennai

Contact Details:

Contact Phone: 8041631523

Contact Email: info@villgro.org

Date of Posting/Posted On: Oct 21, 2023
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