Manager (Operations) - Tamil Nadu

About Udhyam:

Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) is on a mission towards Making Bharat Entrepreneurial. 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 ~24,00,000 learners across 12 Indian states.

• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled up to 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 Entrepreneurial Mindset Program:

At Udhyam we believe in the 3 key learning principles namely Student Autonomy, “Learning by Doing” and “Real world experience’ . What better way to build entrepreneurial mindsets than trying real world  innovation projects hands-on?

Our Entrepreneurial Mindset Development program will be rolled out across 4 districts in Tamil Nadu in the coming year. The program is focused on enabling the development of Entrepreneurial Mindsets of students through a curriculum which is experiential and project-based. The program will be integrated into the school timetables and enabled through teachers within each school. Over the course of this Project based curriculum, the students will work in teams, receive inputs for identifying societal problems that they would like to solve, and with a support system develop their ideas into viable prototype solutions. 

To deepen our impact, we are designing a number of online and offline features for the program to improve content delivery and deepen implementation quality. 

We are looking for a Manager (Operations) for Tamil Nadu, who will be a part of the core team,  work closely with the government partners and Udhyam’s internal teams to maximise reach and impact of the program. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Operations:  Manage the entire set of the program, oversee the big picture pertaining to the state. Responsible for end to end operations and delivery.  Responsible for monitoring government regulations and guiding public policy. 

• Stakeholder Management: Work with multiple stakeholders and build strong working relationships including government officials, partner organizations, resource persons, school principals and teachers. Serve as lead site coordinator.

• Program Strategy and Management: Define program goals and implementation strategy, prepare and execute project plan, define and evolve ownership areas of team members and stakeholders, regularly review progress and strategy

• Data Management: Create structures and build capacity within the team to collect and analyse implementation data and take data based decisions

• Promote Udhyam's mission, values and organisational policies to all stakeholders. 

• Regular monitoring visit to the districts and gathering the required data of the program 

Skills, Experience and Mindsets:

• Must be willing to be based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

• 8+ years of experience working collaboratively with govt stakeholders on large scale programs, preferably in the education sector.

• Excellent communication skills in Tamil and English. 

• Planning and Execution - Comfortable working with a diverse group of individuals to meet project objectives within established timelines; can effectively move from strategy to details in a seamless way

• Ownership -  You, as an individual, are accountable for the quality and timeliness of the outcome, even when you're working with others.  

• 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

• Comfortable working in a fast paced and ambiguous environment

• Comfortable with MS Office