Founders' Office

Change Engine; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Change Engine in Gurgaon is seeking a Founder’s Office Associate to work directly with the leadership team, driving key strategic initiatives, running cohort programs, and building the nonprofit ecosystem.

You will get hands-on exposure to incubated nonprofits and support them in their scale journeys. The role offers independence to plan and execute to meet objectives, with close collaboration across investors and portfolio founders.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and execution abilities to manage multiple priorities.
• 0-3 years of experience with demonstrated interest in social impact.
• Ability to think creatively and contribute ideas to organizational strategies.
• Hands-on experience with at least one no-code, low-code or AI tool.
• If you started a club, campus initiative, or side project, that’s a big plus.
• This role is based out of Gurgaon.

Responsibilities

• Source and evaluate potential non profits: Identify high-potential organizations and build investment thesis to support decision-making.
• Help nonprofits scale: Run the cohort and support portfolio founders with research, fundraising and strategy support. Organise mentorship sessions, workshops, and networking events.
• Keep our operations smooth: Build internal tools to automate processes, run social media marketing and help run day-to-day operations smoothly.
• Take on what's next: New programmes, research, funder pitches: whatever matters most that month.

Skills

Analytical skills

Execution skills

Prioritization

Creative thinking

Strategic thinking

No-code tools

AI tools

Campus initiatives

Tools

No-code tools

AI tools

Job description

Change Engine is an accelerator and ecosystem builder supporting founders working to solve India's most complex social challenges at scale. Our mission is to help build India's next 100 non-profit unicorns — organisations that meaningfully impact 1M+ people.

Over the last couple of years, we’ve worked with over 15 non-profits . w orking on India's most important challenges, and they have raised over $2M in follow-on funding beyond our own support . We also published the first evidence based playbook for building non-profit unicorns. Our work has been covered in leading publications such as the Economic Times , Mint , The Tribune , IDR amongst others.

Founding Team

We are a team of founders & builders with extensive experience scaling organisations.

Varun Aggarwal is an entrepreneur (Aspiring Minds, $100M+ exit), AI researcher (1500+ citations) and author (science, deeptech and children books). At Aspiring Minds , Varun built AI-led programming and speech assessments which were sold globally to Fortune 500 companies. Since exiting from Aspiring Minds, he has been engaged in mission-driven work for seeing India's socio-economic progress and Change Engine is central to his thesis.

Shubham is an IIT Delhi alum & previously co-founded a social impact startup backed by Y-Combinator. Prior to this, he has worked with clean-tech startups across India and Europe in product and management roles. Shailendra , an ISB alum, is a senior product leader with experience building products at MakeMyTrip & Spinny.

Our advisors and cohort mentors include Luis Miranda (President, Indian School of Public Policy), Tanvi Bikhchandani (Entrepreneur & Philanthropist), Geeta Goel (ex- Country Director, MSDF), Raman Oberoi (ex-COO, CRISIL), Shaveta Sharma-Kukreja (ex-CEO, Central Square Foundation), and others.

Job Description:

As Founder’s Office Associate, you will work directly with Change Engine’s leadership team to drive key strategic initiatives. This will include running and operating our cohort programs, building the non-profit ecosystem, interfacing with investors, organising workshops & events.

You will get an opportunity to work hands-on with our incubated non profits and support them in their scale journeys. We are quite a small team and you will get considerable independence to plan and execute things to meet the objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Source and evaluate potential non profits: Identify high-potential organizations and build investment thesis to support decision-making.
• Help nonprofits scale: Run the cohort and support portfolio founders with research, fundraising and strategy support. Organise and coordinate mentorship sessions, workshops, and networking events
• Keep our operations smooth: Build internal tools to automate processes, run social media marketing and help run day-to-day operations smoothly.
• Take on what's next: New programmes, research, funder pitches: whatever matters most that month

Qualifications:

• Strong analytical skills and excellent execution skills to manage multiple priorities effectively
• 0-3 years of experience with demonstrated interest in social impact. You've shown it through a project, internship, club, research or something you did on your own.
• Ability to think creatively and contribute ideas to enhance organizational strategies.
• Hands-on experience with at least one no-code, low-code or AI tool. You've built something with it, even something small.
• If you have started a club, a campus initiative, or a side project, that’s a big plus.
• This role is based out of Gurgaon.

What’s in it for you:

• Work together with a team from MIT, ISB, IIT, and other top institutions
• Competitive salary with fast growth in pay and responsibilities.
• Build your network early. You will interface with leaders across nonprofits, philanthropy, academia and policy research.
• Operate within flexible structures, flat hierarchies, and short response times, working alongside motivated and driven colleagues
• Gain unmatched exposure to the non profit ecosystem, investment processes, and the art of scaling innovative non profits