Founders Office Lead / Manager / Associate

Arthan; New Delhi; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-competitive compensation

Long-term leadership opportunity

Job summary

A social enterprise in Delhi seeks a Lead/Manager/Associate for the Founder’s Office. This high-stakes role involves strategic execution across multiple business units and direct interfaces with senior leadership. The ideal candidate must have experience in leadership, strategic thinking, and fundraising. This position offers a market-competitive compensation structure linked to performance, with opportunities for meaningful upside and long-term growth as the organization scales in 2026.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-stakes leadership roles with board interfaces.
• Proven ability to drive complex initiatives in a growing organization.
• Strong strategic and operational decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Founder to ensure business unit objectives.
• Act as a trusted proxy in strategic conversations.
• Deliver high-impact initiatives with quality and scale.
• Support fundraising and manage execution follow-through.
• Build a strong management layer to enhance delivery.
• Drive adoption of technology, systems, and data that enable scale and transparency.
• Support fundraising and capital strategy through pipeline management and execution follow-through.
• Hold discipline around decision-making, documentation, and follow-through to strengthen governance and institutional credibility.
• Surface risks earlystrategic, operational, financial, or reputational—and enable timely, decisive course correction.
• Strengthen culture, performance discipline, and internal systems across 3 institutional entities while growing revenue.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Fundraising

Management

Job description

Founder’s Office – Lead / Manager / Associate

Location: Delhi

Exposure: High-stakes leadership role with direct interface across Board, funders, senior partners, and ecosystem leaders

Mandate

Climate Asia operates at the intersection of climate adaptation, gender, leadership, finance, and systems change. Our mission is to enable locally rooted organisations, solutions, and leaders to deliver climate solutions at scale.

Arthan is a social enterprise strengthening the social impact sector through human capital, organisational development, and thought leadership. To date, we have partnered with over 1,500 organisations, engaged a community of more than 500,000 jobseekers, and convened 100+ forums for sector leaders.

Both organisations are entering a phase of accelerated scale—across programs, funding, influence, and institutional depth. This role sits at the centre of that ambition. The Founder’s Office is being built as the execution spine across Climate Asia and Arthan: the place where strategy translates into irreversible momentum. This is not a support function. It is a strategy-to-execution role for someone who wants to build institutions, not manage tasks.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Founder to ensure that each business unit and institutional platform delivers against its core goals—financial sustainability, impact outcomes, organisational strength, and ecosystem influence.
• Act as a trusted Founder-proxy in high-stakes internal and external conversations, ensuring alignment, judgment, and continuity.
• Deliver flagship initiatives (accelerators, leadership platforms, delivery backbones) with credibility and scale them into repeatable, high-quality offerings.
• Move from program success to portfolio and ecosystem-level influence while maintaining a strong grip on goals, timelines, and quality across multiple parallel work streams and entities.
• Build a strong management layer that reduces founder-dependence in day-to-day delivery.
• Drive adoption of technology, systems, and data that enable scale and transparency.
• Support fundraising and capital strategy through pipeline management and execution follow-through.
• Hold discipline around decision-making, documentation, and follow-through to strengthen governance and institutional credibility.
• Surface risks earlystrategic, operational, financial, or reputational—and enable timely, decisive course correction.
• Strengthen culture, performance discipline, and internal systems across 3 institutional entities while growing revenue.

Core Areas the Founder’s Office Must Anchor

• Goals & Strategy: translating ambition into clear quarterly and monthly priorities.
• Delivery & Execution: ensuring initiatives, partnerships, and platforms land with quality.
• People & Culture: hiring, performance management, leadership development, and values.
• Fundraising & Capital: grant pipelines, funding strategy, early anchor relationships, and follow-through.
• Technology & Systems: tools that enable visibility, coordination, and scale.
• Governance & Risk: decision discipline, accountability, and long-term institutional credibility.

Who This Role Is For

• Thinks like a builder, not a manager.
• Thrives in complexity and responsibility.
• Wants to shape how institutions are built, not just what they deliver.

Compensation

• Market-competitive and calibrated to experience (Manager / Lead / Associate)
• Linked to clear outcome milestones as Climate Asia and Arthan scale in 2026.

For the right candidate, this role offers meaningful upside, expanded mandate, and long-term leadership opportunity as new verticals and capital vehicles are built.