Full time

Wadhwani Foundation; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Wadhwani Foundation is seeking a Resource Network Lead to build and manage a high-quality state-level pool of experts, mentors, and practitioners to enable skilling and entrepreneurship initiatives.

The role balances local context with central quality standards, ensuring resource readiness, utilization, and alignment to program outcomes across public and private ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• State-Level Resource Capacity: build a robust, state-specific pool of vetted experts, mentors, and practitioners aligned to skilling, small business growth, and entrepreneurship program needs.
• Skilling Resource Enablement: ensure reliable access to sector-relevant facilitators and mentors who enable learner employability, workplace readiness, and industry exposure.
• Knowledge & Insight Curation: curate state-relevant knowledge assets and integrate resources into AI-enabled platforms with quality standards and metrics.
• Expert Network & Capacity Building: design, grow, and manage pools of practitioners and mentors aligned to program outcomes and local context.
• Contextual Judgment: assess local relevance of expertise while balancing central standards and state needs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with program, ecosystem, and central teams to align resource supply with execution demand.
• Systems Thinking: understand interconnected systems spanning skilling, small business growth, academia, employers, and policy.
• Data- and Insight-Informed Decision Making: use data and insights to prioritize partnerships and improve ecosystem effectiveness.

Job description

• Functional Area Sales / Business Development / Client Servicing

Job Description

Ecosystem ResourceNetwork

OrganizationOverview

The WadhwaniFoundation is an entrepreneurial philanthropy focused on enablinglarge-scale job creation by strengthening entrepreneurship, skilling, and smallbusiness growth across the Global South. The Foundation builds systems-levelsolutions that combine AI-enabled platforms, structured programs, and deepecosystem partnerships to drive measurable economic outcomes. Its work spansmultiple geographies and engages governments, employers, industry bodies,financial institutions, and entrepreneurship enablers. The operating modelemphasizes scale, execution rigor, and collaboration across public and privateecosystems to deliver durable impact.

RoleOverview

The Resource Network Lead is responsible for building, managing, and activating ahigh-quality state-level pool of experts, mentors, and practitioners thatenables effective delivery of skilling and entrepreneurship initiatives. Therole ensures that programs have timely access to relevant, locally groundedexpertise aligned to small business growth, employability, and enterpriseoutcomes. Operating as the state-level extension of national resource networks,the role balances local relevance with central quality standards, withaccountability for resource readiness, utilization, and contribution tooutcomes.

Responsibilities (with example deliverables)

1. State-LevelResource Capacity

• A robust, state-specific pool of vettedexperts, mentors, and practitioners aligned to skilling, small businessgrowth, and entrepreneurship program needs.
  
• Clear ownership of resource availability,coverage, and readiness across programs operating within the state.
  

2. Skilling ResourceEnablement

• Reliable access to sector-relevantfacilitators, industry mentors, and practitioners who enable learneremployability, workplace readiness, and industry exposure.
  
• Consistent expert participation inmasterclasses, mentoring, and applied learning interventions withmeasurable utilization and engagement.
  

5. Knowledge &Insight Curation

• A curated set of state-relevant knowledgeassets (local reports, sector insights, practitioner content, tools)aligned to business, skilling, and enterprise needs.
  
• Structured sourcing and integration of theseresources into the Foundation’s AI-enabled platforms for scalable use.
  
• Clear quality standards, performance tracking,and utilization metrics for experts and mentors at the state level.
  
• Strong coordination with central teams toensure consistency, while adapting resource deployment to local contextand program demand.
  
• Expert Network & Capacity Building
  Ability to design, grow, and manage pools of practitioners and mentorsaligned to defined program outcomes and local context.
• Contextual Judgment
  Ability to assess localrelevance of expertise and knowledge, balancing central standards withstate-specific needs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  Ability to work effectively with program, ecosystem, and central teams toalign resource supply with execution demand.
• Systems Thinking
  Ability to understand and operate within interconnected systems spanningskilling, small business growth, academic institutions, employers, andpolicy environments, identifying leverage points for scale and impact.
• Data- and Insight-Informed Decision Making
  Ability to use data, ecosystem insights, and performance signals toprioritize partnerships, course-correct execution, and improve ecosystemeffectiveness over time.

Experience

• Expert or Mentor Network Exposure
  Experience building, managing, or operating within expert, mentor, orpractitioner networks supporting skilling, entrepreneurship, or enterpriseinitiatives.
• Small Business Contexts
  Experience working with or supporting small businesses,micro-entrepreneurs, or growth ventures in applied, execution-orientedsettings.
• Partner-Led Delivery Models
  Experience delivering outcomes through external experts or partners ratherthan direct line management.
• State or Regional Operating Contexts
  Experience operating in state or regional ecosystems with variedinstitutional capacity, sector mix, and local dynamics.