Manager Programs – Mumbai and Pune

Azim Premji Foundation; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Azim Premji Foundation in Mumbai is seeking a Programme Manager to lead grant making and grant management for the Mumbai and Pune teams. The role involves coordinating with civil society partners, overseeing grant implementation, and building contextual understanding of urban issues.

The candidate should have deep experience in urban contexts, strong initiative, and willingness to travel. Minimum 12-15 years in the sector is expected; fluency in English and Hindi, and Marathi is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience working on urban issues and vulnerabilities, preferably in Mumbai.
• High level of self-motivation, initiative, and creativity.
• Willingness to travel extensively for work.
• Substantial knowledge of organisational and project management.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and solve problems independently or with teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess organisations across thematic areas and make large, high-impact grants.
• Oversee the management of the assigned grants ensuring timely reporting, payment disbursement, review of programme quality and implementation.
• Build relationships with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to further the Foundation's understanding of themes and local contexts.
• Supplement the research and development of frameworks and models in the operating areas.
• Lead or support initiatives in Mumbai and Pune done in collaboration with implementing partners, ensuring programme outcomes are met.
• Lead or support efforts in strengthening ground level operations, improving systems and processes of partners, team building.
• Identifying unaddressed issues of the community and provide feedback to partner, layering and deepening efforts.
• Update internal leadership on a quarterly basis - progress, challenges and ground level changes.

Skills

Urban issues experience

Self-motivation

Willingness to travel

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Problem solving

Job description

Programme Manager – Mumbai and Pune team

About the role

The Foundation has recently begun focused work in Mumbai and Pune and is setting up a team based out of Mumbai. Through our grant making, we will work on all the themes within the purview of the Foundation. In addition, we will implement programmes in close collaboration with civil society organisations on the ground.

The Programme Manager would be responsible for grant making and grant management as well as supporting partners to achieve the programme outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Assess organisations across thematic areas and make large and high-impact grants.
• Oversee the management of the assigned grants ensuring timely reporting, payment disbursement, review of programme quality and implementation.
• Build relationships with civil society organisations and other relevant stakeholders to further the Foundation's understanding of different thematic areas and local contexts.
• Supplement the research and development of frameworks and models in the operating areas.
• Lead or support our initiatives in Mumbai and Pune done in collaboration with implementing partners, ensuring programme outcomes are being met.
• Lead or support efforts in strengthening ground level operations, bringing ownership, improving systems and processes of partners, team building, making subjective changes to program design, stakeholder engagement and collaborations with other partners.
• Identifying unaddressed issues of the community or gaps in implementation and do the needful to address the same, which includes feedback to partner, layering and deepening efforts.
• Update internal leadership on a quarterly basis - mainly on progress in the program, challenges and ground level changes.

What we are looking for:

candidates who have

• a good understanding and experience of working on urban specific issues and vulnerabilities, preferably in Mumbai or a similar Urban context.
• a high level of self-motivation, initiative, and creativity
• a willingness to travel extensively for work
• substantial knowledge of organisational and project management
• the ability to work with minimal supervision, and solve problems independently or collaboratively as needed
• a minimum 12 - 15 years of experience in the sector
• fluency in English, Hindi and preferably Marathi.