Resource Person - Social Startup Programme

Azim Premji Foundation; Odisha; Vor Ort; INR 550.000 - 850.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Azim Premji Foundation invites a Resource Person for its Social Startup Programme to operationalize field activities across Odisha and other geographies. You will drive outreach, build candidate pipelines, and ensure timely weekly screening.

As primary contact for assigned founders, you will coordinate onboarding, reviews, and partner introductions. The role requires strong organization, willingness to travel, and proficiency with digital tools and MIS.

Qualifikationen

• 4–6 years of field-level programme experience in development, with coordination on ground.
• Fluency in the geography's language(s) and working English; able to travel extensively.
• Comfort with frequent travel across geographies and sub-geographies.
• Experience in coordinating events, trackers and multi-thread management.
• Excellent judgment and ability to handle sensitive conversations with founders and partners.

Aufgaben

• Run outreach in the geography: campuses, CSOs, networks; build and maintain candidate lists.
• Assist the application window: help applicants, support weekly screening and interview logistics.
• Keep applicants informed at each stage with timely updates.
• Onboard founders and be the single point of contact through the programme; weekly touchpoints and reviews.
• Coordinate residential orientations, milestone evidence collection, and MIS updates.
• Manage interactions with partner organisations for learning visits and postings.
• Support registration, end-of-programme assessment, and transition to seed grant.
• Maintain complete records and uphold commitments to partners.

Kenntnisse

Field coordination

Outreach & engagement

Event management

Travel readiness

Stakeholder management

Tools

Spreadsheets

MIS systems

Portal familiarity

Jobbeschreibung

Resource Person — Social Startup Programme

About the programme

The Social Startup Programme supports development professionals — under 40, with 4+ years of field experience — to set up and run their own organizations in geographies the Foundation prioritizes. Selected founders receive an 8-months support (with a monthly stipend), followed by an assessment at the end of the 8 months which decides the 2-year seed grant to build their organization. Phase 1 runs in four geographies — Bangalore Urban, Eastern UP, Odisha and North-East India — with applications opening October 2026 and founders arriving February 2027.

The role in one paragraph

This person will operationalize the programme on the ground. Before the call opens, they bring people to outreach sessions and build the list of interested candidates. During selection, they make sure applications are screened every week, fairly and on time. Through the programme, they are the single point of contact (SPOC) for the founders assigned to them by the geography team — their onboarding, reviews, wellbeing, partner introductions and logistics. And as founders register their organizations and start work, they are the main link between the founders, the Foundation's geography team, and the partners around them. It is a field role that needs strong day-to-day organization: most weeks involve travel, trackers to update, and ability to handle difficult conversations.

What you will do

• Run outreach in the geography: regular sessions with campuses, community and civil-society organizations (CSOs) and networks; build and maintain the list of interested candidates.
• Support the application window: help applicants apply, support the weekly screening in the portal, and coordinate interview logistics and reference checks on the ground.
• Keep every applicant informed at each stage — acknowledgements, status, and next steps.
• Onboard the founders assigned and be their single point of contact through the programme: weekly touchpoints, monthly in-person reviews, timely escalation of issues.
• Run logistics for residential orientations and reviews; record reviews and milestone evidence in the management information system (MIS).
• Coordinate with partner organizations for learning visits and postings — introductions, joint meetings and feedback conversations.
• Support founders through registration, the end-of-programme assessment and the transition to the seed grant.
• Keep records complete and current; protect the programme's commitments — support is milestone-based and the seed grant follows the assessment; maintain partner goodwill.

Who we are looking for

Must have

• 4–6 years of field-level programme experience in the development sector, with at least some of it coordinating people, events or partners on the ground.
• Fluency in the geography's language(s) and working English; deep comfort travelling and working in the sub-geographies.
• Open to extensive travel across the geography and nearby sub-geographies, including occasional travel to residential programs and events
• Demonstrated organizing ability: have run events, managed trackers, and kept many threads moving without dropping them.
• People judgement and warmth: founders will come to you in difficult moments; partners will judge the Foundation by your follow-through.
• Comfort with digital tools — portals, spreadsheets, MIS discipline.

Valuable

• Experience in a fellowship or founder-support programme, on either side of it.
• Existing networks in the geography — institutions, CSOs, community organizations.
• Facilitation and review skills; experience with milestone- or evidence-based programme management.