Senior Program Manager, Embedded Government Team Lead

Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD); Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

PxD in Mumbai, India is seeking a Senior Program Manager to build and lead an embedded PMU within the Maharashtra Department of Agriculture. You will guide AI-enabled policy work, engage government stakeholders, and coordinate cross-functional teams across technology, data, and public service delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to translate priorities into executable work plans while ensuring timely, budget-conscious delivery and rigorous

Responsibilities

• Serve as the government's primary point of contact for the program, building relationships across the Ministry and partners.
• Establish the PMU's initial presence within government, securing space, and setting up operating rhythms.
• Lead regular review meetings with government counterparts; manage funder relationships.
• Facilitate government workshops and stakeholder consultations to advance the PMU's mandate.
• Translate government priorities into a coordinated work plan.
• Own end-to-end implementation of projects within timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks, and resolve bottlenecks.
• Oversee the program's evidence-generation agenda and experiments designed to test interventions.
• Translate evidence findings into government-facing recommendations for non-technical audiences.
• Oversee PMU's internal monitoring and reporting for continuous improvement.
• Manage project contracts, grants, and sub-partner relationships.
• Monitor partner performance against deliverables.
• Ensure contractual and donor compliance throughout implementation.
• Coordinate with finance and operations on budgets, procurement, and reporting.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop junior team members; foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of team members.

Job description

Title: Senior Program Manager, Embedded Government Team Lead

Location: Mumbai, India

Position: Full-time

Date Posted: 18 August 2026
Application deadline: September 11, 2026, 5 pm IST (applications may be reviewed as they are submitted)

Role Overview

PxD is looking for a Senior Program Manager to build and lead an embedded Project Management Unit (PMU) within the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra. You will lead a portfolio of work spanning the use of AI for Agriculture, evidence-based policy support, and scaling of digital technologies to improve the livelihoods and resilience of smallholder farmers across Maharashtra. The PMU exists to provide demand-driven support to the Department, responding to its priorities on AI-enabled decision-making and inclusive service access for farmers, and will work across multiple parallel workstreams spanning technology deployment, data and analytics, and public-sector service delivery. You will build and lead a cross-functional team spanning policy staff, data scientists, technologists, program and research staff. This position is based in Mumbai, with regular engagement and travel to Pune and district-level offices.

About PxD

PxD is a rapidly scaling global non-profit that harnesses the power of technology, data science, and behavioral economics to provide targeted information to farmers in low- and middle-income countries. Providing the right information to the right people, in the right way and at the right time, increases incomes, protects the environment, and improves well-being. We are evidence-based: we test our interventions with randomized controlled trials to prove our impact and cost-effectiveness, and to simultaneously learn from and improve our service. Few interventions are as cost-effective as ours.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the government's primary point of contact for the program, building working relationships across the Ministry and an extensive network of technical partners, implementing partners, and PxD teams.
• Establish the PMU's initial presence within government, securing working space, building early relationships with key decision-makers, and setting up the operating rhythms (reporting, steering committee cadence, team processes) that don't yet exist.
• Lead regular review meetings with key government counterparts; manage funder relationships.
• Facilitate government workshops and stakeholder consultations to further the PMU’s mandate.

Program Oversight, Delivery and Management

• Translate government priorities into a coordinated work plan, adjusting as the Department's needs shift.
• Own end-to-end implementation of projects, ensuring delivery against timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Monitor project progress, identify implementation risks, and proactively resolve bottlenecks.

Monitoring, Learning & Operations

• Oversee the program's evidence-generation agenda, including experiments designed to test whether specific interventions change outcomes before recommending the government scale them.
• Translate evidence findings into government-facing recommendations that a non-technical audience can act on
• Proactively oversee the PMUs own internal monitoring and reporting, continuously identifying areas for improvement.

Grants, Contracts & Partner Management

• Manage project contracts, grants, and sub-partner relationships.
• Monitor partner performance against agreed deliverables.
• Ensure contractual and donor compliance throughout project implementation.
• Coordinate with finance and operations teams on budgets, procurement, and financial reporting.

Team Leadership

• Supervise, mentor, and develop junior team members, including Manager, Associates and Technical staff.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture focused on learning and continuous improvement.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of team members.

Knowledge Management &