The Role
Leads The/Nudge’s national government partnerships strategy, building high-trust relationships with government stakeholders, managing a high-performing team, developing tailored messaging, coordinating internal priorities, representing the organization publicly, and delivering both short-term results and long-term impact. The role requires extensive government engagement, go-to-market or partnerships experience, executive leadership, and extensive travel.
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Job Location : Bangalore
About The/Nudge Institute:
The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals, and youth across rural development, agriculture, skilling, and economic inclusion, in partnership with 15+ central and state governments.
Our economic inclusion journey towards serving 25 million Indians spans 10 states and currently reaches over 1.5 million people. Through our incubator, accelerator, and grand challenges, we have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs, including Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees, Earthshot Prize winners, and nationally recognized changemakers.
Founded with the support of 130+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates, and 15+ foundations, The/Nudge is working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime.
About the role:
This is a high-impact leadership role reporting to the Founder & CEO, responsible for shaping and executing The/Nudge’s public partnerships strategy at a national scale.
What will you do ?
- Own our overall government alliances strategy and execution end-to-end.
- Understand and stay up to date on all our programs at all times.
- Build and manage a lean, high-performance team that is aligned with the Spirit of The/Nudge.
- Build and maintain a strong high-trust network amongst government partners to scale our impact.
- Develop targeted and compelling messaging tailored to different categories of government stakeholders across platforms.
- Balance priorities to deliver short-term results while building for the long haul.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and drive impact.
- Represent The/Nudge in relevant public forums across the ecosystem.
Who are we looking for in this role ?
- Strong intent and passion to do impactful work.
- High achievement motivation and overall positive energy.
- Preferably 20+ years of overall experience, with more than a decade of experience in go-to-market roles (BD, partnerships) and more than 5 years of experience in working with the government.
- Hands-on and result-oriented leadership approach.
- Continuous learning with a growth mindset.
- Willingness to travel extensively
What’s in it for you?
- Own your growth: An impact-led learning environment encourages Nudgesters to invest in their learning and capacity building needs through initiatives and policies, including L&D wallet, individual development plan and internal role change opportunities.
- Find your tribe: Our hiring philosophy emphasises intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order, to build a cohesive environment for Nudgesters. The organisation is committed to curating people-centric policies, enhancing how employees experience life at The/Nudge.
- Take big bets: Organisational initiatives are intended to facilitate Nudgesters with a view to the big picture, illustrated by our impact across 50000+ households, 15+ governments, 200+ social enterprises and Charcha: India’s largest social sector convening forum.
- Make it happen: A product-based approach in an action-biased environment empowers Nudgesters to implement audacious plans. Driven to fail fast, we endeavour to optimise resources in favour of programs that align with our scale ambition.
We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.
Skills Required
- Passion and strong intent to do impactful work
- High achievement motivation and positive energy
- Preferably 20 or more years of overall experience
- More than 10 years of go-to-market, business development, or partnerships experience
- More than 5 years of experience working with government
- Hands-on and results-oriented leadership approach
- Continuous learning and growth mindset
- Willingness to travel extensively
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The Company
What We Do
The/Nudge is an action institute working toward a poverty-free India by partnering with governments, markets, and civil society. Its work focuses on building resilient livelihoods and reducing poverty through rural development, agriculture, skilling, economic inclusion, and support for women, farmers, tribal communities, and youth. The organization also develops ecosystem initiatives and collaborates with social entrepreneurs and public institutions to create large-scale, sustainable livelihood opportunities.
