Senior Associate Programs – Guwahati, Assam

Organisation Overview  (Samhita.org) 

Samhita-CGF is an impact catalyst – we are pioneers and innovators in the social space, and are passionate about bringing together stakeholders from the private, public, philanthropy, social, and financial sectors, and collaborating to bring about unprecedented catalytic change. In alignment with UNSGDs, we are on a mission to positively impact 10 million lives by 2030, 50% of which will be women, by co-creating measurable, scalable and sustainable solutions that are CSR and FCRA compliant.

Over the past 14 years since our establishment, we have already impacted over 16 million lives, while partnering with 350+ social organizations, 250+ corporate and individual donors, and 30+ government foundations and international aid agencies. We aim to drive holistic social development for our participants by ensuring they are given access to multiple interventions ranging from livelihoods, skilling, social protection, digital empowerment, and financial inclusion.

Responsibilities:

1. Implementation:

• Assist in executing the WOHLA program through CSC and NGO channels, including tracking progress and resolving operational challenges.
• Design the strategy for new channels and coordinate the activation of WOHLA for Workplace and Health and Social Care (HSC) channels, ensuring smooth implementation across these domains.
• Support the integration of new partnerships into WOHLA, aligning them with the appropriate channels and customizing the WOHLA tech dashboard for tracking purposes.
• Ensure streamlined data flow from on-ground and its availability on the tech dashboard.
• Work closely with the Senior Manager to synchronize implementation activities with Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), technology partnerships, and communications teams.

2. Donor and Partner Interface:

• Assist in preparing and submitting quarterly and annual reports to donors like FHM Engage/USAID.
• Support the organization of weekly and quarterly donor/client meetings, managing documentation requirements, and responding to information requests.
• Help coordinate accompanied visits, ensuring thorough preparation and alignment with donor/client expectations.
• Assist in finalizing and aligning the work plan with donor/client expectations.

3. Need based support: Provide support for other roles as needed including communications, partnership development, and event coordination, to ensure seamless execution of WOHLA initiatives.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public health, business administration, or a related field.
• At least 4-6 years of relevant experience in project management, partnership development, or program implementation.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Experience working with NGOs, government bodies, or donor agencies is an advantage.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and experience with project management tools.

Work Location: Assam

Why Samhita?

• • Make a big difference: Take, own, and implement.
  • Leadership: This is the perfect opportunity to go beyond traditional roles and lead cutting-edge management and research strategies. The candidate shall work alongside the brightest minds, in an environment that fosters growth and creativity
  • Impact: Working with Samhita will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive change in the lives of millions – doing well by doing well
  • Work Culture: Samhita has a team of young, hard-working, and dynamic individuals who strive for excellence while maintaining a humble outlook. Our work has been strengthened and supported by international and domestic donor agencies and foundations such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Omidyar Network, Walmart Foundation, Microsoft India, Google India, Adidas India, Tata Motor Finance and many more.
  • Learning: Increase your problem-solving capabilities by delving into complex challenges.

How to apply: Forward your LinkedIn page or CV to careers@tests.samhita.org, you can also apply on our careers page.

Associate Director – Strategic Partnerships

Organisation Overview  (Samhita.org) 

Samhita-CGF is an impact catalyst – we are pioneers and innovators in the social space and are passionate about bringing together stakeholders from the private, public, philanthropy, social, and financial sectors, and collaborating to bring about unprecedented catalytic change. In alignment with the UNSDGs we are on a mission to positively impact 10 million lives by 2030, 50% of which will be women, by co-creating measurable, scalable and sustainable solutions that are CSR and FCRA compliant.

Over the past 14 years since our establishment, we have already impacted over 16 million lives, while partnering with 350+ social organisations, 250+ corporate and individual donors, and 30+ government foundations and international aid agencies. We aim to drive holistic social development for our participants by ensuring they are given access to multiple interventions, including providing access to social security, financial literacy and inclusion, access to credit, business formalisation, healthcare, entrepreneurship development, skilling, job creation, digital empowerment, and market linkages.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• 1. A Business Acumen: Adept at identifying new clients and opportunities. Build and utilize knowledge of current & future industry practices and trends to position Samhita as a trusted advisor and critical business partner. Actively demonstrate knowledge of competition to proactively position Samhita against competition.
  2. A Drive for Results: Work on high return and profitable opportunities. Execute against the plan, adjusting as appropriate or as the business. Take initiatives to work independently with a vision of the end state in mind. Self-motivated and motivate others to achieve maximum results.
  3. A knack of selling to large conglomerates and address the complexities associated with the decision making process.
  4. Good interpersonal skills and skillful to interact with decision makers, including C-level officers while demonstrating responsible decision making in stressful or unexpected situations. Understand the role of all parties involved in a negotiation and their motivations, sensitivities and intentions.
  5. Good knowledge and broad understanding of all solutions offered by Samhita and are able to effectively articulate the business value of each in ways that resonate with our Clients. Ability to effectively engage solution specialists in a way that best serves the interests of our Clients.
  6. Exceptional presentation skills and can deliver clear concise presentations with enthusiasm and passion that demonstrates knowledge of our business services. Restate main concepts and gain agreement from Clients on actionable next steps towards closing the mandate.
  7. Ability of responsible decision making under stressful or unexpected situations. Diffuse conflicts in ways that create additional value and leads to new opportunities. Make sound business decisions based on experience, wisdom and thorough understanding of the situation.
  8. Build effective relationships and collaborate with peers, managers and co-workers across Samhita. Openly communicate, provide timely feedback and share ideas.
  9. Maintain a high level of professionalism and represent Samhita as a thought leader to competitors, Clients, implementing partners, professional colleagues and employees.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

We are looking for someone who is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers, with high energy levels, and who naturally builds relationships. Candidate should be result oriented with a strong sense of ownership.

• • You have a proven track record of new business acquisition and 15+ years of experience of sales practices, tactics and tools of developing value propositions with partners.
  • Passionate about growing the business and a demonstrated ability to persevere in the face of obstacles.
  • Outstanding communication skills, strong interpersonal skills. You know what it takes to set the right expectations and effectively communicate them.
  • Can work stressful situations, also understand and can find your way around to find effective solutions.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change. Structured and analytical approach to solving problems.
  • You are someone who loves taking initiative, you do not hesitate before taking on new responsibilities and can juggle between multiple projects.
  • Stellar planning with the ability to prioritize amidst various / sometimes conflicting priorities. Adept at scoping out length and difficulty of tasks and projects and an ability to break down process steps.
  • You are an inspirational leader who can motivate and energize teams and clients.
  • You have strong experience of working with senior leaders with the ability to generate and communicate unique value propositions.

Work Location: Mumbai

Why Samhita?

• • Make a big difference: Take, own and implement.
  • Leadership: This is the perfect opportunity to go beyond traditional roles and lead cutting edge Management and Research strategies. The candidate shall work alongside the brightest minds, in an environment that fosters growth and creativity
  • Impact: Working with Samhita will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive change in the lives of millions
  • Work Culture: Samhita has a team of young, hard-working, and dynamic individuals who strive for excellence while maintaining a humble outlook. Our work has been strengthened and supported by international and domestic donor agencies and foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Tata Trusts, GIZ, DFID, the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, UNDP and the Power of Nutrition.
  • Learning: Increase your problem-solving capabilities by delving into complex challenges.

How to apply: Forward your LinkedIn page or CV to careers@tests.samhita.org, you can also apply on our careers page.

Organisation Overview  (Samhita.org) 

Samhita-CGF is an impact catalyst – we are pioneers and innovators in the social space, and are passionate about bringing together stakeholders from the private, public, philanthropy, social, and financial sectors, and collaborating to bring about unprecedented catalytic change. In alignment with UNSGDs, we are on a mission to positively impact 10 million lives by 2030, 50% of which will be women, by co-creating measurable, scalable and sustainable solutions that are CSR and FCRA compliant.

Over the past 14 years since our establishment, we have already impacted over 16 million lives, while partnering with 350+ social organizations, 250+ corporate and individual donors, and 30+ government foundations and international aid agencies. We aim to drive holistic social development for our participants by ensuring they are given access to multiple interventions ranging from livelihoods, skilling, social protection, digital empowerment, and financial inclusion.

Role Overview:

• The incumbent is expected to manage all strategic relationships and partners pertaining to access to credit through financial products.
• S/he is expected to build capacity of partners after identifying the right ones from the current pool of partners, based on ground intel and data, to achieve scale.
• S/he is expected to manage all aspects of the partner engagement including but not limited to partner onboarding, documentation, compliance checks, disbursement of funds (and collection where applicable), collection of data in a timely manner following due process, quality checks as and when needed etc. Infrequent field visits may be required.
• Perform other related duties as required.
• Work with Govt stakeholders such as State Urban livelihoods mission, Urban Local bodies and other govt agencies in Livelihoods space.

Responsibilities

• Manage all partner relationships pertaining to access to credit through financial products
• Track each NGO/execution partner to ensure compliance and efficiency of operations
• Manage relationships with lending partners
• Spearhead disbursement and collection of returnable grants
• Build and maintain a structured process and objective check-list for partner onboarding and ongoing operations
• Manage partner costs and ensure adherence to Samhita’s bottom line and margins
• Liaise with internal stakeholders across functional areas for smooth project operations
• Maintain a positive, constructive, and co-creative relationship with stakeholders and partners as well as contributing to growing such network.
• Recommending and Implementing process for improvements to programs.
• Identifying the key financial and non-financial risks, recommending actions for mitigation of those risks.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in the program management/Operations roles, should have handled large scale mandates.
• Experience of working with financial services products, especially credit products for the micro and nano enterprises segment.
• Post-Graduation degree in Business Management, Marketing or related field from a reputed college
• Strong hold on data, number crunching and data analysis is mandatory
• Ability to multitask and work with multiple stakeholders and diverse set of requirements
• Proven track record of building programs from scratch and executing and scaling it will be an added advantage.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• A flexible work style, someone that can work easily with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

Work Location: Lucknow/Mumbai

Why Samhita?

• Make a big difference: Take, own and implement.
• Leadership: This is the perfect opportunity to go beyond traditional roles and lead cutting-edge management and research strategies. The candidate shall work alongside the brightest minds, in an environment that fosters growth and creativity
• Impact: Working with Samhita will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive change in the lives of millions – doing well by doing well
• Work Culture: Samhita has a team of young, hard-working, and dynamic individuals who strive for excellence while maintaining a humble outlook. Our work has been strengthened and supported by international and domestic donor agencies and foundations such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Omidyar Network, Walmart Foundation, Microsoft India, Google India, Adidas India, Tata Motor Finance and many more.
• Learning: Increase your problem-solving capabilities by delving into complex challenges.

How to apply: Forward your LinkedIn page or CV to careers@tests.samhita.org, you can also apply on our careers page.

Organisation Overview  (Samhita.org) 

Samhita-CGF is an impact catalyst – we are pioneers and innovators in the social space, and are passionate about bringing together stakeholders from the private, public, philanthropy, social, and financial sectors, and collaborating to bring about unprecedented catalytic change. In alignment with UNSGDs, we are on a mission to positively impact 10 million lives by 2030, 50% of which will be women, by co-creating measurable, scalable and sustainable solutions that are CSR and FCRA compliant.

Over the past 14 years since our establishment, we have already impacted over 16 million lives, while partnering with 350+ social organizations, 250+ corporate and individual donors, and 30+ government foundations and international aid agencies. We aim to drive holistic social development for our participants by ensuring they are given access to multiple interventions ranging from livelihoods, skilling, social protection, digital empowerment, and financial inclusion.

Role Overview:

• The incumbent is expected to manage all strategic relationships and partners pertaining to access to credit through financial products.
• S/he is expected to build capacity of partners after identifying the right ones from the current pool of partners, based on ground intel and data, to achieve scale.
• S/he is expected to manage all aspects of the partner engagement including but not limited to partner onboarding, documentation, compliance checks, disbursement of funds (and collection where applicable), collection of data in a timely manner following due process, quality checks as and when needed etc. Infrequent field visits may be required.
• Perform other related duties as required.
• Work with Govt stakeholders such as State Urban livelihoods mission, Urban Local bodies and other govt agencies in Livelihoods space.

Responsibilities

• Manage all partner relationships pertaining to access to credit through financial products
• Track each NGO/execution partner to ensure compliance and efficiency of operations
• Manage relationships with lending partners
• Spearhead disbursement and collection of returnable grants
• Build and maintain a structured process and objective check-list for partner onboarding and ongoing operations
• Manage partner costs and ensure adherence to Samhita’s bottom line and margins
• Liaise with internal stakeholders across functional areas for smooth project operations
• Maintain a positive, constructive, and co-creative relationship with stakeholders and partners as well as contributing to growing such network.
• Recommending and Implementing process for improvements to programs.
• Identifying the key financial and non-financial risks, recommending actions for mitigation of those risks.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in the program management/Operations roles, should have handled large scale mandates.
• Experience of working with financial services products, especially credit products for the micro and nano enterprises segment.
• Post-Graduation degree in Business Management, Marketing or related field from a reputed college
• Strong hold on data, number crunching and data analysis is mandatory
• Ability to multitask and work with multiple stakeholders and diverse set of requirements
• Proven track record of building programs from scratch and executing and scaling it will be an added advantage.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• A flexible work style, someone that can work easily with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

Work Location: Lucknow/Mumbai

Why Samhita?

• Make a big difference: Take, own and implement.
• Leadership: This is the perfect opportunity to go beyond traditional roles and lead cutting-edge management and research strategies. The candidate shall work alongside the brightest minds, in an environment that fosters growth and creativity
• Impact: Working with Samhita will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive change in the lives of millions – doing well by doing well
• Work Culture: Samhita has a team of young, hard-working, and dynamic individuals who strive for excellence while maintaining a humble outlook. Our work has been strengthened and supported by international and domestic donor agencies and foundations such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Omidyar Network, Walmart Foundation, Microsoft India, Google India, Adidas India, Tata Motor Finance and many more.
• Learning: Increase your problem-solving capabilities by delving into complex challenges.

How to apply: Forward your LinkedIn page or CV to careers@tests.samhita.org, you can also apply on our careers page.

Organisation Overview  (Samhita.org) 

Samhita is a social impact consulting firm, with a vision to build a ‘better normal’. The better normal reimagines business environments where social value is an integral aspect of growth, putting stakeholders and environmental guardianship at the centre of business strategy, a strategy that evolves from inputs to outcomes, from individuals to ecosystem, and from delivering services to building capacity and enabling the market.

To do this, we support companies to align their core competencies with the needs of the social sector, and build catalytic partnerships with stakeholders with in-depth knowledge and networks to execute sustainable, outcomeoriented social impact initiatives. This approach bridges the gap between purpose and action, and forges business responsibility strategies that balance people, profit and planet, thereby creating a better normal for communities, environments and businesses.

Role Overview:

• The role sits within Samhita’s Growth and Innovation team, the apex team responsible for developing and scaling new initiatives as well as orchestrating programs/ initiatives within the organization. The role requires collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders to create pitch decks, track existing programs and develop a broader strategy for the organization. The role is integral for the organization’s REVIVE Alliance, through which we aim to impact 10 million lives in the next 5 years.
• The Team touches on all key aspects of the Samhita Social Impact work lifecycle, including conceptualization and design of new solutions and aid models, forging partnerships with funders and partners for their execution plan creation and program incubation, as well as creating client pitches to engage with newer funding and strategic partners.
• This role is for you, if you are someone who loves problem solving is a self-starter and is looking to work in a fluid, dynamic environment with evolving challenges and opportunities for constant learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy vertical, including working in close collaboration with the CEO and senior management
• Support in building strategic partnerships with corporate and institutional donors through pitchbooks, concept notes, presentations and client engagement
• Design newer solutions across livelihood, gender equality, financial inclusion, digital transformation and related social impact themes including developing the theory of change, storyboarding the narrative in MS Office, and working with Implementation, Research & MEL Teams to customize the solution per client needs
• Support the leadership in internal firm strategy, innovation and growth planning
• Work cross-teams in preparing responses to grants & tenders (RFPs) per emerging needs

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

1. 8+ years of experience in a Big 4 consulting/ strategy role
2. MBA, MPA/MPP from reputed university/institute
3. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
4. Very strong MS Office and written Business English skills
5. Strong Interpersonal, client management and presentation skills
6. High interest working in Social Impact Space, and ability to work flexibly to meet deadlines
7. Ability to contribute beyond the defined scope of work

Work Location: Preferably based in Mumbai

Why Samhita?

• Make a big difference: Take, own and implement.
• Leadership: This is the perfect opportunity to go beyond traditional roles and lead cutting-edge management and research strategies. The candidate shall work alongside the brightest minds, in an environment that fosters growth and creativity
• Impact: Working with Samhita will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive change in the lives of millions – doing well by doing well
• Work Culture: Samhita has a team of young, hard-working, and dynamic individuals who strive for excellence while maintaining a humble outlook. Our work has been strengthened and supported by international and domestic donor agencies and foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Tata Trusts, GIZ, DFID, the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, UNDP and the Power of Nutrition.
• Learning: Increase your problem-solving capabilities by delving into complex challenges. 

How to apply: Forward your LinkedIn page or CV to careers@tests.samhita.org, you can also apply on our careers page.