INDIA REGIONAL DIRECTOR

 IDinsight

INDIA REGIONAL DIRECTOR, IDINSIGHT

Location: New Delhi

Indian Nationals and OCIs are encouraged to apply.

 

IDinsight India is at an important juncture in its evolution. We have built a substantial and impactful body of work across sectors and states in India. We have an experienced and well-qualified team of 60+ individuals and are poised for double-digit growth well into the future. We are a values-based organization and each one of us is passionate about using data to foster a more just, prosperous, and sustainable world. We believe in staying at the cutting edge, and continuously adding and innovating new evidence tools to amplify our partners’ impact.

Building on this strong foundation, we are poised to mobilize our unique approach and expertise towards social impact with greater depth and scale. To convert the range of exciting opportunities before us into actual impact, we stand ready to welcome the development sector’s best leaders, and invest them with autonomy and resources to ambitiously pursue social impact. In particular, we are searching for an exceptional and entrepreneurial leader to lead and represent IDinsight India in its next phase of growth.

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply for the India Regional Director (IRD) position at IDinsight. The IRD will, with the support of dedicated and talented teams, be responsible for driving IDinsight India’s strategy, projects, growth, and operations in India, in addition to being an ambassador for IDinsight’s mission and values both within and outside the organization. The IRD’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead IDinsight India towards social impact
• Envision and execute IDinsight’s India strategy
• Lead and represent IDinsight India externally
• Lead, mentor and guide project teams
• Support organizational development
• Exemplify IDinsight’s mission and values

Detailed descriptions of the list above, and the support systems for the IRD, are available in the following pages in this document. We are aware that the best leaders develop unique careers that hone their strengths in one or a few of the areas listed above, so we welcome applicants who demonstrate significant ability in their chosen domains but also meet an adequate threshold in the other listed areas.

 

About IDinsight

Vision: Improve millions of lives by transforming how the social sector innovates, learns, and improves.

Mission: Help leaders use data and evidence to combat poverty.

 

IDinsight uses rigorous evidence to help leaders improve lives. We tailor a wide range of data and evidence tools, includ- ing randomized evaluations and machine learning, to help decision-makers design effective programs and rigorously test what works to support communities. IDinsight works with governments, multilaterals, foundations, and innovative non-profit organizations in Asia and Africa. We work across a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, education, health, governance, sanitation, and financial inclusion. Our team is made up of exceptional economists, data scientists, policy experts, and development professionals.

 

IDinsight’s India office is located in New Delhi. We’ve worked in 15 Indian states on around 30 projects, and we’re con- tinuing to grow. IDinsight India is a critical contributor to national and state level policy decisions, and pivotal to IDin- sight’s Asia presence.

 

To learn more about us, please visit our website: www.IDinsight.org.

 

IDinsight’s Values

IDinsight’s culture and everything we do is shaped by our eight organizational values that were set when the organization was founded in 2011:

• Impact: We measure success by the extent to which our work increases the social impact of our clients. We continually refine our work and strategy to maximize social impact.
• Service: We each put the interests of communities, our partners, and teammates before our own. We understand it is a privilege to serve a cause bigger than ourselves.
• Humility: We often operate in someone else’s home, community, office, or country and recognize the limits of our personal knowledge compared to local experience.
• Professionalism: We bring to bear the skill and effort needed to produce work of the absolute highest quality. Our work is judged by our outputs, not our effort.
• Honesty: We always share our objective findings and honest opinions with the client and each other – even if they are unpopular. We are a flat organization: the best idea and evidence wins.
• Ownership: We each are responsible for helping IDinsight continually innovate, learn, and improve. If something is broken or flawed in our organization, we proactively fix it.
• Community of leaders: We are committed to enabling our colleagues to reach their full long-term professional potential. We look out for each other professionally and personally.
• Systems perspective: We understand that effective change requires a holistic understanding of why the status quo persists and work with others to create greater, sustained impact.

 

Job Description

The India Regional Director (IRD) role will be supported by the CEO and IDinsight India’s Directors, and will assume critical responsibility for driving large pieces of IDinsight’s work and strategy in India. Further, the IRD will be supported by high quality research teams, an excellent operations team that ensures a well-functioning organization, and a communications team to help amplify the Director’s voice in policy circles. A portion of the IRD’s time, along with a small budget, will be safeguarded for research, thought leadership, professional development, and leadership coaching (optional). The IRD will also be provided a 1-2 member executive team to work with them closely to execute on their responsibilities. Finally, the IRD will be provided with bi-annual performance reviews (including feedback from peers and direct reports) to help them continuously grow and learn as professionals.

The IRD will be provided significant autonomy to leverage IDinsight as a platform to drive social impact (in consonance with our mission and strategy), while also being held accountable to clear goals that they will set for themselves in consultation with the CEO and other leaders at IDinsight India.

 

The IRD’s role will be unique and tailored to her or his strengths and interests. However, at a high level, the role will include the following:

• Lead IDinsight India towards social impact: The IRD’s primary responsibility is to drive and increase IDinsight India’s social impact using their experience, expertise, and networks. Towards this goal, the IRD will help conceptualize, secure, fundraise, and execute impactful initiatives that use data and evidence to drive change. In addition, the IRD is expected to repeatedly set the north star of social impact for the region, including all project teams, and drive all aspects of the organisation towards this goal.
• Envision and execute IDinsight’s India strategy: The IRD will be responsible for working closely with India and global leadership teams to envision, craft, refine and execute IDinsight’s strategy in India.
• Lead and represent IDinsight India externally: The IRD will be IDinsight India’s face both within India and globally. He/she will be expected to apply their considerable experience, expertise, and skills to shape evidence-informed action within one or multiple sectors, regions, or specializations. This includes writing in leading newspapers and journals, speaking at important conferences, harnessing relationships and networks within the impact community to develop trusted advisory positions with senior leaders, and participating in consultative councils within governments, foundations, and/or non-profits.
• Lead, mentor and guide project teams: The IRD will typically also directly lead a small number of projects in addition to the India leadership role. Project leadership involves liaising with senior clients regularly, ensuring the highest standards of research quality and ethics, overseeing and mentoring teams (usually 1-2 Managers, with 3-6 members in total), ensuring a safe and enabling atmosphere for colleagues, and keeping within project budgets.
• Support organizational development: The IRD will also be involved in contributing to global and regional operations such as recruitment, onboarding and performance reviews. They will be expected to support IDinsight to remain an impact-first, values-based, and nimble organization even as we grow.
• Exemplify IDinsight’s mission and values: Ensuring a strong alignment between incoming IRD and IDinsight’s values will be an important priority for us. The IRD is the face of IDinsight both externally and internally and will be expected to always and unambiguously exemplify our mission and values.

This position is based in New Delhi and will likely include a good amount of domestic and international travel (around 30%, but dependent on exact role and subject to adjustments due to the COVID-19 crisis) in order to fulfill the responsibilities mentioned above.

Additionally, due to the COVID-19 crisis, we are currently working remotely until it is possible to safely and responsibly resume work from office.

 

Qualifications

We are looking for leaders who demonstrate:

• Deep passion for development and social impact, and strong alignment with IDinsight’s vision and mission;
• Record of building strong stakeholder and client relationships, especially with governments in India;
• Record of impactful thought leadership and advocacy around important social and/or technicalissues;
• Fluency in the role of data and evidence tools – such as impact evaluations, representative surveys, monitoring systems, and/or machine learning – to create insights and impact;
• Ability to be an inspiring leader in a dynamic, multicultural, and values-based environment;
• Attitude to thrive in an entrepreneurial setting, and able to adapt to dynamic growth and change;
• Eagerness to be a lifelong learner with keen intellectual curiosity and sense of humor;
• Willingness to travel as needed and to work with remote colleagues;
• Experience of 10+ years using data and evidence to improve social impact, ideally in India;
• An advanced degree (Master’s or Doctoral), preferably in public policy, economics, public administration, business, or public health.
  
  

We understand that no one candidate will be able to excel in all these attributes. Instead, we are looking for lead- ers who significantly peak in certain attributes, while meeting a minimum threshold in all attributes.

IDinsight is growing and evolving quickly. We may suggest other suitable roles to candidates who apply, based on the overlap between IDinsight’s needs and candidates’ experience and qualifications.

 

Compensation

Dependent on relevant experience and background. Highly competitive with similar roles. Benefits include two round-trip flights to home city per year, provident fund and retirement plan, generous leave, relocation allowance, comprehensive health insurance, technology and professional development stipends. We expect a minimum com- mitment of two years, but are hopeful that suitable candidates will seek to build a longer career at IDinsight. Start date is flexible, with a preference for joining early.

For more information and online application click here