Jan Sahas
Location: Chandigarh (Office-based role)
Travel: Yes, around 5-7 days a month
Deadline: September 30, 2024. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
About us
Jan Sahas was founded in the year 2000 to ensure dignity for India’s most socially excluded communities. Since then, we have made significant contributions to support communities and shift systems to address forced labor, sexual violence (e.g., designed and piloted a nationally recognized model for survivor support center), and manual scavenging (e.g., helped bring about landmark legislation to prohibit the practice and compensate victims). Today, we work in ~100 districts across 13 states.
The Migrants Resilience Collaborative (MRC) was convened by Jan Sahas in 2020 to plug India’s broken social protection delivery systems and make migrant families more resilient. MRC builds on Jan Sahas’ two decade-long experience of working with migrants to implement a two-pronged strategy: First, direct implementation where we work to implement last mile delivery systems, ensuring the most vulnerable migrants have access to existing social protection schemes. Second, systems change, where we partner with governments to strengthen infrastructure and implementation, and with industry, where we work with investors and real-estate companies to improve incentives and accountability towards worker welfare. Since October 2020, we have reached more than 5 million migrant households.
About the position
Through its government systems change partnerships, MRC seeks to identify, test and scale solutions to transform the delivery of social security schemes. We are currently in an exciting partnership with the Punjab Development Commission (PDC), Government of Punjab. We are looking for an enterprising Lead to work closely with the Commission and the state’s Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board to unlock social security for millions of workers in Punjab. They will be responsible for driving the engagement at the state level, managing government partnerships, identifying pain points in the design and delivery of social security schemes, proposing and testing potential solutions, all while representing MRC’s theory of change.
Key Responsibilities:
We are looking for a passionate individual with a high degree of ownership of their work, confidence to interact with senior government functionaries, a knack for identifying relevant problems, strategizing solutions, and supporting implementation in collaboration with the government.
• Manage relationships with government officers at the Commission and various line departments
• Foster relationships with government officials and other partners to secure buy-in for the implementation of new ideas and reforms
• Identifying key bottlenecks through administrative data analysis, key informant interviews, consultations, etc.
• Oversee the implementation quantitative and qualitative research as required
• Work closely with MRC’s technical teams to develop data-informed, testable hypotheses to solve identified problems
• End-to-end management of the piloting of solutions
• Draft high-quality written documents and presentations to synthesize findings
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in economics, Management, Public Policy or related disciplines
• At least 5 years of work experience in government, social sector consultancies or multilaterals
• Ability to build and manage relations with government stakeholders across levels
• Ability to deliver quality outputs on time
• Good written and spoken communication skills in Punjabi (Gurmukhi), and English
• Proficient at quantitative data analysis and interpretation
• Experienced in developing compelling decks, narratives and memos
Bonus points if you have previous experience of:
Working on issues related to social protection, public service delivery, informal work and/or internal migration.
