Start Up!
BASIC INFORMATION
Location: New Delhi
Work arrangement: Full-time permanent position
POSITION DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an intrepreneurial professional with demonstrated leadership in the social entrepreneurship and/or development sector and a keenness to grow Start Up’s unique impact model. You will be part of an “Everybody an Intrapraneur” team that builds vibrant social ventures and an active eco- system for social entrepreneurship across India.
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Incubation/Impact Acceleration/ Leadership Development
You will support teams that incubate and accelerate social ventures, based on Start Up’s 8 Step Methodology. This will require you to:
- Provide research, coordination and communication support towards building go-to-market strategies, business plans, financial models, operational plans and other execution solutions for social entrepreneurs.
- Research and maintain a robust investor and funder network; connect them to our partners and clients.
- Coordinate and organize leadership training workshops and mentoring programs for social entrepreneurs.
- Ensure excellent project documentation, report writing, project management and regular communication with all stakeholders.
2. Building Our Business
As part of a fast-growing entrepreneurial team, you will also be required to support:
- Research and knowledge building for the sector - including creating reports on sectoral and thematic innovations and trends.
- Building and updating our databases of information and insights.
- Supporting business development and communication for Start Up! – with focus on digital media.
3. Managing Systems and Processes
You will anchor our project management processes and systems, across all teams.
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
- Understanding of social entrepreneurship in India and globally.
- Excellent primary and secondary research skills with the ability to do statistical data analysis.
- Ability to manage projects and deadlines with professionalism, timeliness and quality.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Initiative- taking, resilience, high problem-solving abilities, attention to detail.
- Enthusiasm for working with grassroots communities and/or with social entrepreneurs in their fields of operation.
- Willingness to work hard and quest for self-improvement.
MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Post-graduation, with specialization in social entrepreneurship or design and communication or economics preferred.
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience- either as a team member in a social enterprise, or in a eco- system building/support organization for social entrepreneurs, or in a research and consulting venture.
- Fluency in English and Hindi; knowledge of additional Indian languages will be a plus.
- Excellent skills in MS office/equivalent applications, especially MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Innovation, growth and excellence in execution are the core behaviours of Start Up!
As part of the Start Up! team you can expect to:
- Train and be coached by your supervisors in our in-house methodologies of incubating and accelerating social ventures.
- Work with India’s leading social entrepreneurs.
- Travel extensively to gather sector insights and intelligence from the ground-up.
- Tinker with our bank of innovative tools, templates and design-thinking approaches; and create new one if you desire.
- Play on multiple opportunities for creative writing and communication.
