Senior Manager / Lead - Growth & Partnerships

Dost

• Position Type: Full Time
• Location: India (Remote)

About Dost

Dost is an ed-tech nonprofit building a platform to expand access to early childhood development in low-resource settings. Our mission is to unlock children's full potential by focusing on early learning at home - the time when 90% of our brain develops.

We believe that parents of any literary level can play a critical role in developing their children's school and life readiness. That's why our team at Dost Education - educators, entrepreneurs, and engineers - are passionate about using technology and user-centric product design to change the trajectory of families' lives.

Since 2017, we've grown from a small pilot project with a few hundred mothers to reaching over 2 lakh families working with partners like UNICEF and state governments. Join us as we continue to innovate, grow our reach, and deepen our impact. We are supported by some of the best funders in the tech and social impact spaces like Y Combinator, Mulago, and many others.

Dost Education values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of now, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are looking for Sr. Manager/Lead - Growth & Partnerships

As Sr. Manager/Lead - Growth & Partnerships, you will focus on increasing user growth by managing operations & partnerships to scale to 1 million families by 2025. Additionally, you will work closely with the leadership to build and strengthen relationships within and outside the organization. This role has a good scope for growth where you will learn and develop your skills in different functional areas at Dost. In addition, the role includes significant travel in general.

As a Sr. Manager, you are expected to:

• Supports core management team in making decisions on partnerships and scale
• Lead 2-3 projects and work streams simultaneously end to end. Your manager helps you understand activities and tasks in the 3-6 month horizon. You define work for others in the 1-3 month horizon.
• To plan out projects with timelines, KPIs, and key milestones for other team members
• Help define, own, and execute Key Results on organizational Objectives.
• Be a Culture builder - helping other team members contribute their best. Thinking and taking on initiatives for the productivity and well-being of the organization overall - beyond your function (e.g., brainstorming, workshops, policy concerns) Prioritize work by asking questions and seeking clarity from various functional leads - you can manage upwards especially when tasks are unclear or less defined in nature
• Possibly support hiring and managing others

How you'll be making an impact

• Design operations in alignment with programmatic and growth goals.
• support other State Leads in all government liaisons, and build relationships across State functionaries and institutions.
• Support District Lead in field research and strategies -Knowledge management of state-level interventions on ECE/ECD, Identify Growth areas, Identify potential partnerships, districts, and blocks for strategic implementation. Support District Leads toward data collection/compilation and analysis. Ex- Sector-level data
• Co-design growth analytics with the tech/engineering team
• Set goals with key partners and external stakeholders and meet consistently with them to review those. Example-Communication of monthly and quarterly growth reports to internal and external stakeholders
• Lead design and execution of awareness and advocacy events at all levels including quarterly meetings at all levels with State and district leads (not limited to Administration and logistics)
• Ensure we meet high child protection standards, employee welfare, and the welfare of users and beneficiaries through our policies.
• Identify gaps, create and maintain policies, playbook/checklist for travel, events, and other activities.
• Keep policies and processes relevant by helping synthesize feedback from team members and through observations

You’ll be a great fit if you are:

• Qualified in Education, preferably in ECD/ECCE/elementary education, and have 5+ years of experience implementing ECD/ECCE interventions.
• Passionate for early childhood education and see yourself dedicated to expanding the education ecosystem where caregivers are key stakeholders in a child’s early years of development
• Experienced with operations and Govt partnerships
• Entrepreneurial and enthusiastic about solving problems together and not expect readymade tested solutions with unlimited resources at the disposal
• Openminded and willing to adapt to new ideas and workflows; pivot in a fast-changing environment
• Detail-oriented and diligent with an ability to prioritize and execute multiple processes and tasks, figuring out the most efficient ways to do them
• Data-driven and believes only in evidence-based decisions and approaches. Strong in developing qualitative & quantitative arguments to prioritize the problems to address
• Obsessed with the problem of how to improve early learning experiences for children 0-6 by working with the government system. We seek someone entrepreneurial to co-create offerings that are aligned with and designed with the system.
• Enjoy developing, mentoring, and growing a field team in each region Dost is operating in. (Managing the regional teams and motivating field staff)
• Strong written and verbal communicator - explaining complex concepts simply is exciting for you. Have the ability to synthesize & communicate in simple actionable ways to the entire team
• Capable of thinking both strategically and tactically - tying two together
• Comfortable and effective at juggling multiple projects across teams simultaneously in a fast-paced work environment. This role entails 50% traveling to meet stakeholders and field teams.
• Able to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility. The ability to self-organize and effectively manage your work is important in a remote setup.
• Curious and constantly keep asking questions, especially the ‘stupid’ ones

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