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Job Overview:
VP - WO Business India
Work Location:
Delhi
Department
WO India
About Wadhwani Foundation (www.wfglobal.org):
Mission: Accelerating economic development in emerging economies through high-value job creation Objectives: Enabling the creation of 10M jobs and placement of 25M by 2030 across 20-25 emerging economies. Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation and skills development. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, today the Foundation is scaling impact in 25 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America through various Initiatives. More details on the various programs at the end of the document.
Job Description:
The Role Context:
Roles & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities for outcome and output of the country WO initiative
Expansion of Business in India - segment wise and developing accounts
Responsible to identify and implement new biz models
Maintaining the data integrity
Representing Wadhwani Foundation with stakeholders
Creating employers network in nation
Strong experience in building technology solutions, oversee the implementation of technology solutions throughout the accounts
Operate in a fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environment with full control and responsibility of achieving objective
Skills, Qualification & Experience:
- 15+ years in operations management and leading teams
- B2C experience
- Strong background in creating systems and processes
- Strong communication skills and high EQ
- Complex problem solving and skills
- Strategic/Innovative Thinker
- Attention to details
- Drive team to meet objectives
- Work experiencewith Govt. agencies, Education sector and moved to Technology
- Experience with ITP Eco system
- Data Analytics
- Experience to start and grow and accounts
Various Programs at Wadhwani Foundation:
1.Wadhwani Advantage:Accelerating the growth of tens of thousands of SMEs by providing personalized, on-demand knowledge and consulting resources through an AI-enabled mobile platform to create millions of new jobs.
2.Wadhwani Entrepreneur: Inspiring, educating, and enabling Startup entrepreneurs
Wadhwani Venture Fastrack: Maximizes success rates of early-stage startups with enhanced business traction and funding opportunities
Wadhwani NEN: Empowers students with knowledge and skills through Courses and Startup Labs to create high-potential startups
Wadhwani Inspire: Establishes a nationwide culture of entrepreneurship
3.Wadhwani Opportunity: Empowering millions of students with 21st century employability skills that drive family supporting wages.
4.Wadhwani AI (a partner program): A first-of-its-kind AI research institute in the world a non-profit dedicated exclusively to applying AI for social good.
5.Wadhwani Catalyst: Invest in high quality entrepreneurs with scalable business models across emerging markets, with a focus in India. The fund will catalyse businesses across sectors, with the overall objective of accelerating economic development by creating livelihoods/ jobs.
6.Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP): Support government and civil society at large with the dual mission of (1) Providing information, insights, and recommendations for the application of technology for policy making, policy implementation, and policy outcomes measurement.(2) Creating aTechnology-focused Training Academyfor upskilling policy makers, bureaucrats and technocrats with relevant technologies and the application of the same to their respective ministries and missions.
Wadhwani Corporate Profile: (Click on this link)
WF is a global not-for-profit, and works like a start-up, in a fast-moving, dynamic pace where change is the only constant and flexibility is the key to success.Three mantras that we practice across job roles, levels, functions, programs and initiatives, are Quality, Speed, Scale, in that order.
We are an ambitious and inclusive organization, where everyone is encouraged to contribute and ideate. We are intensely and insanely focused on driving excellence in everything we do. We want individuals with the drive for excellence, and passion to do whatever it takes to deliver world class outcomes to our beneficiaries. We set our own standards often more rigorous than what our beneficiaries demand, and we want individuals who love it this way.We have a creative and highly energetic environment one in which we look to each other to innovate new solutions not only for our beneficiaries but for ourselves too. Open to collaborate with a borderless mentality, often going beyond the hierarchy and siloed definitions of functional KRAs, are the individuals who will thrive in our environment.This is a workplace where expertise is shared with colleagues around the globe. Individuals uncomfortable with change, constant innovation, and short learning cycles and those looking for stability and orderly working days may not find WF to be the right place for them.Finally, we want individuals who want to do greater good for the society leveraging their area of expertise, skills and experience.
The Role Context: With the mission of the foundation to ensure sustaining wages for two million, empower 10 million to improve employability and job progression, and accelerate the digital transformation of few thousand training/skilling organization by 2030 this role requires a dynamic, technology driven, passionate business leader to drive the inputs, outputs and outcomes and contributing in making a visible impact to the youth of the country. Leader with proven track record in managing & expanding with Government & Private sector initiatives at national/state level. Roles & Responsibilities: Responsibilities for outcome and output of the country WO initiative Expansion of Business in India - segment wise and developing accounts Responsible to identify and implement new biz models Maintaining the data integrity Representing Wadhwani Foundation with stakeholders Creating employers network in nation Strong experience in building technology solutions, oversee the implementation of technology solutions throughout the accounts Operate in a fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environment with full control and responsibility of achieving objective Skills & Experience: 15+ years in operations management and leading teams B2C experience Strong background in creating systems and processes Strong communication skills and high EQ Complex problem solving and skills Strategic/Innovative Thinker Attention to details Drive team to meet objectives Work experience with Govt. agencies, Education sector and moved to Technology Experience with ITP Eco system Data Analytics Experience to start and grow and accounts
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