A flat organization, Jagriti believes in a free flow of ideas. Ours is a team of individuals passionate to build India through enterprise. We don’t fear developing an enterprise ecosystem where it’s most challenging. Because that’s where it’s most needed. And it has been ignored enough, so far by the incubators, investors and government.
So we’ve made a start with Purvanchal region, in the form of JEC-P (Jagriti Enterprise Center-Purvanchal), a world class enterprise ecosystem for middle India. And invite you to be a part of the same.
In Jagriti, you’ll get an opportunity for a well-curated career path with strong on-ground learning like problem solving and people skills. For us, enjoyment is also important. So the team discussions and field visits go hand in hand, creating a dynamic workday in which people working together end up developing deep friendships. In sum, we love Mondays.
Following roles are open. To apply, email your profile and interest area with the role name mentioning in the subject to suvarna@jagriti.org or careers@jagriti.org
POSITION SUMMARY
The Director Incubation is responsible for the design and execution of incubation across the 15 districts of Purvanchal, and for guiding and supervising the Udyam Corps and Mitra across the network offices. The end customers, the incubated enterprises – Udyamis, and their growth are the key focus of the Director.
The Director will need to work closely with the team, senior leadership team, and Board to create a conducive environment for Udyamita in the region. The Director will report to the Chief Operating Officer, JECP.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Incubation
Ecosystem Building
Operations
Role Requirement:
Qualifications:
Location:
This is a full-time position and the Director will be based in Deoria / Gorakhpur / Kushinagar in Eastern UP.
Compensation and Benefits:
If interested, please write to suvarna@jagriti.org or careers@jagriti.org with your CV and a cover letter.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Fundraising Director will be responsible for creating strategy, proposal design and development, impact framework, etc. He/She will be responsible for partner research, database development, and management. He/She should be proactive He/She will manage stakeholder relationships.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Proposal Design and Development
Research and Build Potential Partner Database
Donor Relationships
SKILLS / EXPERIENCE
COMPENSATION
If interested, please write to suvarna@jagriti.org or careers@jagriti.org with your CV and a cover letter.
BACKGROUND
Jagriti is building an innovation and incubation ecosystem in Purvanchal (Eastern Uttar Pradesh) to support local entrepreneurs and innovators through Jagriti Enterprise Centre–Purvanchal (JECP). The ecosystem is designed as a hub-and-spoke model across 15 districts of Purvanchal. The hub is a 1 Lakh+sq ft world-class center in Deoria with facilities like co-working spaces, multipurpose hall, and centres of excellence. The spokes are district offices, manned by Udyam Corps and Mitra as connectors.
DIGITAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CoE):
Digital Centre of Excellence (CoE) is one of the six CoEs at JECP Centre, which will focus on innovations relevant for small towns and districts, what we call Middle India. We define Innovation in the context of Middle India as Middle India innovation refers to new and improved ways of addressing challenges or opportunities that are in Tier 2 and Tier 3 districts, usually involving people and resources from such locations. They can also bring expertise from more developed innovation ecosystems in metro districts. The objectives of Innovation in this context is to be connected to the downstream Incubation process, which has been in running for the last 2 years and has recently accelerated through the ACIC program.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
The role of the Innovation CoE Director is primarily to set up and run the Digital Centre of Excellence, ensuring that it delivers its intended impact. This is broadly based on three areas of work on Thinking (Research), Doing (Implementation) and Being (Relationship / Ecosystem). The Director will have to personify all these three areas, with the team under him focusing on each of the three.
Research
The Director will ensure that the research – local and national/global – is carried out to bring relevant and contextual innovations to the Digital CoE. The Research Manager will be directly reporting to the Director. In this, he/she will have to look at both research from local sources of innovation as well as innovations that are national and global which can be adopted locally.
Implementation
The Director will ensure the implementation of the documented innovations through the Incubation process. The Operations Manager will be directly reporting to the Director. In this, we anticipate a relationship with the downstream incubate companies which can implement the innovations seeded by the Digital CoE.
Partnership / Ecosystem
Understanding the local context and culture to assess and advance the innovation will be an important role of the Director. He/she will thus ensure that an innovation ecosystem is fostered, advancing regional development. This is a primary responsibility of the Digital CoE Director, where the person has to build relationships, mostly with corporates and other innovative bodies, focus on ecosystem creation involving local institutions and individuals, and manage the revenue and profitability of the CoE.
Digital and Cross-Domain Working:
In the context of the Digital Centre of Excellence, the innovations will focus on ‘digital’. Hence, The director will require expertise, experience and passion in Digital. The Digital CoE is one of six such CoEs envisaged, a key remit of the Director will be the ability to look outside his CoE to link with other CoEs in the JECP. In some sense, the Digital CoE will act as a horizontal enabler for all other CoEs.
Reporting Relationship:
He or she will directly report to the Innovation Director, who will be the person responsible for the Innovation block and processes. In addition, the person will work closely with the Chief Operations Officer of Jagriti for overall financial and technical support.
COMPETENCIES
Thinking (Cognitive Ability):
a. Curiosity in Context: Ability to understand the local circumstances of a small town or district and having the curiosity to look for new solutions and approaches.
b. Research mindset: Ability to go deep into areas that requires investigation, both in the local
environment and the district as well as nationally and globally.
c. Sector ideation for Digital: Having the sector knowledge of Digital so that ideas can be
understood, refined and progressed that will create local and national innovation.
Leading (Execution Orientation):
a. Human centered approach: Ability to understand the problem from a human application
point of view (design thinking) rather than only a technical or commercial perspective
b. Ease with ambiguity for innovation: Ability to live with ambiguity as the innovation is
researched and progressed, hand holding it till it gets into the innovation track
c. Courage with humility: Courage to express a point of view, holding and making a case for new ideas that will often require going against the grain, but doing it with full humility so that the person carries others with them
Being (Connection/Relationship):
a. Cultural sensitivity: Ability to soak in and adjust to the local culture, understanding and respecting it, so that the innovation is nested in the local culture and used it to promote the
innovation
b. Ecosystem, Partnership mindset: Thinking of not one innovation, not just in Digital but in the other remaining CoE as they are stood up, as well as in the context of a regional
development, accelerator like the JECP
c. Commercial focus: A mindset of bringing revenues and over time creating a profitable sub-business under the overall innovation agenda, through revenue sources from local, national and international partnerships as well as the creation of IP.
Overall, the person should have a ‘transformative courage’ and ‘conviction attitude’.
Knowledge
The person should have a broad understanding of digital technologies and their wide applications. From his/her experience or expertise, the person should have advanced knowledge in some of the digital technologies like enterprise, data, or mobile. Other knowledge of AI, Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and connectivity solutions, would also be appreciated. Typically, Digital has been used to automate businesses in metro and Tier 1 districts. The innovations in the Middle usually are more related to making connections, with people, places, and technologies.
Experience
Qualification
At least Bachelor’s degree (undergraduate) from a reputed institute. A business degree is not needed but it would support the candidature.
Compensation and Benefits
Those interested, please write to suvarna@jagriti.org or careers@jagriti.org with your CV and a cover letter.
Position Summary
Udyam Corp is a key position of Jagriti, ensuring the success of Jagriti Enterprise Centre (JECP) by facilitating incubation and growth of local enterprises through coaching local entrepreneurs. He/she needs to be able to unleash the incubatee’s potential by pushing them to do what’s good and not just pleasant. He/she should be driven by a passion to contribute towards the growth of nation. He/ she should be able to work in ambiguous environment, be proactive, able to cope with different situations, technically competent while being culture sensitive. He/she should be able to bring in modern techniques while being guided by the philosophies Gandhi, Vivekananda, and local leaders like Mangal
Pandey and Laxmi Bai to develop India ethos in local situations.
Team Overview
An Udyam corp works closely with Uday Mitra who is his on ground support. He/ she will be guided by the JECP leadership team and the Jagriti leadership team.
Responsibilities
Venture Partner/ Mentor (Unleashing potential)/ Connector/Integrator:
Ecosystem Enabler:
Manager/Udyam Mitra/Go to JECP/
Skills and competencies
Knowledge
Qualification and experience
Compensation and Benefits:
If interested, please write to suvarna@jagriti.org or careers@jagriti.org with your CV and a cover letter.