Associate Manager - Strategy and Execution

As Associate Manager, the person will own a defined part of the Sanman program end-to-end, from framing the problem to landing a solution on the ground. This is a high-ownership role with direct exposure to senior stakeholders across government, industry, and civil society.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Strategy and problem-solving:

• Own a scoped problem area within the program (mechanization, financing, policy, or workforce) and drive it from diagnosis through to a recommended course of action.
• Apply systems thinking to identify the root causes behind persistent failures, rather than the symptoms, and design solutions that hold up across states with very different capacity.
• Run structured research and analysis, field visits, expert interviews, data analysis, and market and policy scans, and turn findings into insights that shape program direction.

Stakeholder engagement and coalition building:

• Build and manage relationships with machine manufacturers, state and city governments, NGOs, sanitation worker collectives, and funders.
• Design and facilitate workshops and working sessions where solutions are co-created with partners rather than presented to them.
• Represent eGov in external forums and working groups and hold day-to-day counterpart relationships on behalf of the program.

Execution and delivery:

• Translate strategy into implementation plans with clear milestones, owners, and success measures, then track delivery against them.
• Produce concept notes, strategy decks, policy briefs, and synthesis documents that stand up in front of government and funder audiences.
• Design and run pilots of promising solutions in the field, troubleshoot as they run, and capture what works so it can be replicated elsewhere.

Requirements:

• 5-8 years in roles that demand strategic, original thinking and clear communication.
• Strong structured problem-solving, including the ability to take a large, messy problem, break it into parts, and work out which part actually matters.
• Comfort with working across ambiguity and evolving priorities with agility.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capability with different types of stakeholders.
• Proactivity, accountability, and a strong drive to go the extra mile and deliver high-quality outputs and outcomes.
• Writing and presentation skills strong enough for government and funder audiences.
• Willingness to spend real time in the field.
• Genuine interest in governance, labor systems, and social impact.
• Exposure to Indian public systems, urban local bodies, or government programs is a plus.