About Udhyam:
Udhyam Learning Foundation is on a mission towards Making Bharat Entrepreneurial. We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.
Our Programs:
Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted ~24,00,000 learners across 12 Indian states.
Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled 5000+ entrepreneurs. The goal is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.
Program Overview:
Over the years, as an increasing number of students have opted entrepreneurship as career, enhanced their business ideas and built stronger teams around them, they have continued their journey of establishing their position as youth entrepreneurs in the employment sector.
Sarvo Udhyam is an alumni community that aims to bring the youth entrepreneurs together, from marginalised and under-privileged sections of the society, with lesser or no access to resources and opportunities, and eventually build a strong network of learning, sustaining and growing. For setting up this community, Udhyam aims to work on the principles of Build-Support-Transfer along with supporters of Sarvo Udhyam from the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Currently the community has established one state chapter, Delhi, and is speeding up to launch 5 more chapters, namely Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala, encompassing 300 youth driven ventures from these six states.
The community will aim at providing mentoring support as per the maturity of the venture, in order to bolster their growth and strengthen their presence as youth entrepreneurs.
Roles and Responsibilities:
This is a high engagement role as the project sets to launch in 5 states.
Youth Outreach : Conducting telephonic interviews of prospective youth entrepreneurs to assess their fitment for the young entrepreneurs community.
Data Collection and Collation : Gathering and effectively collating alumni information which informs about their venture health in a timely and solution oriented manner .
Voice of Youth: Coordinate with the youth from ~3 states - Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh as they are connected with various forms of support and mentoring.
Skills, Experience and Mindsets:
1+ years of experience working closely with the youth or school system. .
Comfortable working in a fast paced and ambiguous environment.
Excellent spoken communication in English and Hindi; Punjabi or Malayalam will be an added advantage.
Duration of Contract:
2 months (15th July - 14th September)
Location:
Delhi (on site) plus remote