Job Description – Wadhwani
Foundation
About Wadhwani Foundation
Mission: Accelerating economic
development in emerging economies through high-value job creation.
Objectives: Enabling the creation of 10M jobs and placement of 25M individuals
by 2030 across 20–25 emerging economies.
The Wadhwani Foundation (WF) is a
not-for-profit organization established in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dr.
Romesh Wadhwani. Its primary mission is to accelerate economic development in
emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship,
innovation, and skills development.
Today, WF is scaling its impact across 25
countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, working with governments,
corporates, academic institutions, and ecosystem partners to deliver
sustainable employment and entrepreneurship outcomes.
Role Context
We are seeking a Business Leader with a
proven track record of driving large-scale skilling initiatives across India,
and successfully engaging with multiple stakeholders such as Government bodies,
Vocational Education & Skill Development institutes, and Employers.
The individual should demonstrate strong
capabilities in identifying, launching, and scaling new business opportunities
while ensuring tangible outcomes and outputs.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead the national skilling initiative
end-to-end.
· Drive both the supply & demand side
of the skilling ecosystem at scale.
· Expand and nurture existing as well as
new accounts.
· Ensure beneficiary outcomes and outputs
are met consistently.
· Identify, design, and implement tech-enabled
business models.
· Build and manage high-performing teams
with strong leadership skills.
· Establish and nurture networks of
employers, trainers, and mentors to strengthen the ecosystem.
Skills & Experience
Required
· 10–15 years of experience in B2C,
education, or skilling ecosystem.
· Deep understanding of the Vocational
Training Providers (VTP)/Vocational Training Institutes (VTI) ecosystem and experience
working with government agencies.
· Strong business acumen, strategic &
innovative thinking, and analytical rigor.
· Demonstrated ability in data analytics,
attention to detail, and outcome measurement.
· Proven ability to leverage technology
platforms and digital tools for scale.
· Strong business development and account
management skills.
· Ability to make decisions in ambiguous
environments with a strong sense of urgency.
· Demonstrated skills in complex problem
solving and decision-making trade-offs.
· Excellent team management and ability to
drive teams toward objectives.
· Open to extensive travel across the
country.
· Solid academic background.
Our Culture:
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
foundation is an equal opportunity firm with no bias towards gender, race,
colour, ethnicity, country, language, age and any other dimension that comes in
the way of progress.
Join
us and be a part of us!
