Associate Director/Senior Manager – Govt & Multilateral Partnerships – eGov Foundation

eGov Foundation is a philanthropic mission that exists to improve the ease of living for citizens. Our focus areas are urban, health, sanitation and public finance management. Our mission is to make sure that everyone can access services from their local governments with ease and transparency.

We do this through our core offering DIGIT (Digital Infrastructure for Governance, Impact and Transformation), which is a digital public good. In other words, it is an open, interoperable free-to-use platform that offers solutions for citizens, first mile employees, administrators, commercial players and policy makers. It is made available to the federal government, states & cities for them to create programs and solutions for their contexts, in keeping with the federal structure of urban governance in India. DIGIT is also offered to commercial players, so that they can leverage it to build solutions and deliver programs working with governments. In run-time this translates into states, cities and commercials players using the building blocks from DIGIT to tailor solutions and programs that meet their needs and innovating on top of it to solve emerging problems.

Over the last 18 years, eGov has partnered with more than over 3 countries, 2600 towns and cities in 16 states across India, and more than 16 crore citizens have benefited from its platform.

About the Role:

This is a change agent role- part thinker, part leader and part doer, with the responsibility of getting government actors -governments and multilaterals- to become partners in scaling and sustaining missions by creating an enabling policy environment and commitment of public funds.

1. Building the government strategy and operating model. This will involve:

• Interlocking the needs of Gov partners with eGov’s mission and strategy
• Identifying where the decisive energy of the Government ecosystem lies and connecting the dots evangelizing the impact opportunities through Digital Public goods
• Creating the governance and legal frameworks to ensure that there is a positive impact on citizens
• Get participation from Government actors in platform governance

2. Build and evangelize a compelling narrative for the ecosystem:

• Triangulating the mission, ecosystem needs and policy environments to build a core narrative and multiple flavors
• Evangelize eGov way – our theory of change to the Government actors
• Ensure the eGov has a voice on the right tables to influence policy and decision making
• Participate in forums, committees
• Become a trusted advisor to bureaucrats and decisions makers

3. Build high trust relationships and run an efficient machine to manage them

• Ensuring regular engagement with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Ministry of Electronics and
• Information Technology, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Ministry of Finance and NITI Aayog.
• Map Sr. Stakeholders at each of the above organizations and maintain relevant cadence and notes on key discussions and agreements to provide briefing and updates to eGov Sr. Leadership.
• Identify opportunities to fast track eGov’s impact missions through alignment with existing and new
• Government Policies, Programs and Missions
• Establish a regular cadence for eGov Leadership with the leadership of relevant ministries and support monthly/quarterly meetings with briefing notes and regular follow up on agreements with relevant officers of the ministry.
• Provide policy and relationship support to the National Urban Digital Mission to ensure that eGov’s views are incorporated into Mission implementation efforts

Required Skills and Competencies:

An advanced university degree (Master’s Level or higher) in one of the following disciplines – law, political science, international relations, economics, public policy or management from a tier 1 school.

• Deep understanding of government procedures and protocols
• Strong Written Skills with a competency for long-form writing
• Strong diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Robust understanding of how governments in India are structured across national, sub-national and local.

This role is ideal for you if:

You are deeply motivated to work with Government stakeholders to improve the functioning of our public institutions. You believe that technology is a key lever to change. You have a track record of working with government stakeholders across a variety of projects and initiatives and maintaining strong relationships to enable project success.

You enjoy engaging with bureaucrats and multilateral stakeholders, around policy ideas and are unafraid to speak your mind with diplomacy and courtesy. You are able to draft policy recommendations to present a point of view using data, linkages to existing policies and mandates as well as implementation recommendations that are able to leverage existing institutional structures and programs.

You should have had about 10 years of experience with at least 5 years in a variety of government facing roles where you have had the primary responsibility for managing government relationships for your organization.

We offer several things that sets us apart from other opportunities:

• The possibility of having massive societal impact. Our products and platform touches the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
• Solving hard governance and societal challenges.
• Work directly with central and state government leaders and other dignitaries.
• Mentorship from world class people and rich ecosystems.

Read more about the work of eGovernments Foundation:

1. https://egov.org.in/

2. https://www.digit.org/

At eGovernments Foundation, we are committed to creating diversity, equity and inclusion. Therefore, we actively recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.