Name of Organisation: Development Alternatives

Position: Business Development Manager (UdyaMe)

Qualification: PGDM or an equivalent degree/diploma in Business Management /

                         Marketing or UI/UX

                         Prior experience in digital sales / marketing would be a plus

Domain: SED

Job Type: Regular after 6 Months’ Probation or a company contract updatable annually

Location: Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)

No. of Positions: 01

Experience: Preferably 4 - 6 years of relevant experience in a development sector or private sector organization.

About the Organization:

Headquartered in New Delhi, India, Development Alternatives (DA) is the world's first social enterprise dedicated to sustainable development.  We are a research and action organisation striving to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound, and economically scalable development outcomes. Over the past 40 years, our green technology and delivery system innovations for habitat, water, energy and waste management have reached millions of families, empowering communities through strengthening people’s institutions and enhancing their access to basic needs goods and services; enabling economic opportunities through skill development for green jobs and enterprise creation; and promoting low carbon pathways for development through natural resource management models and clean technology solutions.

Our Mission is to create models that generate sustainable livelihoods in large numbers and fulfil Our Vision of a world where every citizen can live a secure, healthy, and fulfilling life, in harmony with nature. Our Theory of Change is to work across the value chain of Innovation of technologies, institutional systems and business models, Incubation of high potential systemic solutions, Implementation to demonstrate practical and scalable approaches and solutions and influence public policy, market systems and societal behaviours and build capacities for creating impact at scale.  Our Operational Strategy is to work through partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders to build resilient futures for all together. 

Our work addresses three global challenges namely,

• Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy-Accelerating the transition to inclusive and circular modes of production and consumption by reducing carbon and material footprints across the lifecycle of economic activity while promoting local value and wealth creation.
• Climate Resilience and Ecosystem Restoration-Regenerating lost biodiversity and degraded ecosystems and building resilience to climate change and extreme events in a manner that also generates prosperity.
• Livelihood Security and Inclusive Entrepreneurship-Innovative business models and institutional ecosystems to empower local entrepreneurs for creating businesses that generate jobs and deliver basic needs.

Job Description:

• To identify prospects and build a network of Udyame Kiosks to facilitate creation of 30,000 enterprises by 2025.
• To train, manage and monitor the network of Kiosks to ensure application of our prototypes and solutions to enhance our work on Inclusive Entrepreneurship.
• To identify and nurture critical relationships with like minded enterprises to support the network of Kiosks.
• Liaison with the government agencies to capitalize on schemes and programs launched by them.
• Guide and educate the kiosk partners about relevance and application of digital tools in the field of job creation, training, livelihood and entrepreneurship.
• Design new tools and initiatives to help the kiosks to improve their impact and effectiveness. 
• Support the IMEDF Head & Domain lead in planning and monitoring individual initiatives.
• Build and maintain the database of the kiosks and help create a dashboard for supporting their activities.
• Ensure timely and accurate data reports of field activities and initiatives. Responsible for growth of kiosks business and revenue.
• Operationalize and run campaigns to solve job crisis through entrepreneurship development using social innovation approach.
• Come forward with Innovative ideas and solutions to accelerate inclusive entrepreneurship and job creation initiatives.
• Raise resources and leverage funds for building new initiatives.
• Lead collaborative efforts and initiatives with partners and government agencies.
• Assessment of rural markets and anchor the development of Enterprise support services products (ESS) based on evidence generated.
• Design program delivery mechanism and support communications to the client.
• Communication and coordination with field activities and manager networks of UdayMe kiosks.
• Anchor on ground implementation of entrepreneurship-based projects with end to end output delivery
• Co-ordinate and liaison with UPSRLM ecosystem to promote and develop enterprises in UP.
• Assessment of rural markets and anchor the development of Enterprise Support Services (ESS) products based on evidence generated.
• Build strategies to market innovative products on Entrepreneurship through udyaME.in.
• Design program delivery mechanisms and support communications to the client.
• Communication and coordination with field activities and managing a network of udyaME kiosks.
• Support and strengthen existing innovative business models and systemic prototypes that accelerate Entrepreneurship in rural areas.
• Developed package validated business models.
• Anchor on ground implementation of Entrepreneurship based projects with end to end output delivery.