Role Spaces
We seek to expand our team to include diverse, multi-disciplinary people from different backgrounds and different work experiences – people from social sciences, pure sciences, engineering & technology, business, media, NGO / CSR / foundation background, etc.
Several aspects come together to build and deliver successful initiatives. You have the opportunity to work in one or many of these role spaces to contribute to the team. You also have an opportunity to work on one or many missions at a time based on your strengths & orientations.
A quick overview of what to expect in each space…
Space 1: Building multi-stakeholder partnerships
Most large-scale, sustainable interventions come together by designing win-win strategic partnerships, where concerned stakeholders (funders, institutional leaders, government agencies, large welfare bodies) come together. You can help a mission become a reality in different systems by getting visionary partners on-board.
Space 2: Community Engagement and Vision Sharing
The success of any intervention on the ground requires deep ownership of the delivery ecosystem. You could enable this by inspiring and sharing the vision and the objectives of the initiative with our delivery partners (e.g. organizers, faculty) and help them discover the crucial role they play in it. This involves conducting vision sharing workshops, building on-boarding kits, & regularly community engagement via web forums, social media etc.
Space 3: Content Architecture and Building Learning Products
You could participate in the design & build of a wide-range of products (e.g. capacity building courses, digital modules, knowledge resources etc.) that can come together in a specific context to ensure the desired positive change outcomes take place for the relevant user groups.
Space 4: Facilitator Enablement and Capacity Transfer
To sustain an intervention on the ground, the last mile delivery is typically done by agents within the existing system (E.g. school or college teachers, community volunteers or leaders) rather than external experts. You can work on enabling such deep capacity transfer, so that they can easily leverage the tools provided & deliver on their own, on a long-term basis.
Space 5: Building Digital Tools and Knowledge Platforms
In these interventions, technology is leveraged for rapidly scaling the delivery of all the interventional components (cognitive tests, learning products, enabler resources). You could be involved in build of the enabling knowledge tools & platforms – where the core outcome is on enabling users to access & engage with knowledge. You could do so by designing the user experience, tool design & build, managing the design and delivery
of the service to the users, etc.
Space 6: Building Cognitive Assessments (Tests & Tools)
Such positive change outcomes require people to bring about deep shifts in their own thinking & vision of self or others. You can be involved building several cognitive assessments that allows the user to recognize & assess how much have they moved towards those outcomes, and also helps in improving effectiveness of the tools offered to help them do so.
Space 7: Measuring impact and support for improving delivery
You could work on systematically measuring the impact of any intervention within a specific community. This involves building audit tools & executing audits (both process delivery & quality audits) & conducting impact studies. It may also involve getting regular feedback from the ground to help the delivery community measure how effectively they are running the intervention and identify points of improvement.
Growth Pathways
We are not looking to build a large monolithic, hierarchical team of 300 people, but build a small, tight-knit group of powerful contributors.
We believe that each person in the team can expand their responsibilities and work on multiple missions. We see each team member as owning entire outcomes or wholes – e.g. owning and managing an entire suite of digital platforms or being responsible for entire community of teachers or facilitators.
Over time there are different pathways of growth open to you –
1. A Mission Leader – who takes on an entire mission or starts a new mission at the foundation and takes it to its conclusion.
2. An Intervention Leader – who works on specific interventions in the mission taking end-to-end responsibility of making it happen in the ground in a specific ecosystem or community.
3. Solution Designer and Builder – you could also work on creating new solution models for new kinds of complex social challenges at Illumine Lab.