Job Description
We may hire this role at Senior Manager level or Manager level, depending on the experience level of the successful candidate.
Salary: If at Senior Manager-level: INR 15,60,000 per annum (if India-based). If at Manager-level: INR 12,72,000 per annum (if India-based). We will adjust the salary based on location if the successful candidate is based outside of India.
Terms of employment: Contract for one year, renewal by mutual agreement.
About Fortify Health
Fortify Health has a vision for a healthier world where everyone has the micronutrients they need to survive and thrive. We work toward this by enabling access to micronutrient-rich wheat flour to reduce and prevent iron deficiency anaemia. We currently work in eight regions in India but are planning to expand to new regions in the coming years.
Fortify Health operates through three work streams:
- Open Market Support: We support millers to cost-neutrally fortify chakki atta in the open market
- Government Partnership Support: We work with governments in India to mainstream wheat flour fortification through social safety net programs
- Evidence Generation: We conduct monitoring and evaluation of activities to inform the public about the value of food fortification
How we work
We take a data driven approach to our work, heavily focusing on how we can have the most impact possible with the resources we have. This forms a core part of our organisational ethos. At Fortify Health, we value each of our team members and support their career development. Since we are a remote organisation, our HR team organise regular online socials to build team cohesion.
About the role
2024 and 2025 will be pivotal years for Fortify Health. We have built solid foundations for scale; we have a strong team of almost seventy professionals and a network of partners and reputable organisations across India. Now, we need to execute on those foundations and expand our work to reach more regions, partners and beneficiaries than ever before. This period will throw up new challenges and opportunities across the organisation. The Strategic Initiatives Manager will help Fortify Health’s leadership team to navigate these challenges and opportunities, planning and delivering high-priority projects that are crucial to Fortify Health’s success.
The Strategic Initiatives Manager will need to be adaptable and agile. The projects that you will be working on will be diverse. One month you could be working to develop a long-term strategy for our consumer awareness work, the next month you could be working with a cross-departmental team to engage with new government ministries in India. However, all of your projects will have one thing in common: they will be strategically important for Fortify Health’s growth.
This role would be a great learning opportunity for anyone that is looking to level up a generalist career in the charity or international development sector. The Strategic Initiatives Manager will be exposed to the whole range of Fortify Health’s work. They will also often be working closely with Fortify Health’s leadership and executive teams.
The Strategic Initiatives Manager will report to Fortify Health’s Chief Of Staff.
Responsibilities and activities
- Lead long-term strategic initiatives that will advance Fortify Health’s mission
- Prioritisation: Collaborate with the leadership team to evaluate which strategic initiatives would deliver the most benefit for Fortify Health’s mission.
- Planning: Build comprehensive, realistic plans for strategic initiatives and monitor progress against those plans.
- Execution: Work with team mates across the organisation to move strategic initiatives to completion. This could include a range of tasks depending on the project, from conducting data analysis to delivering presentations to internal team mates.
- Plan and execute cross departmental projects
- Prioritisation: Identify potential cross-departmental projects, in collaboration with Fortify Health’s C suite and leadership team.
- Execution: Coordinate the delivery of these projects, monitoring their progress and collaborating as necessary with departmental teams.
- Contribute to the design and monitoring of overall strategy
- OKR planning: Assist Fortify Health’s C-suite with upcoming OKR cycles, reviewing progress against previous OKRs and ensuring that upcoming OKRs are well-drafted and appropriate.
- Communication of strategy: Support the leadership team to communicate organisational strategy to the wider team, ensuring that upcoming goals and priorities are clear to team mates.
Please note that this job description is a guide to the work you will initially be required to undertake, but does not cover all of the duties the post holder may have to perform. Responsibilities will evolve over time, in discussion with the Chief of Staff.
If you were here right now, you would support with…
- Evaluating the sustainability of Fortify Health’s current support model for mills in the open market, collaborating with leaders and experts to evaluate potential changes.
- Developing an overall narrative of Fortify Health’s impact that we can provide to funders, potential partners and other stakeholders.
- A project to identify how we can best leverage set piece events in India (such as conferences) to build Fortify Health’s profile and engage with new partners.
Candidate profile
Requirements
- At least 4 years of work experience in generalist roles. You could come from a wide range of backgrounds (including a start up, a charity or consulting).
- Execution: you should be able to work effectively on multiple projects at any one time, driving those projects forward from idea through to execution.
- Problem-solving: you should be able to resolve problems logically and methodically, taking into account relevant evidence.
- Communication: you should have strong written and verbal communication skills. You should also be able to review written materials from others and ensure they are of a high quality.
- Collaboration: you should be comfortable working effectively with colleagues across seniorities.
- Growth Mindset: you should be eager to learn from adversity and setbacks and use those insights to improve their work.
- Fluency in English.
Desirable attributes
- Experience in a relevant field, such as data analysis, public health, nutrition, or economics.
- Proficiency in Hindi.
- An understanding of the principles of effective altruism.
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