Dialogue Factory | Project Head

Dialogue FactoryIndia

About Dialogue Factory

‘Creating meaningful and innovative experiences for audiences to trigger change in behavior for achieving positive outcomes. That is the purpose of Dialogue Factory, a new-age experiential marketing organization housed within Group M Media (India) Private Limited. Dialogue Factory has a strong network across 15 states; services and expertise, which has enabled us to help our 50 + clients across India (and South-East Asia) to maximize their rural outreach by providing insight-driven, long-term, scalable & sustainable.

Every year DF reaches more than 100,000 villages; touch more than 200,00,000 households; engage 65,000 schools; more than 300,000 Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs); and build the capacity of 4000+ last mile communicators to deliver messages effectively for our clients from Private, Government & Social sectors. DF has worked on social development and public health issues such as water, HIV AIDS, maternal and child health along with immunization and hand hygiene.

At DF, we create demand generation programs to evolve behaviors and address key social development issues. Our focus is on achieving a human-centric approach to deliver social purpose. The idea is to increase well-being by helping people to lead healthier, more productive lives.

DF always stay true to the mission: To reach more people, in more places, more often, by creating (brand) experiences that are more memorable, resulting in more (brand) equity and more (brand) sales, we strive to deliver MORE to clients which give them winning advantage in any marketplace.

About Power of Nutrition- Unilever’s Lifebuoy Project

Despite significant progress in the past two decades, India continues to have high rates of child and maternal mortality. Many of these deaths are due to preventable causes such as infections, poor nutrition, lack of access to timely health care or access to basic health information. There is a rural-urban divide in India with respect to health. The healthcare situation in rural India is weak despite 67% of the Indian population living in rural areas. Unilever-Lifebuoy (Unilever’s hygiene soap brand) and The Power of Nutrition have come together in an innovative partnership, launched alongside the United Nations General Assembly, with the aim of improving hygiene and reducing undernutrition. Through the partnership, they aim to disseminate a platform using mobile technology to promote handwashing with soap, as part of a nutrition program among mothers. The partnership supports the Government of India’s recent initiative to address undernutrition in the country.

Overview of job

We are currently looking for a Project Head to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for overall project management. You will provide strategic, technical, operational, and managerial leadership for the successful implementation of the project. Ensure that the project is technically sound and consistent with Client priorities. Oversees the selection and training of qualified program staff, assign clear roles and responsibilities, provide effective supervision and manage performance to ensure efficient operations.

You will be required to liaise with dignitaries, donors, implementing partners, National/State level government officials including bureaucrats, social sector consultants, and subject experts in leading positions. You should be able to manage multiple relationships with stakeholders at different levels tactfully.

The position will be based in Gurugram, with frequent trips to the field project sites. You will report to the Head- Social Projects and coordinate with the program support unit: Logistics, Admin, and Finance to ensure a smooth and coordinated approach to strategic planning and implementation. You will represent Dialogue Factory in coordination meetings with implementing partners, National, state, and district authorities.

You will be responsible for end-to-end management of the project, in addition to training, including the development of training modules, creating training models for execution as well as imparting direct training as per the agreed training objectives, timelines and budgets of the project. You should be well aware of the public health system.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: Head of Social Projects

3 best things about the job: 1. Working on social development projects in a setting that leverages a private-public approach 2. Exposure at running both physical and digital development campaigns 3. Building network through high-level interaction with Government authorities and administration on a regular basis

In this role, your goals will be:

In three months:

• Building a talented and efficient program team
• Absorbing the new organizational setting and building a rapport with its leadership, teams, and employees
• Developing Programme design, Creatives, Communication & Implementation Approach, timelines, and operations systems
• Contribute to overall business strategy and annual budget process

In six months:

• Successfully launching the program and tracking milestones achieved
• Take ownership of the program management policy, guidelines, and any associated documents
• Ensure program and project reviews are regularly and effectively conducted to drive plan, monitor and control the delivery of programs to schedule, budget and to the agreed quality level

In 12 months:

• Scaling the program to other State
• Sharing reports- reach, process, monitoring, and budget
• Contribute to other business development initiatives

What your day job looks like at DF:

• Managing the overall project execution and providing strategic inputs
• Managing relations with Client, Government officials, Key Partners, and other stakeholders
• Managing internal processes to ensure quality delivery of the project as per the agreed objectives, timelines, and budgets
• Working with multi-disciplinary organizations and managing partners
• Driving capacity building across all aspects of project planning and execution
• Managing and supervising field level staff for the project

What you’ll bring:

• Strategic thinking
• Strong management skills
• Ability to manage large teams
• Good interpersonal skills

. Passion to drive change

• Experience working with government agencies and partners

. Experience in nutrition-related projects

• Ability to multi-task and handle complex and competing priorities

Minimum qualifications/experience:

. Post-graduate degree in Social/Development Studies/Rural Management, MBA degree or communications background, or any other equivalent degree with experience in Nutrition and Health Programmes.

• More than 15 years of experience in project management, training, and implementing integrated projects with International NGOs in long-term development settings.

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  Ability to develop and foster external organizational relationships and applied representation skills.

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  Experience in module development, reporting compilation.

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  Experiencing dealing and liaising with varied donors: Government partners, Multilateral and Bilateral organizations.
  

• Must be experienced in working with nutrition-related projects.

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  Must have computer and MS Office skills.

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  Strong leadership and management experience.

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  Excellent coordination, negotiation, and facilitation skills.

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  Advanced written and spoken English and Hindi Language skills.

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  Ability to coach and mentor staff in a cross-cultural environment.

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About India

2020 brought opportunities for brands to innovate because of which we saw an evolving media stack. The growth of digital is set to soar high because of changing consumer habits. With approximately 500 million smartphone users, low-priced data plans, 45 to 50 million e-commerce shoppers, approximately 60 OTT offerings and a young population, India is a mobile-first internet market. It is also one of the top 10 ad spend markets in the world and is set to climb the ranks. Global big tech corporations have made considerable investments in top e-commerce/retail ventures and Indian start-ups, blurring the lines between social media, e-commerce and mobile payments, resulting in disruption on an unimaginable scale.

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