Associate Director: MoRD

About the role

PRAGATI is working with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) to help shape the next phase of rural development—building on MoRD's strong welfare and infrastructure delivery platform to increasingly enable sustained income growth and rural prosperity. The engagement focuses on three pathways: increasing agricultural incomes, creating non-farm local livelihood opportunities, and enabling skilling for remunerative migration.

What you'll do

• Build trusted relationships across senior and working levels of government, understand institutional incentives and processes
• Develop policy and programme designs, implementation models, financing mechanisms and outcome frameworks
• Coordinate across ministries, state governments, public institutions, financial institutions
• Establish effective review mechanisms, track progress against outcomes, and ensure discussions and decisions translate into timely follow-through
• Capture lessons from implementation and help develop approaches and playbooks that can be adapted across states and programmes

What you need

• Problem solving