Position Summary
As the Senior Program Manager (Nutrition) in Maharashtra, you will lead and drive the CEGIS engagement in the nutrition sector in Maharashtra. You will anchor the relationship with the WCD department and handle stakeholder engagement across the partnership ecosystem in the nutrition sector in the state. You will work closely with the vertical and sector leads to design and implement governance reforms across data, finance and HR in the nutrition sector. You will be ultimately responsible for the nutrition workstream and team in the state, and eventual success of CEGIS-driven reforms in the WCD department in the state.
This role will report to the Nutrition Lead. It will also require close collaboration with the state lead for government and partner relationships in Maharashtra, and the vertical leads for design and implementation of solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities
Drive the governance reform initiative in the nutrition sector with focus on solution design, MEL and knowledge management
Provide overall leadership to the nutrition team in Maharashtra.




Contextualise CEGIS nutrition strategy to Maharashtra by co-designing governance interventions with the vertical leads, bringing deep state context and technical sectoral expertise.
Execute, monitor and evaluate the interventions, design scaling strategies for successful interventions and embed solutions in government processes and state capacity building.
Define outcome pathways, intermediate metrics, monitoring and evaluation strategies for the engagement in Maharashtra; implement this with support from the MEL team.
Ensure knowledge management, explicit reporting and documentation, and institutionalise learning in the Maharashtra nutrition projects.
Develop and maintain relationships with key government officials
Pitch CEGIS offerings and solutions in line with the nutrition strategy to state or district-level government stakeholders
Build and maintain relationships with relevant state officials acro

📌 Senior Program Manager (India)
🏢 Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS)
📍 India