Position Overview:

The Associate at the Country Office, Delhi will play a critical role in advancing the India Country Office’s goals for the Girls’ Education and Gender Equality Program (GEP) across both direct implementation and scale-up models. Provide technical support to independently anchoring key program verticals, contributing to program design, and strengthening systems for quality and scale across programs implemented in partnership with government and other stakeholders. The role requires robust expertise in gender, life skills, and girls’ education, along with the ability to work across diverse program models and state contexts. In addition to supporting robust implementation, the Associate will increasingly contribute to program architecture, scale-readiness, and alignment across content, training, RM&E; (Research, monitoring and evaluation), and implementation systems, ensuring coherence and quality across interventions. The position demands close engagement with state program teams, government stakeholders, and internal departments,



with an expectation of approximately 40% field travel. Overall, the position is responsible for ensuring high-quality program delivery while also contributing to system strengthening, strategic planning, and pathways to scale, in alignment with state-led vision and organizational priorities.

Responsibilities:

Program Implementation Support:

Leads in ensuring that the program (depending upon the allocated state) are implemented on agreed benchmarks and stays on top of implementation of the allocated states by working with relevant stakeholders.
Works closely with Program Operations team and the State Team in identifying bottlenecks of implementation and resolving it.
Takes initiative in identifying and resolving quality issues in the program while working together with the country office colleagues and other stakeholders as required.
Ensure that relevant data (reports/ dashboards) are analyzed timely, and the feedback lo

📌 Associate, GEP (New Delhi)
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📍 New Delhi