Job Summary

The Senior Program Manager will lead efforts to identify, engage, and strengthen mission-driven organizations and innovators working on sustainable livelihoods, decentralized energy access, climate resilience, and community-centered development solutions across underserved regions of India.

The role requires a unique combination of strategic thinking, ecosystem engagement, field immersion, partnership development, and organizational assessment. The individual will work closely with entrepreneurs, community institutions, support organizations, and funding partners to strengthen locally relevant solutions and enable long-term sustainability.

This position is suited for someone who can navigate both grassroots realities and institutional environments, build meaningful partnerships, assess organizational readiness and growth potential, and contribute to the design of inclusive support mechanisms that help promising initiatives scale their impact.
Responsibilities
1. Innovation Ecosystem Development
- Identify and engage with mission-driven organisations, innovators,



and community-led initiatives.
- Build strategic relationships with incubators, accelerators, civil society organisations, academic institutions, networks, and ecosystem partners.
- Lead field engagements to understand local challenges, opportunities, and emerging models of innovation.
- Support organizations in articulating their growth pathways, operational priorities, and resource requirements.
2. Organizational Strengthening Strategic Support
- Assess organizations through field insights, operational analysis, financial understanding, leadership assessment, and social impact considerations.
- Support organizations in strengthening strategy, governance, operations, partnerships, and long-term sustainability.
- Design and facilitate tailored support pathways for organizations at different stages of growth.
- Build and manage long-term relationships with partner organizations and ecosystem st

📌 Senior Program Manager Rural Innovation (Bengaluru)
🏢 SELCO Foundation
📍 Bengaluru