Position: Senior Manager, ICDIA Programme

Team: AI and Digital Transformation

Level and grade: L5 Senior Manager

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: Delhi, India. Hybrid.

Reports to: Team Lead, ICDIA Programme

Travel: 30 percent, domestic and international

About Us

APLYD helps governments, multilateral institutions, development finance institutions and foundations use AI in public systems. Most public-sector AI stops at the pilot. Our work is getting it into everyday service delivery and keeping it running once we leave.

Athena Infonomics has done this work for years. In 2026 we set it up as its own company. We cover strategy and readiness, field data and last-mile reach, design and build, evaluation and audit, and scale and production.

440+ engagements

240+ global clients
85+ specialists
7 countries
5 continents

The Role

You run the engagement day to day so that the Team Lead can hold the client relationship and the domain. You own the country engagements through the qualification process, you keep the milestone schedule honest,



and you are the person the partner governments and the domestic ecosystem deal with between senior meetings.

Core Job Responsibilities

Run country engagements through the qualification process: from expression of interest, through diagnosis, to a specific and financeable request. Apply the same standard of assessment to every country.
Keep the pipeline record accurate. Where each country stands, what it is waiting on, and what has stalled. Run the monthly demand review.
Own the milestone schedule in practice: what is due, what is at risk, and what needs a decision from the Team Lead. Prepare the funder reporting.
Prepare and run delegations, study tours and technical exchanges end to end, and coordinate the domestic response across ministries and platform owners so the ask reaches the right counterpart.
Draft the country dossiers, concept notes and project proposals, working with the Research and Knowledge Exchange

📌 Senior Manager, ICDIA Programme (India)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 India