Position: Associate, AI and Digital Transformation (Rural Economy and Development)

Team: AI and Digital Transformation

Level and grade: L2 Associate

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: Delhi, with regular travel to NRLM states

Reports to: Senior Manager, AI and Digital Transformation (Rural Economy and Development)

Travel: 30 percent

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 keep the programme running: the plan, the record, the follow-ups and the documents.



You work across both workstreams and you are the person who knows where everything stands. You are given defined pieces of work and you are expected to run them without being chased.

Core Job Responsibilities

Maintain the programme plan and the record of decisions. Every action logged with an owner and a date, and the record accurate at the end of each week.
Prepare the counterpart meetings: the agenda, the material, the notes afterwards, and the follow-ups until they are closed.
Draft the reports the counterpart and the funder receive, working from what the team gives you.
Organise field visits and training sessions end to end, and go on them.
Pull together the data the team needs: usage figures, field observations, and what the department's own systems say.
Keep the document set current and findable.

Qualifications And Competencies

One to three years in programme management, consulting, research or a development organisation.
You have kept a plan or a reco

📌 Associate, AI and Digital Transformation (India)
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