The Foundation works in Chennai with families living in the settlements of the city. The current interventions include welfare rights and entitlement facilitation, elderly care, running creches, community-based rehabilitation for persons with disability, work with specific communities, and addressing drinking water and sanitation needs. The Manager Programs is responsible for grant making and grant management for the Chennai programme, for managing the partnerships with the implementing organisations, and for supporting the partners and the Foundation's field team to achieve the programme outcomes. Grant making and grant management

Assess organisations and proposals in the thematic areas of the Chennai programme and make grants in line with the Foundation's processes.

Review programme quality and implementation against the grant commitments, and take up gaps with the partner.

Partnership management

Build relationships with civil society organisations, government departments, and other stakeholders in the city to further the Foundation's understanding of the local context and to open up collaborations.

Programme implementation

Guide and review the work of the Foundation's Resource Persons who are placed with the partner teams on the ground, and help them address gaps in implementation.

Strengthen ground-level operations: partner systems and processes, team building, capacity building,



and changes to programme design where needed.

Identify unaddressed issues of the community or gaps in implementation and do the needful to address them, including feedback to partners, and layering and deepening of efforts.

Handle the programme's correspondence with partners, with the Foundation's internal functions (grant operations, finance, HR, legal) and with external stakeholders.

Use the programme MIS for reviews and reporting, and support its adoption across partner teams.

A minimum of 10–15 years of experience in the sector, including experience of managing programmes implemented through partner organisations; grant management experience is desirable.

A positive understanding and experience of working on urban-specific issues and vulnerabilities, preferably in Chennai or a similar urban context.

Substantial knowledge of organisational and project management, and the ability to read budgets, utilisation reports and programme data.

Good writing and correspondence skills; fluency in Tamil and English is required.

A high level of self-motivation, initiative and creativity, and the ability to work with minimal supervision and solve problems independently or collaboratively as needed.

A willingness to travel extensively within the city, and occasionally outside.

📌 Programme Manager - Self Management (Chennai)
🏢 Azim Premji Foundation
📍 Chennai