We are looking to recruit for the positions of:
Junior Consultant – Events & Research
Business Scenario Planning Consultant
Senior Research Associate - Labor Track
Apply by: 31 March 2025
IT for Change, a Bangalore-based NGO and global leader in digital justice, is redesigning its website ahead of our 25th anniversary in July 2025. We are looking for an experienced web developer to implement our new design using Drupal 10.5.
Key Details:
- Drupal 10.5 frontend theme development
- Figma-based design implementation
- SEO-optimized, responsive, and accessible UI
- 3-month post-launch support
Read the full job description here.
Send your proposal to: websitedev@itforchange.net
Join us in building a powerful platform for digital justice!
Apply by: 15 January 2025
Location: Bengaluru
IT for Change – a leader in the global digital justice domain, is looking for an exceptional Operations & Events Manager to architect our systems and scale our impact in our next growth phase. We're looking for someone who thrives on bringing structure to complexity and can orchestrate high-impact events across our diverse stakeholder ecosystem.
If you combine operational excellence with event management finesse and share our passion for technology and justice, we want to hear from you. You'll join a forward-thinking team at a pivotal moment, helping shape our next chapter through robust organizational systems and strategic events.
Core Responsibilities
Operations Management
- Ensure seamless coordination across internal teams and external stakeholders
- Manage administrative processes and organizational workflows
- Demonstrate strategic judgment in managing day-to-day operations, collaborating with senior leadership on key initiatives and escalating matters when appropriate
- Collaborate with the Accounts and Human Resource teams to manage budgetary allocations, human resource management, and contractual aspects.
Event & Program Management
- Design and execute both intimate and large-scale events including conferences, roundtables, and stakeholder meetings
- Develop comprehensive event strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Manage end-to-end event logistics, budgets, and vendor relationships
- Track and evaluate event outcomes and impact metrics
- Coordinate logistics and resources for on-ground and virtual events
- Work collaboratively with the research, communications, and program teams to ensure seamless coordination
Documentation & Compliance
- Oversee process documentation and project tracking systems
- Ensure compliance with organizational policies and legal requirements
- Maintain clear documentation of event planning and execution processes
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in operations management, in the nonprofit space
- Proven track record of successful large-scale event execution
- Excellence in stakeholder communication and relationship building
- Exceptional organizational and time management abilities
- Strong decision-making capabilities with good judgment
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with diverse teams
- High proficiency in written and spoken English
- Commitment to feminist principles
Desirable Qualifications
- Understanding of digital justice issues and the stakeholder landscape preferred
- Prior experience coordinating international events
- Oral and written fluency in Kannada
Education
- Master's degree in Management (with NGO experience) or in Development Studies, Social Sciences, or related field (with strong management experience)
How to Apply
Fill out this application form by 15 January 2025.
Don't wait—apply early to join us on this exciting journey! If you have any questions, reach out to jobs-operations-events-manager[at]itforchange[dot]net.
Remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications.
Junior Consultant – Events & Research
We are looking for a recent graduate with an interest in the social and development sector, and prior experience with handling and organising events, to join our team as a Junior Consultant. This consultancy offers deep immersion into the space of digital rights and emerging narratives in this domain. The consultant will work on organizing two key events:
• A high-profile national event on digital public infrastructures, public innovation, and ethics
• A learning institute for early career women researchers.
In addition to holding administrative charge of these events, the Junior Consultant will also have a limited opportunity to engage in research work on the platform economy, as part of one of our ongoing projects.
Period: 3 months, with the possibility of extension
Location: Bengaluru
Deadline: 7 October 2024
Responsibilities of trainee:
• Planning, organising and management of the national event and learning institute, including but not limited to:
◦ liasing with vendors
◦ coordinating travel, accommodation and logistics
◦ support with substantive agenda-setting
• Collaborating with internal teams to ensure seamless execution of relevant tasks
• Support with literature review and field work as and when required.
Key skills and qualifications:
• Recent graduate with an interest in the social sector
• Ability to interface with different stakeholders and vendors
• Demonstrable communication skills
• Demonstrable organising skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to work independently with a high ownership of tasks
• Deep familiarity with the use of spreadsheets
How to apply:
Interested candidates should fill out this application form by 7 October, 2024. For, queries you can reach out to jobs-events[at]itforchange[dot]net
Business Scenario Planning Consultant
IT for Change is looking for an experienced business consultant to support its work with three social enterprises, building alternative digital platforms across India as part of the project, 'Re-wiring India's Digitalising Economy for Women's Rights and Well-being.' The project is supported by the European Commission and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
This consultancy offers an exciting opportunity to contribute towards building and facilitating sustainable livelihoods of informal women workers and farmers. We are currently working with farmer producer companies and cooperatives as well as social enterprises across three partner sites.
Duration: 3 months
Location: The consultant can work remotely, but may be required to travel to project sites in Gujarat, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu for very short periods during the duration of the consultancy.
Scope of consultancy
- Work with the team to scope, design, and execute a business scenario mapping exercise that will take an ecosystem approach to determining future business scenarios and their enabling conditions for each of the partner sites
- Serve as a technical point person for business-planning-related exercises
Expected Outputs
- Work closely with the team to prepare final versions of the business scenario plans for each of our three partner sites
Qualifications and Requirements
- This consultancy requires an understanding of the intersections between digital technology and adoption and development project implementation, ideally in the agriculture value chain and/or the informal sector. The consultant must be familiar with digital platforms and app-based supply chains
- A Master’s degree in a related field
- A minimum of 10 years work experience in the social sector, preferably with impact assessment
- Strategic expertise in business development and/or tech-design experience for small farmers and informal workers
- Ability to liaise and communicate with diverse stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience of having authored similar outputs
How to apply?
Please send a CV and cover letter, indicating relevant experience working on similar themes and projects, a brief paragraph on how you would approach such an exercise, as well as consultancy rates to <jobs-inclusiveplatformmodels@itforchange.net> with the subject line 'BSP Consultant.'
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Senior Research Associate - Labor Track
IT for Change is recruiting for the position of Senior Research Associate for our work on labor and worker rights in the digital economy. Our line of work on labor explores the future of work in the context of rapid digitalization across economic sectors, with a focus on worker data rights, algorithmic management, and securing fundamental labor guarantees for workers.
We are looking for a researcher with a keen and demonstrated interest in the digital economy, political economy, and the labor market, who has experience publishing both academic and non-academic pieces, and is comfortable working in interdisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will lead and support research on cutting-edge themes within this track, undertake socio-economic and legal analysis, and engage actively in national and global policy processes.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge issues in the digital economy and contribute to nascent regulation and policy initiatives.
Location: Bengaluru
Deadline: 10 October 2024
Interested applicants must possess the following qualifications:
- A Masters' degree preferably in law, development studies, public policy, economics, gender studies, political economy studies, or other allied degrees
- 3-4 years of prior qualified experience
- Strong analytical research and writing skills
- Ability to track emerging policy initiatives and respond promptly and effectively
- Familiarity with qualitative research methods, empirical data collection, and analysis
- Capacity to prepare practice and advocacy-oriented knowledge outputs
- Experience in the domain of digital technologies, social justice, and economic rights
Primary responsibilities include:
- Steering policy and legal research addressing decent work deficits in the digital economy and promoting workers’ rights and well-being
- Inputting into and supporting policy consultations and other national and global advocacy opportunities in the domain to influence norms and policy development
- Assisting with organizing sessions and attending/presenting at national and international advocacy events
- Developing written outputs from research initiatives, including reports, academic articles, media pieces, and explainers
- Supporting organizational grant development and collaboration and M&E activities of projects
How to apply?
Interested candidates should fill out this application form by 10 October 2024. For, queries you can reach out to <jobs-labour@itforchange.net>
Designation and remuneration will be commensurate with prior experience and qualifications.