Close the Gender Gap is Udaiti Foundations flagship private sector program, designed to accelerate womens participation and advancement in Indias formal economy. The program aims to catalyse sector-wide change in high-growth sectors such as Pharmaceuticals, Logistics and BFSI by partnering with companies and collaborating with industry bodies and ecosystem stakeholders to address systemic barriers that limit womens entry, retention, and progression.

The approach integrates the following core streams of work. Research and Evidence Generation: Building a strong evidence base that draws on data from the CGG Data Hub alongside broader qualitative research and pilots. This work identifies the structural and behavioural barriers shaping womens workforce experiences and distils what drives measurable outcomes.

Leadership Commitment: Convening Senior leaders across partner organisations to build institutional ownership and accountability for gender inclusion, ensuring that commitment is visible, measurable, and embedded in leadership priorities.
Advisory: Providing strategic support to help organisations translate insights into action. This includes shaping roadmaps, prioritising interventions, and enabling implementation through partnerships and ecosystem alliances
Knowledge Dissemination and Field Building : Translating insights into accessible knowledge products including blueprints, toolkits, case studies, and research reports, to enable wider adoption of effective practices and strengthen the broader ecosystem

Position Summary

We are seeking an exceptional Program Lead (PL) to join the private sector team during an exciting time of organizational growth, and to contribute to the growing momentum on the prioritisation of womens workforce participation agenda at the National level. The PL will play a central role in shaping strategy and leading programmatic delivery to scale Udaiti Foundations flagship Close the Gender Gap program.

This is a high-energy entrepreneurial role, offering the opportunity to work closely with with senior stakeholders including CXOs and business teams of private sector partners, alongside the broader enabling ecosystem of talent acquisition organizations, skilling platforms, and womens networks, to design and scale system-level interventions that unlock womens participation in Indias formal workforce.

Key Responsibilities

Research: Conduct rigorous research, analyse data, sector trends, and organisational contexts to generate insights that inform program strategy and design.
Program Design and Execution: Scope, conceptualize, and lead execution of workstreams demonstrating high-quality project management across design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
Stakeholder Engagement: Engage and build relationships with stakeholders across the private sector, government, and the broader ecosystem through one on ones, workshops, roundtables, and diverse convenings.
Knowledge Development: Lead the preparation of research reports, toolkits, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
Strategic Communications: Strengthen the organisations visibility and influence through strategic communications on issues relevant to the mission.
Collaboration and Learning: Foster cross-learning and collaboration with internal and external partners to advance shared goals and build the broader field of practice. Take on diverse operational tasks to support organisational and program effectiveness.

Required Qualification, Skills Abilities

Masters degree from Tier-1 institutes in relevant fields such as public policy, business administration, economics, development management, or gender studies.
6-10 years of work experience in high-growth or challenging environments, with strong project management; experience working with senior leaders and diverse stakeholders is preferred.
Strong analytical, and critical thinking with high attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
Proven ability to develop structured documents and high-quality reports, briefs, and presentations.
Excellent written and spoken communication, and interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder engagement.
Ability to work independently in ambiguous settings, with strong problem-solving and execution focus.
Entrepreneurial, self-starter mindset with a strong sense of ownership.

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Program Lead - CGG

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