Senior Specialist - Youth Alumni Community, Sarvo Udhyam

About Udhyam:

Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) is on a mission towards Making Bharat Entrepreneurial. We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.

Our Programs:

• Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted :24,00,000 learners across 12 Indian states.
• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled up to a 27% income uplift for 5000+ entrepreneurs. The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.
  
  
  

Program Overview:

Over the years, as an increasing number of students have opted entrepreneurship as a career pathway, enhanced their business ideas and built stronger teams around them, they have continued their journey of establishing their position as youth entrepreneurs in the employment sector.

Sarvo Udhyam is an alumni community that aims to bring the youth entrepreneurs together, from marginalised and under-priviliged sections of the society, with lesser or no access to resources and opportunities, and eventually build a strong network of learning, sustaining and growing. For setting up this community, Udhyam aims to work on the principles of Build-Support-Transfer along with supporters of Sarvo Udhyam from the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Where the first stage is to co-construct and build the structures of this youth entrepreneur community along with youth representatives, the second stage will focus on supporting the community when they get into functioning and learning for themselves and eventually run it independently enabling more and more youth entrepreneurs from across the nation to become a part of the ever growing community.

Currently the community has established one state chapter, Delhi, and by the end of this year aims to replicate the learning to two more states, thus expanding its reach from 200 youth entrepreneurs to 500 youth entrepreneurs who will be a part of the community by July 2025.

The community will build systems of providing required mentoring support based on the maturity of the venture, in order to bolster their growth and strengthen their presence as youth entrepreneurs.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Communication and Outreach: Design and execute a communication strategy to keep alumni informed about program updates, events and opportunities. Utilise various channels, including different social media platforms, and email to engage and connect with alumni and the community.
• Enabling growth for Youth Business Projects: Building systems Building systems for identification of support needed for different stages of youth ventures to grow strategically in terms of revenue, employment, and overall venture health. Designing peer learning opportunities, mentoring and guidance support, compliance and business service support, exploring incubation pathways and creating internship and apprenticeship possibilities for the youth entrepreneurs as inputs to create a tangible output in the form of growing youth ventures.
• Build an entrepreneurial ecosystem: Identify, onboard and connect multiple mentors/ business coaches and industry experts who can help support youth ventures individually as well as as a general group for them to continue their entrepreneurial journey.
  
  
  

Skills, Experience and Mindsets:

• 5+ years of experience working collaboratively with early stage startups and incubators.
• An in-depth understanding of the business cycle and the growth possibilities, ranging across ventures from multiple sectors.
• A robust network of industry experts who can be onboarded as mentors for the community.
• Close monitoring of the growth of the ventures, and design solutions or innovative inputs to support the youth ventures.
• Should be an independent thinker and problem solver, able to navigate uncertainty and execute small scale implementations involving multiple stakeholders.
• Bias for action - Hands on with operations, willing to pilot and experiment with different strategies, interact regularly with community members and various stakeholders, and make things happen with low budgets
• Comfortable working in a fast paced and ambiguous environment
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills - English & Hindi
• Ability to work with multiple teams and manage specific asks and requirements
  
  
  

Duration of Contract:

12 months

Location:

Delhi (on site) with willingness to travel up to 50% of their time to Punjab, Uttarakhand and Telangana