Executive Director – Programs & Organizational Leadership

1. POSITION VACANT:
Executive Director – Programs & Organizational Leadership, Udayan Care, New Delhi

2. ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND:

Udayan Care is a leading Indian not-for-profit organization working to improve the lives of vulnerable children, young people, and women through long-term, family-centred and community-based interventions. Established in 1994 as a Public Charitable Trust, Udayan Care operates across 38 cities in 15 states and has directly impacted over 1,11,000 individuals.

Udayan Care’s work spans education, women’s empowerment, skilling, alternative care, advocacy, research, and training. The organization is widely recognised for its transparency, credibility, and safeguarding standards, and is accredited by Give India, Credibility Alliance, and NITI Aayog (Darpan). In 2014, Udayan Care received the National Award for Child Welfare from the President of India.

As Udayan Care advances its Mission 2030 agenda, the organization is entering a phase of significant scale-up, systems strengthening, and digital transformation, particularly across its largest national programs.

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JOB DESCRIPTION / RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Executive Director – Programs & Organizational Leadership (ED-POL) is a senior leadership role central to the organization’s next phase of growth and impact under its Mission 2030 agenda. The ED-POL will provide integrated leadership across Udayan Care’s largest program portfolios and all shared services, translating Mission 2030 into executable plans, disciplined operating rhythms, and sustainable organizational capabilities.

The post-holder will play a pivotal role in strengthening program quality, financial sustainability, governance discipline, and organizational coherence, while enabling Udayan Care to expand its reach and improve life outcomes for large numbers of vulnerable children and young people.

The role is positioned within Udayan Care’s leadership architecture, which combines founder stewardship with professional executive management. While the Founder & Managing Trustee continues to provide strategic direction and thought leadership to key legacy and institutional initiatives, the Executive Director – Programs & Organizational Leadership will hold full executive responsibility for day-to-day leadership, performance delivery, and organizational execution across:

(1) Udayan Shalini Fellowship (USF)

(2) Skilling Programs

(3) All Shared Functions (Finance, HR, Fundraising, Communications, Administration)

USF and Skilling together represent the largest, most complex, and fastest-growing portfolios within Udayan Care, with a national footprint, large beneficiary base, and ambitious plans for expansion, digitisation, and systems strengthening. The ED-POL will lead the challenge of upscaling these programs, ensuring that growth translates into meaningful, measurable improvements in life outcomes for tens of thousands of vulnerable girls, youth, and young adults.

As Udayan Care evolves, the scope of this role is expected to expand in line with organizational priorities and the leadership capabilities of the incumbent, offering a strong opportunity for long-term institutional impact.

The role requires a mature, collaborative leader who can work effectively in a founder-led, volunteer-intensive environment while exercising clear executive ownership of programs, systems, and performance.

4. KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

(A) Enterprise Strategy & Organizational Transformation

(1) Provide overall strategic stewardship of Mission 2030, setting enterprise-level direction, priorities, and success measures for the organization.

(2) Lead organization-wide transformation initiatives, including operating model evolution, leadership capability development, and adoption of new ways of working.

(3) Anticipate future institutional needs arising from scale, complexity, regulatory context, and sectoral shifts, and shape adaptive strategies for long-term sustainability.

(4) Act as a strategic thought partner to the Founder & Managing Trustee and the Governing Council on organizational design, institutional maturity, and resilience.

(B) Program…