State Capacity Lead, India
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Role Summary
Join IDinsight as a State Capacity Lead in India, focusing on governance reform and AI innovations to improve public service delivery.
About the Organisation
IDinsight is a global advisory, data analytics, and research organisation. We work with governments, foundations, and nonprofits across Asia and Africa, helping decision-makers use data and evidence to design better programmes and allocate resources more effectively. Our team of roughly 240 - including economists, data scientists, statisticians, and policy specialists - operates across nearly two dozen countries.
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[www.IDinsight.org](http://www.idinsight.org/).
We have been working with state and central Indian government organizations for about 13 years. Here are a few examples of what we are currently doing:
We have also worked with governments in Punjab, Telangana, Bihar, Odisha, Delhi, and Meghalaya, and with NITI Aayog on the Aspirational Districts Programme and the National Data and Analytics Platform. Our work in this space is funded by leading funders such as the Gates Foundation, MSDF, Co-Impact, and the Veddis Foundation.
Someone with 12-15 years of experience, a meaningful portion of which has been spent working with or inside the government. You do not need to have done every type of engagement we do, but you should have a genuine feel for how government institutions work - where decisions actually get made, what makes a reform stick, why good ideas often do not survive contact with implementation.
Beyond that - strong analytical instincts, comfort with data and evidence, and the kind of presence that earns trust with senior officials. You should be someone who can hold a room with a senior secretary and also give a junior team member clear, honest feedback on their work.
A Master's in public policy, economics, or public administration is preferred, but what matters more is the quality of your experience.
- Mission Karmayogi: We are the M&E partner for the civil service reform programme, working with the Capacity Building Commission and Karmayogi Bharat on how to measure and improve public sector capability.
- Uttar Pradesh Planning Department: We are helping the department build the tools to track economic activity in real time, alongside efforts to strengthen the department's own analytical capacity.
- Madhya Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Department: We are helping the department identify optimal locations for solar parks within the state by using data science to find contiguous patches of land which do not have water bodies, human settlements, agricultural land, and unfavourable elevation.
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