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Head – Social Impact Entrepreneurship Incubation

Organization: NSRCEL is IIM Bangalore
Apply By: 15 Apr 2025
Location: Bengaluru(Karnataka)
About the Organization
The NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) is IIM Bangalore’s startup hub and incubation centre. The centre is structured as a section-8 not-for-profit entity.
NSRCEL’s mission is to support ventures in the start-up ecosystem that demonstrate potential to create significant economic and societal impact. This financial year alone NSRCEL has engaged with 1106 ventures through 13 unique program tracks across 82 towns in the country.
NSRCEL is supported by Department of Science and Technology and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. NSRCEL has partners with corporates like Alstom, Capgemini, Goldman Sachs, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Pernod Ricard India Foundation and SBI Foundation, among others to support idea stage and early-revenue stage entrepreneurs and startups in focussed themes of climate-tech, women entrepreneurship, and social impact.
Job Description
You will own and execute the strategy, execution and impact outcomes from NSRCEL's incubation in the social impact space. The scope includes for-profit and not-for-profit startups in areas across education, urban & rural livelihoods, inclusive finance, affordable healthcare, agri-tech, assistive tech, climate & sustainability and disaster relief among others.
Job Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and direction of NSRCEL’s social impact incubation
- Conceptualise and design program elements to deliver sophisticated interventions to program candidates
- Be the entrepreneur’s go-to person at NSRCEL, and pre-empt and solve for priorities for entrepreneurs in portfolio
- Build ecosystem partnerships to complement incubation programs
- Be responsible for program outcomes, quality, financial health, and program rigour
- Foster deep and enduring relationships with donors and funding partners, mentors, faculty
- Contribute to critical organizational priorities including research & analysis, knowledge creation, and ecosystem enablement
- Benchmark and bring in best practices from India and across the world into the program
- As part of the leadership team of NSRCEL you will play an important role in influencing strategic decisions for the centre and will serve as a spokesperson for the organization
Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience
You will ideally:
- Be an MBA or post-graduate from a Tier 1 institution
- Have 15+ years of experience as an impact founder or in business leadership, consulting, product or program management roles
- Have a deep understanding of the entrepreneurship and impact ecosystem in India, have a passion for the science of entrepreneurship
- Have strong financial acumen, ability to manage teams and partners
- Possess proven capability to lead in fluid situations
- Be a self-starter, have a bias for action
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