CEO’s Fellow — CSRBOX Group

About CSRBOX

CSRBOX is India’s leading ecosystem for CSR, sustainability, and impact—combining a media & knowledge platform, a consulting practice, and on-ground program implementation through BharatCares. We enable corporate–government–philanthropy partnerships at scale, mapping 4,000+ CSR projects and 1,500+ company portfolios annually, and delivering programs across education, public health, livelihoods, future skills, climate & water.
Our partners include ICICI Bank, SKF, Bosch, IBM, Diageo, DP World, Future Generali, Airbus, Arvind, LG, Hero MotoCorp, Sandvik, Vastu Housing Finance, DCM Shriram, L&T and many others.

Explore: csrbox.org • Life @ CSRBOX: csrbox.org/Life-at-CSRBOX

About the Position

The CEO’s Fellow is part of an elite, small cohort embedded within the CEO’s Office. Fellows operate as force multipliers—solving priority problems, driving cross-unit initiatives, and shaping growth experiments across Platforms, Practice, and Programs. We currently have 5 Fellows (scaling to 10) working closely with the CEO and the executive team.

You’ll thrive here if: you’re strategic and hands-on, can move from boardroom decks to field pilots, and love turning ambiguity into structured, scalable plays.

Responsibilities

1) Strategy & CEO Support

• Co-develop annual/quarterly priorities, OKRs, and growth bets for CSRBOX Group and BharatCares.
• Build decision memos, models, and narrative decks for partners, boards, and government.

2) Program & Deal Acceleration

• Incubate 0 1 pilots (e.g., state CSR PMUs, water/river coalitions, AI-education initiatives, public health programs) and take them to 1 N scale.
Coordinate with consulting, program delivery, and media units to align pipeline proposals
• delivery.

3) Special Projects & PMO

• Run CEO-priority sprints (2–8 weeks): define scope, resources, timelines, and success metrics; clear blockers; publish post-mortems and playbooks.

4) Insights, Research & Market Intelligence

• Track policy/CSR/ESG trends, competitive landscapes, partner signals; convert insights into actionable theses and go-to-market artefacts.
  

5) Stakeholder & Partnership Management

• Serve as a trusted point of contact for senior corporates, foundations, and government; prep briefs, talking points, MoUs, review notes.
  

6) Communication & Reporting

• Own crisp weekly business reviews (WBRs), KPI dashboards, and executive updates; craft external thought-leadership as needed.
  

What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months)

• 3–5 CEO projects delivered end-to-end with documented outcomes and playbooks.
• 2+ scaled wins (state/sector programs, anchor partnerships, or new revenue lines).
• Operational uplift: measurable improvements in cadence (WBR/OKR), proposal velocity, and delivery quality.
• Cross-unit cohesion: visible collaboration across consulting, media, and programs.

Mandatory Qualification and Experience:

Education: Postgraduate (preferred in management/public policy/economics/engineering or equivalent). Multidisciplinary backgrounds are valued.

Experience: 2–6 years in development/CSR/consulting/think-tanks/policy/startups or PMO/strategy roles with demonstrated ownership.

Core Competencies

• Strategic problem-solving, synthesis, and structured writing (memos, decks).
• Program/PMO excellence—can juggle multiple high-stakes tracks.
• Executive communication: stakeholder briefs, pitch decks, review notes.
• Data comfort: build/interpret KPI dashboards; basic financial/ROI models.
• Tools: Advanced MS Office/Google Workspace; bonus for Notion, Asana, Power BI/Tableau.
• Personal operating system: speed + judgment, meticulous follow-through, discretion.

Professional Traits

• Calm under pressure; switches gears rapidly without losing quality.
• High ownership, low ego; learns fast and shares credit.
• Strong ethics and confidentiality in sensitive engagements

30–60–90 Plan (Indicative)

• Day 30: Onboard to units, shadow CEO reviews, publish first issue brief + project tracker.
• Day 60: Own one CEO sprint; ship an insight deck partner conversations; implement WBR cadence for a unit.
• Day 90: Lead a cross-unit initiative; document a repeatable playbook; show early results on at least two KPIs (e.g., proposal TAT, win-rate, pilot-to-scale conversion).

Growth Path

• Senior Fellow Chief of Staff (Unit/Vertical) Strategy Lead / PMO Head / Practice Lead, or spin up a new practice/program.
• Access to an internal Entrepreneur-in-Residence track to incubate new impact solutions.

When at CSRBOX:

• Work at the frontier of India’s impact ecosystem, partnering with top corporates, philanthropies, and state governments.
• Build systems that scale—from district programs to state PMUs and national convenings.
• High-trust, high-ownership culture with rapid learning loops and visible outcomes.

Desirable

Please apply using this link https://forms.gle/LxnqQY8VBzEi7cSC8

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