Strategy Consultant

Position: Senior Program Associate

Location: New Delhi/Bangalore

Experience: 2-4 years

About GATI Foundation

The world is facing a severe labor shortage. High-income countries are projected to experience a cumulative workforce gap of 4050 million people by 2030, expanding to 120160 million by 2040. This shortfall spans several sectors, including healthcare, education, and industrial labor.

Meanwhile, India's migrants generate over $129 billion in remittances annually, equivalent to 3% of GDP, surpassing any single sector of India's merchandise exports. Yet, while migrants constitute about 1.3% of India's population, this share is significantly lower than comparable countries like Mexico, the Philippines, or Bangladesh, pointing to untapped potential.

The Global Access to Talent from India (GATI) Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to advancing global labor mobility and positioning India as a leader in skilled overseas employment through ethical, structured, and circular migration. By bringing together governments, businesses, and civil society, GATI aims to address structural barriers, including visa restrictions, accreditation hurdles, and financial constraints and enable seamless, responsible migration.

Our priority areas include building high-impact migration corridors, aligning worker accreditation with global standards, unlocking financial access, and strengthening worker welfare. Through strategic interventions, GATI seeks to drive prosperity for workers, their families, and India's economy.

Within GATI, we organize ourselves into three functional verticals:

1. Program Solutions & Design (centrally-led)
2. Partnerships & Network Engagement (centrally-led)
3. Program Management Units (state-led)

Profile Summary

We are looking for a Senior Program Associate to be a part of the Program Solutions & Design team, a team that works on conducting in-depth & dipstick research and designing implementable solutions on key areas that affect GATI's operations and impact across the board.

Join a lean, fast-moving team where you'll learn fast, work with sharp collaborators, and help drive pioneering reforms with the momentum to spark real systems change.

Key Responsibilities

1. Engage in dipstick secondary and primary research to diagnose binding constraints in issue areas and develop initial hypotheses around opportunities for impact. (e.g. What are constraints, if solved for, can unlock high ROI in that sector)
2. Translate research insights and hypotheses into the design of scalable pilots (e.g., financing models, language training programs), and oversee their testing and refinement for broader
3. implementation.
4. Oversee the creation of knowledge material across priority areas through in-depth study, identifying potential partners, developing terms of reference, and managing projects to their completion.
5. Leverage research insights into effective communication strategies across channels such as social media and press, and support dissemination efforts through workshops, roundtables, or events where relevant.

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities

• Undergraduate or master's degrees from top-tier institutions. While there is no preference for a particular major or specialisation, we expect to see a high degree of intellectual curiosity and sophistication.
• 2 to 4 years of work experience in a consulting or challenging/ high growth environment.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid planning and organisational skills with high attention to detail, accuracy, protocol, and deadlines.
• Excellent writing ability that is clear, concise, and analytic in style.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder-facing skills, including solid presentation and facilitation skills.
• High level of flexibility and responsiveness with the ability to shift priorities quickly and as organisational demands require.
• Although not a determining criterion, candidates are encouraged to indicate any prior experience related to Germany or Japan (such as language proficiency, lived experience, or professional engagement).

The desired candidate will demonstrate the following qualities:

• Ability to take initiative and develop solutions quickly and effectively.
• Ability to understand and consider organisational culture and change.
• Ability to function and interact in a professional level capacity to sustain the mission, culture, and best interests of GATI.
• Ability to adapt and exhibit confidence in a highly evolving, agile, and fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to do research and distill important concepts in a structured, concise, yet comprehensive manner.
• Broad and strategic mindset, creative aptitude, and effective use of independent judgement.
• Operating style suited to working in a small-organisation setting, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.

Compensation

As per industry standards in the social impact/non-profit sector (flexible for deserving candidates).