Position: Block Lead (Entrepreneurship Operations & Partnerships), Insight Program
About The/Nudge:
https://www.thenudge.org/ is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals and youth on rural development, agriculture, skilling and economic inclusion, along with 15+ central and state government partners.
Our economic inclusion journey for 25 million Indians, has reached 10 states with $250M of government funding to cover 1.25M people. Our incubator, accelerator and grand challenges have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs including 17 Forbes 30U30, 3 EarthShot Prize winners, 1 Time Magazine cover and more.
https://www.thenudge.org/people-and-partners/ support from 90+ eminent philanthropists , 40+ corporates and 15+ foundations including Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Vinod Khosla, Nandan Nilekani, Tata Trusts, Skoll, Meta, LinkedIn, HDFC, Mphasis, KPMG and L'Oreal, we are contributing towards a "poverty-free India, within our lifetime".
About the Program
The InSight Program aims to build a Presbyopia-free India by empowering rural entrepreneurs to deliver reading glasses and near vision screening in their own communities. Over 300 million Indians suffer from uncorrected presbyopia, leading to more than $14 billion in annual productivity losses.
The program enables a market-based, sustainable solution — training and supporting local entrepreneurs to screen for near-vision impairment and sell affordable reading glasses. Each entrepreneur serves their local area, combining social impact with sustainable livelihood generation.
Role Overview
The Team Lead plays a pivotal role in identifying, onboarding, and mentoring a network of 10-20 entrepreneurs within their assigned locality. The Team Lead ensures that these entrepreneurs remain active every month, collectively conducting consistent near vision screenings and driving consistent reading glass distribution.
This role requires strong on-ground leadership, performance tracking, and hands-on mentoring to ensure both impact and income targets are met at the grassroots level.
Location: Tiruvallur, Dindigul and Erode (Any one of the listed location)
Reporting To: Block Lead, Insight Program
Duration: 12 Months (3 Months Probation)
- Identify, recruit, and onboard 10-20 potential entrepreneurs in the assigned locality.
- Build an inclusive and motivated entrepreneur network aligned with program goals.
- Monitor daily and weekly progress of entrepreneurs on screenings, sales, and conversions.
- Ensure the team collectively achieves the required near vision screenings per month across the assigned geography.
- Conduct field visits and shadow entrepreneurs during screening events to ensure quality standards.
- Resolve on-ground challenges related to inventory, community mobilization, or operational gaps.
- Facilitate onboarding and refresher training sessions in collaboration with our training partners for entrepreneurs.
- Reinforce field practices related to presbyopia screening, sales approach, and record-keeping.
- Mentor entrepreneurs in improving communication, sales conversion, and customer service.
- Track entrepreneur performance using digital dashboards and data collection tools.
- Submit weekly and monthly progress reports to the Block Lead.
- Flag underperforming entrepreneurs and design remedial action plans.
- Support entrepreneurs in organizing local awareness events, village meetings, and vision screening camps.
- Represent the InSight Program at the community level and liaise with panchayat leaders and SHGs.
- Bachelor’s degree in any stream.
- Minimum 1 years of team management experience in sales, field operations, or social enterprise programs, preferably in rural areas.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate field entrepreneurs.
- Proficiency in Google Sheets, mobile apps, and reporting tools.
- Fluency in Tamil and working knowledge of English.
- Willingness to travel extensively within the assigned geography.
- Experience in micro-entrepreneurship, rural distribution, or social impact projects.
- Familiarity with Tamil Nadu’s community landscape.
- Ability to work independently and drive accountability through influence.
Join us in building a Presbyopia-free India — by empowering entrepreneurs, transforming livelihoods, and restoring vision.
We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals, irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.
