Own the DPI and Digital Governance domain: what we sell, to whom, at what price, and whether it is any good. Approve every deliverable, proposal and publication in the domain. | Own delivery on ICDIA against the milestone schedule. Two concurrent workstreams, deliverables that trigger payment, and the sequencing calls when country demand or solution readiness moves faster or slower than planned. Maintain the risk register and escalate where mitigation sits beyond the team's remit. | Hold the ICDIA client relationship. Agree the annual workplan and get it approved, and judge when to escalate and when to absorb a problem inside the team. | Own the funder relationship: milestone and narrative reporting, budget variance, and any change to scope or timeline handled through the agreed process rather than after the fact. | Work the domestic ecosystem. MeitY, NISG, the Ministry of External Affairs, line ministries, diplomatic missions and the owners of individual platforms all decide and budget differently, and these relationships have to be live before you need them. | Build the wider domain pipeline beyond ICDIA, with national and state digital programmes, multilateral digital public goods teams and the foundations that fund them, and carry opportunities to signed scope. | Lead the ICDIA team: three functional leads and an activated network of experts and consultants. Set the standard, resolve competing claims on capacity, and build capability across the three years. | Design and execute the ICDIA handover: standard operating procedures, assets, rubrics and relationships transferred to ICDIA, plus a costed plan for running the engine after the investment period ends. | Manage the domain budget for research, reusable materials, conference presence and speculative proposals, and account for how it is spent. | Twelve to fifteen or more years in digital government, public policy advisory or development consulting, including several years leading programmes across more than one country. | You have carried accountability for a donor-funded programme against milestone-linked payment, including the funder reporting that goes with it. | You have taken a new institutional relationship to a signed, funded contract more than once. | You know how India's digital public infrastructure landscape works: who owns what, where decisions are made, and which institutions have systems actually in production. | You have built capability inside an institution before, and you build it rather than substituting for it. | Enough technical depth to hold a credible conversation about platform architecture, transferability and digital public goods, with engineers on one side and institutional leaders on the other. | You can hold a substantive conversation with the most senior official in the room without a briefing note. | Based in Delhi, with willingness to travel 30 percent. | Time inside a digital mission, a DPI-building organisation or a government technology programme. | Prior work on South-South cooperation, bilateral partnerships or multilateral DPI initiatives. | Familiarity with how governments access development finance, including concessional and blended instruments. | Experience in low- and middle-income country government contexts outside India. | This position requires successful completion of a reference check and employment verification. | The successful candidate must not be subject to employment restrictions from a former employer, such as a non-compete, that would prevent performance of the responsibilities described. | Candidates must declare any current or recent engagement with a government, multilateral or development finance institution that could present a conflict of interest.