Senior Associate, AI and Digital Transformation (DPI and Digital Governance)
Senior Associate, AI and Digital Transformation (DPI and Digital Governance)
Refined job description
ROLE
– Map the data the platform holds and document its purposes for departmental maintenance.
– Design the consent approach, including messaging, language, timing, and handling of consent refusal or withdrawal.
– Write data governance artefacts such as access control models, retention and deletion rules, sharing agreements, and lineage records suitable for audit.
– Test the consent flow in the field with members and community cadres, and report issues.
– Support the department in taking ownership of the governance framework after handover.
– Write briefs for counterparts and funders.
– Work on rural or last‑mile systems where users may not be literate or online.
REQUIREMENTS
– Minimum three years of experience in data governance, privacy, digital rights, policy, or a related field, with exposure to government or large institutional systems.
– Proven ability to translate legal or policy requirements into technical specifications that engineers can implement.
– Working knowledge of Indian data protection law and consent architecture used in Indian digital public infrastructure.
– Ability to discuss data flow and architecture with engineers.
– Strong written communication skills; ability to write clearly and quickly in both field and policy contexts.
– Proficiency in Hindi and willingness to travel 25‑30 % of the time.
– Familiarity with consent management frameworks or account aggregator‑style architectures.
– Prior experience working with a regulator, digital mission, or civil society organization on data rights.
– Proficiency in at least one additional Indian language.
– Successful completion of reference check and employment verification.
– Disclosure of any current or recent engagements with government, multilateral, or development finance institutions that could present a conflict of interest.
Full job description
Map the data the platform holds and the purposes it is used for, and write that down in a form the department can maintain. | Design the consent approach: what a member is told, in what language, at what moment, and what happens when consent is refused or withdrawn. | Write the data governance artefacts the platform needs: access control model, retention and deletion rules, sharing agreements with other departments, and lineage records that hold up in an audit. | Work through the applicable law and policy, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and translate it into requirements the engineers can build to rather than a memo nobody reads. | Test the consent flow in the field with members and community cadre, and report what does not work. | Support the department in taking ownership of the governance framework after handover. | Write briefs the counterpart and the funder act on. | Three or more years in data governance, privacy, digital rights, policy or a related field, including work touching a government or large institutional system. | You have translated a legal or policy requirement into something a technical team could actually build. | Working knowledge of Indian data protection law and the consent architecture used in Indian digital public infrastructure. | You can hold a conversation with engineers about how data actually moves through a system. | You write clearly and quickly, and you are comfortable in the field as well as in a policy document. | Hindi, and willingness to travel 25 to 30 percent. | Consent management frameworks or account aggregator style architectures. | Work on rural or last-mile systems where the user cannot be assumed to be literate or online. | Prior work with a regulator, a digital mission or a civil society organisation on data rights. | One other Indian language. | 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.