Senior Programme Manager — JPEG Observatory
Pubblicato il 03-09-2026 - CEGIS Foundation in Ispra
About the job Senior Programme Manager — JPEG Observatory
1. Position
Job Title: Senior Programme Manager — JPEG Observatory
Team / Vertical: Solutions — Economics and Growth
Reporting To: Lead, Solutions
Works closely with: Scientific Director; Economics and Statistics Unit (ESU); State Delivery Teams; External partners (Governments and other ecosystem partners)
Location: Chennai or Delhi (preferred), with substantial travel to partner state locations
Experience: 10–15 years, with meaningful experience at the research-policy interface and demonstrated ability to engage senior government officials
2. About CEGIS
Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS — pronounced See-Jis) aims to improve lives by helping Indian state governments deliver better development outcomes. We believe that the most impactful lever for accelerating national development is to improve governance and state capacity to better deliver core public services at scale.
Informed by cutting-edge research and evidence as well as a practical orientation toward implementable ideas,
CEGIS works with state governments in India to enable a transformative improvement in their functioning. CEGIS's vision and Theory of Change are an outcome of extensive research done by Prof. Karthik Muralidharan (CEGIS Co-Founder and Scientific Director) and outlined in his multiple award‑winning, national bestselling book Accelerating India's Development, and enabled by strategic philanthropic support provided by Ashish Dhawan (CEGIS Co-Founder).
CEGIS is organised into solutions teams that lead the design and technical quality of our evidence‑backed approaches; delivery teams that lead state‑facing work to contextualise and implement solutions; and enablement teams that support the organisation's functioning. Since its incorporation in 2019, CEGIS has grown to 150+ members working across nine Indian states, and is on a strong growth trajectory.
3. About the JPEG Observatory Initiative
Indian state gov