Community Operation- Project Manager

What are we looking for in the Project Manager-Community Operations?

As NationBuilding scales, building strong, engaged student communities becomes central to our growth. The Project Manager will define and drive the direction of our youth ecosystem across campuses and platforms, shaping engagement strategy while ensuring disciplined on-ground execution.

This role requires a high-ownership individual who can both design community initiatives and carry them through end-to-end. You will build credibility with student leaders and institutional partners, create structured engagement pathways, and ensure sustained participation through strong systems, accountability, and consistent follow-through.

Roles and Responsibilities

● Community ecosystem building: Define and architect NationBuilding’s campus community model across awareness, participation, and leadership stages. Design structured engagement pathways that move members from discovery to ownership, ensuring long-term depth, identity, and coherence across campuses and platforms.

● Program execution and on-ground management: Lead the end-to-end execution of community-led initiatives, competitions, workshops, and flagship events. Establish clear operating frameworks, timelines, and accountability mechanisms to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across institutes.

● Stakeholders and institutional communication: Act as the primary bridge between organisational leadership, campus representatives, and institutional partners. Drive alignment between strategy and grassroots execution through clear communication, expectation-setting, and relationship management.

● Building systems, reporting and impact measurement: Build scalable operating systems including reporting structures, documentation processes, and performance dashboards. Track participation, engagement, retention, and impact metrics to ensure data-backed decision-making and disciplined growth.

● Team management: Build and lead a team of young associates.

Desired Skills:

● Structured Problem Solving: Should be able to tackle complex situations through effective and structured problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking, with the ability to propose practical solutions

● Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Drive clear and structured communication, and manage relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders, including vendors, agencies, and others

● Adaptability & Work Ethic:

○ Exceptional self-drive, passion and a proactive approach to work

○ Flexibility to undertake ad hoc tasks and adapt to evolving priorities in a dynamic environment

○ Possess uncompromising integrity and ethical principles

● Leadership Skills: Display the requisite leadership qualities to take ideas forward

● Operational Excellence: Exhibit a strong bias for action, adapt quickly to dynamic situations and demonstrate exceptional commitment in a demanding work environment

Eligibility:

● At least 4 years of experience across operations, project development and execution roles

● Experience in community building, i.e. growing and managing online and offline communities

● Combine an impressive academic record with strong consulting skills.

Note- This is a contractual role till March 2027.