Designation: Engagement Manager, International Innovation Corps
Roles covered: Recruitment and Human Resources, Campaign Management, Grassroots Implementation, Governance Consulting
Focus areas: Education, Governance, Development Studies
In this podcast, Apoorva speaks about her responsibilities and takeaways from varied experiences in the development sector -- from grassroots campaign management to governance consulting. She covers the differences in working at the grassroots versus working at scale, and her motivation for focusing on education as the cause area of interest. Apoorva also shares her framework for selecting Master's programmes and what one can expect from Development Studies courses. Listen to this candid conversation about her motivations and insightful lessons from close to ten years of professional experience!
00:02 Introduction
00:58 Leap from engineering to social impact
01:58 The experience of working for Teach For India recruitment
03:46 Responsibilities as a Campaign Lead at Indus Action
07:20 Lessons from working at the grassroots
09:10 Moving to governance consulting
11:23 Advantages and challenges of working at scale
13:35 Deepdive into work at International Innovation Corps
15:09 The decision to focus on a particular cause area
16:40 Aspects that she loved and struggled with in her development sector career
18:26 The decision-making process regarding what, where, when to pursue postgraduate studies
22:39 Biggest takeaways from Apoorva's career journey
About Apoorva Murari:
Apoorva trained as an engineer at Bharati Vidyapeeth University and began her development sector journey with organizations like Teach for India and Indus Action. She managed recruitment efforts at TFI over a span of almost 3 years and was the Campaign Lead at Indus Action where she was in charge of several facets of public education enrollment campaigns. Post these experiences, she pursued her Masters’ as a Chevening scholar at the Institute of Dev Studies and has been working in governance consulting for the past 3.5 years -- first at Samagra, and now at UChicago's International Innovation Corps.
