NeGD is currently inviting applications for the position of Centre & State Coordination Specialist on a contractual basis for a period of two years.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary relationship manager between MeitY/NDGC and SDGCs across all 28 States and 8 UTs
• Support States in constituting their SDGCs within the mandated timeline, including preparation of draft composition orders and ToR documents
• Track issuance of State-level Data Sharing Policies and necessary office orders by State Departments (within 6–12 month mandate)
• Facilitate capacity building workshops for State IT Secretaries, Chief Data Officers, and State DGC members on the national framework
• Represent States’ interests and constraints in national-level NDGC deliberations to enable practical, federally-sensitive policy design
• Coordinate with Pr. Secretary (IT) of each State – the Member-Convener of SDGCs – to resolve implementation bottlenecks
• Maintain a real-time tracking matrix of State-level progress across: SDGC constitution, Data Sharing Policy issuance, platform adoption, and standards compliance
• Manage escalation of unresolved State-level data sharing disputes to the NDGC in accordance with the prescribed mechanism
• Coordinate with DARPG on convergence with existing administrative reform and grievance resolution frameworks

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About National e-Governance Division (NeGD)

The National e-Governance Division (NeGD) is an independent business division under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. NeGD has been playing a pivotal role in supporting MeitY in Programme Management and implementation of e-Governance projects and initiatives undertaken by various Ministries/ Departments, both at the Central and State levels.

NeGD has been spearheading several innovative initiatives under the aegis of the Digital India Programme. Those have been developed keeping the vision areas of Digital India at the core- providing digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and in particular, digital empowerment of the citizens of our country; some of these initiatives include DigiLocker, UMANG, Poshan Tracker, OpenForge Platform, API Setu, National Academic Depository, Academic Bank of Credits, Learning Management System.