AVP - Strategy & Operations - Consulting Firm

Job responsibilities:

- Operationalize and streamline existing business and client engagement

- Lead new business development

- Design, plan and implement business strategies, plans and procedures

- Keep abreast of the markets and industry trends, explore new synchronous business opportunities

- Set comprehensive goals for business growth and success

- Establish policies and procedures to streamline business

- Oversee all operations and business activities, and the work of executives

- Lead employees with an example

- Be a motivator for other employees

- Analyze and interpret data and metrics

- Create reports for clients

- Take the lead in expansion activities

- Build trusting relations and maintain relationships with partners and vendors

Job requirements:

- Strong financial and business acumen with 6 to 10 years of working experience in the for/non profit sector.

- Strong frontline skills in sales, partnership building, client and member servicing, business development; ability to identify and convert opportunities for funding and business development

- Goal-driven, entrepreneurial skills to grow a startup from the ground, problem-solving competency with adaptability to learn as a leader of a startup organisation and its people.

- Strong foundation of relevant networks that will provide relevant and convertible opportunities for business growth in social investment

- Team player and experienced manager of lean teams; able to mobilise small teams and cross-functional colleagues to achieve results

- Excellent working knowledge of MS Office products (or equivalent), project management tools like Salesforce/Basecamp and cloud applications

- Excellent written and verbal communications in English, Hindi, and/or other relevant language.

Key Attributes:

- Creativity and innovation in leveraging partner resources and early accomplishments for future opportunities; resourceful in solving problems

- A passionate, confident and professional communicator and advocate with strong client service orientation

- Highly versatile and adaptable to changes, able to roll up the sleeves and work in the trenches in a flat hierarchy.

- Strategic thinker and planner that can zoom in to exercise operational detail and accuracy when needed.

- Brings strong motivation and high energy, thrives in demanding and tight deadlines.

- Independent self-starter that takes initiative to surface and execute where opportunities are present

- Comfortable with compensation benchmarked to small, startup mission-driven organisation