Consultant - Social Impact Partnerships - CSR Platform

Job Position: Consultant-Social Impact Partnerships

Location: Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

Experience: 2-3 years experience in social sector

- The CSRBOX - Impact Experience Centre is an - under the one roof- experience of impact-oriented projects, innovations, technology, best-in-class products and services in the Indian development context. It is a physical cum visualized near to - on-field- demonstration of potential use of innovative project design/ products and technology to connect with the real problems and finding the best-fit solutions in a customized design and delivery approach.

- CSRBOX.org is Asia's largest CSR platform with in-depth CSR portfolio of over 1050 companies and 10000+ CSR projects. The platform works as a bridge between development sector, and business community, government agencies and academic institutes to bring together opportunities on one platform and create a knowledge base for thematic interventions. A few of our clients are Facebook, Google for non-profits, UNICEF India, WHO India, CIFF, NSDC, Tata Steel, D-Lab-ISB, YES Foundation, HCL Foundation, SPJIMR etc.

Roles and Responsibilities : 

- The Consultant-Social Impact Partnerships is a key position to ideate, plan and execute CSR and philanthropic partnerships models/projects and identify areas of innovations for better impacts. The incumbent will lead a team of Associates and Sr. Associates working with Non-profits, CSR teams, social businesses and incubators to co-create areas of collaborations.

The incumbent will be responsible for:

CSRBOX Impact Experience Centre(60%)

- Conceptualise and execute ideas and plans to strengthen CSRBOX platform as the single largest CSR platform for companies, CSR foundations, non-profits, researchers and social businesses

- Work with government agencies, ministries, departments and state governments to curate state specific web-content, reports and analytics

- Explore collaborations with incubators and accelerators to leverage social enterprise and start-up ecosystem for social impact

- Ideate collaborative projects and push for execution

- Writing sophisticated program proposals and preparation of project related briefings

- Manage important departmental projects including the launch of new corporate programs e.g. Corporate Leadership Groups, local engagement programs

- Engage with stakeholders in CSR and social enterprise ecosystem to understand the needs and accordingly prepare action plans, products and services

- Guide, mentor and optimally use resources to on-board companies, implementing agencies, social businesses and service providers on CSRBOX

- Curate avenues of revenue generation for the sustainability of the platform

- Work with content team to publish impact stories, impact-talks and weekly newsletters

- Work with top management to execute innovative ideas and scale-up CSR partnerships

NGOBOX (15%) : 

- Leverage NGOBOX platform for massive outreach and promotion of innovative ideas and partnership needs

- Conceptualise and execute ideas for streamlining products and services for NGOs and social businesses

Events and Consulting (15%) : 

- Work-out strategies and action-plan to co-create new events portfolio

- Strengthen ongoing annual events and curate new partnership models to acquire new clients and strengthen revenue-base

- Align CSRBOX and NGOBOX with other verticals like research and consulting to optimise resource use

Others (10%) : 

- Share the insights effectively in team and client meetings and translate the insights into recommendations and plans

- Ensure delivery of projects deliverables on time and in exemplary quality

- Participate in building, structuring and developing knowledge internally at the organization level.

- Curating annual coffee-table book of - Non-profit impacts- and - CSR Impacts- in India

Qualification and Experience : 

- Post-Graduate Degree in any discipline with an understanding of Social/Development sector in India. Functional understanding of CSR ecosystem in India

- 2-3 years of professional experience in social sector or functional knowledge of social sector in India. At least 1 year experience in development sector project management

- Excellent academic record with at least 60% in class 10th, 12th, Under Graduate and Post Graduate

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Proficiency in making presentation and data analysis

- Ability to listen, interact, communicate and explain ideas clearly

- Effective written communications skills

- Familiarity with sustainability issues and sustainable development agenda

- Self-driven personality with the ability to work independently.

- Excellence in concept-note, project proposal and technical proposal preparation

- Capable of managing a versatile team of 7-10 members

- Basic understating of online platforms and a quick learner