Educational Initiatives - Senior Manager - Growth & Partnerships

The role is to take an existing implementation that is touching 40,000 children in 200 government schools in 6 states and evangelize it to grow 100x to 4 million children in 15 States in 1-2 countries over the next 3-5 years.

You would do this by:

1. Raising philanthropic funding from corporate CSR heads - more than Rs. 20,000+ Crore is spent annually by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and education is the largest chunk of that

2. Raising funding from international foundations and multi-lateral aid agencies (eg. USAID, UKAid, UNICEF, World Bank, etc) that are interested in funding social development projects

3. Winning government tenders for learning software

Experience required:

Must haves:

- 5+ years of experience in sales (including cold-calling, seeking appointments and doing meetings, proposal writing, finalizing contracts and winning repeat business)

- Fluent verbal and written communications in English

Preferred:

- Experience in B2B / Institutional Sales

- Experience in managing government relations or doing government sales

- Proficiency in communicating in Hindi (for negotiating with govt. officials)

Skills we should test for:

- Sales aptitude

- Stakeholder management

- General aptitude

- Communication skills