Fund Raising Manager - NGO

Job Description: Fundraising Manager

Reports To: CEO

Location: New Delhi, India

Start date: Immediate

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Key Responsibilities (include but not limited to)

- Work closely with the CEO to develop a fundraising strategy for supporting organization's programs

- Identify and research suitable new prospects - foundations, corporates, and individuals - for the organization, and cultivate these relationships on behalf of the organization

- Manage the end-to-end fundraising cycle with each prospective donor: Identifying high-value, prospective donors, initiating leads, calls, and meetings, making presentations, writing proposals and closing agreements

- Create tools, systems, and processes to manage the past/current/plausible donor base of the organization and create yearlong funder pipeline

- Maintain relationships with existing donors and respond to their requests regularly and keep updating them about the organization's work

- Organize fundraising events for the organization (including digital campaigns)

- Collaborate with the operations and communications team to draft proposals, applications, reports, and updates for current and prospective supporter

- Create budgets for new projects with support from the Finance team and support the programme team in programme management

- Analyse and use data from the school information system to create high-quality impact reports for supporting board level reviews, creating grant applications and for external communications

- Represent organization and be a visible part of a successful organization at forums involving stakeholders such as other non-profits, foundation, and government agencies

- Review and advise on communication materials including website, brochures, posters, infographics and other print and digital collateral material, as required.

- Represent organization's fundraising externally, and enjoy being a visible part of a successful organization

- Any other task mutually agreed on with CEO.

Qualification and Qualities

- At least 5 years of fundraising/business development experience

- Post-graduate in a relevant field. Candidates with an MBA will be preferred, but not essential

- Fluent in English and Hindi

Experience and Skills

- Experience of working with a wide range of funders - including high net worth individuals, foundations, and CSR roles will be considered as relevant background

- Good track record of maintaining key donor relationships as well as establishing new partnerships

- Proven experience in negotiating with senior stakeholders, both internally and externally

- Ability to craft compelling opportunities for a wide range of potential supporters

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Excellent report writing (Word and PowerPoint) and presentation skills

Personal Attributes

- Strong alignment with the organization's mission of providing quality education and building stronger education ecosystems in India

- Results-focused with a strong sense of ownership

- Enjoys working under pressure: flexible, highly organized and able to prioritize work to meet deadlines

- Diplomatic and skilled in achieving results through influence and personal credibility

- Enthusiastic to do whatever it takes willing to take personal accountability for delivery of goals

- Self-motivated and a good team player

- Able to think creatively, with discerning and sensible judgment

- Openness to listen, learn and contribute beyond the confines of this role

- Hard working, detail orientated, tenacious and systematic

- Able to manage diverse groups of stakeholders

Recruitment Process

Application Process

Please include the details of at least two referees within your cover letter.

Selection

The selection process will involve written tests/assignment, demo pitching session, and interviews with the senior management of the organization

Reference Check & Probation

As you will be working with children, this role will be subject to enhanced background checks. Additionally, all new staff will be subject to a probation period of three months, with the possibility of extension to one year based on performance.