Fundraising Lead - NGO

Fundraising Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategy and Planning:

- Accountable to lead the annual fundraising planning process and create a comprehensive short and long term strategy aligning with the organizations goals, values, targets across various revenue streams.

- Adept at identifying potential opportunities, build and utilize knowledge of current and future industry practices and trends to position of Organization as a trusted advisor and critical business partner.

- Create compelling pitch decks and donor presentations to showcase Organization's offering and how to integrate it with the requirements of the donor organization

Fundraising:

- Prepare and own the overall fundraising plan for Organization.

- Design a process to track pipeline and progress on a weekly \ monthly \ quarterly basis to ensure the targets are met and also work on Plan B and Plan C for achieving the annual numbers.

- Design revenue models that are sustainable and scalable by taking in to consideration operational costs, partners costs and other project management costs.

- Tap in to existing networks and build new networks to increase organizations visibility amongst corporates, trusts, foundations, government agencies, also identify and develop new donors and maximize fundraising opportunities.

Client Engagement & Relationship Building:

- Work closely with the CEO and the Core team, CSR clients, other potential Donors to nurture long terms strategic partnerships and continued funding support

- Collaborate with external stakeholders (Clients, Donors, Government, Ministries) to tap on the current and upcoming opportunities

- Write high level proposals and concept notes that showcases the solutions offered by Organization and also share the model on how the program can be co-created and implemented to meet the needs of the donors and also build framework to ensure the programs are sustainable, scalable and successful.

Campaign Development and Outreach:

- Create and participate in industry events, donor engagement programs, annual giving events, campaigns for continued engagement and long term funding support from various potential donors and stakeholders.

- Support the communications team in putting together outreach toolkit consisting of various proposals, collaterals, updated numbers, standard decks, newsletters, playbooks which will help in the outreach and help in showcasing Samhita's work to the external stakeholders.

Leadership and Team Development:

- Provide strong leadership to the management team and team members of the partnerships team

- Foster a positive and inclusive work culture that promotes team work, innovation and high performance

- Develop and mentor future leaders within the organization