Head - Sustainability - NGO

Organization: BRIGHT FUTURE

Job Title: HEAD - SUSTAINABILITY

Reports to: CEO

Location: MUMBAI

Introduction:

Bright Future is an initiative by New Resolution India (NRI) which was set up in the year 2009. It grew as an outcome of hard-hitting personal experiences, verifiable observations through the years. The motivation behind launching Bright Future was to provide a conducive educational environment with positive role models, both of which would eradicate the issue of aimless learning. It intervenes at school as well as the community level ensuring a more holistic model of growth among children and youth. The youth today have become followers of the norm and NRI has attempted to alter the scenario by introducing a model which starts with the provision of relevant education and ends with gainful employment for the beneficiaries. The target group for the project is youth aged between 13 to 25 years which includes school going children and dropouts. The model is based on sourcing out role models from within the community and inspiring the alumni to come back and guide future batches.

Bright Future empowers the youth to make informed decisions about their career and life. This enables them to transform their passion into gainful employment through life skills development, career development, mentoring support, internships and placement opportunities.

Bright Future also builds capacities of the key stakeholders like parents and teachers who play an instrumental role in creating a conducive environment essential for their growth.

Bright Future runs its operations out of 14 low-income schools and 12 centres across Mumbai and Thane. It has engaged with more than 27,000 young people since 2009

Vision:

Equal Employment Opportunities to All

Mission:

To provide a nurturing environment for children and youth from marginalized communities to transform their passion into gainful employment through career guidance, life skill development, and mentorship and placement opportunities

Goal:

Connecting Education to Employment

Read more about Alliance India work at https://brightfutureindia.org/

Role:

The purpose of this role is to lead brand development and corporate partnerships by effectively communicating the organization's vision with stakeholders and ensuring that existing and new stakeholders are engaged. The key partnerships being managed by this role will include Funding Partners, Employers and Corporate Volunteer Partners. This will help Bright Future to attain sustainability as an organisation.

Responsibilities:

- Fundraising: Engaging current and potential new funding partners (60% focus of the role)

- Placement partners: To develop new strategic partnerships in line with Bright Future's mission with organisations who could be potential employers (20%)

- Marketing: Lead the marketing and branding activities of the organisation to ensure visibility and brand recall in the minds of potential beneficiaries, funders and all other key stakeholders

Note: The roles and responsibilities outlined above are not meant to be an exhaustive list of tasks. The need for flexibility is required and the job holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

Qualifications And Experience:

- A Master's Degree in Marketing/Public Relations/Development Communication/Social Work/Entrepreneurship

- 10+ years of experience of work experience in an external/partner facing role (e.g. marketing, sales, fundraising-CSR, Institutional, HNIs)

Required Skills:

- Polished communication skills, both verbally and in writing, with exceptional attention to detail and exceptionally good listening skills

- Resource Mobilization, Networking, Proposal Writing

- Proficiency in MS Office, G-Suite, Online collaborative tools

- Coordination, Negotiation, Analytical

- Planning and Organizing, Presentation

- Budgeting, Story Telling ability

Required Knowledge:

- About challenges faced by adolescents and youth and solutions that can address these

- Components of Proposals and how to draft it

- Understanding about how to make pitches and engage with senior level representatives in Donor Agencies

- About the CSR landscape and funding sources in education and livelihood sector

Third Sector Partners is a pioneering cause-connected executive search firm and has been retained for this position. Interested candidates can send in their CVs along with three references and a cover note. The last date to send in your application is April 30th 2022. Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.