IIT Bombay - Associate Vice President - Program Management

Associate Vice President Program Management

Our Vision: Help IIT Bombay rank among the top engineering and technology institutes worldwide by fostering strong relationships with its alumni, corporations and philanthropists.

About us:

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - Development and Relations Foundation (DRF) is a not-for-profit section 8 unit. IITB DRF facilitates Institute's core mission and engages with our vibrant alumni community, corporations, and foundations with the goal of developing and sustaining long-term relationships. These groups are the key stakeholders in IIT Bombay's journey of excellence. We encourage the involvement and participation of these entities in the Institute's strategic initiatives. These include setting up world class research and academics in emerging areas of science and technology, building world class infrastructure, improving faculty value proposition, strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem, and contributing to the society.

IITB DRF assists fundraising endeavours by way of donor solicitations, managing donor programs, maintaining financial accounts and reporting details of all activities implemented with alumni donations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Developing project baselines; monitoring & controlling projects with respect to cost, resource deployment, milestones of deliverables as per desired levels of execution.

- To collaborate with stakeholders and donors to estimate project efforts, define key milestones, monitor progress, address dependencies, assess risks, and provide regular project updates to stakeholders.

- Manage project lifecycle through vigilantly monitoring, timely donor reporting, provisioning change management and establishing governance & program management structure as per guidelines.

- Identifying project dependencies among various departments of the Institutes and mitigating the risk involving all stakeholders.

- Work with front-line engagement teams to understand and analyze donor feedback and use the insights to create opportunities for fun-raise.

- Build strong relationships with faculty at IIT B and translate ongoing research work at IIT Bombay into meaningful opportunities for donor participation.

- Develop organizational competency for building detailed project plans for different projects being undertaken to deploy the funds coming through various sources.

- Build a culture of execution excellence by building strong internal relationships and influencing key stakeholders.

- Own project delivery and ensure collaboration and synergy amongst internal departments for seamless execution.

Desired Experience/ competencies:

- Strong educational pedigree, preference for qualification in science and technology

- 10-15 years' experience in project management roles with track record of getting difficult projects done.

- Strong stakeholder management skills.