ImpactGuru Foundation - Chief of Staff

Position Title: Chief Of Staff - Impact Guru Foundation

Location: Mumbai. Travel, as circumstances warrant.

Working Days: Monday - Friday

Reporting Manager: Co-Founder(s)Office

Summary of the role

The person will work closely with the overseas stakeholders, senior management team & internal departments. His/ her work will have an immediate impact on strategic initiatives, productivity, overseas program management and communicating objectives between overseas management teams and Indian stakeholders and Co-Founders office and also other departments. The ideal candidate will have to focus on international relations, interdepartmental collaborations and business stakeholder management to evolve our fundraising platform into a world-class experience for our fundraisers and establish a platform for providing intelligent insights for internal state holders as well.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Evolving strategic business initiatives from development to successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads.

- Understand and resolve challenges to manage international relations and constantly develop international leads to improve IGF visibility and reach in the international market.

- Assist and communicate with partnership executives in decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation.

- Review, design, and execute on improvements to org structure, find knowledge and skills gaps and help address them Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.

- Strategize campaigns to build close relations with new & existing Partners

- Serve as liaison between international stakeholders, senior leaders, and CEO, regarding company climate, employee well-being, project updates, proposals, and planning.

- Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and international stakeholders.

- Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with CEO and executives on special projects.

- Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications.

- Provide direction to the team & personally drive efforts to ensure targets for the department are met consistently.

- Manage inter & intra-department coordination to ensure timely implementation & delivery of dependencies.

- Ensure timely & accurate reporting by all team members

- Ensure we keep international compliance and compliance with organization policies by all team members

Indicative KRA's:

- Data Management of the international and Indian counterparts.

- Help liaison with the International Business Stakeholders and The India management team.

- Timely & accurate reporting

- Deliver to CEO, COO & Co-Founders expectations

Key interactions:

- Internal: Impact Guru Foundation Co-Founders & their office, operations, business development, et al.

Professional Experiences:

- Prior experience in an NGO, Foundation, fundraising, start-up environment is definite plus

- Excellent communicator in written and verbal form.

- Extremely versatile, dedicated to efficient productivity.

- Nimble business mind with a focus on developing creative solutions.

- Strong project reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communication.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent practical experience. (mandatory)

Functional & Behavioural Competencies :

- Project management

- Multiple stakeholder management

- Growth mind-set

- Aggressive delivery targets-oriented mind-set

- Entrepreneurial mind-set

- Ability to deliver in high pace environment

- Excellent communication

- Dynamic personality

What do we offer?

- Attractive salary & performance-linked bonuses

- An opportunity to be in a leadership position of a high-growth start-up

- Fun, casual & flexible work environment

- Entrepreneurial, forward-looking, growth-driven & open work culture