Lead - Fundraising & Partnership - Education

Fundraising and Partnership Lead

Key Responsibilities (included but not limited to) :

- Work closely with the CEO to develop a fundraising strategy for supporting the 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

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

- Any other task mutually agreed on with CEO

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 judgement

- 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