Manager - ASCENT Foundation

Qualifications & Experience:

- Postgraduate (any field) from a reputed college

- BMS/BMM with an interest in entrepreneurship

- Others - Preferred experience in Project management, Community management, managing entrepreneurial ecosystem, social media, managing and driving content across various platforms.

Key Deliverables of the Role:

- Member Acquisition: Generating applications through various channels, connecting with applicants, shortlisting of applications and being a part of the selection process

- Relationship Management: Coordination amongst key stakeholders like ASCENT Trust Group members, Facilitators, Knowledge Gurus, Academic partners etc.

- Introducing new processes, tools, programmes and institutionalizing them for enhancing the performance of a Trust Group

- Event Coordination: Assist in planning and leading various ASCENT Initiatives like ASCENT Huddle sessions, Mixers, Fundraising Bootcamp, workshops, ASCENT Conclave etc.

- Communication and brand building: Communicating ASCENT's presence online across all platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and other relevant platforms.

- Coordinating with PR agencies for amplifying the brand awareness of ASCENT

- Coordination with vendors for designing mailers, website management and other marketing tools to build the brand of ASCENT on an ongoing basis

- CRM Management: Collection, maintenance and analysis of data across member base, events, MyASCENT Portal etc.

Competencies:

- Effective Communication Skills

- Process and Project Management

- Community and Ecosystem management

- Customer relations (ASCENT Members)

- Social Media savvy

- Basic IT skills - Microsoft Office other relevant platforms like SurveyMonkey, CRM, Portal etc.

Attributes:

- Smart and Proactive (High energy levels)

- Warm personality for Relationship Management

- Responsibility and commitment towards the purpose of the organization

- Proactive with an attitude to - Make things happen-

Reporting Relationships:

Head - Ascent Foundation

Other Interfaces:

- ASCENT Members - Entrepreneurs

- ASCENT Partners, Enablers, Knowledge Gurus, Speakers

- ASCENT Vendors - For Events, Portal, PR, Social Media and other initiatives

Value proposition to the candidate:

- Impetus to the creative streak/experimentation

- Empowering culture to facilitate growth

- Challenging work environment with an opportunity to lead from the front

- Prospect of moving into other horizontal roles depending on the performance

- A chance to interact, hear and learn from prominent industry personalities

Brief on Ascent Foundation:

ASCENT Foundation founded by Harsh Mariwala (Chairman, Marico Ltd.) is a not-for-profit expression of his personal passion to identify and enable high-potential growth-stage entrepreneurs in their journey to grow both as Entrepreneurs and Enterprises. Designed as a peer-to-peer platform, ASCENT leverages the - power of the collective- and enables entrepreneurs to share experiences, ideas, insights to learn from each other through self-facilitated Trust Groups and an extended network of Enablers.