Manager - Fund Raising - NGO

Responsibilities

Raise Funds:

- Drive the development of some of the sources listed above and will support the team with prospect research, portfolio management and managing gift operations.

- New donors: Work towards tapping into various networks to increase the base of new donors

- Existing relationships: Stewardship of donors based on their giving capacity, in order to ensure repeat donations and upgrades

Support the REGIONAL teams:

- Knowledge transfer: Best practices to be circulated to the city teams so that there is an effective learning loop

- Weekly check-ins to ensure that the funding cycle is being rigorously followed at the city level

- Support queries on day-to-day operations, Salesforce (our online cloud based data management system)

Process and Operations:

- Ensure that the team sticks to processes including keeping all proposals and documents up to date on the team site

- Use CRM to record all donor engagement and leads

Reporting:

- Work with the Finance team to ensure all reports are sent to donors in a complete and timely fashion

Work with multiple stakeholders:

- Work with the Communications team to ensure all marketing collateral are up to date and effective

- Work with the other teams to ensure that the YOUR team is abreast of the latest updates that could be relevant to development conversations

- Your team has a great culture of openness and collaboration. The Managers role will also be to maintain that culture.

Additional Responsibilities :

- Vendor management in terms of prints/ other technical requirements in terms of design

- To provide support to the larger Communications team during events and campaigns

Knowledge and Technical Skills :

- Proficient user of the MS Office toolkit

Competencies and Abilities :

- Communication and relationship-building skills

- Entrepreneurial attitude, working independently while also being a team player

- Ability to source new leads through research, take initiative and ownership to pursue them

- Strong organizational skills, project management and must pay attention to detail

- Commitment to excellence and accuracy, with an ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment

- Strong time management skills and the ability to remain flexible in order to accommodate multiple projects simultaneously, with tight deadlines

- Strong work ethic

Education and Experience:

- 3-5 years of relevant work experience in client-facing roles

- Sectoral exposure to corporates/ foundations / worked with HNIs with experience with fundraising preferred

- Graduate/Post graduate