Senior Lead - Fundraising

Position Name: Senior Lead - Fundraising
Location: Chembur - Ghatla Village

About The Role

The Fundraising lead will be a passionate and collaborative communicator who will be responsible for advancing the organization's vision by ensuring donors & other stakeholders feel connected to the organizations mission and are inspired to join, invest, and engage in the movement. The Fundraising lead will build the organizations narrative through content creation, targeted outreach to key audiences, and use of analytics to inform strategic communications and fundraising efforts. The Lead will identify a diversified range of funding sources to ensure long-term income sustainability, including governmental, corporate and private foundations grants. Manage fundraising databases and organize and implement special events. Along with this, identifying possible income generating opportunities and implementing the same in consultation with the CEO.

Responsibilities

The Fundraising Lead will report directly to the CEO.

Fundraising:

• Managing and raising the annual budget.
• Building the impact narrative along with the COO.
• Creating a funding model for the organization based on the current funding landscape.
• Serve as the primary relationship manager for long-term and high-potential donors (CSR, Foundations, and Individuals)
• Develop a renewal strategy grounded in a deep understanding of the interests and priorities of existing funders as well as of the interests and priorities of the organisation.
• Articulate the need and challenges of the organisation authentically to donors to build partnerships that will further the mission of the organisation.
• Undertake independent research in finding suitable donors, assessing donor alignment and reaching out to potential donors, following up on leads and arranging for meetings, presentations etc.
• Lead the design of funding collaterals.
• Lead fundraising campaigns & events for the organisation.
• Raising awareness about the organizations vision at CSR events and any other fundraising summits.
• Conduct research and apply for grants and awards for the organization

Marketing:

• Lead the design and execution of communication strategy & vision.
• Develop and manage effective marketing strategies that build brand awareness and are aligned with the needs of the donors.
• Lead & oversee the creation of marketing and communications collateral to ensure that it is consistent with the organization's brand, including white papers, website copy, and more.
• Lead & oversee the creation of informative and interesting press releases, newsletters, and other related marketing materials
• Determine & oversee the execution of strategic communications campaigns across all social media platforms that will help further organizational goals.
• Develop and oversee the implementation of systems to update website content and design across all communication areas.
• Develop marketing and social media strategies, using social media data and analytics to make key-decisions.
• Represent the organization at events and press conferences like CSR events & Educational summits.
• Lead efforts to continue sharpening social media presence as a way to engage stakeholders, build momentum and share success stories.
• Hire & supervise the Fundraising and Marketing Partner.
• Work the Finance team, to ensure quality control in all donor-related systems and processes of budgeting, Finance, and due diligence

Other than the above responsibilities, staff members are expected to pitch in wherever needed to further the organizations vision & mission.

Experience:

• 10 + years of work experience (minimum) in the development sector.

• 5 years should have been spent in an operations leadership role.
• (Preferred) master's degree in a relevant discipline.

Competencies and Skills:

• Ability to nurture and strengthen relationships at all levels.
• Maintain the team culture of openness and collaboration. Inspire and motivate the team as a strong team leader
• Program and Tool designing skills in the context of Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Data analysis, reporting and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication - written and verbal, in both English & Hindi.
• Ability to understand the pulse of the ecosystem and make well informed decisions.
• Ability to inspire confidence and create trust in the team & across all stakeholders.
• Analytical abilities and Problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of a wide range of media outlets, including print and digital and the ability to create a pitch and engage actively with media for generating coverage on important issues and topics.
• Commitment to excellence, accuracy, attention to details