Website Centum Foundation

About the Organization

Centum Foundation is a society registered under the ‘Societies Registration Act, 1860’ and is engaged in delivering CSR projects across India. As a CSR arm of Centum Learning Ltd. (upGrad group company).

Centum Foundation carries out social activities of national importance including Skills & Employability, Livelihood, Education, Environment, Rural Development & Assessment Studies. Centum has impacted 90,000+ lives through its 70+ CSR projects. The foundation is in the phase of accelerated growth and looking for team members who could be a part this journey.

Job Responsibilities

Business Development (80% of the time) –

Write business proposals/presentation esp. along the areas of livelihood & entrepreneurship. This will be the core work
Assist in developing sector specific solution
Build and manage relationships with social sector clients – CSR, philanthropic organization, international agencies. Ensure upselling and cross selling
End to end BD & project execution cycle – lead generation to closure

Networking, partnership and collaboration

Work in coordination with other business verticals and key functions – Finance, HR, Admin, IT etc.

Project Management (20% of the time) –

Overall managing the execution for 1 or 2 projects
Maintaining and preparing proper reports to be shared with internal & external stakeholders.
Ensure timely & quality implementation of projects. Focus on adding value
Guide team members towards work execution and pitch-in wherever required
Address operation/implementation related bottleneck/challenge
Managing Internal Audits for Process, Product & System to ensure process compliance.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

Minimum 5 years in social sector & related field with a minimum of 2 years in consulting/fund raising/business development
Should have MBA/Post Graduate/Graduate from reputed institute/top institute
Experience or ability towards Lead generation to closure.
Excellent communication (speaking and writing) skills in English. Reading & speaking ability in Hindi
Experience of preparing/writing winning proposals for CSRs/government tenders/multilateral development agencies.
Target oriented with proven track record of achieving business/fund raising targets
Networking, partnership and collaboration skills with proven ability of having strategic partnership/s.
Should be proficient in using Microsoft Office especially excel, power-point
Good connects in the social sector esp. with the CSR, philanthropic organizations, institutional donors, aggregators etc.

Other Attributes (Desirable)

Leadership skills with ability to establish short & long term goals for the business vertical
Have led a team of professional. Team building skills with proven ability of nurturing & mentoring teams in the past.
Dealing with complexity and ability to lay down clear road maps on the current operation and growth of the vertical
Ability to build in best practices and innovative approach in work stream
Functional/technical knowledge – Livelihood (farm & non-farm based), entrepreneurship. Project
Designing (participatory planning process, LFA, RBM, Theory of Change)
Understanding of funding pattern and trend in the industry

To apply for this job please visit www.centumlearning.com.