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At Alohomora, we believe every young person should have the opportunity to know a diversity of careers and make a choice aligned to their strengths and interests. Career exploration and support should not be limited to privileged few. This role is critical to take our vision to lakhs of young people across India in the next few years.
This role is for you if you are a:
– People’s person – Loves building and maintaining relationships with others.
– Master communicator – Excellent listening, written & verbal communication skills and ability to create compelling presentations and reports
– Bias for action – Someone who gets his/her energy from achieving results and closing tasks, someone who can make persistent efforts
– Strategic lens – someone who can draw insights from publicly available information about companies and their financials to identify right funding partners and build a case for working together.
Note: Based on your skills and experience, this role may have different levels- from Sr. Associate, to Lead. We encourage you to apply if you’re excited about our mission and fundraising for it even if your compensation expectations are different from what we have shared. You will be working directly with our co-founders in this role.
About us: Alohomora Education Foundation has made it its mission to enable young people from underserved communities to make interest and strength aligned career choices. Our flagship product CareerShala.co has content with 100+ sector professionals and takes students through a 5 step career-decision making process. We plan to facilitate Career Shala with 10,000 students across India directly and take it to 10L+ students through strategic partnerships.
We support the design and implementation of Delhi Government’s Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum and are leading the design of Desh ke Mentor initiative as well taking our learning and philosophy to 7+ lakh students across 1024 schools of Delhi government. Our idea was recognized by World Bank Youth Summit 2016 as top 6 ideas globally for Rethinking Education. We have also been part of incubation programs like N/Core Tech, TFIx, Unltd India and are poised to scale rapidly.
About the role: We strongly believe that fundraising is the engine of our growth and impact that we generate. Our donors and funding partners and key stakeholders in our organisation and it’s our responsibility to keep them authentically updated about our progress, challenges and transparency on utilization of funds.
This role is central to our growth and you would be working directly with the founders to strategize and execute our fundraising efforts. You will also need to engage with them regularly to keep them informed and invested in our mission.
The opportunity – What’s in it for you?
– Be a part of an audacious vision and opportunity to grow as we sprint towards our mission
– Lead the fundraising vertical at Alohomora Education Foundation as we formalize our fundraising efforts with a cohesive strategy across channels
– Work directly with founders and be a part of strategy conversations while engaging with key advisors and mentors in Alohomora’s extended network
Broad Areas of Responsibility:
1) Research and Lead generation:
– Identify and cultivate new ideal prospects through research strategies and connections
– Meaningfully engage with program teams and also build a deep understanding of finance, budgets and cash flows
– Ability to engage with donors to listen & understand their needs and tweak our communication to highlight our mutual fit
2) Funder partnership management
– Meet and present the impact of our programs to prospective funders to convince and build relationships and funding pipelines
– Keep our funders updates through quarterly reports and update meetings and support renewal efforts
– Plan and meaningfully engage partners with our work and get them to experience the impact we are creating
3) Design and execute fundraising campaigns
– Coordinate and manage our yearly crowdsourcing campaign
– Min one innovative campaign in collaboration with the comms person (on the lines of Cycling challenge)
Scope for senior level role:
1) Fundraising strategy:
– Putting together a well researched fundraising strategy as per the needs of the organization
– Document learnings through successes and failures to build institutional knowledge and continuously improve our fundraising efforts
2) Grant applications and Proposals:
– Prepare grant proposals and applications that contextualize our work to specific audiences
– Creating collaterals, reporting formats and structures to effectively communicate our work.
Education/Skills/Mindsets:
1. Graduate (in any stream) with at least 2 years of full time experience OR post graduation in relevant fields
2. Demonstrated excellence in a role that requires fundraising, report/proposal writing, partnership building and/or relationship management.
3. Excited to work in the social sector and create lasting impact
4. Willing to commit at-least 2 years to build the fundraising engine at Alohomora
5. Willingness to engage in a wide range of activities including but not limited to research, short pitches, presentations, documentation, update calls etc.
6. Ability to maintain positive energy in face of delay, rejections and rigorous follow ups
7. Ability to communicate effectively within larger Alohomora team to involve everyone in our fundraising efforts
Location: Delhi
Compensation Range: Rs 4.2-7 L/ pa. based on prior relevant experience. Candidates with higher experience and compensation expectations are encouraged to apply as well.
To Apply: Submit your expression of interest below. We will respond to you over email if we find a potential fit for our role with details of next steps in our process. For any questions please reach out to divakar@alohomora.org.
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