Dasra
**Job Title:** Associate for Gender Equity Practice
**Location:** Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
**Experience Required:** 3 years – 5 years
**About Dasra:**
Dasra’s bold aspiration is a transformed India where a billion thrive with dignity and equity. Established in 1999, Dasra is India’s leading strategic philanthropy foundation, working with philanthropists and high-impact social entrepreneurs to bring together knowledge, funding, and talent as a catalyst for social change.
Dasra nurtures strategic philanthropy for India and focuses on impactful programs such as empowering adolescent girls, urban sanitation, inclusive economies, and child protection and care. With 21 years of experience in the sector, Dasra has worked with over 1,000 non-profits and brought $100 million in funding to organizations.
Dasra embraces diversity across people and communities through multiplicity in composition integrated with structures, culture, and policies, enhancing inclusion and belonging for all in letter and spirit. The organization envisions a team that includes people across caste, religion, gender, economic status, geography, disability, and other underrepresented communities, supported by organizational structures that enable collective, transparent, and fair decision-making guided by policies that facilitate growth and authenticity within an environment of openness and listening.
**Key Responsibilities:**
– **Research and Documentation:** Conduct secondary research on a variety of topics, particularly related to gender equity; support landscaping of organizations in the sector and gather insights on emerging trends and developments; assist in drafting notes, memos, briefs, and summaries based on research and discussions.
– **Coordination and Project Support:** Support the team and leadership in coordinating across tasks, workstreams, and stakeholders to ensure smooth execution of projects; coordinate with internal teams to monitor and ensure timely completion of deliverables as per project plans; assist in organizing and facilitating meetings, workshops, webinars, and events; take detailed notes during meetings and prepare concise summaries, highlighting key takeaways and action items.
– **Relationship Management and Reporting:** Support the team in managing key donor and partner relationships, including maintaining documentation and contributing to reporting efforts.
– **Project Execution:** Contribute to various parts of a project or assignment, which may involve single or multiple projects at a time; provide operational and logistical support as needed for successful project delivery.
– **Sector Knowledge:** Stay abreast of developments and trends in the development sector, with a focus on gender equity and related themes.
**Skillsets Required:**
– Dynamic, highly energetic with proven time management skills and the ability to work without a high level of supervision; ideal for self-starters.
– Graduate with 3-5 years of work experience in either development space, advisory, research & analytics, business processes, operations, etc.
– Written & Communication Skills: Summarize key points and learnings comprehensively, leverage appropriate communication aids, and write and communicate in a clear, concise manner with a strong stakeholder lens; ability to draft compelling narratives through reports, proposals, decks, and verbal presentations; ability to ‘read the room’ and gauge how audiences are responding to adjust communication.
– Presentation Skills: Make PowerPoint presentations using tools like Canva.
– Project Management Support: Plan for and achieve project deliverables within deadlines, effectively manage own time, and identify conflicts/roadblocks with support and guidance.
– Research & Data Analytics Support: Collect relevant and accurate information/data from credible sources, synthesize key insights.
– Fundraising Support: Effectively support senior team members in preparing documentation, communicating, and preparing for funder requirements.
– Stakeholder Management Support: Understand the expectations of internal and external stakeholders and work to develop relationships toward a single goal/project/deliverable.
– Strong computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
– Practices attentive and active listening and can accurately restate the opinions of others.
– Ability to work with great agility in an environment with ambiguity.
**Passion for the development sector and the communities we serve is a must.**
To apply for this job please visit dasra.darwinbox.in.
