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Website Dost Education

About Dost

Dost is an ed-tech nonprofit building a platform to expand access to early childhood development in low-resource settings through parent education. Our mission is to unlock children’s full potential by focusing on early learning – the time when 90% of our brains develop.

We believe that parents of any literacy level can play a critical role in developing their children’s school and life readiness. In India alone, there are 150 million under-resourced caregivers who can benefit from resources developed for them. That’s why our team at Dost Education – educators, entrepreneurs, and engineers – are passionate about using technology and user-centric product design to change the trajectory of families’ lives.

Since 2017, we’ve grown from a small pilot with a few hundred mothers to reaching over 2 lakh families working with state governments and other partners. Join us as we continue to innovate, grow our reach, and deepen our impact. We are supported by some of the best funders in tech and social impact space like Y Combinator, the Mulago Foundation, and many others.

Dost Education values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We’re hiring a Development Manager

Dost is looking for an excellent writer and strategic thinker who loves data-driven storytelling and creating strong, compelling narratives. Are you someone who wordsmiths your emails to make them perfect? Do you take time to think about not just what to say, but how to say it? Are you simple, inspiring, and concise in your communication, ensuring everyone takes away the core message and action items?

If this sounds like you, you may be a great fit to join as Development Manager at Dost. This role reports to the Chief of Staff (CoS) and will support all development initiatives, lead grant writing, and donor management. You’ll work closely with the CEO and across all functions on the team such as finance, program, administrative staff, and communications.

You will be a great fit for this role if you:

Are passionate about a parent’s role in early childhood education and care
Can bring the right dose of process, organization, and structure to achieve your goals
Want to work in an environment with a growth-mindset, where your role and responsibilities can adapt to new challenges and opportunities
Take your work seriously but you don’t mind being silly while doing it

Your role and responsibilities:

Fundraising

Regularly work with the CEO to grow our network of global donors by joining potential and current donor meetings
Represent and advocate for the organization to current and potential funders and external audiences
Identify grant funding opportunities through research, informational meetings, and joining events
Write, submit, and manage grant proposals, including reporting requirements
Collaborate with the communications team to help donors learn about Dost’s work (e.g. donor site visit)
Craft a 1-, 3- and 5- minute verbal pitch to champion the organization and its impact; support all
Dost team members to champion our cause

Strategy

Understand Dost’s history, its annual strategy, and 5-year strategy in detail to help match donor needs with organizational needs
Partner with the M&E team to develop data-driven reports and compelling funding proposals
Collaborate with the Communications team to create development-related communication materials such as annual reports, donor brochures, and email updates

Management

Partner with Finance to establish and implement record-keeping procedures for data monitoring and ensure additional “checks and balances” are in place to capture, monitor, and analyze fundraising results and ensure a timely and accurate acknowledgment process
Maintain monthly fundraising-related updates to the Core Leadership team and quarterly updates to the full team

Your skills