Website Azim Premji Foundation
About The Role
Under the ‘Elderly Poor’ theme, we aim to support organisations that provide basic community-based interventions for the elderly and enable them to lead dignified lives. The interventions we support include daycare shelters (short – and long-term), access to healthcare, provisions of comprehensive geriatric care, palliative care, access to social security benefits/entitlements, community awareness programmes, and legal aid.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and effective knowledge management within the team to ensure smooth program delivery
- Manage the disbursal of large and high-impact grants within the organisation in an individual capacity
- Supplement the research and development of frameworks, models, and theories around the operating area
- Ensure compliance with specific grant proposals to ensure that it meets the organisation’s guidelines and requirements, and are a well drafted request, complete in all aspects
- Review all completed proposals to ensure that required information has been provided. Ensure that the story of the grantee organisation comes through clearly.
- Lead the efforts on the due diligence process and partner engagement
- Help the partner develop results frameworks and ensure that the thinking around the results framework is in keeping with the operating plan
- Post approval, provide leadership to working with the finance team and the grantees to ensure that the financial resources reach them in time
- Ensure compliance with the grant making system through the entire lifecycle of a grant
- Initiate relationships with think tanks and civil society organisations in order to further the organisation’s understanding of an area
What We Are Looking For
- Candidates who have a good understanding of the issues of the elderly in urban and rural areas
- Experience in organisations that provide support to the elderly from low-income communities
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree desirable
- High level of self-motivation, initiative, and creativity
- Willingness to travel extensively for work
- Substantial knowledge of organisational and project management
- Ability to work with minimal supervision, and solve problems independently or collaboratively a needed
To apply for this job please visit careers.azimpremjifoundation.org.
