Job Opportunity for Lead/Sr. Executive, Growth and Partnerships at Education Initiatives in Delhi

Website Education Initiatives

Type: Full time, Permanent

Location: Delhi, Bangalore, anywhere in India

Reports to: Associate Manager, G&P

The Growth and Partnerships team is the revenue-generating arm of the EI Shiksha, a vertical of EI that exclusively works with low-income or government schools. It takes EI’s expertise in assessments, educational research, and technology-based personalised adaptive learning and builds solutions/programs/products contextualised for the B-o-P settings. This is done in collaboration with state governments, international grant makers, corporate foundations, and NGOs. Over the two decades, EI Shiksha has undertaken over 80+ projects with 35+ clients

(16+languages, 40+ detailed studies published) across geographies, socio-linguistic backgrounds in India and abroad, for more than 10 million students across different grades.

Role-Responsibilities:

  • Raising philanthropic funding from international foundations, grant-making institutions and
    bilateral/multilateral aid agencies (for e.g., USAID, UKAid, UNICEF, WorldBank)
  • Making winning applications to government tenders for large scale assessments, capacity building and learning software
  • Raising funds from Indian organisations’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) allocation and engaging with them to co-create projects

Education:

  • Graduate/Postgraduate in communications/marketing/literature/journalism or equivalent

Key Skills:

  • Interest in and understanding of India’s education landscape
  • Excellent English oral and written communications skills
  • Ability to visualise and write concise and comprehensible content
  • The ability to learn fast, and grasp Educational Initiatives’ model and business
  • The ability to work collaboratively in teams and independently as a self-starter
  • Being detail-oriented, with strong analytical and critical-thinking skills

Experience:

  • Freshers with a relevant degree and internship experience; or 1 years of experience in communications/ marketing/PR with significant writing experience
  • Preferred: Work/fellowship experience in the education/development sector

Compensation:

Remuneration will be competitive with Indian development sector pay scales and will depend upon the candidate’s skills and experience levels.

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