About ISDM

ISDM is an institution founded to create, strengthen and establish Development Management, a domain that transcends the exclusive silos of ‘development perspectives’ and ‘management principles’. ISDM recognises the need to ‘professionalise’ the Leading and Managing of Social Purpose Organisations (SPOs). The institution sees the development space as requiring the application of management disciplines that are unique and tailored to the scale of the sector. Management that doesn’t merely retrofit Business Management to development projects, but one that is born specifically from the coming together of the two crucial domains.

By 2025, ISDM aims to become the go-to management institute for top professionals wanting to transform the development sector for a greater impact on people’s lives. In order to achieve this aim, ISDM has identified three broad focus areas

Continuously building the one-year-long Post-Graduate Program in Development Management (PGP-DM);
Creating a strong research function that will lay the foundations for Development Management and leadership as a unique domain and discipline;
Launching Strategic Capacity Building Programs aimed at influencing and up skilling middle to senior leaders in the social sector through special workshops, short-term courses, and customized convening.

ISDM has audacious ambitions to build a world-class institution, become a global fountainhead of development management knowledge, and define the domain of development management for the Social Sectors. The belief is that Management for the Social Sectors (or Development Management) will significantly scale up the positive impacts on the lives of people in sustained ways. ISDM is entering a new phase of growth with a revamped program and renewed focus on establishing itself firmly as a preeminent institution in its domain. This requires strategic and energetic institutional leadership.

Job Description

The Senior Associate, Donor Outreach and Engagement should be a self-driven professional with strong analytic, research, and presentation skills. Should understand current fundraising trends, techniques and challenges and have highly developed communication and influencing skills. The Senior Associate / Manager will be working closely with the Leadership team at ISDM to help build a diverse and sustainable funding base to support the organisations ambitious vision. In addition to helping out on Donor Outreach, the person will also be taking end to end responsibility of engaging with current donors, managing their compliances and reporting and driving deep relationships with them.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Undertake strategic research to enable deep market understanding, understand our donor pool, and drive effective decision-making across the fundraising team

• Create and maintain a database of potential fundraising sources and market segments

• Regularly monitor donor websites/social media and identify investor opportunities

• Attend relevant events to build contact with individuals/donors for business development

• Keeping up to date on fundraising/philanthropy best practice and key sector trends

• Donor Relationship and Engagement

• Support and maintain deep relationships with existing donors through preparation and execution of donor engagement and retention plans

• Respond to donor requests and engage them in the organisation’s events, activities

• Track and maintain all donor conversations and engagement in a streamlined format

• Manage all compliances related to current donors, write relevant project reports on a periodic basis, manage audits conducted by donors etc.

• Fundraising – Strategy and Communications

• Write proposals and help prepare relevant collateral (presentations, brochures, videos etc.) for newer funding relationships

• Ensure regular process and outcome reporting within the organisation

Educational Qualifications and Experience Required:

• The candidate should preferably have a Master’s degree in Management, Mass Communication or other relevant programs

• Minimum 2 – 5 years of work experience including at least a year of fundraising for a non-profit organisation is preferred

• Highly motivated individual with an ability to take initiative and work independently

• Ability to provide strategic inputs on fundraising through experience and research

• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation making skills

• Strong attention to detail

• Able to conceptualise proposal and pitches for fundraising

To apply for this job please visit isdm.keka.com.