About the Rebuild Team:

The Rebuild India Fund aims to support the most vulnerable communities across India, and the NGOs that work with them, by giving them the power to serve meaningfully, and the flexibility to run their organizations as they see fit. We will do this by funding 100 locally led, community rooted NGOs every year with 5 -year unrestricted grants, backed by need-based multi-year capacity building support. The fund is working with NGOs, philanthropists, and sector intermediaries to bring to the fore voices of leaders from the community and shift power dynamics in grant-making, keeping in mind the principles of Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. With Year 1 of the fund having made commitments of over 10M USD to 150+ NGOs for COVID relief, we are excited to move into this new and unique chapter of our work and build the team who will enable this. We are at a stage where we are looking for driven, passionate and empathetic individuals who are committed to supporting locally led, small, community rooted NGOs across India, are excited by the thought of creating a path-breaking movement towards challenging the status quo, and have a burning desire to see an equitable India.

About the role:

We are looking for a full-time Team Lead to support in driving Dasra’s Thought Leadership efforts for the Rebuild India Fund. S/he/they/them will be directly involved in the conceptualisation, designing, writing and overall management of thought leadership documents for mainstream media and primary research-based insights and research documents. Ability to collaborate and aggregate information across work streams, an interest and ability to conduct field surveys and primary research, under the guidance of a Manage. The candidate will also work with external stakeholders to further the fund’s campaign and thought leadership goals. • Program implementation: Support in delivering thought leadership deliverables aligned with Rebuild India Fund’s goals and objectives. Curate thought leadership content, build nationally and globally relevant narratives based on direct insights from a diverse portfolio of NGOs and vulnerable communities across India, manage content and messaging for communication platforms on social media, and contribute towards creating content for insights, reports, print, videos and the website. • Research: Conduct secondary research to strategically position the Rebuild India Fund. Metaanalysis of various dashboards with quantitative and qualitative insights for articles and other collateral as per Rebuild campaign/narrative needs. • Stakeholder Management: Maintain active liaison with all key Communications stakeholders particularly NGOs, media, sector experts and internal stakeholders • Project Management Support: Support with creating project reports and proposals as well as monitor budgets and grants with both internal and external stakeholders including vendor management.

Requirements:

• Post- Graduate with 6-8 years of work experience in the advisory, research & analytics,

• Written & Communication skills: Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as the ability to develop concise and effective communications tailored to specific audiences

• Project Management: Plans and achieves project deliverables within set deadline, attention to detail, effectively manages own time and identifies conflicts/roadblocks with minimalsupport and guidance.

• Research & Data Analytics: Frames sharp research questions, collects relevant and accurate information/data from credible sources, ability to nuance narratives from a civil society and grant agency perspective with an understanding of national and global contexts

• Relationship Management: Understands expectations of internal and external stakeholders and works to develop relationships towards a single goal/ project/ deliverable.

• Advanced knowledge about the social development sector and or philanthropy, published articles in mainstream media, assessment reports and insights documents including perception surveys, evaluation studies, understanding of participatory research methods.

• Strong and demonstrated skills in using Microsoft Office

• Passion and knowledge of the development sector and the experience working with vulnerable communities in rural and/or urban contexts is a must Think you have what it takes but not sure you check every box?

Apply to the role anyway. We’d love the opportunity to determine whether you could be a great fit.

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