Job Opportunity for Manager – Partnership & Advocacy at Sampark Foundation in Noida

This profile is a newly created role within our small, highly efficient and result-driven core team. The role requires working in close collaboration with all our internal and external stakeholders. The successful candidate will be dedicated to supporting our Partnership & Advocacy team and will be playing a very active role in the strategic development process.
The right fit is with a person who is a go-getter. If you can display initiative and have high productivity values, you are reading the right vacancy notice.

About the position

This role will be responsible for executing the Partnership Management and Advocacy Strategy for Sampark Foundation, including:

OVERALL:

• Building brand visibility amongst stakeholders for the Foundation with the creative use of all external and internal channels of communication.
• Assist Senior Management & leadership with strategic planning for advocacy based on the objective of the organization.
• Design and execute deep engagement strategy with key relationships to ensure meaningful partnerships.
• Work with the internal team to conceptualize the strategy, working papers along with goals and budgets for the financial year. 

Partnership Management

• Researching on various grants and drafting applications for grant funding
• Managing the administration of grants
• Additional ad-hoc responsibilities based on the requirement which will mainly be related to
• Marketing Communication, partnership building, and advocacy need of the Foundation
• Managing Events and webinars of the foundation
• Managing Retail fundraising
• Provide input into annual strategic planning, budget process and related activities
• Developing our corporate database: researching existing and potential corporates, identifying donor profiles in order to keep our fundraising strategy relevant
• Proposal writing & timely submission of all donor reports
• Managing donor meetings

Advocacy Strategy

• Represent Sampark in Government meetings at the National and State levels
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to generate reports/whitepapers/position papers/ PPTs as required
• Hold the responsibility of agenda-setting for monthly state-level meetings with senior officials and provide support to state teams on building collaterals
• Accountable to report on all advocacy initiatives
• Any other as required

Essential Skills for the position

The successful applicant will have the following qualities/experience:

• At least 5-8 years experience within a high-profile, demanding professional environment
• Excellent interpersonal and administrative skills
• Highly organized, efficient and a problem solver
• Facility with standard office technology and platforms
• Excellent English (written & spoken), with a clear, persuasive writing style
• Excellent time and task management skills
• The ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, to deadlines
• Willingness and ability to work flexible hours as necessary
• A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Marketing or related areas. 

About Sampark Foundation: Impact & Scale

The Unsolved Problem

In India, Government-led Primary School Education System is suffering from a myriad of issues and the poor learning outcomes for our 144 million children who attend these 740K schools is alarming. Third-party research and our own baseline assessments show that most children even in grade 5 can’t add/subtract or construct simple sentences in their local language.

Despite the doubling of investment in education by the government over the last decade, the learning outcomes continues to show an alarming negative trend thus an urgent need for a new innovative approach to transforming outcomes at scale.

$1 Innovation

Sampark Foundation was founded by Anupama Nayar and Vineet Nayar (Former Vice Chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies and Author of Employees First Customer Second) with a belief that “frugal innovation” along with relentless execution in partnership with the government can drive large scale change in learning outcomes. This thought led our founders to give up whatever they were doing in 2013 and dedicate their lives to lead this change.

Design thinking with a focus on innovation in classroom transactions gave birth to Sampark Smart ShalaTM  which is a learning outcome focused initiative that uses a sound box with a voice mascot called “Sampark Didi” along with music and songs to teach English using  LSRW and whole language approach, Innovatively designed TLMs to teach Math from concrete to abstract, BOT enabled mobile App for teachers that works without internet and multimedia fun workbooks with QR codes for children at less than $1 per child per annum.

The 1 Crore impact

Our journey of learning by working with 84,000 rural schools, 1 crore children in 6 states (Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal and Uttarakhand) is just that – a learning journey – because problems at scale can only be solved with patience, perseverance and lots of passion. Today we train 500,000 teachers each year at the block level and they are our true partners of change and responsible for the encouraging results we have seen through third party assessment.

To Apply:

• Share your Bio at hr@samparkfoundation.org with Subject- Application for Manager Partnership & Advocacy.
• “Why you want to join Sampark Foundation and what you would gain from it” in 100 words.
• “5 reasons you are suited for this role. ”in 100 words. 

Sampark Foundation

A – 176, Sector 40, Noida – 201301.

Website: www.samparkfoundation.org