Location: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai or Pune, 7+ days of outstation travel in a month
Nature of Role: Full time, Mon-Sat with 1-2 hours on Sundays. Availability based on people's available times is important, and may need to do work calls late in the evenings. Please read the first few paras here to understand our work culture properly. All our roles are "work from home" roles.
Job Description:
A key initiative of India Welfare Trust is our #EveryIndianVolunteering effort. Read about it here. Also read this blog on why volunteering matters, this one on how to be effective and efficient in volunteering, and this one on where we are in our efforts and where we want to go.
To help drive this work, as well as to support our other initiatives, we're looking for a Head of Strategic Initiatives, based out of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai or Pune.
The primary role of this person is to bring strategic capabilities to help scale up all our initiatives. In particular, this person will
- Work with the "funder ecosystem" to get them to create a separate vertical to fund/support "volunteer driven initiatives", and/or to consider such initiatives for support across their other verticals, based on demonstrated impact. [Note this is NOT fundraising, as IWT doesn't seek external funding].
- Build partnerships with top University and Institute faculty across India to encourage and initiate research on volunteering and its impact on volunteer behaviour, the beneficiaries they serve and on society at large
- Network with global thought leaders in volunteering to build new knowledge and upgrade the visibility and profile of "volunteering" as a cause.
- Build partnerships with Governments, autonomous govt bodies (UGC, CBSE, ICSE, MCA), industry associations to scale up volunteering initiatives, and help Governments set up "volunteering cells"
- Build large scale volunteer partnerships with media houses, brands, platforms to unlock the full potential of volunteering in India
- Support and monitor the 15-odd grantees that we support with approx Rs3-4cr in annual grants, analyze their performance, help them improve and build capacity.
- Create economic and social cost-benefit models around volunteering.
- Help other initiatives we support be more strategic in their work.
Competencies required
- Proven strategic thinking and quantitative skills, ability to think through value propositions, design pitch decks
- Thrives on building and deepening relationships.
- Mature professional, with at least 8-10 years' prior work experience and significant exposure to engaging with external stakeholders (clients, partners, investors, etc.- anyone other than vendors and internal employees).
- MBA from a leading institution is a strong preference but not essential.
- High energy levels
Compensation: Slightly better than many nonprofit salaries, significantly discounted to corporate salaries.
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