Assistant Manager Fundraising, Mumbai

Role: Assistant Manager Fundraising, Mumbai
Experience: 3+ years
Salary: 8-11 LPA
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Responsibilities: The role includes the following KRAs (key result areas):

A. Donor Engagement,Relationship Management & Renewals

• Support and gradually directly manage institutional funding partnerships
• Manage routine reporting + regular donor comms, volunteering, donor field visits, audits
• Implement efficient systems to ensure funding partnerships meet full potential i.e. engagement, volunteering + funding opportunities round the year
• Keep up to date on Plans (MoUs) i.e. program progress, utilization of funds, allocations and alignment of donor partners on reallocations if needed with apt logical reasoning and analysis
• Be responsible for maintaining and grow these funding relationships year on year (renewals), project after project or alongside and multi-year commitments

B. Internal Stakeholder Management

• Work with the Manager + internal teams: Program Heads / Geography Heads and their teams, Finance, Monitoring & Evaluation to ensure effective donor communication
• Work with implementation teams on budgets and costing structure changes for donors
• Support Communications team with information + external comms requirements for social media posts, donor-specific campaigns, donor events etc.

C. Knowledge Mgt. & Process Improvement

• Maintain & update trackers for funding and records for MOUs, Proposals and databases
• Ensure reporting to donors is accurate, transparent and timely
• Ability to understand and analyse costs / budgets and question program spends proposed for funding

Experience and Qualifications: Prefer candidates who possess the following:

Total work experience:

• 3+ years -graduates / post graduates, preferably in similar fields.
• Experience in grant management, donor engagement, key account management,
• Program or Donor Engagement experience in the social development space (Corporate Foundations, NGOs / Not for Profit / Social Implementation Partners)
• OR - Corporate experience in hospitality/media/ BFSI / KPO in a BD /sales / relationship mgt. role
• Skilled in data analytics and consulting
• Exposure to MS Office (Excel, Word, PPT) and basic number crunching would be of value

Personal Qualities: In all aspects of this role the following are essential:

• Interest in social dev. and engaging people on ideas High energy, positive person with passion to make a difference in lives
• High motivation and ability to work independently on agreed goals and targets
• Solution oriented, solid planning, time management and organisational abilities
• Able to work under pressure, meeting key project and reporting deadlines
• Adaptable and flexible to changing circumstances and needs of the role
• Ability to also work effectively as part of a small close knit team
• Actively take part and show ownership of the overall project/ program / activities of the organization from time to time
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; good writing skills
• Commitment to good work ethics, professional approach & confidentiality

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Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on July 9, 2025 on GroundZeroJobs.Org