Appian Developer

Job Description — Grant Proposal Writer / Grants Manager

Location: New Delhi (hybrid) | Remote-friendly within India

Employment Type: Full-time (12-month probation; long-term extension based on performance). Contract/consulting arrangements may be considered.

Reports to: CEO (Co-founder)

Start date: ASAP

Role summary

You will lead end-to-end grant fundraising and stewardship across government schemes, CSR programs, foundations, and international donors. The role blends technical comprehension of water/environmental technologies with proven grant writing, budgeting, and post-award management. You will translate lab and pilot evidence into donor-grade narratives, build partnerships, and ensure compliant delivery of funded projects.

Key responsibilities

Opportunity identification:

1. Maintain an active pipeline of relevant funding opportunities (central/state schemes, Jal Jeevan Mission, CSR portals, multilateral donors, foundations, and corporate CSR calls).
2. Assess fit, prioritize opportunities, prepare opportunity briefs and submission timelines.

Proposal development:

1. Lead drafting, editing and submission of concept notes, full proposals, technical annexes, budgets, log frames, M&E frameworks and compliance attachments.
2. Convert technical data (lab results, pilot metrics) into clear problem–solution–impact narratives tailored to each donor.
3. Prepare robust budgets, cost justifications, procurement plans, risk registers and milestone schedules aligned with organizational capacity.

Post-award management:

1. Lead grant acceptance, set up project accounts, draft implementation plans and ensure timely delivery, financial reporting and audit readiness.
2. Manage donor communications, site visits, progress and final reporting.

Capacity building & institutionalization:

1. Build a grants playbook (template proposals, budgets, boilerplate language, checklists).
2. Train staff on donor processes and documentation.

Additional duties (as requested)

1. Conduct small technical or field studies relevant to our work—e.g., measuring emissions reduction, health impacts, and market positioning—and synthesize results for proposals and reports.
2. Proactively apply for grants and funding opportunities that accelerate product development, pilots and market entry.
3. Represent and present DetoXyFi’s work to government and non-government stakeholders, including ULBs, CSR teams and international donors.

Required qualifications & experience

1. Education: Bachelor’s or master’s in environmental engineering, Environmental Science, Water Resources, Public Policy, Development Studies or related field. Technical degree strongly preferred.
2. Experience: Minimum 1 year of professional experience writing and managing grants for tech/science/NGO/enterprise projects. Proven track record of winning at least one grant (government, CSR, foundation or multilateral).
3. Technical skills: Comfortable interpreting technical reports (lab/pilot data) and converting them into donor-grade writing. Strong budgeting skills, including line-item budgets and indirect cost calculations.
4. Communication: Exceptional English writing and editing ability; strong presentation skills.
5. Tools: Proficient in MS Office / Google Workspace; familiarity with grants databases and project management tools is a plus.

Preferred (nice-to-have)

1. Prior experience in water-technology startups, environmental engineering or public health projects.

Application requirements

Please submit:

1. CV
2. Cover letter describing at least one successful grant you authored and how will you conduct small studies relevant to our work in providing clean drinking water and measuring across emissions reduction, health impact, market position.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

Procurement Management

• Oversee and manage the procurement of raw materials and packaging materials for cosmetic production.
• Identify, evaluate, and establish strong relationships with new and existing suppliers.
• Negotiate contracts, pricing, and terms to ensure cost-effectiveness without compromising quality.
• Ensure timely delivery of materials to maintain seamless production schedules.
• Conduct market research and attend trade fairs/exhibitions across India to source innovative products and stay updated on industry trends.

Production Coordination

• Collaborate with production teams to ensure availability of materials for efficient manufacturing.
• Develop and implement production schedules, optimizing processes to enhance efficiency and minimize waste.
• Coordinate with supply chain and logistics to ensure smooth material flow and inventory management.

Research and Development Support

• Work with the R&D team to identify and procure suitable raw materials for new product formulations.
• Stay updated on emerging trends in cosmetics and skincare to support innovation and development.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure that procured materials meet regulatory and company quality standards.
• Work closely with the quality control team to address any quality issues and implement corrective actions.

Budgeting and Cost Management

• Perform cost-benefit analyses to optimize spending and secure the best value.
• Conduct forecasting and variance analysis to align procurement with financial goals.
• Review and approve expenses related to procurement, ensuring adherence to budgetary constraints.

Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including production, quality assurance, and supply chain, to meet organizational goals.
• Actively participate in team meetings, contributing insights and recommendations for improvement.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Cosmetology, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 3-4 years in procurement in the cosmetics, beauty, or skincare industry.
• Strong knowledge of raw material and packaging material procurement.
• Proficiency in production scheduling, market research, and supplier negotiations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective vendor and team collaboration.
• Detail-oriented, with strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and industry standards in cosmetics production is an advantage.

What We’re Looking For

• Hands-on experience in keyword research, competitor analysis and content gap identification

• Strong understanding of on-page SEO: meta tags, schema, internal linking, URL structure and content optimization

• Experience managing technical SEO: site audits, crawling issues, indexing, page speed and mobile optimization

• Ability to plan and execute backlink strategies using safe, high-quality methods

• Familiarity with tools like Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog

• Experience working with blogs, landing pages and long-form content

• Ability to coordinate with writers, developers and designers for SEO requirements

• Proven experience in improving rankings for competitive keywords

• Understanding of local SEO and structured data markup

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, bootstrapped startup environment

• Bonus: Experience with Django or basic HTML/CSS is useful but not mandatory

What You Will Work On

• Improving rankings for keywords like “Top boarding schools in India”, “Best boarding schools”, etc.

• Conducting monthly audits and pushing technical SEO fixes

• Growing EduPowerPro’s organic traffic through structured content planning

• Managing backlink acquisition and partnerships

• Tracking performance and presenting monthly insights

🎬Job Description:

We are seeking a passionate Territory Sales Manager with excellent communication skills and a deep understanding of agricultural products. You will manage the entire territory and build relationships from the ground up with farmers, distributors, and channel partners.

📈Key Responsibilities

● Sales: Drive sales by onboarding farmers, distributors, and channel partners within the territory.

● Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with distributors and channel partners, serving as their primary point of contact for all financial matters.

● Demand Generation: Participate in early morning demand generation meetings.

● Daily Review: Attend night meetings for progress tracking.

● Collections: Manage collections from channel partners.

📃Requirements

● BSc / MSc in Agriculture

● 2 - 4 years of experience in agri-inputs or micro irrigation

● Strong understanding of credit periods, channel margins, dealer and distributor margins, and credit limits

● Experience with direct farmer interactions

● Strong commercial acumen

🤩Benefits

● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

● Becoming a part of the early core team

● Competitive salary

● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors

• 4+ Years of proven work experience as a WordPress developer.
• Good experience in building custom WordPress themes, custom  plugins  and configuring content using custom fields.
• Extensive experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and PHP.
• Experience using CSS Grid, CSS Flexbox 
• Good Communication skills

• Building the website front-end and back-end from scratch without using any page builders. 

• Creating easy to use, intuitive,  well-structured backend for content management.
• Writing SEO friendly, high performant code.
• Configuring  server environments such as LEMP.
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working

Role Description

• Office 365 Migration Specialist
• Position requires prior Office 365 mailbox migration experience, scheduling migration batches and process management.
• Under the general direction of the customer IT/Security/Okta Teams is responsible for assisting in the planning and support of the migration from multiple on-premises Exchange environments & third party provided Mail services into a single Azure-hosted Office 365 environment.
• Candidates must be flexible to work Monday through Friday 

Primary roles and responsibilities

• Hands-on migration/deployment of Exchange 2007/2010/2016 to Office 365 Azure-hosted solution
• Provide Level II/ Level III support for email and messaging systems
• Perform large-scale infrastructure implementations and migrations
• Configure tools for monitoring and use them to proactively identify issues within email & messaging systems
• Deployment of O365 Application (One Drive, SharePoint, Teams) with existing data migration
• Implementation and migration of Exchange Archiving and Journaling.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Develop and train Service Desk and Endpoint Support to resolve level 1 and 1.5 Office 365 issues
• Participate in monthly maintenance windows
• Performs related duties as assigned

 
Experience and educational requirements

• Bachelor’s degree/Any equivalent Post Graduation.

 
Minimum skills, knowledge, and ability requirements

• Hands-on Exchange to O365 migration experience is a must.
• Very Good Knowledge on One Drive, SharePoint
• Integration of O365 with Okta
• Good communication and customer handling skills, candidates need to able to work with minimal supervision.
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, O365.
• Solid understanding of ITIL/ITSM best practices.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Experience with Veritas Enterprise Vault a plus.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Certifications in this field are a plus.

• MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 9+ years (or more) experience shipping quality code
• 4+ years’ experience with leading frontend frameworks like Angular 1 to 8 or ReactJS, etc.
• Experience on Ionic Framework, Cardova
• Experience contributing front-end code to a publicly available, consumer-focused web application.
• Solid experience and understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (vanilla JS and popular libraries like Underscore.js and jQuery)
• Experience with REST-based API