
Job Description
India Leaders for Social Sector (ILSS) is a nonprofit that aims to be India's preeminent leadership development organization for the social sector. We aim to strengthen the social sector through talent infusion and upskilling programs, in order to create catalytic impact at scale.
Overview:
In order to achieve the mission, ILSS has a 2 pronged approach:
- Bringing talent from across sectors into leadership and board positions in the social sector
- Running research-backed skill building programs in key domains for the social sector leaders
- Since 2017, ILSS has run successful programs like:
17 hybrid (in-person and online) Leadership Programs, designed to enable senior leaders from various sectors to make informed transitions into the social sector. The program currently has 350+ Alumni out of which 100+ have already transitioned to the social sector.
- The Fundraising Program with over 200+ Alumni, and growing
- The Board Program for CXOs in the corporate sector to serve as board members for social impact organizations
- The Emerging Women Leaders Program that focuses on catalyzing the impact of women leaders in mid-to-senior level social sector positions.
- Social purpose organization(SPO) Governance program focused on empowering SPO leaders to help them build or strengthen effective boards.
ILSS is aiming to launch 12 new programs in the next 6 years.
Position Summary:
ILSS is looking to hire a Director to lead the Sales & Outreach vertical. The role would be responsible for building relationships within corporates as well as leading social sector organizations and achieving target intake of high quality candidates for various programs.
- Develop and execute strategic plan to achieve targets for trained numbers across programs and expand our customer base
- Sensitize senior corporate leaders about social sector awareness. Position Own and hit/exceed annual targets for all training programs
- Partner with customers (Corporates and Social Sector Organizations) to understand their business needs and objectives
- Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with target organizations
- Effectively communicate the value proposition of ILSS programs through proposals and presentations to the leadership of target organizations (Top CSRs, top 1000 NGOs) and position as their partner of choice for capacity building
We are looking for a committed and collaborative individual, who will work in a highly dynamic environment with a closely-knit, highly motivated and entrepreneurial team. Hence, it is an amazing opportunity for individuals who are passionate about working in the social impact space.
Job Location - Delhi-NCR
Required qualifications, skills and experience
- 15+ years of experience in sales and outreach in a B2B environment, preferably in higher education
- Previous experience as a sales director or in a similar role
- Ability to communicate, present and influence all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level
- Proven ability to drive the sales process from plan to close
- Proven ability to articulate the distinct aspects of products and services
- Proven ability to position products against competitors
- Demonstrable experience as head of sales, developing client-focused, differentiated solutions
- Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong project management skills managing complex, multifaceted projects resulting in measurable successes.
- Experience in building/leading a small team
- MBA in sales or related field
Compensation
Depending on the candidate's experience, ILSS offers compensation that is at par with Indian philanthropy pay scales.

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Our client is a luxury home decor brand. It's nothing less than a revolution in the home decor industry- where technology enables world-class home interior design. We use technology combined with internationally trained designers to help our customers achieve the style they want to express.
Our services include unique technology-driven processes and analytics, consulting, execution and supervision – all within schedule and planned budget, so they can relax and enjoy their space transformation with peace of mind.
We encourage our consumers to explore and discover their own self-expression while amazing their senses with new cultures and design techniques, tasteful decor and ambience.
Responsibilities
• Identify opportunities for new products
• Analyse how a new product ties in with market needs and consumer preferences
• Set design requirements based on briefs from internal teams and clients
• Research materials and techniques
• Sketch drafts on paper or digitally (for example, using CAD)
• Mock-ups and prototyping
• Use 3D modelling software to design products
• Produce prototypes and test functionality
• Improve the design of existing products
• Gather feedback from product users
• Presentation
• Strong knowledge of the industry and market trends
• Provide assistance to product engineers when needed.
• Recommend new tools and technologies by staying abreast of the latest trends and
techniques
• Handy and experienced with all materials in the market.
Desired Candidate Profile:
• 5+ years’ experience as a Product Designer
• Experience in industrial design
• Creativity in mixing up colours, shapes and techniques
• Hands-on experience with computer-aided design tools
• Good knowledge of 3D modelling software
• Time-management skills
• Adaptability
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members
• A well-rounded portfolio of client work, demonstrating a strong understanding of client objectives.
• Passion for design; not satisfied with the status quo and always thinking of ways to improve
• Skilled in making detailed technical working drawing of the product
• Creative problem-solving skills
Qualification:
• Diploma or Degree in Product Designing
Must Know Software:
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• Illustrator
• AutoCAD
• Rhinoceros
• Key shot
• Fusion 360
• 3DMax
• Sketch Up
• MS Office
Penning down a quick read about the organization and the role for your consumption and I request you to send across couple of sample work of yours which will be the first level screening to decide on the next steps of evaluation.
Expectations from the role –
· Designing and building the website front-end.
· Creating the website architecture.
· Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
· Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
· Conducting website performance tests.
· Troubleshooting content issues.
· Monitoring the performance of the live website
· Proven work experience as a WordPress Developer.
· Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery.
· Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, and SVN.
· Experience working with debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug.
· Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.
We are seeking extremely smart programmers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop products by working closely with business team.
- Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components.
- Build performant, scalable, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
- Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
Requirements:
- 2+ years’ experience in software product development and delivery.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
- Expert at Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
- Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus.
- Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
- Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
- Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
- Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.
Experience - 7 to 9 Years
Notice Period - Immediate to 45 Days
Job Description :Agile ExpertiseExperience managing requirements in an agile format from discovery through to delivery in an ongoing successful/sustainable modelExperience as a scrum master & running Agile ceremonies, keeping stakeholders updated wrt to statusCapabilities must include:Definition, importance & role ownership of Ceremonies, Scrum recognized and otherwise. This would encompass, at minimum, Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Demo & Retrospective.Deep understanding of a user story & anatomy therein (Actor, Action Taken, Behavior, Business Value Justification acceptance criteriaBusiness Analysis Capabilities5+ years of business analyst experience performing requirements gathering, elaboration, story creation, acceptance validation etc.3+ years of Hands-on experience with agile tools like Jira or equivalentStrong discovery experienceProcess/Sequence diagrammingPostman and SOAPUI experience is a plusDiverse group facilitation Should be able to drive consensus around variety of Virtusa and Client business/technical leaders/SMEs
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Job Profile:
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- Check page numbers and headings are correct, Spelling and other aspects, such as the use of capital letters, are consistent, Chapter headings match the contents table, Photos and illustrations are correctly captioned
- Check spelling and grammar.
- Reads proof against copy, marking by standardized code, errors that appear in proof.
- Raise appropriate compositor queries.
- Returns marked proof for correction and later checks corrected proof against copy.
- May measure dimensions, spacing, and positioning of page elements to verify conformance to specifications, using printer's ruler.
- Ensures that pages are whole and logically arranged
- He/she should be able to carry out the work mentioned in an independent manner.
- He/she should be able to quality-check the work of his/her team members.
- He/she should plan and monitor the flow of work (based on priorities)
- He/she should be able to provide classroom/on-the-job training to his/her team members and help them overcome their weaknesses.
- He/she should be responsible for his/her team producing an error-free output.
- He/she should check the mail correspondence regarding workflow regularly
EXPERIENCE PROFILE
- Able to perform edit/proofread independently and make the work done by the team members delivery ready
- Postgraduate in any field of science; good command over the English language; an eye for detail; exposure to various style guides; readiness to meet daily/monthly productivity targets; and maintaining the expected quality norms
Desirable
- Good communication skills; team player; problem-solving skills; proactive and innovative

Skills Required:
- Good experience with programming language Python
- Strong understanding and development experience with Golang.
- Strong experience in Docker.
- Good knowledge with any of the Cloud Platform like Azure.
- Must be comfortable working in a Linux environment.
- Must have exposure into IOT domain and its protocols ((Zigbee & BLE ,LoRa,Modbus)
- Must be a good team player.
- Strong Communication Skills
- Serves customers by providing product and service information and resolving product and service problems.
- Attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions and suggesting information about other products and services.
- Opens customer accounts by recording account information.
- Maintains customer records by updating account information.
- Resolves product or service problems by clarifying the customer’s complaint, determining the cause of the problem, selecting and explaining the best solution to solve the problem, expediting correction or adjustment, and following up to ensure resolution.
- Maintains financial accounts by processing customer adjustments.
- Recommends potential products or services to management by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs.
- Prepares product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Skills Required
- Customer service
- Product knowledge
- Market knowledge
- Quality focus
- Problem-solving
- Documentation skills
- Phone skills
- Listening
- Resolving conflict
- Analyzing information
- Multi-tasking
- communication
- Fluent English


