Sales Manager

Director – Fundraising & Partnerships

Location: Pune / Mumbai / Delhi NCR / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Remote (Hybrid Flexibility)

Experience: 10 – 15 years

Reports to: CEO

Type: Full-time

Working days: 5.5 Days

Timings: 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM

The Role

We are seeking a mission-driven, results-oriented leader to join as Director – Fundraising & Partnerships.

In this high-impact leadership role, you will:

• Report directly to the Co-Founders

• Scale fundraising capacity 3x in the next 2 years

• Secure long-term, outcome-linked funding from CSR, HNIs, philanthropic foundations, and global development partners

• Represent organisation in key donor forums and build a high-performing fundraising team

Key Responsibilities

1. Fundraising Strategy & Leadership

• Lead execution of our's 2–3 year fundraising strategy aligned with growth goals

• Own annual fundraising targets, set KPIs, and ensure transparent reporting

• Drive donor lifecycle: prospecting, proposals, grant reporting, and relationship management

• Act as external face in funder interactions with CSR leaders, philanthropies, and impact investors

• Build systems for agility, compliance, and long-term donor trust

2. Partnership Development & Network Building

• Develop pipeline of 50+ CSR leads, philanthropists, and ecosystem enablers

• Mobilize donor and champion networks to unlock opportunities

• Represent firm at sector forums and donor convenings

3. Communications & Collateral Oversight

• Oversee donor-facing communications: proposals, pitch decks, reports, and campaigns

• Ensure clarity and alignment with brand and impact narrative

• Use storytelling, data, and design for compelling funder engagement

4. Team Leadership & Systems Building

• Build and mentor a high-performing fundraising team

• Establish robust systems for donor CRM, compliance, reporting, and audits

• Work with internal teams to develop tailored grant materials

5. Relationship Management

• Shape trust-based donor journeys for long-term investment

• Design engagement pathways for new, existing, and repeat funders

6. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Programs, Finance, and Impact teams to align fundraising with program needs

• Work with M&E/Data teams to define outcomes and deliver performance-linked commitments

Who You Are

• Fundraising is more than a function for you; it’s a lever for systemic change.

• Strategic executor: equally comfortable with vision decks and complex donor conversations.

• 12–15 years’ experience in fundraising, partnerships, or business development in nonprofit, CSR, or impact investing.

• Proven success in multi-crore, multi-year partnerships (₹12Cr+).

• Strong storyteller and sharp writer.

• Deep knowledge of India’s social impact ecosystem and funder motivations.

• Thrives in high-autonomy, high-accountability environments.

• Bonus: experience in growth-stage nonprofits or multi-state fundraising.

Why Join Us?

Here you won’t inherit a stale pipeline — you’ll build the engine that helps lakhs of children unlock their future.

• Lead with vision: Own strategy, partnerships, and growth

• Scale with purpose: Fund one of India’s most scalable, tech-forward education models

• Learn with peers: Collaborate with co-founders, donors, and sector leaders

• Work from anywhere: Flexible hybrid work model

• Grow fast, grow real: Clear path to Chief Growth Officer

What You Can Expect

• Ownership & trust: Lead strategy and fundraising, not just execute

• Flexibility: Hybrid work from Pune, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, or remote

• Learning & visibility: Represent at national forums

• Supportive culture: Startup-fast, values-first, prioritizing well-being

• Competitive salary: Sector-leading pay with transparency on growth paths

Industry – Manufacturing

10+ years of overall experience in handling IT in manufacturing companies.

Qualification: Bachelors in IT or relevant

Job Summary: 

1. Exposure to Manage IT functions involving Infrastructure and Application.

2. SAP/ Business One Administration Handling, Managing, Maintain and Controlling the entire SAP Platform including Enhancements. 

3. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. 

4. Providing Training and Support to Internal Team and End users. 

Mandatory Skills:

 • SAP B1 Administration, Configuration and Support experience. 

• Experience on Linux OS and HANA Database administration. 

• Experience in Business Process automation experience.

• Proven working experience in installing, configuring, upgrading and troubleshooting SAP B1,

Linux /windows Operating Systems and HANA Database platforms.

• Knowledge on Monitoring and Maintaining performance according to requirements and upgrading the systems with new release models as per changing requirements.

• Knowledge of interfacing SAP B1 with 3rd Party Solutions.

• Knowledge on security, backup, redundancy and Disaster Recovery strategies.

• Understanding of License Compliance, Governance, Risk Management and Statutory Audit requirements.

·  Knowledge about Information Security Management System (ISMS ISO27001:2022)

·  Knowledge about Cloud - Migrations, Implementation, Management and Maintenance

Additional Skills:

• Knowledge on Active Directory, DNS, Group Policies creation, DHCP servers designing and planning.

• Knowledge of IT system security, anti virus (mainly TrendMicro), and firewall devices.

• Being Self-motivated – driven to achieve results & flexible to work anytime and weekends, as may be needed

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads

• Exposure to AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Responsibilities :

1)Support to all SAP B1 users as first level problems solving and inquiries. Coordinates

communication and the resolution of complex issues. 

2) Manage day-to-day SAP B1 operations and server infrastructure supporting a multi-site End

Users environment.

3) Manages projects including planning and execution of enhancements.

4) Monitoring and managing user access, permissions, and security protocols to maintain system integrity and performing routine maintenance on servers and network infrastructure, including patch updates and performance tuning.

5) Implementing and monitoring backup, restore, and redundancy strategies to ensure data security and availability.

6) Troubleshooting and resolving hardware and software issues across various systems promptly to minimize downtime.

7) Configuring and maintaining virtualization platforms, ensuring high availability and optimized performance.

8) Conduct Internal and Statutory IT Audits

JD for .Net:

• Strong knowledge on C#, Asp.Net Web forms and Web API

• Experience with Bootstrap, jQuery and Responsive web designing

• Experience with SQL server, Stored Procedure and performance tuning

• Excellent Problem solving, communication and Debugging skills

• Ability to learn and work on new technology in a short span of time

• Extensive experience with Object- Oriented Programming and Design patterns.

• Knowledge on .NET Core, Elastic Search, Knockout JS, Windows services are added advantage.

Job Responsibilities:

Work & Deploy updates and fixes Provide Level 2 technical support Support implementation of fully automated CI/CD pipelines as per dev requirement Follow the escalation process through issue completion, including providing documentation after resolution Follow regular Operations procedures and complete all assigned tasks during the shift. Assist in root cause analysis of production issues and help write a report which includes details about the failure, the relevant log entries, and likely root cause Setup of CICD frameworks (Jenkins / Azure DevOps Server), Containerization using Docker, etc Implement continuous testing, Code Quality, Security using DevOps tooling Build a knowledge base by creating and updating documentation for support

Skills Required:

DevOps, Linux, AWS, Ansible, Jenkins, GIT, Terraform, CI, CD, Cloudformation, Typescript

Roles and Responsibilities

Build websites using WordPress

Write coding using HTML and CSS

Design new features for existing websites.

Customize themes to meet existing website requirements

Web Technologies/scripts: AJAX, HTML HTML 5, XHTML, CSS 3, JavaScript, Json-LD, DHTML,

XML/Web Services, XSLT, Soap, NUSOAP, CSS Webkit

Webservers: Apache, IIS, WAMP, XAMMP

Editors: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Notepad++, Text pad.

Versioning Tools: SVN, CVS, VSS, TortoiseCVS.

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 7, Windows Vista, WINDOWS XP.

CMS: Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Wordpress

Web Editors: FCK, TinyMCE

Administrative Tools: PhpMyAdmin, Navicat, SQLYOG, Toad

Framework: MVC, CodeIgniter, Zend, CakePHP

Languages PHP4/5

Databases: MySQL4/5, SQL SERVER, Oracle