Job id : 32461
Engagement Officer/Lead Engagement Officer
Engagement Officer/Lead Engagement Officer
Bangalore / Bengaluru
3 years ago
88 Applied
JOB ID:32461
Job details
Job Type
Full Time
Functional Area
Admin,Consulting/Strategy management,General Management
Industry
NGO/Social Service
Education
M.A -Sociology
Experience Required
4 - 10 Yrs
Key Skills Required
Research, Lead Generation
Other Skills Required
Languages
English
Job Description
About India Philanthropy Initiative: The India Philanthropy Initiative (IPI) is an effort aimed at promoting and enabling thoughtful, informed, effective and increased philanthropy by the very wealthy in India. It is led by prominent and influential Indian philanthropists, who form the Core Group of IPI and devote time and resources to further the mission. Work in IPI includes personal conversations with philanthropists and their foundations, engagements, research, thematic learning sessions, peer group interactions, philanthropy ecosystem conversations. The IPI platform is a private peer learning platform on philanthropy, and not a fund raising platform or a grant making organization, with minimal media presence (no website).Office of the India Philanthropy Initiative: IPI SecretariatAll efforts of the India Philanthropy Initiative are personally led by philanthropists. The office of the India Philanthropy Initiative is the operating and executing organization for this, housed in the ... See More
About India Philanthropy Initiative: The India Philanthropy Initiative (IPI) is an effort aimed at promoting and enabling thoughtful, informed, effective and increased philanthropy by the very wealthy in India. It is led by prominent and influential Indian philanthropists, who form the Core Group of IPI and devote time and resources to further the mission. Work in IPI includes personal conversations with philanthropists and their foundations, engagements, research, thematic learning sessions, peer group interactions, philanthropy ecosystem conversations. The IPI platform is a private peer learning platform on philanthropy, and not a fund raising platform or a grant making organization, with minimal media presence (no website).Office of the India Philanthropy Initiative: IPI SecretariatAll efforts of the India Philanthropy Initiative are personally led by philanthropists. The office of the India Philanthropy Initiative is the operating and executing organization for this, housed in the Azim Premji Foundation in Bangalore. The team works with the Core Group and several other philanthropists to plan, curate and execute the efforts. It is a lean team, and while all team members will have assigned primary and secondary responsibility for outcomes, everyone also needs to be open to do a bit of everything.Responsibilities:
- Engaging and maintaining relationships with philanthropists and foundations; understanding their objectives, current work, needs and helping them with requirements pertaining to their personal philanthropy.
- Engaging and maintaining relationships with civil society organizations and leaders working on addressing social issues in India; international foundations and NGOs; philanthropy service providers and intermediaries, government officers, academicians and others as required.
- Engaging and maintaining relationships with individuals and organizations piloting and executing new and interesting models for development. This would include tracking and reaching out to innovative non-
- profits and social entrepreneurs, social businesses, impact investment funds, Development Impact Bonds (DIBs), Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and philanthropic networks and coalitions. Managing these relationships with regular checkpoints will be important.
- Facilitating connections where needed.
- Providing inputs for developing designs for different interactions/meetings on philanthropy.
- Ensuring that the analyst team is able to track all interactions with philanthropists, families and Foundations; connections made and outcomes achieved.
- We are looking for ambitious, smart, high energy professionals with excellent communication skills to work with us in driving and expanding the work of the India Philanthropy Initiative.
- Experience: 4-10 years
- Demonstration of having managed diverse professional relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Some corporate exposure or experience. Relevant experience would include work with CXO offices, wealth management, relationship banking, partnerships, general consulting, PR/communications.
- Good writing and documentation skills. Documentation is a critical component of work.
- Conscientious and diligent, having attention to detail.
- Ability to think smart, support in ideation, quick grasping power.
- Ability to work with diverse workstyles, maintain confidentiality and communicate succinctly.
- Ability to handle logistics, scheduling when required and manage down time productively.
- Education: Bachelors from a reputed institution with a good academic record. Masters (ideally MBA) is good to have.
- Proficiency in MS-Office.
- This role will not be suitable for individuals who find it difficult to work in unstructured situations, who find themselves unproductive in conflict and confrontational situations and who need significant flexibility in their work hours.
- Opportunity to influence, enable and shape significant philanthropy in India.
- Tremendous learning opportunities across: different aspects of holistic societal development and progress; business, entrepreneurship and wealth creation in India and globally.
- Opportunities to study individual brilliance and interact with and learn from some of the best minds and most respected individuals and organizations in India.
- Excellent hands-on experience in stakeholder management; conflict resolution; time management; quick decision-making and overall leadership development.
- Opportunity to set up and strengthen organizational processes.
About Company
Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that is working towards making deep, large scale and institutionalized impact on the quality and equity of education in India, along with related development areas. We believe that any large-scale educational change requires significant and sustained effort over decades and can be achieved through working at multiple levels with a multi-pronged approach. Today, we work in 7 states and 1 Union Territory with a potential to reach over 3, 50,000 schools. Key aspects of our work include
Partnering with Government: We work in collaboration with state governments and engage with teachers, teacher educators, head teachers at the block and cluster level and with education officials, senior government functionaries and policy makers at the district, state and national levels.
State and District Institutes: We have State Institutes in the capitals of select Indian States and several District Institutes within these states, each having de... See More
Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that is working towards making deep, large scale and institutionalized impact on the quality and equity of education in India, along with related development areas. We believe that any large-scale educational change requires significant and sustained effort over decades and can be achieved through working at multiple levels with a multi-pronged approach. Today, we work in 7 states and 1 Union Territory with a potential to reach over 3, 50,000 schools. Key aspects of our work include
Partnering with Government: We work in collaboration with state governments and engage with teachers, teacher educators, head teachers at the block and cluster level and with education officials, senior government functionaries and policy makers at the district, state and national levels.
State and District Institutes: We have State Institutes in the capitals of select Indian States and several District Institutes within these states, each having dedicated teams. The work of the State and District Institute is institutional in nature, recognizing that long term and consistent engagement is necessary for educational change.
Our Institutes work at the grass-root level, closely engaging with the government education system. The range of work we do spans capacity building of teachers, head teachers and other functionaries at the district level and state level. It also involves work on curriculum, assessment, educational leadership and management, policy issues and advocacy at the state level.
The Foundation today, has institutes that are located at Karnataka (Bengaluru, Yadgir, Mandya and Gulbarga), Rajasthan (Jaipur, Sirohi, Tonk, Barmer and Rajsamand), Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Uttarkashi, Udham Singh Nagar and Almora), Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh (Raipur and Dhamtari), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal) and Puducherry.
At six of our District Institutes, we have the Foundation schools that have been established for the specific purpose of demonstration. These schools provide quality and free education to the local community, at costs and constraints similar to that of rural government schools.
Azim Premji University has a clear social purpose – to make significant contributions towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. The University aspires to do this through the development of talent and the creation of knowledge which can facilitate systemic change in education and allied development areas. This is an explicit commitment to the idea that knowledge and learning have human and social consequences and that their pursuit cannot be separated from these consequences.
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