Experience

Agastya International Foundation

• India
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Donor Relation Executive

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Cultivate and develop relationships with the existing institutional donors – foundations and CSR partners - to ensure renewal of grants, and strengthening and deepening of the existing relationships, including beyond funding.. - Conduct research on and identify suitable potential new funding opportunities and partners in India and abroad (institutional, CSR, etc.) and secure new institutional funding partnerships, as required.. - Network and build relationships with existing and potential new donors - Write quality funding proposals/grant applications, in collaboration with relevant team members. In collaboration with Finance Coordinator, develop budgets for funding proposals. - Developing MOU, Preparing of plans work orders, manage and oversee the programs - Ensure timely, accurate and high quality reporting to existing donors.. - Collaborate with Research, Advocacy and Communications team on evaluation of programmes and their impact, and ensure these take into consideration donors’ needs and expectations, as relevant.. - Oversee a successful delivery of planned fundraising events as per pre-agreed targets, and develop new creative ideas for fundraising and donor cultivation events.. - Oversee and manage all communications with existing donors, including through social media, email and offline; ensure strong engagement with supporters on social media. - Introduce new and develop existing processes and protocols for recruitment and management of volunteers to ensure volunteers efficiently contribute and have a good volunteering experience in the organisation.. - Working with teams and its strategic partners, identify and develop volunteer/internship roles required and proactively source volunteers/interns for these roles. - To prepare annual plans and budgets for the team and report against the same; regularly report internally to the core team and the board Show less