Associate - Climaterise Alliance

Department
- ClimateRISE
- Job posted on
- Jan 02, 2025
- Employment type
- Full Time
- Dasra embraces diversity across people and communities through multiplicity in composition integrated with structures, culture and policies, enhancing inclusion and belonging for all in letter and spirit. We envision a team that includes people across caste, religion, gender, economic status, geography, disability and other underrepresented communities, supported by organizational structures that enable collective, transparent and fair decision making, guided by policies that facilitate growth and authenticity within an environment of openness and listening.
- We believe that GEDI in our institutional and programmatic endeavours will enhance, drive and accelerate social impact and social change through an integration of the worldviews of the most marginalized, recognition of their vulnerabilities, rights and potentials and through prioritization of their needs.

Dasra's bold aspiration is a transformed India where a billion thrive with dignity and equity. Established in 1999, Dasra is India's leading strategic philanthropy foundation, working with philanthropists and high impact social entrepreneurs to bring together knowledge, funding, and talent as a catalyst for social change. Dasra nurtures strategic philanthropy for India and focuses on impactful programs such as empowering adolescent girls, urban sanitation, inclusive economies, and child protection and care. With 25 years of experience in the sector, a depth of knowledge gained from working with over 1,000 non-profits, and having brought $100 million in funding to organizations - Dasra drives collaborative action to accelerate social change in India.

**About Dasra’s Approach to Climate Action**:

- Climate Change is the defining crisis of the 21st century, and its impact cuts across almost all sectors and therefore requires a shift across knowledge and action. Dasra’s vision for climate action is focused on addressing the challenge of climate through a systems-change approach with an intersectional lens. Our work aims to create a multi-stakeholder platform, to build knowledge, consensus, and narratives towards impacting long-term climate action for the most vulnerable and underserved communities.
- We believe that collaboration and consensus among multiple stakeholders including civil society, think tanks, government, and philanthropists in climate will offer us the opportunity to drive deeper impact by leveraging collective resources, wider networks, and more diverse skill sets across sectors and inform key climate action initiatives in India.

To this effect, Dasra incepted the ClimateRISE Alliance a collaborative platform that aims to build
- knowledge, consensus, and common outcomes with civil society organizations working at the
- intersections of climate action and resilience for the most vulnerable communities. The Alliance’s
- objective is to shape an India view, a common vocabulary, and enable a multi-stakeholder engagement approach to climate action in the country.

**Key Responsibilities/Skill-sets Required**:

- **Strategy Development and Implementation**: Support the alliance in building specific thematic focus areas through strategy development, new project creation, and direct and indirect stakeholder engagement.
- **Project Management**: Lead and assist in delivering multiple projects for the Alliance, ensuring all initiatives are executed effectively and efficiently in coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
- **Opportunity Identification**: Proactively map sectoral trends and partner needs, identifying and developing innovative project opportunities that align with the alliance's strategic objectives and emerging climate challenges.
- **End-to-end Convening Design and Management**: Execute, co-facilitate, and manage logistics for planned program sessions, including workshops, trainings, and panels.
- **Stakeholder Management**: Build and nurture relationships with external and internal stakeholders, including government entities, technical partners, academic institutes, and field-level implementers.
- **Research and Writing**: Conduct primary and secondary research on climate change and its intersections with other development areas (urban systems, health, gender, conservation, agriculture, etc.); create mappings, presentations, reports, and dashboards. Support research and knowledge-building efforts within the alliance through comprehensive research reports and knowledge products.
- **Donor Management**: Maintain a comprehensive pipeline management system to track progress on relationships with various funders.
- **Other Responsibilities**: Provide support to other thematic areas and groups within the ClimateRISE Alliance.

**Desired Skills & Experience**:

- Graduates and Postgraduates with 3 - 5 years of work experience, preferably in the climate action space
- Strong program and stakeholder management abilities and excellent pr