Associate - Scholarships

**Job Information**:
Job Opening ID
- ZR_356_JOB

Number of Positions
- 1

Date Opened
- 06/18/2025

Job Opening Status
- In-progress

Job Type
- Full time

Industry
- NGO/Social Services

Work Experience
- 0-1 year

Salary

City
- Chennai / Virtual

State/Province
- Tamil Nadu

Country
- India

Zip/Postal Code
- 600016

**About the role**:
Post disbursements, the associate will ensure students submit the receipts and other required documents regularly (marksheets etc.)

**About the Program**:
The goal of the Scholarships programme is to provide financial assistance, mentoring and skill development support to children who are part of Bhumi’s Ignite programme, towards enabling a sustainable livelihood for them.

**Role and Responsibilities**:
Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Ensuring scholarships are disbursed and required data for periodic feedback/reports to the donors/partners is shared on time.
- Engaging and managing volunteers at various stages of the scholarship disbursement process to increase scale and reach of the programme.
- Driving automation of the verification and reporting for the programme, and to make the process more scalable, efficient and accurate.
- Engaging with scholars periodically and reporting back on their progress and status

**Educational Qualification/Experience**:

- Graduate or postgraduate degree.
- MBA, MSW, fellowship or volunteering experience in a non-profit preferred.
- At least 1 year of relevant work experience. Freshers can be considered based on their resume.

**Knowledge & Skill sets required**:

- Good written and verbal communication skills in English
- Data analysis and interpretation. Competent to proficient level command over MS Excel.
- Resourcefulness in identifying ways to increase efficiency and scale through automation.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities
- Highly resourceful team player, who is also self-driven
- Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions

**Others**:

- Scope : Full Time
- Age Criteria : None
- Reporting to : Assistant Manager - Scholarships
- Expected Joining Date: Immediate
- Location: Chennai/Virtual
- Minimum Commitment (in years) : 2