Fundraising & Communications Associate

_**We are looking to hire someone who is passionate about working for our cause, an excellent communicator who is self-driven, gregarious and excited about managing and supporting us in the dual role of fundraising and communications. Are you willing to walk the extra mile with us and contribute to building the future of the many children who are part of the Universe Simplified Foundation’s Innovative program?**_

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This position plays a very significant role in engaging the donors and managing the communications vertical for the organization. The person will be responsible for donor relationships and creating documents such as proposals, reports and presentations. This person will also be responsible for digital communication to showcase the vision, the work and its impact to the various stakeholders.

The primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:
**A. FUNDRAISING**:
**1. Resource Mobilization & Execution**
- Support to the CEO in developing fundraising plans, strategies and goals and ensuring its timely execution.
- Research on best fundraising practices in the sector and identify new creative ideas on resource mobilization and identifying different fundraising channels and partners.
- Organizing and managing online fundraising campaigns, in-kind support and offline events for funds generation and visibility.
- Networking at events, meetings and presenting the organizational work and impact along with the Founder/CEO.

**2. Documentation**
- Preparing donor reports by consolidating all the necessary data and information from the team as required.
- Creating fundraising proposals and pitch presentations for new donors.
- Maintaining and updating a donor database and individual donor files.
- Preparing and sending 80G receipts to donors with support from HR & Admin manager.

**3. Donor Engagement**
- Seeking and sharing creative gift ideas or goodie bags for the donors and implementing some of these ideas.

**B. COMMUNICATIONS**:
**1. Planning & Execution**
- Designing a communications and branding strategy and annual plan with milestones along with the CEO and ensuring its execution in a highly efficient and timely manner.
- Networking with various stakeholders such as students, parents, schoolteachers, education officers to get the right inputs and information for the communication of the program and its impact.
- Reaching out to interns and mentors for support and advice on the communication and fundraising activities.

**2. Collaterals & Documentation**
- Design and review all the collaterals and documents in a standard format/ template and ensure that the right message is communicated across different stakeholders.
- Creating and sharing stories of change, writing impactful case studies and identifying the right platforms to share these stories.
- Undertaking testimonials from different stakeholders like partners, donors and students.
- Preparing engaging and inspiring quarterly newsletters, blogs/articles and annual reports that reflects the vision and value of the work undertaken.
- Review and update of the organization’s website regularly.
- Creating pitch documents and presentations for recruitment of Fellows in coordination with the HR manager.

**3. Social Media & PR**
- Managing an online digital resource database and a highly good collection of a photo library depicting the best moments and projects captured by the team
- Identifying and organizing different digital campaigns, events for speaking and sharing the organization’s impactful work.
- Handling all the social media handles, identifying and reaching out to the target audience, using the right platforms to share and undertaking data analytics for evaluating and utilizing the most effective channels.
- Creating engaging and inspiring social media content, uploading it regularly and engaging the online community.
- Creating a PR and media engagement plan along with press articles and press kits for events and releases.
- Networking with the partners who have synergies and ensuring visibility and awareness about the organization’s work across the sector.

**SKILLS & COMPETENCIES**:

- Strong execution ability to manage the day-to-day tasks in a timely and efficient way.
- Taking ownership of the role and the tasks given and a drive to fulfill work.
- Planner and self-starter, taking initiative and responsibility in ensuring that the desired results and outcomes are achieved.
- Ability to take timely decisions and time management, being resourceful and flexible to accommodate the dynamics of a work environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication especially for content creation and documentation skills.
- Strong relationship building, interpersonal effectiveness and networking ability to interact and engage various external stakeholders and the team.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work, using creative thinking and multi-tasking along with ensuring meeting deadlines especially with donors.
- Strong wor