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Associate Manager Fundraising and Partnerships

  • Company

    The/Nudge Institute

  • Location

    Bengaluru Karnataka

  • Employment Type

    Full-Time

  • Functional Category

    Fundraising & Development

  • Experience

    6 - 9 years

  • Date Posted

    27-Jun-2025

About The/Nudge Institute

The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with social entrepreneurs, women, farmers, tribals, and youth on rural development, agriculture, skilling, and economic inclusion, along with 15 central and state government partners. Set up with support from 90+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates, and 15+ foundations, The/Nudge is contributing towards a "poverty-free India, within our lifetime".

Overview of the Role

The/Nudge Institute is seeking a dynamic and mission-driven Partner Success Manager to lead and nurture relationships with its high-impact partners including donors corporates and foundations. In this pivotal role you will act as the primary liaison for a portfolio of partners ensuring long-term engagement through strategic planning impactful communication and effective program delivery. You will collaborate cross-functionally with finance communications and project teams to ensure timely grant utilization deliverables and partner satisfaction. This is an ideal opportunity for a results-oriented professional with strong client-facing experience and a passion for creating large-scale social impact in a fast-paced purpose-driven environment.

Job Description

- Serve as the primary point of contact for a portfolio of high-impact partners (donors corporates foundations etc)
- Nurture strong trusted relationships through regular touchpoints joint planning and meaningful updates.
- Support closure of renewals/upsells/cross-selling opportunities across existing partners through proposal development donor strategy and strategic co-creation conversations.
- Own the development of high-quality reports presentations and success stories for each partner.Also Collaborate with communications teams to generate compelling content and evidence of impact.
- Work with the finance team to ensure optimal utilization of funds across programs
- Ensure timely collection of grants
- Support impactful engagements including but not limited to volunteering leadership participation and field visits by partners
- Work closely with various internal stakeholders such as finance marketing and project teams to implement high-quality delivery of the promised outcomes
- Develop and maintain dashboards/analytics on agreed-upon success metrics for partner management
Stay abreast of sectoral trends and bring market intelligence into partner engagements.

Required & Preferred Qualifications

Skill

- Fast learning ability and multi-tasker
- Experience engaging with senior leaders funders or clients in a fast-paced environment.
- History of exceeding expectations and are target-driven
- Strong desire to make a difference by working in the not-for-profit sector
- Customer-facing experience especially in B2B sales and business development
- Excellent time management skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication (written & oral) presentation and stakeholder management skills
- Good command over MS office suite/design tools like Canvas Adobe Photoshop etc

Education

Bachelors or Masters in a relevant field.

Experience

6-9 years of work experience in client-facing sales/business development/fundraising preferably in an early-stage organization

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