YUVA Parivartan India
About the organization
Kherwadi Social Welfare Association (KSWA) is an NGO set up in 1928 by Late Mr. B.G. Kher, the first Premier of the then Bombay Presidency. KSWA’s flagship program Yuva Parivartan (YP) is a 25-year-old movement that works on two key strategic pathways;
1)Rural & Urban Livelihoods – which focuses on providing livelihood training and support to underprivileged youth in villages and city slums. This segment primarily comprises school dropouts for whom employment opportunities are extremely limited. Most of these youth, if they find work at all, end up working as casual, unskilled labour. YP provides short-term vocational training courses that help integrate such youth into the mainstream workforce, making them contributing members of society.
Yuva Parivartan is one of the few national level NGOs with a proven, scalable and replicable model for skills development and enabling gainful employment.
Key features of Yuva Parivartan’s activities include:
- Providing vocational training courses (70% practical & 30% theory)
- Open to all who can read and write
- ‘Soch Ka Parivartan’ (SKP) – a proprietary program for mind-set changes and life-skills development
- Community Engagement
- Counseling and Mentoring
Impact of the Yuva Parivartan interventions:
- Total number of beneficiaries since launch: over 15,00,000
- Major thrust (70%) on small towns and villages
- 70% of beneficiaries are women
- 91% of urban, 65% of rural beneficiaries are earning a living
- 52% of beneficiaries are primary wage earners
Integrated Rural Development Project (IRDP) supports marginalized and landless farmers by creating income generation and livelihood opportunities through interventions in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Water & Sanitation, Women Empowerment and Farm-based Skilling.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead annual fundraising planning and strategy development in coordination with senior management to meet targets.
- Identify and develop new income streams while maintaining strong relationships with current and prospective donors.
- Prepare grant proposals, track fundraising efforts, and ensure compliance with donor requirements, including timely reporting.
- Manage donor databases, monitor donor-funded projects, and ensure quality reporting to stakeholders.
- Plan and execute fundraising events, develop strategies to enhance donor engagement, and manage fundraising budgets.
Essential Skills and Knowledge
- Strong leadership skills.
- Track record of bringing innovative creative thinking and fresh ideas to an organisation and/ or its services.
- Knowledge of the fundraising environment and of a range techniques and disciplines which will support the cost-effective generation of income for KSWA
- Exceptionally convincing and persuasive written and oral skills with the ability to present and convey complex ideas and issues clearly and coherently.
- Proficiency in MS office
- Ability to secure Senior Management and Board approval for strategy
- Demonstrable ability to evaluate the type of initiatives and programmes within the scope of the post and initiate, develop and deliver new initiatives that build on their successes.
- Highly self-motivated and able to work autonomously, take initiative and make decisions.
- Innovative management style.
- Ability to work flexible hours.
- High work ethic and commitment to excellence, accuracy and attention to detail
- At least two years’ experience in a similar role or “nontraditional” fundraising backgrounds. Professions such as advertising/ account management/banking/ sales and marketing have transferable skills that apply well to relationship building in fundraising
Key Attribute
- Communication and Persuasion: Exceptional verbal, written, and storytelling skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex ideas and emotionally connect with an audience, especially in a social sector context.
- Innovative and Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop creative fundraising ideas and social media strategies, adapting to changing circumstances to achieve fundraising goals.
- Relationship Building: Strong interpersonal skills for cultivating and maintaining long-term relationships with donors, stakeholders, and partners, essential for the social sector.
- Resilience and Positivity: Capacity to handle rejection, stay motivated, and bounce back from setbacks while maintaining a focus on achieving fundraising targets.
- Empathy and Adaptability: Deep understanding of social sector dynamics, with empathy.
