Dasra
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, climate action, gender equity and child protection and care, amongst others. Since 1999 Dasra has strengthened the social sector talent pipeline with over 350 Dasra alumni, fundraised more than $300 million, supported 1000+ diverse NGOs across the country, and affected the lives of over 100 million Indians.
About Philanthropy Labs
Philanthropy Labs at Dasra is a team that works on strengthening India’s family philanthropy infrastructure and ecosystem to accelerate equitable giving for India’s most marginalized communities. The team focusses on building networks and communities of practice of philanthropists (HNIs/UHNIs/Billionaires), driving narrative change around family philanthropy and incubating new ideas to accelerate family giving in India.
The team in recent years has launched a network called GivingPi (www.givingpi.org), India’s first and exclusive family philanthropy network of its kind, for leading philanthropic families to learn, share and collaborate with each other. GivingPi, incubated under the aegis of Dasra, aims to be a one-stop hub to support families within the network on all their philanthropy focussed needs, while also providing access to bespoke advisory, events, peer networking and knowledge & insights that aims to accelerate their giving journeys.
The Role
Dasra is looking to hire full-time Team Leads / Managers who will work towards accelerating philanthropic aspirations of families who join the GivingPi network. They will support such families to deepen their impact in India, while being a thought partner to them in scaling their philanthropic portfolio over time through both 1:1 advisory as well as shaping collaborative endeavours. S/he will bring the best of connections and insights from the global and Indian philanthropic landscape towards providing value to such families in their giving journeys. This is not a fund-raising role.
Skill-set Required
- 8-12 years of experience in the Indian and/or international development sector with multi-stakeholder engagement experience.
- Strong commitment and ability to work with a high-performing team and nurture talent to deliver excellent results
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Project Management: Ability to manage and deliver on multiple high-stakes projects with quality and on time, with limited support and guidance.
- Relationship Management: Engages external stakeholders with trust and confidence and is able to manage relationships towards shared goals and outcomes.
- Written & Communication skills: Begins to draw linkages from content to insight and frameworks and communicates a compelling narrative with some, but minimal guidance. S/he is able to create robust presentations, concept notes and collaterals as required for diverse project requirements.
- Funder Engagement: Engages funders with trust and confidence by managing funder relationships with limited support/guidance
- Prior experience having engaged with funders will be an added advantage
- Entrepreneurial attitude with a willingness and ability to build systems and processes, work independently, bring structure, as well as think and act creatively in a resource-constrained environment.
This is a full-time in-person role based out of Dasra's Mumbai office.
Dasra is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Think you have what it takes but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyways. We'd love the opportunity to determine whether you could be a great fit.
