Project Manager Fundraising & Donor Management

Ummeed Child Development Center

Job Location:

Mumbai - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Context

One in eightIndian children in the age group of 29 years has a developmental disability (such as autism attention deficit hyperactivity disorder learning disabilities language delays Down syndrome and others). This extrapolates toover 50 millionchildren with or at risk of developmental disabilities in India.

Childhood disability is acomplex issuethat cuts across multiple dimensions of family and society including healthcare systems education community life and policy. There isnt just one system that needs to be fixed but many.

Because of the lack of access to skilled resources as well as how society views disability (deficit-model stigma)children and families experiencing disabilities often fall through the cracks. Much remains to be done in this space in India as well as world over.

About Ummeed()

In 24 years of its journey Ummeed has provided directclinical servicesto over 12500 children and families (developmental pediatrician assessments and consults occupational and physiotherapy autism intervention mental health services testing remedial services and social work services). Its clinical work is complemented bytraining servicesthat aim to build a network of trained medical and school professionals as well as community workers who can prevent diagnose and manage developmental disabilities eﬀectively. Over the years Ummeed has trained over 5000 trainees from across the country. Ummeedsawareness initiativesaim to change societal attitudes towards children with developmental disabilities and itsresearch effortsaim to influence the academic community.

Over the last six years while Ummeed has grown from a 50 member team to a150 member team and its annual budget has increased seven-fold (from 3.5 crores to22 crores) its impact has increased about 35-fold (from about 10000 toover 450000 children having benefited from its services).

Over the next few years Ummeed is looking to consolidate its position as acenter-of-excellence expand / deepen itsinfluence in multiple geographiesin India disseminate its models of care locally as well as internationally and set up a center (aphysical space) dedicated to the cause of child development and childhood disability.

About the Ummeed Walk

In 2011 two friends who enjoyed long walks happened to cover 55 km in a single day on the South Goa beaches. Impressed by what they had accomplished they decided to repeat the walk and invite friends to support Ummeed while doing it. The response was encouraging and this gave birth to the 55Km Walk for UMMEED.

Since then Ummeed has organised an annual 55Km Walk and Awareness event every January on the same beach in South Goa. For participants the Walk offers a mix of physical activity time in nature meeting like-minded people and contributing to a meaningful cause.

The route runs along the South Goa coastline where walkers start early in the morning and finish in the evening.

While 55Km is a long distance and many past participants have completed it with preparation and support. Each walker can decide the distance they are comfortable walking.

Irrespective of the distance walked each walker plays an important role in raising awareness about Ummeeds work and typically raises around INR 2 lakh or more. These contributions help maintain Ummeeds ongoing programs support new initiatives and fund areas that may not receive corporate sponsorship.

Job Description

End to end management of Ummeeds flagship annual fund-raising event as a project with clear timelines and deliverables

Walker Management: Includes tasks of recruitment of past walkers and plans to enlist new walkers hand holding the walkers by handling all questions they may have providing them with necessary collateral to help with their fund-raising efforts maintaining post walk engagement with the walkers

Logistics Support: Plan and organise the necessary back-end logistics from hotel travel arrangements on ground support enlisting adequate number of volunteers for the event

Single point of contact with Ketto the platform on which the fund raising is handled. Liasoning with Ketto team to iron out any issues create individual fund raisers for the walkers

Liaisoning with internal stakeholders of Finance Admin and Communications. Finance to help identify and reconcile the donations and other compliance related matters; Work with Comms to plan the collateral schedule and Admin for logistics.

Volunteer Management: Enlist adequate number of volunteers assign clear roles for each volunteer and responsible for managing the volunteers pre on and post the walk event

Maintain all data relating to the walk ability to report on key metrics stated for the walk and flag off any risks anticipated

Work with the Walk Core team and keep all internal stake holders updated on the progress

Budgeting vendor management and logistics.

Key competencies for the role include:

Project management and organizational skills- Initiating planning executing controlling to deliver the project scope on time and within budget and mitigate risk

Excellent communication and time management skills.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with different teams

Ability to problem solve and make quick operational decisions

Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Powerpoint One Drive and Teams

Have a mindset to unlearn and learn

To eventually independently manage the 55Km Walk for UMMEED in Goa successfully.

Timings/Schedule

Every day (few hours) comprising a total of 16 hours a week. They can work in hybrid mode (from home and from the office)

If you are looking for a fulfilling role in the non-profit sector and would like to support an innovative cutting-edge organization do apply through. We would welcome caregivers of children with disabilities to apply as well.

Required Experience:

ContextOne in eightIndian children in the age group of 29 years has a developmental disability (such as autism attention deficit hyperactivity disorder learning disabilities language delays Down syndrome and others). This extrapolates toover 50 millionchildren with or at risk of developmental disabi...