Manager - Fund Raising/M&A/Financial Modelling - Infrastructure Firm

Strategy and team management :

- Support the team to align with their work by providing them an understanding of organisational initiatives & goals

- Set the goals for their subvertical and anchor it while being supported by the CEO

- Contribute towards strategizing and reinventing when needed to achieve the fundraising

- Ensure seamless project and communication management across different verticals

- Manage and monitor partnerships (fundraising) goals and metrics through well-defined systems

- Diagnose problems/gaps in team/project performance and solve for it using effective problem solving tools and methodologies and help the team learn from the experience

- Gather, analyse and feed back learnings from the field to the management and leadership team to improve design and delivery of programmes iteratively

Fundraising :

- Support the CEO in building dedicated and committed network of donors and institutional partners

- Implement the FR strategy and actively network and increase access to potential funders

- Analyse and utilise information from the robust knowledge bank of potential funding partners in the ecosystem and increase the number of potential funders in the pipeline establishing first level of contact with leads generated

- Deliver pitches to potential small-mid sized ticket funders in the absence of the CEO

- Manage outreach activities to draft compelling grant applications and proposals to secure funding

You will thrive in this role if you :

- Have worked in the development sector and understand what it takes for nonprofits to collaborate purposefully

- Have outstanding communication skills in English (written and verbal)

- Have proven planning skills and take pride in seeing projects to completion