Director - Institutional Grants Job in Magic Bus India

Department: Institutional Fundraising /Full time

Location: Mumbai

No. of Positions: 1

The role would be based in Magic Bus Head office located in Vikhroli, Mumbai and would be required to travel in line with the requirements of the grant, stakeholders, project management team etc. from time to time.

As the head office is shut owing to the COVID 19 outbreak, the person would be required to work from residence until it resumes functioning.

Responsibilities

About Magic Bus

Founded in 1999, Magic Bus works with children and young people living in poverty, in India, taking them from a childhood full of challenges to a life with meaningful livelihoods. We equip children and young people in the age group of 12 to 18, with the skills and knowledge they need to grow up and move out of poverty. Children on the Magic Bus programme successfully fend off destabilizers such as child marriage and child labour to complete school and become first-generation salary earners having secure careers in the organised sector.

Our youth-centered Livelihoods Programme connects the aspirations and potential of young people to available market opportunities. We build their employability skills and map job potential based on individual strengths and mobility. We work with support structures like parents, teachers, the community at large and local government institutions to ensure social, emotional and economic well-being for all young people living in that area. Our approach mobilises the entire ecosystem available to the child or young person to create transformational change in their lives.

Business Context

Magic Bus today impacts the lives of 4, 50,000 adolescents and more than 40,000 youths directly and thousands of families indirectly. Our Programmes have brought in a paradigm shift for the many families who earlier were constrained by financial compulsions, cultural norms and other adverse living conditions.

While our efforts could bring school drop-out rate to below 5%, child marriage is slowly edging for extinction in the communities where we work. We envision ourselves playing a significant role in touching lives of 1.6 million adolescents and 3, 00,000 youths directly via our Childhood to Livelihood programme by the end of 2023. Like us, many great organisations are today more than willing to invest their trust in our programmes and philosophy and partner with us in realising this dream of ours as well as more than 4,00,000 families.

We feel that being of service to needy is the biggest opportunity that an organization like us can even find and here, we have seized it. We wish to transcend nations and enable thousands of lives in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal who are reeling under poverty escape its vicious cycle.

In light of this, Magic Bus seeks the expertise of Institutional Fundraiser, who will be responsible for supporting it to achieve the ambitious but achievable targets for grant income for SCALE program, Adolescent programme and programmes in partnership with Government education departments.

This role will be accountable to lead a team of 1 or more Grant managers, prospect research to ensure a regular and reliable pipeline of new prospects, developing grant proposals, whilst also leveraging existing relationships. It will also be accountable for reporting on all grants including the management of data required for measurement and evaluation. While being responsible for a specific large grant and to coordinate and manage all aspects of the grant with inputs from relevant colleagues and senior members of the team, the potential candidate is also expected to ably contribute to the institutional fundraising team in achieving its targets and goals.

We re looking for someone who is committed to helping achieve the income requirements, who has a proven eye for detail, an analytical nature and a flair for raising managing large grants. This role requires the ability to react and respond creatively to the operational and financial needs of Magic Bus.

Specific tasks and responsibilities

Fundraising

• Participate in the development and implementation of the Institutional Fundraising Strategy

• Research and identify new institutional funding sources for MagicBus, regularly monitor databases for opportunities, sharing with relevant team members and developing fundraising approach and plan.

• Research and understand the giving philosophy of foundations / agencies, strategic objectives and grant timelines

• Write effective fundraising applications in response to calls for proposals from institutional donors.

• Coordinate with programme team for developing proposals and budgets.

• Prepare for meetings with donors and participate in these meetings as appropriate.

• Undertake networking activities in order to keep up-to-date with developments in funding practices and sources

Grant raising & management Role

• Build and manage relationships with all internal stakeholders involved in the grant roll out and implementation

• Oversee the progress of implementation of the grant as per the MoU agreed upon with the respective donors

• Write high quality project reports for all grants, according to funder s deadlines and specifications, and ensuring a timely approach to gathering information from colleagues.

• Assist in managing a system for maintaining all contacts, information and deadlines for each grant award and new fundraising opportunity.

• Directly play the role of account manager of multiple large grants and create and nurture a lasting relationship

• Play vital role in fund allocation and take major financial as well as programmatic decisions and reporting with respect to the grant

• Self-sustaining practices for Retention of existing donors and growing grant/donation sizes

Leadership & Capability Building Role

• Be a mentor for the team of Grant Managers and create organic leadership pipelines and functional experts

• Create performance roles, development cycles and platforms for team of Grant Managers

• Create a culture of performance excellence, effective communication and mutual respect within the team

• Share expertise via training and awareness sessions

Magic Bus Ambassador Role

• Create and grow Brand Magic Bus through campaigns.

• Represent Magic bus at various reputed fora and showcase the uniqueness of its model

• Demonstrate Magic Bus values and Role Model behavior in day to day conduct

• Be a vital part of the GMC and RMCs and share insights

Team coordination

• Director, Impact and the Impact team - To find ways to represent and communicate results/ outcomes as well as support and contribute to the effective creation of a monitoring and evaluation framework for the Magic Bus.

• Programme Development To keep abreast with the latest amendments, initiatives being brought into the curriculum as well as provide suggestions on good practices which could be incorporated.

• Programme Operations To understand the nuances of Magic bus Programmes as well as the ground level challenges. Also, provide suggestions on good practices which could be incorporated.

• Communications Team - To develop effective channel for internal as well as external communications, milestones achieved, success stories etc.

• Other support functions to ensure adequate manpower, fund allocation & accuracy, technology enablement are in place.

Reporting

To the Global CEO - Magic Bus India Foundation.

Requirements

Qualification & Work experience

• Post Graduate in Social work or other social sciences relevant to the development sector.

• Minimum 18 to 20 years experience in the social development sector including experience of managing large grants, writing effective grant proposals, raising substantial funding for long term programmes in fields related to adolescent empowerment, education, life skills, rural development and skilling.

• Experience reflects engagement with diverse sectoral issues, especially on education, adolescent empowerment and rural development

Mobility requirements:

The role would be based in Magic Bus Head office located in Vikhroli, Mumbai and would be required to travel in line with the requirements of the grant, stakeholders, project management team etc. from time to time.

As the head office is shut owing to the COVID 19 outbreak, the person would be required to work from residence until it resumes functioning.