01Responsibilities
Assess organisations across thematic areas and make large and high-impact grants.Oversee the management of the assigned grants ensuring timely reporting, payment disbursement, review of programme quality and implementation.Build relationships with civil society organisations and other relevant stakeholders to further the Foundations understanding of different thematic areas and local contexts.Supplement the research and development of frameworks and models in the operating areas.Lead or support our initiatives in Mumbai and Pune done in collaboration with implementing partners, ensuring programme outcomes are being met.Lead or support efforts in strengthening ground level operations, bringing ownership, improving systems and processes of partners, team building, making subjective changes to program design, stakeholder engagement and collaborations with other partners.Identifying unaddressed issues of the community or gaps in implementation and do the needful to address the same, which includes feedback to partner, layering and deepening efforts.Update internal leadership on a quarterly basis - mainly on progress in the program, challenges and ground level changes.
What we are looking for: candidates who have
a good understanding and experience of working on urban specific issues and vulnerabilities, preferably in Mumbai or a similar Urban context.a high level of self-motivation, initiative, and creativitya willingness to travel extensively for worksubstantial knowledge of organisational and project managementthe ability to work with minimal supervision, and solve problems independently or collaboratively as neededa minimum 12 - 15 years of experience in the sectorfluency in English, Hindi and preferably Marathi. .
