Job Description

Job Description: Grants Manager

Application Deadline: April 30. 2024

About Enabling Leadership

We’re on a mission to change the world and we’re looking for like-minded individuals to join us! More than ever before, each one of us needs to step up as role models, champion problem solvers and global citizens. We believe that perseverance, creativity, collaboration and an awareness of the interconnectedness of our world are essential skills for a child to thrive, be successful and become a true leader. At Enabling Leadership, we believe that every child can be a leader.

Each program at Enabling Leadership uses a creative medium like music or football as a vehicle to teach important leadership skills. These mediums have proven and compelling evidence in their abilities to promote a diverse range of cognitive, behavioural, social and emotional and academic skills. Therefore, they serve as excellent tools in enabling our leadership outcomes for students. A unique leadership outcomes approach underpins each of our carefully designed programs, "EL-Create", "EL-Play" and "EL-Build".  

Experiential and active learning principles are at the heart of our curriculum and methodology. Programs are taught using game-based exercises and activities, group-work, and a combination of learning styles, delivered by well trained teachers. Students are encouraged to reflect on, analyse and connect classroom or playground learning with real life situations. For example, the experiences of coping with losing a match, or overcoming  stage-fright when giving a public music performance, translate to valuable real-life lessons  and skills. Learn more at www.enablingleadership.org

Working at Enabling Leadership: 

As a culture-first organization, we are looking for individuals who embody the values and behaviours we work tirelessly to teach our students every day. Our teams work with a diverse set of stakeholders - children, parents, school communities, sportspersons, musicians, artists, volunteers, non-profits, media and educational institutions, and corporations. Our employees pride themselves on high performance and productivity, while living balanced lives (we don’t limit sick leave days, we believe every employee’s health comes first!). Our staff design and manage their own schedules, choose where to work from (no cubicles!), and have a dynamic leadership team to work with. Our priority is to develop passionate, responsible, creative and accountable employees, championing our values in today’s world. 

Role: Grants Manager

Reports to: Partnerships Head

Location: Candidate must be based in Pune or Bangalore to apply (Home-office based)

Function:

The Grants Manager will be responsible for managing grant identification, writing, and managing successful grants. You will apply your knowledge of the organization’s mission and programs to match them to grantor’s requirements and achieve income goals. You will collaborate with team members to assist with developing proposals to develop effective partnerships.

To ensure success you need to write well, have proficient knowledge of fundraising methods, and be committed to the mission you are representing. Preferred applicants are deadline-driven team players with outstanding multitasking abilities.

Responsibilities and Deliverables:

?      Collaborate with the Partnerships, Finance, Programs and Program delivery teams to gather the relevant information and data to develop effective grant proposals.

?      Continuously look for and identify grant funding opportunities that the organization could qualify and apply for.

?      Write and submit effective grant proposals as per the deadlines, prepare budgets, and furnish all required documentation for due diligence

?      Work with the respective teams to formalize partnerships with the grantor. This includes arranging for any required presentation, reference meetings, field visits, and coordinating the required legal procedures.

?      Manage successful grant applications and develop effective relationships with the grantors to ensure that all the requirements of the grant are met and the organization is in good standing to qualify for grant renewals and enhancements.

?      Develop and implement a Grant Management process for the organization which would allow for the coordination of activities between various functions as well as to allow for any external grant-writers to contribute towards grant applications

?      Develop and collate a set of standard materials, research information, case studies and stories that can be used for various grant and funding applications.

?      Support the CSR partnership managers in writing effective funding proposals for prospective CSR donors.

Eligibility Criteria

Professional Proficiency and Attribute Requirements:

?      Familiar with the CSR, national and international non-profit/foundation space, and trends

?      Knowledge of, and experience with grant writing and grant management

?      Comfortable with preparing budgets as per grant requirements

?      Proficient with MS Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

?      Knowledge of fundraising information sources, platforms, etc.

?      Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

?      Organized and planned with a lot of attention to detail; is able to project manage/coordinate activities and consistently works towards meeting deadlines

?      Able to collaborate and work with people from various backgrounds and function in a remote working environment, communicating with colleagues from different locations

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - Graduate-Other

Professional Proficiency and Attribute Requirements:

?      Familiar with the CSR, national and international non-profit/foundation space, and trends

?      Knowledge of, and experience with grant writing and grant management

?      Comfortable with preparing budgets as per grant requirements

?      Proficient with MS Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

?      Knowledge of fundraising information sources, platforms, etc.

?      Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

?      Organized and planned with a lot of attention to detail; is able to project manage/coordinate activities and consistently works towards meeting deadlines

?      Able to collaborate and work with people from various backgrounds and function in a remote working environment, communicating with colleagues from different locations

Organization Details

• Organization Name:Enabling Leadership Foundation
• About Organization:We are a Global Non-Profit Organization Our creative and fun programs using music (EL Create), football (EL Play) and Lego (EL Build) are designed to enable children to have experiences and opportunities to learn leadership and life-skills first-hand.
  
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