Associate - Scholarships

Job Description

About the role: The Associate will be responsible for the operations and monitoring of Bhumischolarships programme. The associate will execute all scholarships operations - outreach for scholarships, evaluating applications, ensuring all scholarship guidelines and requirements are met, and funds are disbursed without error. Post disbursements, the associate will ensure students submit the receipts and other required documents regularly (marksheets etc.) About the Program: The goal of the Scholarships programme is to provide financial assistance, mentoring and skill development support to children who are part of BhumiIgnite programme, towards enabling a sustainable livelihood for them. Role and Responsibilities: Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to: Coordinating outreach to get scholarships applications from deserving students, based on scholarship guidelines. Ensuring timely completion of lead verification of scholarship applications on the application management system. Ensuring scholarships are disbursed and required data for periodic feedback/reports to the donors/partners is shared on time. Engaging and managing volunteers at various stages of the scholarship disbursement process to increase scale and reach of the programme. Driving automation of the verification and reporting for the programme, and to make the process more scalable, efficient and accurate. Engaging with scholars periodically and reporting back on their progress and status Educational Qualification/Experience: Graduate or postgraduate degree. MBA, MSW, fellowship or volunteering experience in a non-profit preferred. At least 1 year of relevant work experience. Freshers can be considered based on their resume. Knowledge & Skill sets required: Good written and verbal communication skills in English Data analysis and interpretation. Competent to proficient level command over MS Excel. Resourcefulness in identifying ways to increase efficiency and scale through automation. Ability to balance multiple priorities Highly resourceful team player, who is also self-driven Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions Others: Scope : Full Time Age Criteria : None Remuneration: Rs.3-4 LPA based on the candidateprofile Reporting to : Assistant Manager - Scholarships Expected Joining Date: Immediate Location: Chennai/Virtual Minimum Commitment (in years) : 2