Fundraising Lead

As a Fundraising and Proposal Development professional, your role will involve researching potential donors from various sectors such as corporates, trusts/foundations, grant-making organizations, family foundations, and retail donors. You will be responsible for studying relevant RFPs to determine eligibility and collaborating with program teams and the Founder-Director to create high-quality proposals, concept notes, donor decks, and grant applications. Additionally, you will work closely with program, M&E, and finance teams to compile content and data for submissions. Your duties will also include organizing fundraising events to increase visibility and participation in various events in Mumbai and other states. In terms of Donor Reporting & Documentation, you will be required to draft and format timely donor reports and updates, as well as maintain a clear and organized repository of donor documents, templates, and boilerplates. Furthermore, you will curate impact stories, case studies, and visual summaries for donor communications and outreach. Your responsibilities will also involve Tracking & Coordination, where you will maintain and update the Donor Tracker, including follow-ups, reporting schedules, and upcoming deadlines. You will assist in scheduling and coordinating donor meetings and visits, as well as support internal reviews of donor commitments, grant timelines, and renewals. Key performance indicators for this role include raising 2.50 crore in the last two quarters of the FY 2025-26 and 8.00 crore in the FY 2026-27, securing 8 to 10 new donor partnerships, achieving 100% of annual fundraising targets, ensuring 100% current donor retention and satisfaction rates, and timely submission of proposals and reports. Professional Traits expected from you include being a natural planner, proactive, data-savvy, calm under shifting priorities, consistently professional, hungry to learn, yet firm on boundaries, quality, and accountability. Your attitude should reflect a "yes-and" mindset, ownership over blame, and a growth-oriented approach. In terms of tools, you should have demonstrable proficiency in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive), project-management software (e.g., Asana, Notion, Monday, Zoho Projects), and be comfortable with self-learning and experimenting with AI tools such as ChatGPT. The position offers flexible hours, remote-work options, compensatory leave, ongoing learning & development budget, a trust-based culture, respect for your wider career goals and personal well-being, direct mentoring, exposure to strategic decisions, and a chance to build an outstanding portfolio of funded, high-impact projects. To be successful in this role, you should have experience managing end-to-end proposal cycles securing funds from various sources, maintaining and reporting against program targets, designing or refining SOPs and documentation systems, and thriving in dynamic, high-growth environments.,