Senior Program Associate- Strategic Partnership

Job Description

This role would serve as the nodal point for all partnership outreach on education and nutrition This would entail liaising with state teams , sectoral teams and the solution teams to distill our value proposition as we'll as mapping the education and nutrition ecosystem and understanding the gaps in the market. It would involve active outreach to partners, attending sector specific events in education and nutrition and serve as a repository of all that is happening in the external world in these two sectors Role and Responsibilities mapping out the education and nutrition ecosystem in India - sector orgs, academic experts and other orgs and staying abreast of latest changes identifying opportunities for CEGIS to communicate its value proposition and solutioning in the education and nutrition space thereby increasing recall value in the ecosystem. This could be via joint knowledge creation, events, convenings, publishing etc Understanding our work in the education and nutrition space , the link between our solutions and the sector and articulating the same clearly to current and potential partners Working with the donor / fundraising teams to manage donors specific to this space . Advocate actively for new funding in this space Understand how partnerships can be stitched together for maximum impact , work on governance and joint reporting of the same . engineer specific partnerships in the state we work in by supporting the sector teams on the same Manage all documentation and reporting on partnerships in the education and nutrition sectors and others as needed Continuously work on expanding our partner list to include academic entities, subject matter experts and others who can drive solutioning Education & experience Bachelors degree in any subject 3-4 years experience in either an education or nutrition focussed social impact org / funder focussed on education / nutrition Needs to have actively managed partnerships in past role Skills Excellent communicator .. both written and oral communication Ability to design basic PPTs and articulate the narrative we'll Basic quantitative and research skills Excellent networker Reasonable gravitas to be able to articulate value proposition sometimes to senior audiences Personal Characteristics and Desired Qualities excellent team player who is willing to stretch as needed self starter with high resilience ability to work in an atmosphere of ambiguity ability to handle multiple projects at the same time