Position: Manager, Outreach & Engagement

Organization: Sahayog Foundation

Location: Mumbai

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Job Summary:
All team members at Sahayog are expected to play a crucial role in building institutional knowledge, culture and live by the collaborative values the organisation upholds. The Outreach and Engagement Manager, leads communications and stakeholder engagement, including the delivery of high-quality knowledge & information for partnerships and collaboration and develop approaches to engage, collaborate, and innovate that create improved value for eco-system and its actors. The Manager will be responsible to build, maintain and strengthen these key relationships thus ensuring steady growth of the organization.

Essential Responsibilities:
1. Managerial:
a. Manage external & internal communications, collaborations and conflicts
b. Ensure timelines are met and fulfilled
c. Adept with use of collaborative technology platforms
d. Champion Sahayog and its philosophy of collaboration with all stakeholders

2. Functional:
a. Outreach:
o Develop outreach engagement strategy
o Plan end-to-end tactical outreach engagement initiatives
o Build engagement platforms for multi-stakeholders
o Facilitate and organise events – internal and external
b. Communication:
o Create internal and external content, collaterals, newsletter, reports and publications
o Have a sound design aesthetic and be able to use Canva
o Manage all social media handles for Sahayog Foundation (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
o Be the point of contact for all external communications
o Relay information between founding team and stakeholders

c. Management of Stakeholders
o Manage a network of stakeholders, including (but not restricted to) donors, experts,
academia amongst others
o Build strong, long-term and engaging relationships with various stakeholders that
exemplifies Sahayog’s core values
o Database management of stakeholders
o Conduct thorough sector research to build internal knowledge base

d. Administrative:
o Work within budget
o Prepare and maintain accurate and up to date reports on all outreach activities
undertaken for the founding team at Sahayog
o Ensure all outreach activities are well-documented
o Attend and participate in team meetings and trainings as scheduled
e. Other Responsibilities:
o Stay updated on current industry trends and policy changes being proposed and/or
implemented by the Government, collaboration work undertaken by non-profit agencies
and donors.
o Provide support to the team and the co-founder to ensure smooth functioning of the
organization