Position: Fundraising & Communication Associate

Organization: Quest Alliance

Location: Bangalore

Apply: https://questalliance.zohorecruit.com/careers

Roles & Responsibilities:

Fundraising

• Build a periodic research pool and generate regular leads on potential funders corporations and foundations that are aligned to QUEST’s vision and goals 

• Work with various internal teams like program, finance, operations and lead proposal writing for new projects 

• Manage relationships with existing funders Ensure engagement areas with existing funders like regular cadence calls, frequent reports, field visits are happening as per plan 

• Maintain the proposal submission timelines

• Attend forums, conferences and events to present, network and share possibilities of collaboration with Quest

Communications:

• Develop digital mediums for funder communications to keep the informed of Quest activities

• Ensure funder presence on social media, press releases, presence in Quest forums

• Identify and built Quest presence in external digital platforms

Volunteering:

• Coordinate volunteering activities along with the program team for selected funders

• Track and report impact of volunteering programs

• Ensure visibility of volunteer programs on social media

Requirements

Required Skills and Experience: 

• Good spoken and written English

• Fair understanding of Excel 

• Logical thinker, ability to connect the dots

• Self learner

• High degree of digital literacy with strong competencies in Microsoft Office Suite and Google Drive Suite

• Willingness to travel to field locations, if needed, post COVID

• An interest to look for newer ways of capturing learnings 

• Comfortable working in situations with tight timelines or dealing with ad-hoc requests