LASTEST JOB OPENING

Position Objective:• To take up fundraising efforts, with a focus on educational institutes and corporate companies, major gift solicitations and fundraising events

• To spread information about organization and make effective publicity on programs being implemented by DESIRE Society
  
  Term of Employment: Full-time
  
  Report to: Head - Communications
  
  Primary Responsibilities and Duties:
  • Manage and develop fundraising strategy among current and prospective major donors, utilizing direct mail, special events, donor cultivation and solicitation visits
  • Identify and research appropriate "cases for giving" for targeted institutions, companies and individual donors
  • Identify prospective major donors from outside DESIRE’s current donor base, and develop cultivation and solicitation strategies for these prospects
  • Solicit major financial donations for DESIRE from targeted donors through face-to-face meetings and related fund-raising techniques
  • Maintain regular contact with specific groups of donors and act as a professional contact for them
  • Document pertinent information for the purpose of enhancing and developing donor profiles, and ensure the database is current with all donor activity recorded
  • Prepare annual division budgets, regular reports and special analysis, as needed
  • Coordinate additional event components, including event materials and mailings (e.g., invitations, sponsorship forms, programmes, thank-you letters), auctions, entertainment, awards, handouts, gift bags and attendance
  • Recruit volunteers and solicit in-kind contributions of goods and services for events
  • Develop a working knowledge of all planned-giving techniques
  • Manage relationships with vendors, including printers, mail houses, database consultants and event-related companies/consultants
  • Stay up to date on current fundraising techniques and methods used in the non-profit sector and that are particular to the Indian market, and attend professional training seminars
  • Perform any other duties assigned by the Organization
  
  Qualifications:• Minimum of two years of fundraising experience within India, focused on major gifts and fundraising events

      Should be minimum a graduate, but Post Graduation preferred