Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives Pvt Ltd
We are a 74-member team, embarking on an exciting journey that aspires to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society through grant making. In the last 5 years, 200+ grants have been made in our areas of intervention (further broken down into specific themes) Gender, Land and Forest Dependent, Urban Poor, Nutrition, Constitutional Vales and Youth and Governance.
Overview
We are hiring program managers for two themes: a) Migrant & Informal Sector Workers and b) Manual Scavengers and Waste Pickers Communities.
We are a 74-member team, embarking on an exciting journey that aspires to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society through grant making. In the last 5 years, 200+ grants have been made in our areas of intervention (further broken down into specific themes) Gender, Land and Forest Dependent, Urban Poor, Nutrition, Constitutional Vales and Youth and Governance.
Overview
We are hiring program managers for two themes: a) Migrant & Informal Sector Workers and b) Manual Scavengers and Waste Pickers Communities.
Program Managers are responsible for the theme by making grants to organizations across the country. The incumbent ensures smooth program delivery and aids delivery of the operating plan. The incumbent will have complete accountability for a large programme and multiple grants that ensure the achievement of the stated goal/objectives.
Responsibilities - Grant Making and Management
- Ensure compliance of specific grant proposals to ensure that it meets the APPI guidelines and requirements, and is a well drafted request, complete in all aspects.
- Co-create strategies, outcomes and impact frameworks with partners and external consultants
- Review all completed proposals to ensure that required information has been provided. Ensure that the story of the grantee organization comes through clearly.
- Lead the efforts on the Due Diligence Process and partner engagement
- Help the partner develop results frameworks and ensure that the thinking around the results framework is in keeping with the APPI operating plan
- Conduct meaningful conversations with all grantees that validate their results framework/s for review and action by the Board.
- Post approval, provide leadership to working with the finance team and the grantees to ensure that the financial resources of the APPI reach them in time.
- Ensure compliance to the grant making system at the APPI through the entire lifecycle of a grant.
- Manage multiple stakeholders and work closely with them to bring together the program as envisioned by the APPI
Learning and Reflection
- Ensure a balance with sometimes competing needs and priorities between the grantee and APPI
- Develop guidelines for effective reflection, learning and change
- Work on the results from a learning and reflection exercise to create best practices and introduce process improvements
- Report out on learning and reflection at an area level and make sure that the process is beneficial to grantees and the APPI.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred
- 5 to 15 years of work experience, either in a field operations role or work experience with a grantmaker
Responsibilities - Grant Making and Management
- Ensure compliance of specific grant proposals to ensure that it meets the APPI guidelines and requirements, and is a well drafted request, complete in all aspects.
- Co-create strategies, outcomes and impact frameworks with partners and external consultants
- Review all completed proposals to ensure that required information has been provided. Ensure that the story of the grantee organization comes through clearly.
- Lead the efforts on the Due Diligence Process and partner engagement
- Help the partner develop results frameworks and ensure that the thinking around the results framework is in keeping with the APPI operating plan
- Conduct meaningful conversations with all grantees that validate their results framework/s for review and action by the Board.
- Post approval, provide leadership to working with the finance team and the grantees to ensure that the financial resources of the APPI reach them in time.
- Ensure compliance to the grant making system at the APPI through the entire lifecycle of a grant.
- Manage multiple stakeholders and work closely with them to bring together the program as envisioned by the APPI
Learning and Reflection
- Ensure a balance with sometimes competing needs and priorities between the grantee and APPI
- Develop guidelines for effective reflection, learning and change
- Work on the results from a learning and reflection exercise to create best practices and introduce process improvements
- Report out on learning and reflection at an area level and make sure that the process is beneficial to grantees and the APPI.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred
- 5 to 15 years of work experience, either in a field operations role or work experience with a grantmaker
- At least 2 to 3 years of experience working directly on issues of informal sector labour, migrant workers, waste pickers or manual scavenging communities.
- Should have made significant and long lasting contributions in his/her area of specialization.
- Should have lead teams and have had accountability for large goals in his/her previous assignments
- Grant-making experience strongly preferred; desire to work in and with nonprofit sector is essential
- Should have made significant and long lasting contributions in his/her area of specialization.
- Should have lead teams and have had accountability for large goals in his/her previous assignments
- Grant-making experience strongly preferred; desire to work in and with nonprofit sector is essential
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