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Program implementation
- Accountable for effective and timely delivery of all programs in assigned states, in line with approved plans, budgets, and quality standards.
- Lead and strengthen the capacity of local partners, field teams, and communities through mentoring, technical support, and supervision.
- Ensure robust monitoring, risk assessment, and adaptive management of programs, incorporating mitigation strategies into planning and implementation.
- Drive innovation and cross-learning to enhance program impact and scalability, in collaboration with technical leads and partners.
External Relations, Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead the state-level stakeholder engagement strategy, positioning ChildFund India as a trusted and influential development partner in Rajasthan.
- Build, manage, and sustain strategic relationships with senior government officials, departments, and state institutions to support program scale, convergence, and policy alignment.
- Serve as the primary interface with key external stakeholders, including donors, corporates (CSR), and institutional partners, ensuring effective relationship management and long-term collaboration.
- Strengthen ChildFund India’s visibility and credibility by fostering partnerships with civil society organizations, academia, networks, and thought leaders at the state level.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for strategic collaboration, advocacy, and policy influence through campaigns and engagement with relevant government bodies and policymakers.
- Represent ChildFund India in state-level forums, networks, and policy platforms, contributing to sector dialogue, learning, and thought leadership.
- Support the expansion of the donor base in the state by nurturing partnerships that enable sustained and strategic program interventions.
Strategic leadership and Resource Mobilization
- Lead state-level resource mobilization planning and delivery in alignment with ChildFund India’s Country Partnership Strategy.
- Accountable for achieving quarterly and annual fundraising targets from government, institutions, corporates, and other channels.
- Lead proposal development, donor negotiations, and partnership structuring at the state level, ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
Communication, donor positioning and reporting
- Serve as a key spokesperson for ChildFund India in Rajasthan, articulating program impact, partnership value, and organizational vision to external stakeholders
- Develop innovative strategies, plans and systems for improved donor journey and donor retention.
- Lead designing and execution of relevant communication and branding strategies to support fund raising initiatives.
- Work with communications team in planning and implementing campaigns for fundraising and to enhance the impact and outreach of ChildFund’s work with children.
- Guide communication team on developing relevant content for ChildFund India website to make it fundraising oriented in line with organization’s branding guidelines.
- Ensure optimum utilization of organizational digital channels – website, email and social media accounts – for supporter engagement and to raise resource.
- Responsible for high quality donor servicing and regular communications, such as mailers and newsletter, with individual supporters, corporates and institutions.
Team management
- Be responsible for overseeing team/s at the state level, fostering culture of high performance and capacity development of team/s.
- Work closely with the Child Development team to strengthen program integration.
- Ensure timely completion and delivery of internal and external reporting requirements.
- Any other responsibilities as assigned by the Line Manager/Supervisor.
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