Business Development

• Responsible for the business development/fundraising for the EG program from the domestic foundations/HNI’s. 
• Pro-actively exploring opportunities of partnership & resources from national/international grant making organizations, respond to relevant call for proposals UN system, EU, Bilateral Agencies
• Expand visibility of EG program through exploring networking and strategic alliances with relevant stakeholders including government
• Establishing collaborations with government as well as academic institutions for the accreditation and empanelment of EG program.
• Represent Smile Foundation at various forums, networking and strategic alliances building in consultation with the HOP/ COO and the communication department.

Programme Management

• Execution the Empowering Grassroots (EG) program end to end
• Maintain and update knowledge of the program and service offerings of the Empowering Grassroots (EG) with good evidential detailing and developing periodic project briefs of the project for wider sharing.
• Develop Annual Business Plan and ensure its achievement. 
• Develop ‘Program Cycle Management’ process for tracking project deliverables as well as growth and progress of trainees and trainee organisations of online and classroom courses.
• Supervising Teams on timely execution with appropriate quality control mechanism as well as closing of projects including, expenditure as per the annual program plan.

• Post-graduate qualification in Social Sciences/ Social Work /Management with demonstrable experience of fundraising and managing large capacity building Program. 
• A minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience with at least 2 years of experience in dealing with Government and donor agencies, especially Institutional Donors, UN, Bilateral &International Agencies and Foundations with proven experience of donor and contract management.
• Candidates with experience in Institutional/Corporate Foundation fundraising would be preferred. 
• Experience of managing the baselines, project design, program cycle, MLE, proposal and report writing to international donors like USAID, BMGF etc., implementation, monitoring and evaluation 
• Decent understanding of Impact investment.
• Expertise in carrying out training of trainers; training, mentoring & coaching partner organisations, organisational development.