VP - Donor Relations

Role & responsibilities:

• Identify Donor segments and establish a robust engagement approach to include all donor segments as part of Sevalayas growth
• Establish and nurture everlasting relationships with Corporates, funding agencies, fund raising agencies and Individual donors
• Define and deploy strategy to identify new donors as well as to increase donations from existing donors
• Collaborate with the CSR heads in the corporates and present suitable project proposals aligning with their CSR approach
• Support the DR team in preparation of Proposals and contracts for CSR projects (Do we do projects with funding agencies / fund raising agencies too?)
• Collaborate with Operations team to review the progress of CSR projects and provide regular updates to the corporates
• Work with funding agencies and fund raising agencies to increase the income thru donations
• Guide and mentor the location DR representatives to meet  with the individual donor communities and expand the donor base
• Provide periodic updates to all existing & potential donors and key stakeholders on the latest services and events  of Sevalaya  
• Keep abreast of the services offered by other NGOs and identify best practices and lessons learnt  
• Guide and support the DR - Internal team to ensure the following:
• Sevalaya activities to gain adequate coverage in various print, visual and digital media
• Reporting of all CSR activities to various Corporates to be done on time with the right metrics
• Organization wise adoption of automated system called Go Digital.  Identify new opportunities for automation
• Continuous update to the Organizational process documents
• Seva Craft to be transformed into a profitable venture, (Can we mention this in public as profitable venture) providing self sustaining revenue to Sevalaya
• Support the DR team in coordinating with  Operations, Accounts, Admin and HR to ensure that the DR activities are executed seamlessly

Reach, and if possible, exceed the revenue target for every financial year across each donor segment