Multiple Openings – Dhwani Foundation

Dhwani Foundation is a Bengaluru based registered trust. Its primary objective is to improve the productivity & efficacy in the social sector, through organizational development programmes, technology enablers, system & process improvement and sectoral strengthening. Log on to www.dhwanifoundation.org for more details.

Currently foundation’s work is spread in Karnataka, Tamilnadu, North-East and other parts of the country, supporting close to 1500 grassroots NGOs through various initiatives. Dhwani foundation also works with the Government, Donors, NGO Federations, Academia and other stakeholder to promote a vibrant and credible social sector. Dhwani foundation is a team of 30 members from diverse fields who bring-in interesting dimensions to the work.

1. Program Head – Updeshak Programme (Full time)

Location: Bangalore, will involve travel across different parts of India.

Purpose of the Job:

• Enable existing NGO board members of Dhwani partners to increase their understanding on governance and promote best governance practices in their respective organizations.
• Enroll external people who are interested to serve on NGO boards, build their capacities and support them to join NGO boards to promote independent board members in NGOs.

Responsibilities:

• Design strategies and implementation plan for the programmme aligning with DF strategic plans for Updeshak programme.
• Work with ED to develop annual plans, budgets, human resources to meet the overall goals of the program.
• Build networks and linkages to ensure required external Updeshak Fellows are enrolled.
• Design the training, orientation courses for both existing board members and Updeshak fellows in order to enhance their skills in NGO governance.
• Work closely with NGO leaders to support and handhold them in order to adapt best governance practices and take required decisions.
• Mentor and guide Updeshak fellows to ensure their joining to the board and retaining them on the boards as contributing members.
• Develop all the required process, materials, manuals etc that are required for the programme delivery.
• Build and manage the team as per the programme needs.
• Coordinate with other DF programme teams to align with timelines and deliverables.
• Build alumni of Updeshak fellows and organize quarterly interactions.
• Provide monthly, quarterly reports, data and all other necessary documentation needed by the management and to any donors supporting Updeshak programme.
• Be part of the senior management team to contribute for the overall growth of the organization.

Experience:

• At least 8 to 10 years of experience in working with senior management teams in recruitments or marketing and experience working with multiple stakeholders.
• Exposure to NGO sector or Experience in training will be an added advantage.

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

• Degree /Masters Degree in any stream.
• Marketing, Negotiations, and Relationship building
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Mentoring and Team building
• Large scale operations- building processes and systems
• Must be able to use computer and handle internet, Word, XL, PowerPoint

Desirables:

• Qualifications in Mass Media, Marketing, or Sales Specializations.
• Exposure to different Languages especially Hindi and Tamil.
• Salary Offered: 10 Lakhs Per Annum – Negotiable based on experience and skill sets

2. Program Head – DrishtE E-learning platform (Full time)

Location: Bangalore, will involve travel across different parts of India.

Purpose of the Job:

• Enable NGOs, Social Sector professionals and students to improve their knowledge to ensure that they are able to effectively implement non-domain aspects of the NGO sector.
• Influence universities, larger NGO forums and other institutes to adapt DhristE materials as part of their curriculum to enhance human resources for the non-domain aspects of social sector

Responsibilities:

• Design marketing strategies in order to meet annual target for DhristE platform to be used by 5000 beneficiaries.
• Explore technology platforms to simplify enrollment processes and broaden geography coverage.
• Work with the team for constant upgradation of content and additions as per the requirements.
• Put a system in order to ensure effective tracking systems are in place and the course completion rate is at 50%.
• Build networks/collaborations with various institutes such as academia, NGO federations, Professional student bodies, Research institutes across the country to ensure the programme reaches to multiple stakeholders.
• Manage the team, guide them for continuous learning and improvement of programme delivery.
• Promote community connect among all the alumni.

Experience:

• At least 8 to 10 years of working experience in marketing, sales, managerial positions.
• Managing teams and working experience with multiple stakeholders.
• Exposure to NGO sector or Experience in training, Developing videos,
• Documentaries will be an added advantage.

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

• Degree /Masters Degree in any stream
• Strong knowledge of online portals
• Marketing of Services and products
• Basic Technical understanding to manage technical teams
• Marketing, Negotiations, Monitoring, large scale operations process and systems

Desirables:

• Expertise is digital marketing, developing Apps, Exposure to large scale enrolment programs.
• Qualifications in Mass Media, Marketing, or Sales Specializations.
  Exposure to different Languages especially Hindi and Tamil.
• Salary Offered: 9 Lakhs Per Annum – Negotiable based on experience and skill sets

3. Head – Finance, HR & Admin (Full time)

Location: Bangalore, might involve travel.

Purpose of the Job:

The Compliance and Finance Manager will be responsible for all aspects of finance, compliance, HR and MIS management of the organization, ensuring compliance with internal policies and as well as that of Donors and Government regulations. The person will assist the leader and the board in all secretarial work.

Responsibilities:

Compliance, Financial and Accounting:

• Manage, supervise and support the day-to-day financial and compliance operations of the organization involving multiple donors, multiple projects, and programmes.
• Responsible for Budgeting for the entire organization, maintenance of weekly, and monthly reports along with other MIS.
• Responsible for all the donor reports and reporting on various variances as well as making early corrections.
• Supervision and Inspection of Payroll in Collaboration with HR department.
• Ensuring strict timelines in the book closures and reporting and variance analysis.
• Timely submissions of donor and other stakeholders’ requirements like Utilization certificates and other reports.
• Manage Procurement, Donors visits, programme delivery and guiding the team with regards to finance and compliance aspects.
• Filing statutory returns like Income Tax, TDS and FCRA and coordinate with the consultants and stakeholders for the same.
• Manage and Supervise the Profit and Loss account of the Self Generation Unit.
• Manage and support partner organizations on Finance and Compliance functions with periodical visits to regional and project centres.
• Finalization of books of accounts and preparation of the financials.
• Liaising with the internal and external stakeholders including auditors, bankers, and other consultants.

Human Resources:

• Make sure HR systems and policies are in place for defining job roles, recruitment, retention, employee benefits and exit processes.
• Maintaining complete records of all the human resources of the organization.
• Promote good employee culture and positive environment.
• Manage all recruitments end-to-end with the concerned program heads.
• Support all program heads in handling the appraisal system.
• Maintain staff, consultants HR files, attendance registers, leave letters, leave register and insurance related matters.
• Updated staff with reports on leaves, medical benefits and other welfare schemes on quarterly basis.
• Be accountable for all purchases, inventory, stock maintenance, assets and ensure insurance and other safety measures are taken well in advance

Administration:

• Assist Managing Trustee and Executive director in all admin related matters.
• Assisting ED and the Board in keeping track of the board proceedings, meetings and the related paperwork in place.
• Handling communication on Board related activities with relevant stakeholders.
• Support all program teams in managing logistics for training and other program related events.
• Manage staff travel, accommodation and other admin related matters.
• Asset maintenance and quarterly mapping of all the DF assets.
• Ensure overall building maintenance and security matters of the Foundation.
• Support the Foundation in all IT and technology related matters.

Experience:

• At least 5 to 8 Years of experience in the Accounts and Finance.
• Experience handling Finance and accounts in a Non- profit organization will be an added advantage.

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

• MBA in Finance or Masters in Commerce
• Knowledge of accounts closure and preparation of financials.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant legal obligations and laws like FCRA, Income tax.
• Handle periodical audits, certification from various agencies.
• Expertise in Tally ERP Software.
• Expertise in the Microsoft office suite.

Desirables:

• CA or Inter Pass
• Exposure to organization building, people development and skill enhancement.
• Knowledge of multiple reconciliations, bank reconciliations and analysis.

Salary Offered: 7 Lakhs Per Annum – Negotiable based on experience and skill sets

4. Assistant  Program Manager – Updeshak (Full time)

Location: Bangalore, but involves travel as per Project requirements.

Purpose of the Job:

Strengthen governance in NGOs by bringing diversity and expertise to NGO Boards from the corporate and professional world, as well as works to enhance effectiveness of existing Board members through training and close handholding.

Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with NGOs in various states, convincing them about need for better governance, enrolling them for our capacity-building programmes and delivering the sessions for them.
• Handholding, monitoring and carrying out assessments for partner NGOs.
  Ensure Updeshak fellows to join the Organization boards and support and contribute in the NGO development.
• Follow ups after the training and support fellows to participate in the organization board meetings.
• Create Updeshak profiles of fellows for partner organizations.
• Maintain regular communication between the NGO leaders and Updeshak fellows to build relationships & document efforts.
• Assisting in other activities of Updeshak and other programmes of Dhwani Foundation.

Experience:

• At least 2 to 3 years of experience in the development sector.
• Coordination and networking skills with Corporate and NGO Leaders

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

• Postgraduate qualification in any stream
• 2 to 3 years of experience in the development sector.
• Must be able to use computer and handle internet, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirables:

• Desire to learn and contribute to organizational development in the social sector.
• Exposure to different Language –English, Hindi and Tamil

Salary Offered: 4 Lakhs Per Annum – Negotiable based on experience and skill sets

5. Senior Associate – Technology Solutions (Full time)

Location: Bangalore, but involves travel as per Project requirements.

Purpose of the Job:

Help NGOs in the implementation of Goonjan cloud-based MIS platform to bring in efficiency & transparency in their operations. Promote Goonjan and contribute to enhance it with NGO friendly features.

Responsibilities:

• Develop knowledge about the Goonjan Cloud based Platform to be able to independently implement the MIS for partners.
• Should have the experience of engaging with customers, understanding their requirements, and providing customized workable solutions.
• Should be able to document Business requirements for any new development in Goonjan.
• Should be able to translate the Business requirements to Functional specifications for the development team.
• Should be inquisitive to explore & research for any existing open source or other suitable software already available for new features.
• Participate in architecture & design discussions with software development team.
• Contribute to helping standardize processes, documentation, developing user manuals and the like.
• Should engage in testing of new version releases of Goonjan.
• Should be able to train hands-on, non-technical staff of our partners to use Goonjan
• Responsible for providing on-going support for partner NGOs, monitor & encourage regular usage of Goonjan.
• Metrics based approach to drive excellence in exceeding partner expectations.
• Should participate in Marketing activities, events, NGO visits, annual partner meets and the like.

Experience:

• At least 4 to 5 years of experience in using and implementing cloud-based software.
• Exposure to social sector will be an added advantage.

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

• A Graduation or master’s degree in computer science or Computer Applications
• Should be technology oriented and knowledgeable of newer trends available
• Must be comfortable with MS office suite
• Working knowledge of Kannada and English
• Should have quick and self-learning abilities with an eye to detail

Desirables:

• Exposure to Software development.
• Should be self-driven and able to take responsibility of Goonjan implementation.
• Should be a good team player with efficient multi-tasking ability

Salary Offered: 5.5 Lakhs Per Annum – Negotiable based on experience and skill sets

6. Master Trainer- Niranthara-Sahayak (Full time)

Location: Bangalore based, with frequent travels across project states.

Purpose of the Job:

• Guide, mentor and support leadership group and team members or Niranthara- Sahayak partner organizations. Build their capacities to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness to make significant impact on the lives of vulnerable individuals, groups and communities that they work with.
• Towards this end, design, develop resource materials and deliver appropriate training and capacity building programs.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with internal and external teams in developing, scheduling and delivering training programme and ensure better co-ordination and mutual support.
• Identify and assess the training needs of NGO partner leaders and team members with field visits and other methods.
• Develop appropriate training materials, approved manuals, reference materials and hand outs based on the broad content of N-S program model for the participants.
• Analyze manuals, handouts, reference materials to identify gaps and recommend any changes or addition of topics or subjects.
• Identify and implement effective and purposeful preparation and training delivery methods and tools to promote optimum learning.
• Develop integrated training calendar for multiple batches and ensure that the approved training calendar is shared with partner NGOs and adhered to training timelines.
• Ensure high level of engagement and participation by trainees in the workshops and other activities.
• Develop resource pool of resource organizations, domain area specialists, resource persons for different subject areas.
• Set ongoing assessment and improvement mechanisms to ensure all NGOs score minimum of 85% against Niranthara-Sahayak results framework and parameters.
• Keep abreast with the trends and developments and upgrade subject knowledge and skills in the OD space and integrate in training and workshops.
• Contribute to developing plans and budgets for the month/quarter and ensure that all training and workshops are delivered and managed as per plan and within the approved budget.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly report and submit to Head, Training and review performances on quarterly basis.

Experience:

• 10 years of work experience in the social sector. At least 5 years of direct work experience with a program implementing NGO.
• Handling responsibilities in content development and conducting trainings, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

• Master’s degree in Social Work/Sociology/Rural Development/Development
• Sound knowledge of social sector and NGO management.
• Fluency in two or more languages : Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office Suite

Desirables:

• Positive and excellent people skills, be able to collaborate with all levels
• Good communication and presentation skills

Salary Offered: 8.4 Lakhs Per Annum

7. Director – Operations (Full time)

Purpose of the Job:

Provide direction and leadership to the program heads of the foundation to ensure that all its operations are managed efficiently and effectively, making a meaningful impact on the social sector.

Location: Bangalore, will involve travel across different parts of India.

Responsibilities:

Leadership & Strategy:

• Maintains strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders that are collaborators in the ecosystem.
• Responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Foundation’s operational and administrative functions.
• Working under the guidance of the Foundation’s Board and the Executive
• Director for the organization’s strategic vision and is accountable for its implementation and the results achieved.
• Evolve program plans in order to meet foundation goals and ensure the timely implementation of such interventions.
• Managing Finance, People, and Systems
• Building and managing a team of program heads and managers that will deliver the programmes.
• Fundraising and managing the resources available to the organization.
• Building systems that enable the organization to achieve its vision.
• Be accountable to hire, retain and mentor people to ensure effective program delivery.
• Strategic Delivery of Programs
• Lead delivery of programs to enable youth in the region
• Prioritize and implement programs in a timely and efficient manner

Ecosystem Building

• Build required external contacts, relationships and networks in order to support program heads to achieve their program objectives.
• Explore newer opportunities, innovations and experiments with uncertainties in order to enhance productivity and impact of operations.

Experience:

• At least 15 years of experience at managerial and leadership roles. Experience of managing medium size team with multiple backgrounds. Exposure to work beyond internal teams.
• Experience in working with Donor organizations, Government or training organizations will be an added advantage

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

Understanding of people management, Networking, Leadership Management, Programme implementation strategy, Basic research, Orientation to Social sector, Ability to manage few uncertain situations.

Desirables:

• Specialization in any social sciences, any course in leadership management or NGO Management, Exposure to CSR.
• Exposure to NGOs and it’s operations, experience in working with networks/federations, Exposure to quality control and impact measurements.
• Fluency in Kannada, Tamil & Hindi

Salary Offered: 16-18 Lakhs per annum

8. Senior Fundraising Manager (Full time)

Location: Bangalore (but involves extensive travel across different parts of India)

Purpose of the Job:

• Understand the purpose of our NGO’s existence, and in-depth knowledge of our overall goals, objectives, values, policies, and programmes.
• Evangelize OD and small, medium & rural NGOs.
• Raise funds for DF programs and for DF’s partners.
• Market and enroll clients into DF’s Donor engagement programme.

Responsibilities:

• Achieve fundraising targets set by DF leadership.
• Understand the purpose of DF’s existence, and in-depth knowledge of our overall goals, objectives, values, policies and programs.
• Research the sector from a fund-raising perspective and build partners and channels.
• Research potential donors and understand their policies and fitment.
• Work with our Leadership team to finetune & execute a fundraising strategy.
• Create and maintain a database of donors and establish contact including face to face meetings with key personnel in their organizations.
• Identify opportunities for grants from donors and create proposals for submission to donors.
• Find ways to identify potential donors for our partner NGOs and meet internal fund raising targets.
• Identify and evangelize our Donor engagement program, enroll clients.
• Maintain regular communication with donors, build relationships & document efforts.
• Manage all pre grant and post grant engagements to maximize relationships.

Experience:

• At least 5 to 8 years in Donor-facing roles for Organizational Development.
• Experience in Fundraising for NGOs will be an added advantage.

Skills & Knowledge:

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a reputed University/Institution.
• Fundraising for the Social sector
• Good presentation, negotiation, and relationship management skills
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office Suite

Desirables:

• Master’s degree (MBA) in Marketing or equivalent is an advantage
• Target driven high-performer with a history of meeting/exceeding targets
• Exposure to different Languages including English Hindi and Tamil

Salary Offered: 8-10 Lakhs Per Annum negotiable based on experience and skills

Application Process:

To apply for this position, send your CV and cover letter explaining why do you think you are a fit for this position to careers@dhwanifoundation.org

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