Announcement For the post of Project Manager

Brief Position Summary ;

The office of Alumni & Corporate Relations (ACR) at IIT Madras is involved in raising funds from the corporate sector towards Corporate Social Responsibility. These funds would be deployed for various socially relevant Causes such as students scholarships, research having social impact, and such other projects undertaken by the faculty and Centres of Excellence inside IIT Madras. The Donor Stewardship Team (DST) provides periodic written Reports to the Corporate Donors on the progress of the projects sponsored by them. The reports would typically contain financial data, graphics and accounts of interactions with Principal Investigators (PIs) of the projects, visits to campus, etc. The office of ACR accords great importance to the DST since it reflects the ethos of the office and is crucial to effective corporate engagement and sustained fundraising.

The Project Manager - DST Corporate Relations would be a part of the DST and is expected to: -

• Possess excellent English communication skills both spoken and written.
• Work closely with the CSR Fundraising Team to understand the nature of the projects, agreements, the mandatory requirements and clauses under the contract.
• Maintain a healthy, proactive, productive, relationship with the Corporate donor throughout the period of engagement.
• Interact with the various faculty, departments, in IIT Madras to monitor the progress of the CSR project and ensure smooth progress.
• Serve as a liaison between the corporate donors and IIT Madras, coordinate and conduct visits of corporates to IITM, meetings with stakeholders, resolve challenges if any.
• Generate accurate, error-free, grammatically, and factually correct Reports on their own, independently.
• Be up-to-date and well informed about the various rules, regulations, notifications from various government ministries especially those of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs that are relevant to CSR.
• To monitor, track and generate reports from the Customer Relationship Management platform & database Salesforce.
• Assist in the conduct of CSR-themed networking events like seminars, conferences, or workshops for IITM Faculty, potential donors, and existing donors.
• Carry out any other duties related to CSR, assigned from time to time.

Desirability:

• Preference for candidates who have worked in hospitality relations, customer relations, Donor & Corporate relation roles in the development sector.
• Knowledge of Canva / Photoshop or any other software for generating graphics.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office Suite.
• Strong time management, analytical and organization skills, a keen eye for detail and the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• The candidate should also have strong interpersonal relationship skills.
• They should be passionate, creative and a self-starter, who can work with little to no supervision.
• Polite demeanour and ability to handle donor and corporate relations with ease.
• Delivery of reports on time.
• Persistent follow-up for the completion of work.
• Holds responsibility and takes ownership on assigned tasks.
• Working with team spirit and cohesiveness.
• Able to travel occasionally.
• If selected, must be able to join us within 15-30 days from the day of receiving the Offer letter.
• The candidate should be medically fit and provide a certificate to this effect from a registered medical doctor.

Educational Qualification:

A Masters Degree in Education, Business Management, Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Communication, Social Science, Business, Marketing or related fields.

Experience:

An experience of at least 5 years is required. Experience in managing Corporate Relations & experience in handling Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in organizations/Development Sector or experience in a similar educational environment is highly desirable.

Mandatory Skill:

Major part of the work will involve forwarding CSR reports to donors.

Therefore, the candidate MUST be able to compile error-free, grammatically correct, written reports, independently. In addition, candidate must be able to communicate, in a clear,

concise manner over email and telephone.

Perks and benefits

Rs. 45,000/- pm to Rs. 75,000/- pmCompetitive salary commensurate with experience.