Jyoti Verma
Business Impact Manager
Mumbai
Summary
Detail-oriented Social Development Professional with over 12 years of experience in fundraising and grant management. A dedicated learner with strong communication and problem-solving skills, known for adaptability and a solution-oriented mindset. Results-driven, adept at pitching ideas and expertly managing projects throughout the project lifecycle.
My expertise encompasses a wide range of projects, including those focused on Safe migration, Skill Development, Vocational Education, Livelihoods, Women Empowerment and Empowering Persons with Disabilities, Environment conservation, Water security and Mental Health. Through my professional journey, I have gained comprehensive knowledge in program design and planning, reporting, project operations, networking, revenue generation from corporate and government funding, as well as proposal and grant writing. Additionally, I possess experience in shortlisting and managing NGO partners as needed for project implementation.
I am also a proud YLP participant at United Nations Office on Sports for Development and Peace representing India at the 13th UNOSDP program in Gwangju, South Korea.
On a journey of learning, unlearning, and re-learning, I am committed to personal and professional growth.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Manager - Fundraising
Raintree Foundation
07.2023 - Current
- Organized and led fundraising events in partnership with communication teams, targeting CSR leaders in Pune.
- Outreach for onboarding new corporate partners.
- Developed concept notes, proposals, and volunteering materials focused on Environment Conservation, Water Security, Livelihoods, Gender, and Mental Health, in collaboration with the program team and COO.
- Worked with the COO and Finance team to prepare budget sheets.
- Oversaw due diligence processes to ensure compliance.
- Crated trackers to maintain detailed records of all partnership activities.
- Led initiatives for HNI outreach, retail fundraising, and crowdfunding.
- Managing grants by ensuring that project deliverables align with timelines and expenditures adhere to the proposed budget.
- Managed donor reporting and problem solved for issues.
- Collaborated with the Communications team to produce all fundraising collateral.
- In the process of setting up a fundraising team.
- Leveraged online and offline events to enhance awareness about Raintree Foundation's initiatives.
Business Impact Manager
Metta Social
08.2022 - Current
- Lead generation by pitching to new companies in order to secure long term corporate partnerships (for the M&E tech platform)
- Contact
- Address, Securing strategic partnerships
- Mediate between pre-sales, NGO team and corporate partners in order to close on partner proposals
- Brainstorm with corporate partners to create innovative CSR projects that align with the companies CSR goals
Lead
Jan Sahas Foundation
01.2008 - 04.2022
- Lead generation and acquisition of new partners
- Donor management
- Due diligence and Reporting on periodic basis
- Develop project proposals, concept notes, presentations and budgets for pitching
- Coordinate Global level boards (India, UK and US)
- Monitor progress in coordination with the MEL team as per schedule
- 2020 till 2022 (period of employment with Jan
- Sahas group) have secured ~22 Crore from
- Corporates, Foundations and Grants
- Managed partnerships of Godrej Properties Limited,
- Barclays, Laudes, HT Parekh Foundation (HDFC),
- Macquarie, Fidelity Asia Pacific Foundation to name a few.
Manager
Jan Sahas Social Development Society
01.2003 - 07.2020
- Lead generation by pitching new companies to secure long term corporate partnership by generating innovative proposals and integrating fundraising products
- Manage relationship with current and new corporate partners
- Manage donor relationships basis their reporting needs on a continuing basis and ensure timely reporting and due diligence as per their expectations
- Develop project proposals, concept notes, presentations and budgets for pitching
- Statutory reporting
- Monitoring & Evaluation
- Relationship building
- Grant making
- Define target sheets for operations unit
- Monitor progress in coordination with the Monitoring &Evaluation team as per schedule
Program Manager
Rustomjee Academy for Global Careers Pvt. Ltd
01.2020 - 01.2003
- Built & maintained strategic partnerships with
- Corporate Clients and Government bodies
- Developed concept notes and proposals on diverse thematic areas (Education and Livelihood) for potential donors and coordinate team reviews to ensure technical quality
- Pursued potential funding opportunities for the organization, cold calling to arrange donor meetings and anchoring donor discussions
- Formalized partnerships by completing required due-diligence
- Represented the organization at conferences and networking events from time to time
- Undertook field visits
- Conducted need assessment study to design projects
- Collected data and performed research to develop project cost estimates and budgets
- Developed and administered project budgets
- Sourced (Identified and shortlisted) partner NGOs for subletting implementation of Skill- development projects
- Maintained schedules and monitored performance (due-diligence, Onboarding, Setting KPI’s, monitoring spends against actuals, developing
- Monitoring and Evaluation framework) of the Project implementation team or partner NGO’s
- Designed marketing collateral along with in-house team for better outreach of project
- Planned and executed meetings to connect organizational representatives, community members and corporate clients
- Developed detailed plans based on broad guidance and direction for Project execution team
- Generating leads of new prospective clients
- Aided partnerships with various State Governments to carry out training of youth under the State schemes.
Program Coordinator
Slum Soccer
01.2013 - 04.2015
- Developed training programs
- Created standard operating procedures
- Developed, coordinated and administered programs
- Devised, implemented and monitored program plans and schedules
- Wrote grants and proposals for Fundraising such as ‘Of Dust and Football', ‘Advocates for Youth grant', 'Goals for Girls'
- Prepared project reports
Education
Master of Arts - Social Work
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Mumbai 06.2015 - 05.2017
Master of Science - Geoinformatics
Birla Institute of Technology
Mesra 06.2010 - 06.2012
Bachelor of Science - Environmental Science
Sardar Patel University
Gujarat 06.2007 - 06.2010
Skills
Skillsundefined
Timeline
Senior Manager - Fundraising
Raintree Foundation
07.2023 - Current
Business Impact Manager
Metta Social
08.2022 - Current
Program Manager
Rustomjee Academy for Global Careers Pvt. Ltd
01.2020 - 01.2003
Master of Arts - Social Work
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
06.2015 - 05.2017
Program Coordinator
Slum Soccer
01.2013 - 04.2015
Master of Science - Geoinformatics
Birla Institute of Technology
06.2010 - 06.2012
Lead
Jan Sahas Foundation
01.2008 - 04.2022
Bachelor of Science - Environmental Science
Sardar Patel University
06.2007 - 06.2010
Manager
Jan Sahas Social Development Society
01.2003 - 07.2020
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