Associate - Scholarships

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About the Organization

Bhumi was founded on August 15, 2006 by a group of friends, who believed that every underprivileged child deserves quality education. Since then, Bhumi has transformed this conviction into a volunteering opportunity for India’s youth, launching a snowball effect of nurturing talent on the path to an educated, poverty-free India.

Job Description

The Associate will be responsible for the operations and monitoring of Bhumi’s scholarships programme. The associate will execute all scholarships operations - outreach for scholarships, evaluating applications, ensuring all scholarship guidelines and requirements are met, and funds are disbursed without error.

Post disbursements, the associate will ensure students submit the receipts and other required documents regularly (marksheets etc.)

About the Program:

The goal of the Scholarships programme is to provide financial assistance, mentoring and skill development support to children who are part of Bhumi’s Ignite programme, towards enabling a sustainable livelihood for them.

Job Responsibilities

• Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Coordinating outreach to get scholarships applications from deserving students, based on scholarship guidelines.
• Ensuring timely completion of lead verification of scholarship applications on the application management system.
• Ensuring scholarships are disbursed and required data for periodic feedback/reports to the donors/partners is shared on time.
• Engaging and managing volunteers at various stages of the scholarship disbursement process to increase scale and reach of the programme.
• Driving automation of the verification and reporting for the programme, and to make the process more scalable, efficient and accurate.
• Engaging with scholars periodically and reporting back on their progress and status

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Graduate or postgraduate degree.
• MBA, MSW, fellowship or volunteering experience in a non-profit preferred.
• At least 1 year of relevant work experience. Freshers can be considered based on their resume.

Knowledge & Skill sets required:

• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
• Data analysis and interpretation. Competent to proficient level command over MS Excel.
• Resourcefulness in identifying ways to increase efficiency and scale through automation.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities
• Highly resourceful team player, who is also self-driven
• Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions

Others:

• Scope : Full Time
• Age Criteria : None
• Remuneration: Rs.3-4 LPA based on the candidate’s profile
• Reporting to : Assistant Manager - Scholarships
• Expected Joining Date: Immediate
• Location: Chennai/Virtual
• Minimum Commitment (in years) : 2

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