Senior Specialist - Fundraising

About the organization: Udhyam Learning Foundation is on a mission towards Making Bharat Entrepreneurial. We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world. About the vertical: Udhyam Shiksha, the education arm of Udhyam Learning Foundation, is working to ensure that every student attending a government school in India gets an opportunity to learn by doing. We want students to try new things, to experiment, to be self-aware, and to be independent. This is the foundational mindset and can-do attitude we aim to build, alongside the 21st century skills of communication, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration, recognised globally as the 4Cs. These skills matter more than ever in a world where AI is capable of doing routine tasks. In line with the National Education Policy's emphasis on experiential learning, we enable these mindsets and competencies through real-world experience, rather than through the typical method of rote learning and recall. Our goal is to work at scale with the system. This is why we partner with state government education departments to run our curriculum as part of a regular subject in the classroom. We develop and iterate our curriculum, build teacher capacity, provide on-ground monitoring and implementation support, and use technology and AI to scale our impact as well. Our current reach has been 4.7M students across 15 states in India - and we want to work towards the audacious idea of making entrepreneurship education accessible in every government school in the country. About the role: We are looking to hire a Senior Specialist, Fundraising for the Shiksha vertical - which will entail raising funds from institutional and corporate philanthropy partners to reach millions of students studying in government schools across India. You will develop proposals, pitch decks, and budgets aligned to the program for diverse funders. You should be able to assess each partner and position our value proposition accordingly, in a timely manner. Udhyam operates at scale, with work intersecting across youth empowerment, education, economic development, and enabling agency, alongside multiple new initiatives - including vocational education as the most recent one. This role gives you the opportunity to dive into how funders across these crosscutting initiatives are thinking, and how to cater to their demands. You will have a unique opportunity to shape the voice in building the case to corporates and institutional donors for why building agency in youth matters. You will report to Principal Specialist, Fundraising, and work in close collaboration with the Director, Shiksha and Shiksha Operations. What we are looking for: Someone who believes that having the right mindset along with the skills, especially when developed during adolescence, can…