Join the team that is making a difference every day
The Foundation for Excellence (FFE) was founded with the mission to award scholarships to students, who although financially constrained, showed great promise in the Engineering, Medical, Pharmacy and Law Programs, these being one of the most expensive higher education programs in India. In addition to the financial support, FFE’s Professional Skill Development & Mentoring Program equips scholars with work-readiness skills required for employability.
A passionate and high-energy team, we at FFE, work towards transforming the lives of academically brilliant and financially needy students. Over the last 30 years, several thousands of students have benefited through this initiative – this has been made possible because of the dedicated and empowered team at FFE. Here is your chance to join us – a team that puts its heart, mind and soul into everything they do!
Current Openings
Executive - Scholarship Team
Job profile includes outreach to colleges & other NGO Partners, scrutinizing Scholarship Applications, interaction with Facilitator volunteers, scheduling verification calls, and processing of applications to onboard scholars. Requires proficiency in Excel and various formulae, good communication skills and ability to work with the team.
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 3+ Years
Roles & Responsibilities:
Work closely with the Manager – Scholarship in the following areas:
- Understand the Scholarship policy and scholarship program at FFE
- Scrutinize the applications & speak to the students to ensure eligibility.
- Check for percentage, rank & income criteria based on policy.
- Validate the Aadhaar details
- Interact with facilitators/Parents/Students for the Online verification process, explain the process and handle all the parties with utmost empathy.
- Interact with students to explain the process of applications.
- Continuous interaction with students to encourage them to upload the necessary documents.
- Respond to their queries via email/call on a timely basis.
- Interact with facilitators to ensure the verification process is completed.
- Matching students to facilitators based on location, availability and language
- Inform students to approach facilitators with their completed applications.
- Check for completed applications once the verification process is done by checking for attestation in all the documents.
- Work as part of the team to ensure the scholarship program is executed smoothly.
- Understand the process of the scholarship program
- Manage the CRM tool to process the applications
- Compile reports to collect the data.
- Ability to move across teams to support when the job demands.
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Senior Executive - Donor Team
Day-to-day management of prospect and existing donor relationships, planning and executing donor engagement initiatives while deepening and diversifying FFE’S funding base.
Location: Bangalore/WFH
Experience: 4+ Years
Roles & Responsibilities
Develop and Implement Donor Relations Strategy
- Lead, establish, build, and maintain strong and productive relationships with FFE’s Donors
- Ensure active engagement with Donors, understand their needs, and provide appropriate services
- Maintain regular contact with Donors through reports, newsletters, etc.
- Ensure that all communication to donors is consistent with FFE guidelines
- Maintain, update and manage donor contact database for use by the organization
Planning, Reporting and Documentation:
- Responsible for preparing regular (quarterly and yearly) qualitative reports and documenting case studies and testimonials.
- Maintain regular connections with the scholars and fetch relevant information required for Donor reporting
- Responsible for high-stake donor reporting, developing their annual project plan and its implementation.
- Write grant proposals or assist in the process
- Assist in the preparation of virtual meet-ups, and events with appropriate post-event follow-ups.
- Excellent organizational, planning and project management skills with strong attention to detail and the ability to effectively manage multiple cross-functional projects simultaneously.
Qualification and Work experience
- Bachelors/ Master’s degree in any field.
- 2-3 years of proven project management and other job-relevant skills
- Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with the FFE team, donors, and students
- Demonstrated success in project planning, monitoring, and report writing
- Excellent English skills (spoken and written), presentation skills, interpersonal skills & networking skills, and ability to work on tight deadlines.
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
This position requires some weekend hours and travel (occasional).
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Stay in Touch
If you like what we do at Foundation for Excellence and do not see a suitable job opening that meets your skill currently, please send your CV to careers@ffe.org and we will get back to you when appropriate career options open up.