Management Trainee in Partnerships Team

• Look into potential funders and work out where funding could come from.
• Write grant proposals, along with the reports that go back to donors.
• Set up a pipeline of donors and keep it moving.
• Back partnership work that aims to scale up the foundation's learning.
• Work on live fundraising initiatives inside a structured, hands-on programme that runs for 11 months.

This is written for recent graduates, and full-time work history is not needed. Here is what the foundation is looking for:

• A bachelor's or master's degree. The team leans towards social work, public policy, economics, development studies, or business and MBA backgrounds.
• Solid writing and research ability.
• An interest in social impact that goes beyond the surface.

The programme is on-site at the Noida office in Sector 132. Before you go further, make sure you can be there in person for all 11 months.

• Pick one piece of your own writing, such as a research paper or policy brief, and keep it handy. Writing is one of the two abilities the role asks for.
• Try a small funder-research exercise: choose a cause you care about and note a few organisations that back it, with a line on why each is a match.
• Take a project you know well and condense it into one page, as if you were pitching it for funding. Clear, tight writing helps.
• Read a little about how social sector organisations raise money, so you can talk about your interest with specifics.
• On your CV, bring your degree and any research or writing work to the top.