The Role: APD mandate is to create awareness and sensitivity with all stake-holders including Corporates, Civil Society, Government, Academia, Health professionals, Researchers, Lawmakers, Foundations other NGOs, Care-givers and Persons with disability. Towards this end, the Fundraising Officer will be required to:

• Acquire new partnerships and donors for increasing organizations resources.
• Develop and organize fundraising campaigns and events
• Spot fundraising opportunities and raise awareness of the organizations work
• Develop milestones and schedules for all CSR projects, ensuring project team and stakeholder alignment; manage to, and deliver on, agreed-upon deadlines
• Prepare proposals for CSR Funds.
• Support management in raising CSR funds be it meetings with external parties, information, data management
• Lead and manage new projects in collaboration with functional teams.
• To develop a portfolio of donors including institutional, corporate, HNIs, foundations and trusts to achieve the revenue target set by the organization.
• Build relationships with major donors or companies
• Prepare and deliver presentations & write proposals
• Continuously research for additional partnerships, possible intellectual capital creation opportunities
• Manage information and record the profile and fundraising activity of donors on a database
• Create high quality utilization reports for the donors
• Create strategic fundraising plans to expand donation base
• Work closely with other teams internally to strategize based on budget, expenses, and goals for the quarter
• Develop strategies and set goals to hit fundraising targets, including corpus and program funding.
• Relationship management with existing donors and responding to their requests regularly and keep updating them about the work of the organization
• Identify and anchor new initiatives related to resource mobilization
• Build and manage a network of individual donors
• Under the guidance of the Director - Fundraising oversee quality, production and distribution of all communication and collaterals to ensure consistent brand positioning.
• Assist in the Improvement and development of communication & collaterals for APD – Starting with APD Website, Digital assets and other collaterals - brochures, newsletters, annual report, Videos, posters etc.
• Create and maintain a web presence.
• Work with Operations and Finance teams to prepare project / Annual budgets and convert it to marketing proposals along with Director Fundraising.
• Work with IT staff/vendors to design and maintain the Donor Relation Management (DRM) database