Practice Head Csr Consulting Delhi Mumbai Bangalore (Remote)

Role: Practice Head, CSR Consulting

Designation: Associate Director / Director

Key skills: CSR consulting, social impact consulting, problem solving, team management, client engagement, data analysis and reporting

Location: Mumbai / Bengaluru / Delhi NCR. Work from home with frequent travel, local and outstation.

About Give Grants

Give Grants enables Indian corporations and foundations to deliver maximum social impact. Using a combination of consulting services, operations support and technology platforms, we work with 50+ companies and grantmakers to make their giving journey convenient, compliant and the most impactful it can be. We are a part of Give, India’s largest philanthropic platform.Find out more about us at give.do/givegrants

About the role

The CSR consulting team is a trusted advisor for our clients (companies / corporate foundations / philanthropic foundations) in their giving journey. Our service offerings include strategy and program design, partner identification, KPI design, on-ground monitoring and evaluation, and overall impact portfolio management. We also support clients in effectively using our CSR management tech platform. Our goal through each of these services is to help our clients maximize the social impact created by their CSR and philanthropic initiatives.

This role will require you to take complete ownership of all client engagements, as well as the team members in the CSR consulting team. You will be a part of the leadership group at Give Grants, with a strong influence on future strategy and growth.

This role demands strong consulting skills (data analysis, research, storytelling), deep appreciation of the social impact ecosystem (donors, nonprofits, social enterprises and the government), and comfort with the applicable standards and laws governing CSR.

Key responsibilities

Own engagement delivery

• Ensure high quality, well researched, data backed delivery of insights and inputs to the clients across all projects
• Be a trusted advisor to senior decision makers, and lead executive presentations.
• Drive creation and application of relevant frameworks and methodologies

Own client relationships, drive growth

• Manage senior relationships, be recognized as an expert advisor
• Own revenue growth for existing accounts, via deal expansion and cross sells

Innovate on the service offerings

• Constantly evolve the service offerings based on market feedback
• Expand the bouquet of offerings to address white spaces in the market (collectives, action-based research and more)

Help position Give Grants as a CSR thought leader

• Drive continuous learning within the team, to build their depth of knowledge
• Actively create / enable thought leadership content and market presence via events, speaker opportunities, research reports, webinars and more

Financial management for the CSR consulting practice

• Ensure margins are maintained, while growing the revenue
• Review and influence delivery effort, utilization and therefore gross margins for the practice.

Requirements

We believe in learning through doing. We value self-starters who can easily roll up their sleeves and contribute, rather than only manage and provide oversight. We are looking for –

Excellence in your academic and professional career

• Graduation / Post graduation from top tier institutes. An academic background in sociology / social work / economics / development studies / other allied streams will be a positive but is not essential.
• High growth in your professional career at reputed organizations

Relevant experience

• Minimum 15 years overall, with 10+ years of relevant experience
• Past experience in business consulting / impact consulting would be a strong positive
• Past experience with CSR or institutional philanthropy will be a strong positive
• Experience of working in nonprofits, govt agencies and social enterprises is relevant, especially if it involved managing multiple projects, large teams and a large number of stakeholders
• Project management / program management experience is essential

Depth of knowledge within the CSR and social impact space

• Depth of expertise within your chosen domain e.g. healthcare, education, climate action etc
• Past experience with program design, impact measurement, program execution would be a strong positive
• High comfort with CSR specific laws, regulations and norms

A positive attitude that is comfortable with ambiguity and risk

• Past experience with small teams, startups, fast paced environments
• Willingness to take risks and experiment with new products and strategies
• High standards of ethics and governance, backed with practical knowledge and experience

Hard skills

• Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power point and Word
• Data analysis, visualization and reporting
• Comfort with tech tools and products for use within the CSR space
• Advanced communication skills, verbal and written

About Give

Give exists to alleviate poverty by enabling the world to give. Established in 2000, Give, together with its partners, is the largest and most trusted giving platform in India. Give enables individuals and organizations to raise and donate funds conveniently to any cause they care about, with offerings including crowdfunding, corporate giving, cause marketing, and philanthropy consulting. Give’s community of 2.6 M+ donors support 2,800+ verified non-profits, serving 15M+ people across the country.

We are an extremely rare workplace that brings a fast-paced, high-growth work culture together with a compassion-driven impact-focused work environment.

Our Values

integrity in everything we do | empathy towards all | serve with passion | focused on scale