Principal Consultant Associate Director Impact Consulting (Remote)

Role: Principal Consultant / Associate Director, Impact Consulting

Key skills: Social sector / development consulting, strategy consulting, business consulting, problem solving

Location: Delhi / Mumbai / Bengaluru, with extensive travel expected

About Give Grants

Give Grants enables CSR teams and foundations to deliver maximum social impact. Our offerings include consulting services, CSR project management support, a SaaS platform to support data tracking and reporting, and impact assessment. We work with 50+ Indian corporations and are expanding rapidly. Find out more about us at give.do/givegrants

About the role

In this role, you will advise a diverse range of clients within the social sector, including CSR teams, foundations, and other funding organizations. The role requires acumen to analyze complex problems, manage diverse stakeholders, and deliver solutions that drive meaningful change. You will get an opportunity to work on challenging projects and identify value-creation opportunities through social development initiatives, helping our clients translate strategic objectives into actionable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own multiple consulting engagements and relationships end to end, from pre-sales to requirement gathering to solution design and implementation
• Contribute to building the consulting team through hiring, capability building, training and relationships
• Drive extensive research to help with solution design. Research could include landscaping studies, primary surveys, executive interviews, literature surveys and more.
• Recommend appropriate frameworks and methodologies to assess the problem statement, and help the team improve their proficiency as consultants.
• Lead client relationships and engagements including project planning, people management, engagement with key stakeholders and executive presentations.
• Lead ongoing development of thought leadership content through creation of reports, articles, podcasts etc.
• Actively contribute to pre-sales efforts by engaging with potential clients, developing high quality collateral and building proposals and pitches.

Requirements

• 15+ years of overall experience, with at least 10 years of consulting experience within well recognized firms. Experience in strategy consulting, operations consulting and program management is relevant. Experience in the social sector as well as in the larger business sector are both equally relevant.
• Demonstrated history of career growth and leadership positions with past employers, with exposure to multiple sectors within or outside the development space
• Prior experience in development consulting (health, education, livelihoods, climate action, government engagement etc) would be highly preferred
• Top tier storytelling and presentation skills, backed by strong verbal and written communication
• Strong data analysis capabilities including high proficiency in excel / google sheets, comfort with data visualization tools (powerBI / data studio), and familiarity with simple statistical analysis.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment and deliver within tight timelines, with a strong commitment to ethical practices, social justice, and advancing positive social outcomes.
• Willingness to work in a startup environment and the dynamic nature of a 0-to-1 journey

What we have to offer

• Impact: The opportunity to make a significant impact on communities and organizations through strategic action-oriented consulting
• Professional growth: Be a part of the core team building an impact-first consulting organization. Experience early stage growth, with its joys and challenges.
• Great people of work with: Work with a passionate and diverse team committed to social change and innovation.

About Give

Give Grants is one of the three verticals within Give. Give exists to alleviate poverty by enabling the world to give. Established in 2000, Give is the largest and most trusted giving platform in India. Give enables individuals and organizations to raise, donate and deploy funds conveniently to any cause they care about. Give’s offerings include retail giving (give.do), CSR services (Give Grants) and nonprofit information (Give Discover).

Our values

: integrity in everything we do

: empathy towards all

: serve with passion

: focused on scale