Associate - Scholarships Job in Chennai at Bhumi

Bhumi is hiring for the role of Associate - Scholarships!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Coordinating outreach to get scholarships applications from deserving students, based on scholarship guidelines.
• Ensuring timely completion of lead verification of scholarship applications on the application management system.
• Ensuring scholarships are disbursed and required data for periodic feedback/reports to the donors/partners is shared on time.
• Engaging and managing volunteers at various stages of the scholarship disbursement process to increase scale and reach of the programme.
• Driving automation of the verification and reporting for the programme, and to make the process more scalable, efficient and accurate.
• Engaging with scholars periodically and reporting back on their progress and status.

Requirements:

• Graduate or postgraduate degree.
• MBA, MSW, fellowship or volunteering experience in a non-profit preferred.
• At least 1 year of relevant work experience. Freshers can be considered based on their resume.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
• Data analysis and interpretation. Competent to proficient level command over MS Excel.
• Resourcefulness in identifying ways to increase efficiency and scale through automation.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities
• Highly resourceful team player, who is also self-driven
• Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions