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About INTELLECAP :

Founded in 2002, Intellecap Advisory Services Private Limited (Intellecap) is the entrepreneurial ecosystem building arm of the Aavishkaar Group, a pioneer in providing innovative business solutions that help build and scale impact enterprises dedicated to building a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive society. Intellecap & Aavishkaar Group take an ecosystem approach that combines knowledge, capital, technology, and networks, to provide impact entrepreneurs with a continuum of support throughout their life-cycle and to address systemic barriers. We do this by operating at two levels. At the first level, we directly support organizations that invent or create novel solutions with capital, acceleration, fund-raising, technical assistance, innovation transfer, and market linkages. At the second level, we focus on building enabling ecosystems for innovations to scale by engaging with a range of actors such as value chain players, investors, philanthropies, corporations, governments, and intermediaries. We leverage our convening and amplification platform Sankalp to augment our effort to search, seed, support, and scale impact enterprises across sectors. We have worked with more than 300 clients on over 500 consulting and research engagements across multiple geographies. We are a group of 7000 + professionals in offices across India, Kenya, and Indonesia.

What We Do :

We strive to create an environment that catalyses business led solutions to development, through our Services (Investment banking, Consulting and Networks), Incubations, and Initiatives. We work across several sectors including Financial Services, Agriculture and Rural Business, Clean Energy & Climate Change, Healthcare, Water and Sanitation; & Circular Economies. In addition, we focus on a number of key themes, namely Gender, Technology, Urbanization, Youth and Policy.

The selected candidate will be assigned to the Sankalp Forum team, which organizes the Sankalp Forum; one of the world's largest inclusive development platforms which has since its inception grown from strength to strength both in brand name and convening power during its annual summits on 4 continents. In the past years, with sole focus on getting the ecosystem to congregate and deliberate on development issues, and entrepreneurship agenda, Sankalp has built a reputation for itself and therefore a recall for the brand. Sankalp Forum was initiated in India in 2009 by Intellecap, part of the Aavishkaar Group, to create a thriving ecosystem for business-led inclusive development. Over the past 13 years, Sankalp has built one of the world's largest impact enterprise focused platforms that has showcased and discovered 2000+ entrepreneurs, through 25 editions and have connected them to over 300+ investors. Sankalp has enabled enterprises and entrepreneurs and helped them raise over USD $290 million in funding through engaging with investors, and with governments, corporations, influential platforms like the World Economic Forum, G8 and G20, media and civil society to drive a paradigm shift in inclusive development approaches.

The Role :

- Annually we organise two flagship summits - Global Summit (October/November); & Africa Summit (March) that bring together between 1200-1500 stakeholders from the Sankalp Community. In addition, to this we host Sankalp Dialogues, which are smaller scale convenings which are typically structured around particular themes or stakeholders. We also host the CAIF Conclave; a Private Equity Conference - Rendezvous- ; as well as other initiatives such as #WomenAtSankalp.

- Specifically, we are looking for someone who can support business development and client management related to the Global Summit, Sankalp Dialogues and sector specific conclaves. This would include building a pipeline of potential sponsor opportunities, exploring revenue opportunities beyond the summits, as well as exploring expanding the Sankalp Forum property in other Geographies or as a franchise. The role would also require someone who can implement events and manage the operations related to the execution of events. This role requires extremely strong written communication skills, interpersonal skills of dealing with multilaterals, international foundations, corporate clients, and governments. Structured thinking with strong logistical skills, and strong verbal communication skills in English are a requirement. This is role is best suited for an independent thinker, who has an entrepreneurial mindset and can take ownership of revenue targets and build a property in the impact ecosystem. A macro level thinker who understands the role of ecosystems is highly desired.

Experience/Education Level :

- A degree from a reputable university in international development, international relations, law, statistics, engineering or any business related course will be an added advantage

- 8+ years of experience working in strategic planning, business development, fundraising or similar field in a corporate, consulting / investment environment or with an international development agency or social enterprise.

- Ability to use MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint) and Dropbox

- Exposure working with large scale events, sponsorship packages, and multiple stakeholders is preferred

Skills Level :

- Excellent written communication skills including strong proposal writing skills

- Strong problem solving and analytical skills both quantitative and qualitative

- Ability to synthesize information and assist in creating insightful recommendations

- Experience of working with international foundations, multilateral organisations, development finance institutions as well as a strong understanding of grassroot development organisations

- Excellent relationship/interpersonal skills, written and spoken English

- Experience working with international teams

- Outstanding teamwork and commitment, and independent thinking

- Prior exposure to domains in which Intellecap works is desirable

Job Responsibilities :

- Develop a strong pipeline of potential multi-year sponsors & clients for the Sankalp Global Summit along with the current Sankalp management team, and Intellecap ecosystem teams

- Build & execute a strategy for the Sankalp Dialogues property to be revenue generating & create engagement with the Sankalp community year round

- Manage the CAIF Conclave sponsorship along with the ecosystem team

- Support strategic thinking around increasing revenue for Sankalp through entering new geographies, franchising, & other potential models

- Support communications & content creation for Sankalp along with the Marketing & Communications team

- Help draft, design, and prepare Sankalp-related proposals

- Support in maintenance and building out of the database of Sankalp attendees/applicants/investors over the years

- Build and maintain internal & external relations with platforms such as the World Economic Forum, World Bank, IFC, Ford Foundation etc.

- Follow-up and monitor progress after the event

Equal Opportunity Employer :

- Intellecap is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all qualified individuals from diverse professional, academic, and cultural backgrounds, regardless of gender, religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality, and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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