Donor Relations Manager -- connecting underserved learners to education with Oppia

If you have experience managing relationships with corporate donors or philanthropists and are passionate about helping underserved children gain access to education, this is the volunteer role for you!

Oppia is looking for passionate individuals to join our Donor Relations Team as Donor Relations Managers to help us build strong, lasting partnerships with potential and existing donors. Your work will directly support our mission of providing free, high-quality education to underserved learners around the world who would otherwise be unable to access it.

To get started, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/qVkRaSTCXi2cqcL19

Who We Are

The Oppia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide high-quality education to all. We do this through the creation and maintenance of our free-to-use platform, Oppia (https://www.oppia.org), the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve.

Where You Fit In

Millions of children are not receiving the education they deserve. Of the 61 million children worldwide who cannot attend primary school, 17 million will never step foot into a school if trends continue. In the wake of COVID-19, millions more children are also seeing interruptions in their daily lives, stability, and education - making it even more difficult than before for many students to get the education they need to succeed.

The learners we serve are typically from low-income families which cannot afford to pay for education; in some cases, the parents may not even have had the opportunity to attend school. Thus, to maintain and improve the services that we offer to them, it is important to source funding that allows us to cover the cost of offering these services. We generally aim to fund operating expenses through individual donations, but there are several major projects we are undertaking that will require grant funding in order to succeed.To continue and expand our work, we rely on the generosity of donors and philanthropic partners. That’s where the Donor Relations Manager role comes in.

As a Donor Relations Manager, you will play a key role in identifying potential corporate partners, cultivating strong relationships, and managing engagement strategies that sustain and grow Oppia’s donor network..

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

• Oppia has served over 2,000,000 users.
• Oppia focuses on effectiveness and conducts rigorous user testing and RCTs to validate the lessons we offer. Learners using Oppia’s lessons have seen gains of 50+% from pre-test to post-test.
• Oppia's contributors actively help to provide students around the world with basic education. Please see https://medium.com/@ebelubhuhiose/86b97283edf4 and https://medium.com/@ojobusayo99/6e783aaddb74 for examples of our current work.
• Oppia has a community of hundreds of passionate volunteers from across the globe, so our meetings are held online at flexible times.

What Our Donor Relations Managers Contribute

• Manage relationships with corporate donors and philanthropists.
• Identify and research potential corporate partners.
• Develop customized partnership proposals and pitch decks.
• Coordinate donor recognition and ensure partner visibility.
• Facilitate employee engagement opportunities for corporate partners..

If you’d like to help out, please fill in our application form: https://forms.gle/qVkRaSTCXi2cqcL19. Thank you!