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About Milaap:

Milaap is India’s largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes, especially healthcare and related needs. Constantly endeavouring to make it easier for people to raise money online for the causes that matter to them, the platform enables lay-people to raise funds for personal causes and emergencies, especially for tertiary healthcare like Cancer care, organ transplants, and accidents, for education and for community-related causes they care about.

Milaap community of funders come from over 130 countries across the world and have contributed over INR 440 Cr from 150,000+ projects across India. Over the last eight years, Milaap has become a preferred platform for people to raise and contribute towards causes they care about in India.

Responsibilities :

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers and other developers

Required Skills :

• 2-4 years of overall software development experience
• 1+ years of development experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance, customer-facing web applications
• Expert in configuring and deploying multiple rails applications quickly
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
• Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
• Strong foundation in Database ( SQL / Postgres )
• Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud-based infrastructure (Heroku/AWS)
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture

It will be good if you also have:

• Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core development during a high growth phase
• Practical experience with building scalable, high availability and high-performance systems
• Hands-on background with agile development practices including test driven development and scrums
• Contributed to open source projects on Github
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools

Interested candidates can send in their resume and cover letter to secareers@milaap.org with the subject line 'Ruby on Rails Developer'

Milaap is India’s (and arguably Asia’s) largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes.Our mission is to make it easier for people to raise money online for the needs and causes that matter to them, their loved ones, their neighbourhood and larger community.Our community of donors and fundraisers come from 130+ countries across the world and have raised over INR 200 Crores for nearly 100,000 unique campaigns and projects across India. Over the  last six years, Milaap has become the preferred platform for people to raise and contribute towards causes they care about in India.Our work at the intersection of consumer internet and social good, has received the backing of investors globally such as Government of Singapore, Khosla Impact, Jungle Ventures, Unitus, Toivo Annus (co-founder of Skype) to name a few, and recognition from: The Economic Times - Top 5 Social Enterprises of 2014, 2015 and Forbes 30 Under 30, among others.

Responsibilities :

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Design new and re-design existing user-facing features
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers and other developers
• Define and enforce front end coding standards, accessibility and other technical standards

Required Skills :

• 5 - 7  years of overall software development experience
• 2+ years of development experience with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
• 2+ years of development experience with React
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, and experience with frameworks like react
• Strong understanding HTML5 and CSS3
• Knows the basics of HTTP(S), DOM, browser page rendering
• Understand responsive design & write code that works well on all devices (phones, tablets, desktop) 
• Exceptional debugging skills and demonstrate complete know how of using browser-based developer tools
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application adheres to them
• Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance, customer-facing web applications
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Gerrit, Continuous Integration)
• Be proficient in using Git from command terminal
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture

It will be good if you also have :

• Written test cases using one of these: Jest, Enzyme, Karma, Mocha, Chai
• Experience with server-side languages (eg. Ruby on Rails)
• Experience in using web page performance test tools like webpagetest, pagespeed, lighthouse, etc
• Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core development during high growth phase
• Practical experience with building scalable, high availability and high performance systems
• Hands-on background with agile development practices including test driven development and scrum
• Contributed to open source projects
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools

Interested candidates can send in their resume to fdcareers@milaap.org with the subject line 'Frontend Developer’

Role: Storyteller

Years of Experience: 0-3 years

Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai

Type of employment: Freelance
 

About Milaap

Milaap is an online crowdfunding platform that enables anyone across India to raise funds for healthcare, education, sports, disaster relief and other personal causes, with great ease. Founded in 2010 by a team of young and passionate entrepreneurs, Milaap has pioneered the development of person to person giving in India.
They started as a platform to fund rural projects and micro-entrepreneurs and is widely utilized by Indians today to raise funds from friends, family and a wider social network for medical needs, loved ones and charity. Over the last 8 years, they have traversed a long way, channeling over Rs 540 Crores to 180,000+ worthy causes and initiatives.
   

About the Role

Milaap is looking out for writers/storytellers to join them across cities (Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai) and will be responsible for creating stories of impact by writing content for fundraise. Everyone can write. Only some can be Storytellers. Getting someone to read what you write is a skill. This is a call for freelance Storytellers to join our network and create powerful stories of impact like in www.milaap.org/stories.

Roles and Responsibilities

 To travel across the city, visit patients at the hospital, talk to them, and shoot photos to create and tell their story using this experience.
 Creating at least 10-12 stories a month from these visits.
 Create authentic stories about real human experiences by being persuasive with words.
 Creating emotionally engaging content that would retain the reader’s attention till the end of the article and be monumental to get them to take action, especially donate.
 

Does this sound like you?

Must-haves: 

• 0- 3 years of experience in writing stories/creating content
• Knowledge/understanding of handling DSLR
• Fresh Graduate or Experience as a Journalists/Content writers/Freelance writer
• Good written communication skills in English. Should also know one of the following languages: Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada
• Passionate about writing, expressive and emotionally mature.

Preferred:

• Willingness to make a career in writing and creating impact stories or learn this skill.
• Candidates with experience in the healthcare/social impact domain

 
If interested, please share your profile at storyteller@milaap.org 

Role - Videographer cum Photographer

Years of Experience - 0-3 years

Location - Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata, Jaipur, Bhubaneshwar, Kochi

Type of Employment - Freelance

About Milaap

Milaap is an online crowdfunding platform that enables anyone across India to raise funds for healthcare, education, sports, disaster relief and other personal causes, with great ease. Founded in 2010 by a team of young and passionate entrepreneurs, Milaap has pioneered the development of person to person giving in India.They started as a platform to fund rural projects and micro-entrepreneurs and is widely utilized by Indians today to raise funds from friends, family and a wider social network for medical needs, loved ones and charity. Over the last 8 years, they have traversed a long way, channeling over Rs 540 Crores to 180,000+ worthy causes and initiatives.

About the Role:

Milaap is looking for freelance videographers cum photographers that will be responsible for creating content for our fundraisers. You can be a part of the change by leaving a footprint by creating meaningful and powerful content.

Roles and Responsibilities

• To travel across the city, visit patients, talk to them and take powerful photos and videos.
• To get natural candid shots of the patients and their families to capture the emotions and to make the content emotionally engaging.
• Interview the patient and their family to find out their needs.
• To create impactful content by being compelling through photos.

Must Haves

• Knowledge and understanding of handling a DSLR.
• Passion for taking photos and videos, patience and having a sympathetic approach.
• Proficiency in the regional language.
• Experience as a freelance photographer and videographer.

Preferred

• Access to good audio recording equipment

If interested, please share your profile at videographers@milaap.org.

We are India’s (and arguably Asia’s) largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes. Our mission is to make it easier for people to raise money online for the needs and causes that matter to them, their loved ones, their neighborhood, and the larger community. Our community of donors and fundraisers come from 130+ countries across the world and have raised over $100 million for nearly 100,000 unique campaigns and projects across India. Over the last 9 years, We have become the preferred platform for people to raise and contribute towards causes they care about in India and We are changing the way Indians support a cause!

Our work at the intersection of consumer internet and social good, has received the backing of investors globally such as Government of Singapore, Khosla Impact, Jungle Ventures, Unitus, Toivo Annus (co-founder of Skype) to name a few, and recognition from : The Economic Times - Top 5 Social Enterprises of 2014, 2015 and Forbes 30 Under 30, among others.

The role Campaigns team is the backbone of Milaap with a mission to empower campaigners with relevant tools and knowledge to run their fundraisers. An extremely dynamic and high client engagement role, Campaign Associate (CA) work with several cross-functional teams such as Finance, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Product in ensuring a great fundraising experience for a campaigner.

The CA enjoys a great level of freedom to execute ideas and strategies that help a cause to reach it's goal and is equally responsible to ensure the campaigns on the platform remain accurate, genuine and free of errors.

You will:

• Review and approve crowdfunding campaign requests on the platform
• Perform background verification of the cause and the campaigner to ensure credibility
• Engage and maintain regular communications with campaigners
• Devise ideas and tools to improve the overall efficiency of the internal processes
• Conceptualize, draft and review the content of the campaigns running on the platform
• Co-ordinate with internal and external stakeholders
• Serve as the single point of resolution for Campaigns Team for any queries/ requirements from supporting teams.
• Work closely with Lead Campaign Manager to maintain an inventory/pipeline for digital, social and PR outreach

You will require:

• Bachelors Degree with 0-2 years works experience in a client/customer facing role. Prior experience working in small, high growth teams is a strong plus
• Excellent communication - You can effectively engage with internal teams and campaigners. Nearly 40% of your time will be spent over telephonic/WhatsApp conversations engaging with organizers
• Attention to detail - You can identify grammatical mistakes and are comfortable with numbers
• Strategic Problem Solving - You can leverage data and gain valuable insights into decision making
• Strong desire to chase number based goals - business numbers interest you and you are enthusiastic to chase it as a goal
• A desire to learn - You’re a highly motivated self-starter, with an eagerness to learn and grow
• Prioritization - You can effectively prioritize the work and juggle multiple tasks during the day
• Empathy - You can show equal interest in listening to people from all walks of life
• Multilingual - Knowing at least one regional language apart from English and Hindi is required. Language Needed Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada
• You are open to working on certain weekends in the month. (We work 5 days in a week)

Beliefs and Values, which we cherish

• We believe that businesses can be a driving force for social good
• We believe in nurturing ambition, in the discipline to strive relentlessly towards that ambition.
• We are empathetic to the needs of people, whom we meet in our daily lives, and willing to go the extra mile for them.
• We want to build things that will outlast us as individuals.
• We hope everyone seeks Ikigai, and believe Milaap can pave the path for one to achieve it

Interested candidates should send their resume and cover letter to cacareers@milaap.org with Subject line: Campaign Associate. Use your cover letter to tell us how your Beliefs and Values align with what we seek.

The Milaap team is a huge enabler of great ideas. So if you’re looking for an empowering work environment where you are limited only by your own capacity and nothing else, write in!
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Position Summary:

• Responsible for driving the implementation of PR campaigns and achieving results for the brand. 
• Provides critical day-to-day interface with traditional (Print), Broadcast (Radio and TV), New Age Media and Social Media Influencers to ensure brand visibility across Telangana (Hyderabad and major Tier2/3 cities) 

Responsibilities:

• Proactively develops relationships with key journalists in the market and leverages these relationships to achieve results
• Initiating conversations with key social media influencers/new age media and closing dialogues with a measurable outcome
• Develop content including opinion pieces, press releases and media pitches 
• Provides insight into key trends in the industry which are relevant to the brand and create story ideas that generate coverage and leverage brand mention in the market 
• Contributes toward new business activity, growth initiatives and cross-company initiatives as agreed with the manager
• Maintains regular communication with internal and external stakeholders 
• Closing inbound media queries from the market on a timely basis 

Required skillset: 

• Strong media relations and influencer network in Telangana/Hyderabad. Preferred beat: Technology, Business and Healthcare. 
• Demonstrates competency with most basic PR tools and go-getter approach. 
• Proactively tracks media (traditional & social) opportunities, including features, topical discussions, awards programs, and editorial calendars
• Produces high-quality written PR material in a timely manner, including quality first drafts of news releases, media alerts, briefing documents, monthly reports, action documents, case studies, Q&A documents and letters
• Efficient in managing on-ground media briefing events
• Proficient in Telugu & English. Both written and spoken. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• PR professional with 3-5 years of work experience with a proven track record in delivering landmark results in the media
• Post Graduate/ Undergraduate degree or equivalent ideally in the field of PR, Communications, Marketing, Business or Journalism, Corporate Communications 

Interested candidates should send resume and cover letter to cccareers@milaap.org with Subject line: Corporate Communications Associate. Use your cover letter to tell us how your Beliefs and Values align with what we seek.

The Milaap team is a huge enabler of great ideas. So if you’re looking for an empowering work environment where you are limited only by your own capacity and nothing else, write in!

We are India’s (and arguably Asia’s) largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes. Our mission is to make it easier for people to raise money online for the needs and causes that matter to them, their loved ones, their neighborhood, and the larger community. Our community of donors and fundraisers come from 130+ countries across the world and have raised over $100 million for nearly 100,000 unique campaigns and projects across India. Over the last 9 years, We have become the preferred platform for people to raise and contribute towards causes they care about in India and We are changing the way Indians support a cause!

Our work at the intersection of consumer internet and social good, has received the backing of investors globally such as Government of Singapore, Khosla Impact, Jungle Ventures, Unitus, Toivo Annus (co-founder of Skype) to name a few, and recognition from : The Economic Times - Top 5 Social Enterprises of 2014, 2015 and Forbes 30 Under 30, among others.

The role Campaigns team is the backbone of Milaap with a mission to empower campaigners with relevant tools and knowledge to run their fundraisers. An extremely dynamic and high client engagement role, Campaign Associate (CA) work with several cross-functional teams such as Finance, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Product in ensuring a great fundraising experience for a campaigner.

The CA enjoys a great level of freedom to execute ideas and strategies that help a cause to reach it's goal and is equally responsible to ensure the campaigns on the platform remain accurate, genuine and free of errors.

You will:

• Identify campaigns on the platform that can be promoted as per set guidelines.
• Coordinate with Hospital coordinators and Campaign Organizers to ensure all required documents are in place before the promotion of a campaign.
• Perform background verification of the cause and the campaigner to ensure credibility
• Review and approve crowdfunding campaign requests on the platform  
• Engage and maintain regular communications with campaigners 
• Devise ideas and tools to improve the overall efficiency of the internal processes
• Conceptualize, draft and review the content of the campaigns running on the platform
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders
• Serve as the single point of resolution for Campaigns Team for any queries/ requirements from supporting teams.
• Work closely with Lead Campaign Manager to maintain an inventory/pipeline for digital, social and PR outreach

You will require:

• Bachelors Degree in English or Communication with 0-2 years of works experience in a client/customer facing, project coordinator role. Prior experience working in small, high growth teams is a strong plus
• Excellent communication - You can effectively engage with internal teams and campaigners. Nearly 70% of your time will be spent over telephonic/WhatsApp conversations engaging with organizers, internal and external.
• Attention to detail - You can identify grammatical mistakes and are comfortable with numbers
• Strategic Problem Solving - You can leverage data and gain valuable insights into decision making
• Strong desire to chase number based goals - business numbers interest you and you are enthusiastic to chase it as a goal
• A desire to learn - You’re a highly motivated self-starter, with an eagerness to learn and grow
• Prioritization - You can effectively prioritize the work and juggle multiple tasks during the day
• Empathy - You can show equal interest in listening to people from all walks of life
• Multilingual - Knowing at least one regional language apart from English and Hindi is required. Language Needed: Tamil, Telegu.
• You are open to working on certain weekends in the month. (We work 5 days in a week)
• Knowledge of what is promo-worthy/ news-worthy will be an added advantage. 

Beliefs and Values, which we cherish

• We believe that businesses can be a driving force for social good
• We believe in nurturing ambition, in the discipline to strive relentlessly towards that ambition.
• We are empathetic to the needs of people, whom we meet in our daily lives, and willing to go the extra mile for them.
• We want to build things that will outlast us as individuals.
• We hope everyone seeks Ikigai, and believe Milaap can pave the path for one to achieve it

Interested candidates should send their resume and cover letter to cacareers@milaap.org with Subject line: Campaign Associate - Promo. Use your cover letter to tell us how your Beliefs and Values align with what we seek.

The Milaap team is a huge enabler of great ideas. So if you’re looking for an empowering work environment where you are limited only by your own capacity and nothing else, write in!

We are India’s (and arguably Asia’s) largest crowdfunding platform for personal and social causes. Our mission is to make it easier for people to raise money online for the needs and causes that matter to them, their loved ones, their neighborhood, and the larger community. Our community of donors and fundraisers come from 130+ countries across the world and have raised over $100 million for nearly 100,000 unique campaigns and projects across India. Over the last 9 years, We have become the preferred platform for people to raise and contribute towards causes they care about in India and We are changing the way Indians support a cause!

Responsibilities:

 Milaap Fellowship Recruitment and Management

a. Recruitment and training of Fellows
b. Communication between the field partners and the Fellows
c. Weekly check-in calls to track performance
d. Quarterly performance reviews of the Fellows
e. Reviewing loan stories, journal updates, blogs and other stories
f. Audit and documentation check
g. Communication with social media and blog partners

 Inventory planning and management of Milaap.org

a. Marketing plan - Newsletter, Social media outreach and Marketing, Repayment emails
b. Inventory planning
c. Keeping track of profiles going up on Milaap.org (quality and variety of sectors/regions)
d. Auto lend and repayment processing
e. Weekly updates and keeping a note on the quality of content

 Planning for the institutional funders

a. Keeping a close watch on the ongoing process (planning, uploading, repayment update,
posting updates and documentation checks at field partner level)
b. Repayment information collaboration with the finance team
c. Tracking Net Inflows/Outflows on a monthly basis
d. Oversee the performance on all the platforms regularly

 Lenders communication- Understanding of internal admin processes, addressing regular query from users and lenders, managing content on newsletters and repayment emails
 Field Partner communication- Field partner staff training for Milaap’s processes, monitoring monthly operations and communications with Milaap’s Field partners

Required skills:

 Relevant work experience of 2 - 3 years
 Excellent writing skills and great attention to detail
 Good eye for editing
 Ready to take on initiatives and new assignments
 A good command over the mainstream social media channels and having a keen interest in communications space to help formulate and run the social media strategy

Interested candidates should send their resume and cover letter to lend.careers@milaap.org with Subject line: Manager, Fellowship and Content. Use your cover letter to tell us how your Beliefs and Values align with what we seek.

The Milaap team is a huge enabler of great ideas. So if you’re looking for an empowering work environment where you are limited only by your own capacity and nothing else, write in!