Associate Director, HNI/UHNI, Fundraising

The/Nudge Foundation

The/Nudge Foundation

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
Posted on Dec 15, 2025
About The/Nudge
The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals and youth on rural development, agriculture, skilling and economic inclusion, along with 15+ central and state government partners.
Our economic inclusion journey for 25 million Indians, has reached 10 states with $230M of government funding to cover 1.25M people. Our incubator, accelerator and grand challenges have supported 225 social entrepreneurs including 17 Forbes 30U30, 3 EarthShot Prize winners, 1 Time Magazine cover and more.
Set up with support from 100+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates and 15+ foundations including Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Vinod Khosla, Nandan Nilekani, Tata Trusts, Skoll, Meta, LinkedIn, HDFC, Mphasis, KPMG and L'Oreal, we are contributing towards a "poverty-free India, within our lifetime".
What will you do?
  • learn our programs well to represent our work to philanthropically inclined HNI/UHNIs in India and Singapore
  • independently open doors with senior executives, qualify opportunities appropriately, navigate and close to expand the community of founding supporters in India and Singapore
  • leverage support from our current founding supporters from to build a pipeline of prospective donors
  • own annual fundraising goals - balancing short term goals while enabling long term growth.
  • work with cross-functional teams and the India development team to craft high quality collaterals/proposals that align the financial needs of the organization to the giving objectives of the donors.
  • represent The/Nudge in ecosystem events, as needed
Who are we looking for?
  • minimum of 15+ years of experience with significant time in external/customer-facing roles
  • is intellectually curious, well read, result oriented and willing to learn by doing
  • high energy, passion and hunger for doing impactful work
  • a confident, articulate and compelling speaker
  • willingness to travel frequently within and outside India, as needed
  • hands-on, intrapreneurial leadership style, with a growth and learning mindset
  • consistent track record of delivering on goals
What’s in it for you?
Own your growth: An impact-led learning environment encourages Nudgesters to invest in their learning and capacity building needs through initiatives and policies, including L&D wallet, individual development plan and internal role change opportunities.
Find your tribe: Our hiring philosophy emphasises intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order, to build a cohesive environment for Nudgesters. The organisation is committed to curating people-centric policies, enhancing how employees experience life at The/Nudge.
Take big bets: Organisational initiatives are intended to facilitate Nudgesters with a view to the big picture, illustrated by our impact across 50000+ households, 15+ governments, 200+ social enterprises and Charcha: India’s largest social sector convening forum.
Make it happen: A product-based approach in an action-biased environment empowers Nudgesters to implement audacious plans. Driven to fail fast, we endeavour to optimise resources in favour of programs that align with our scale ambition.
You can learn more about what we do and how we do it through this deck.
We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply..