JOB DESCRIPTION
India Donor Relations
Manager, SightLife, Mumbai/ New Delhi
1. POSITION
VACANT: India Donor Relations Manager, SightLife, Mumbai/ New Delhi
2. BACKGROUND:
Headquartered at Seattle, WA-USA, SightLife is the only non-profit global health
organization, focused solely on eliminating corneal blindness. As a US-based
INGO, SightLife partners with eye banks and surgeons
in developing countries to build their own capabilities and capacity to collect,
process, distribute corneas for transplant to the 10 million corneal blind
waiting to have their sight, livelihood and independence restored.
Working with surgeons in over 30 countries, SightLife and its Global Partners restore sight
to more than 20 men, women, and children each day. This is accomplished through
eye banks, which are centers for the recovery and placement of eye tissue used
in cornea transplants.
SightLife’s mission
is to eliminate corneal blindness globally, through partnerships with eye banks
in developing countries, where 90% of the world’s 10 million persons, estimated
to suffer from curable corneal blindness, live.
SightLife constituted
a small team of senior management and distribution professionals in India in
2010 for this purpose and building on the organization’s global expertise, has
successfully implemented a comprehensive program to support the development of
eye banks and corneal surgeons, across India.