Consultant – MIS

Breakthrough is looking for MIS Consultant for Gaya, Bihar.  This role will work closely linked with the district project implementation team. This is a field based position, candidate’s 80% of the time will be devoted on the field and 20% time in the office for data entry, report preparation etc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support district team in selection of gram panchayats for scaling of program
• Conduct social mapping (formative research) exercise in villages and schools
• Interaction with adolescents, community member and stakeholders for gathering village information
• Conduct small surveys in the villages whenever required and collect data through PAPI/CAPI
• Visit to block Govt. offices for obtaining secondary data
• Ensuring regular data entry and quantitative report generation
• Capture Coordinates of the villages through using GPS application
• Digitalization of data and creating quality report based on data

Qualification

• Post graduate degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience of working in rural development projects
• Previous work experience on adolescent’s issues or education will be an advantage
• Advanced computer knowledge with MS office especially excel
• Candidate should be able to understand local language with good communication skill

Skills and Competencies:

• Candidate should be ready to move around in the new blocks and GPs for gathering information
• Excellent skills in the computer especially MS Word.
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Accurate with strong attention to detail
• Ability to travel to remote villages and work independently
• Ability to interact with children and adolescent girls, community on various aspect of developmental issues in light of women’s & adolescents’ right.

About Breakthrough:

Breakthrough was founded 19 years ago; with a mission to make violence and discrimination against women and girls unacceptable. Our work is transformative; focused on changing the norms and culture that perpetuate inequity and violence. Breakthrough does this by building a critical mass of change agents worldwide — the Breakthrough Generation — whose bold collective action will deliver irreversible impact on the issue of our time. We create innovative, relevant multimedia campaigns, tools, and programmes that reach individuals and institutions where they are, inspiring and equipping them to build a world in which all people live with dignity, equality, and justice.

We currently work with over 400,000 adolescents across 5 states of India and help shape the gender attitudes and behaviours of boys and girls at an age when alternative narratives about gender roles and stereotypes can be explored. Breakthrough is now seeking to scale up this programme to more than 1 million adolescents across 5 states over the next 4 years.

Breakthrough reaches over to 10,000 women on factory floors to help them overcome the discrimination and violence they face at work and in their homes. Working to remove the stigma faced by working women, Breakthrough engages families, community members, peers and factory management in ensuring working women are supported and given equal opportunities.

Breakthrough’s first project was Mann ke Manjeeré , an award-winning music album and video compilation that stirred unprecedented discussion across India about women’s rights and brought the problem of domestic violence to the fore. Since then, Breakthrough has built its award-winning campaigns around the notion that “human rights start with you” — with individuals moved to bring the values of dignity, equality, and justice into their homes and personal spheres. Bell Bajao, our iconic campaign on domestic violence was advocated for by Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary general, has won the prestigious silver lion at Cannes amongst other awards, and was adopted my several countries – Vietnam, China, Pakistan and Canada. Our campaigns have reached more than 400 million people globally and have created important dialogue on issues like domestic violence, sexual harassment, early marriage and gender biased sex selection.

Breakthrough Values:

The position holder will be expected to work in line with organisational values which are:

• Dignity
• Integrity
• Innovation
• Equity

Breakthrough provides safe and non-discriminatory working environment to all its employees. We follow the principle of providing equal opportunity to all applicants and do not discriminate based on race, colour, caste, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, economic status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status. All the policies at Breakthrough, reflect our commitment to diversity in staffing and child safeguarding.

To know more about Breakthrough, please visit – www.inbreakthrough.org

Eligible candidates interested in this position may submit a resume accompanied by a cover letter, giving reasons in support of the suitability for the position, by email to indiajobs@breakthrough.tv by or before August 20, 2019.