Executive Assistant

Breakthrough is looking for an Executive Assistant who will report to the CEO. The Executive Assistant will serve as the primary point of contact for the CEO and also serve as a liaison with the board and the senior leadership team. The Executive Assistant must be creative and enjoy working within an environment that is mission-driven, results-driven, and community oriented. The ideal individual will have the ability to exercise good judgment in a variety of situations and will possess strong written and verbal communication, administrative, and organisational skills. The Executive Assistant must be able to work under pressure at times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion.

Key Functions/Responsibilities:

• Provide outstanding communication and administrative support to the CEO that ensures high level of responsiveness
• Provide sophisticated calendar management; coordinate executive communications, including taking calls, responding to emails and act as an interface between CEO and others; prioritise inquiries and requests, troubleshoot conflicts with little guidance, make judgments and recommendations to ensure smooth day to-day engagements
• Manage all scheduling and travel logistics for the CEO
• Support with internal and external communication documents
• Prepare and edit presentations, reports, memos, digital content, newsletters, country reports
• Complete expense reports and manage correspondence with vendors
• Support the CEO in strategic communications, organizational strategy, and all other special projects as assigned
• Organize meetings and events for convening’s, retreats, various board meetings, and other logistics
• Conduct research and analysis on issues of interest to the CEO
• Support and manage a high-volume of requests and projects to meet the objectives of the CEO
• Serve as a liaison to Board of Directors, organise board meetings, prepare documents required, maintain the board book
• Maintain quality filing and communications systems including contact management, document management, and archiving
• Support CEO with donor/funder relations
• Assist in other administrative tasks as needed

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as an Executive Assistant reporting directly to CEO/President/senior management
• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in English
• Good working knowledge of all Advanced Microsoft Office applications including excel, Google Suite, and social media web platforms
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively
• Excellent proofreading and editing skills
• Proficiency in collaboration and delegation of duties
• Exceptional  interpersonal skills with the ability to take initiative, multi-task, be a team-player, be
  flexible, adapt to shifting priorities, and prioritize work
• Extremely high level of organization, initiative, attention to detail, responsibility, and follow-through
• Ability to access a wide range of sources and networks for information
• Good judgment and ability to function independently
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential situations with diplomacy

About Breakthrough:

Breakthrough was founded in 1999 with the mission of using arts and culture to bring human rights issues — especially violence and discrimination against marginalised groups — into mainstream conversation and inspire critical mass of people to take action for change. Its award-winning music albums and campaigns have won innumerable awards and have stirred unprecedented discussion across India about women’s rights and brought the problem of domestic violence out from behind closed doors. Earlier partnerships with the Ministry of Women and Child Development for dissemination of our media and IEC products which ensures that the messaging reaches large numbers as can be seen by the Bell Bajao campaign that reached 130 million in Phase I and 110 million in Phase II. The support was received pro-bono and is estimated to be worth INR 150 million. The Ministry has adopted Breakthrough’s MissionHazaar campaign on preventing sex selection under its flagship “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” campaign and is disseminating the TV spots, curriculum and communication guide in 12 Indian languages.

Breakthrough’s current work spans across 5 states on transforming gender norms to prevent Violence against Women & Girls, and exploring the interlinkages between its various manifestations. Breakthrough makes innovative use of media, arts and technology including digital and mobiles, leadership development and community mobilisation to activate critical mass of people who will deliver the culture change needed to make violence against women and girls unacceptable. Centre to this is a gender equity curriculum, called Taron ki Toli that builds gender equitable views among adolescents 11-18 year old, in school and in the community. Breakthrough uses leadership development to build capacities of 15-25 year olds to transform themselves and recruit others to make violence against women and girls unacceptable. It also works in the community with influencers and gatekeepers to shift norms to prevent violence and build values for girls and women. Media and arts infuse all our work and building evidence is a strong focus. Strategic partnership with governments are key – currently partnering with the Department of Education, Government of Punjab to apply gender lens to middle school curriculum across government schools. Currently reaching 573,000 adolescents and their communities to prevent violence against women and promote a culture of human rights, Breakthrough plans to reach 2 million adolescents over the next few years.

Breakthrough Values:

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

• Dignity
• Integrity
• Equity

Breakthrough is an equal opportunity employer.  We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, caste, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, economic status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. Our policies and procedures reflect our commitment to child safeguarding.

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

Eligible candidates interested in this position may apply through the following link : https://www.btconnect.org.in/Applicant/CreateJobApplicant

Please also, submit your resume accompanied by a cover letter, giving reasons in support of the suitability for the position and mentioning the current/expected salary. Send it by email to indiajobs@breakthrough.tv by or before 15^th March, 2022.