Coordinator – Community Development

Breakthrough is looking for dynamic, result-oriented Coordinators – Community Development, who would be working closely with District Manager/Supervisor (Implementation). The person will responsible for the management and implementation of the adolescent rights and empowerment program in accordance with the Breakthrough’s Deep Transformation Strategy/Model. The person should have working experience with adolescent programs for girls and boys in both communities at grass-root level, preferably on rights and empowerment and also have good training and open facilitation skill.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain an effective relationship with the frontline workers (ASHA, AWW, ANM), PRIs members, local media and other relevant stakeholders to deepen the intervention and the government officials at block level for smooth implementation of the program.
• Facilitate regular discussion and sessions on Gender based discrimination and violence- rights and entitlements with community- parents and stakeholders.
• Facilitate formation of groups with adolescents, 19+youth and other stakeholders and work them closely towards building a conducive environment for adolescents for demand generation for rights and entitlements.
• Facilitate and aware community members about being awakened responsible citizens using games and art.
• Coordinate and execute training sessions with various community groups.
• Able to lead gram panchayats and block level advocacy.
• Filling up monitoring formats regularly and in time
• Coordinate and execute community mobilization activities in the respective intervention area.
• Create reports on a regular basis including pictures and fill tracking forms as per the daily, weekly and monthly formats provided.
• Working in coordination with a team working in schools/community and block.
• Managing stock of IEC and merchandise.

Specific Knowledge, Skill & Experience Required:

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal in Hindi
• Self-motivated
• Facilitation skills and ability to communicate effectively on the issues.
• Willing to travel frequently in the field.
• Reporting and documentation of field learning
• Lead relationships with external stakeholders (families, students, schools, government etc.)
• Be open to learning and taking on any other task assigned by the supervisor.
• The candidate should have the ability to work in an informal atmosphere.
• Good in balancing professional and personal life.

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 olds, 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

Also, you can 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 jobs@inbreakthrough.org by or before 5^th Jan, 2024.