Commissioning Editor

Breakthrough is looking for a Commissioning Editor (Consultant) who will work on an upcoming bi-annual journal on Gender and Education. The role will be of commissioning, editing, and coordinating with scholars and industry experts on acquiring written pieces. This role will report to an Advisory Committee in Breakthrough and perform key responsibilities as mentioned below:

Key Duties and responsibilities:

Commissioning-

• Plan and curate issues of the journal with a clear timeline and list of possible authors and pieces
• Connect with and commission industry leaders and scholars to write pieces for the journal

Editing-

• Familiarity with style guides like Chicago Manual of Style for the journal and its authors to follow in formatting written pieces
• Copy edit and proofread all submitted articles for consistency, style, form, and content

Skills and Competencies:

• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Academic or Professional background in working in the fields of Gender, Communication, and Education
• Awareness of scholarly and industrial networks to commission articles in
• Experience in editorial work. This also includes courses in editing and publishing
• Ability to operationalize strategy, excellent planning and organisation skills
• Strong networking and presentation skills
• Complete and in-depth understanding of editorial needs
• Accurate with strong attention to detail
• Has published articles in newspapers/online journals/magazines/books.

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 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 Taaron 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.

Also, you can submit your resume accompanied by a cover letter. Send it by email to vendors@demo-ecom.ezulix.co/breakthrough/.