Deputy Director – Scale Up and Strategic Partnerships

Breakthrough is recruiting for a Deputy Director – Scale Up and Strategic Partnerships (SPSU).  The role will focus on leading the Gender Transformative School Systems programme rollout in Odisha and Punjab. The person holding the position would be responsible for the effective programme implementation within the states as well as provide inputs in designing the overall planning and strategy.

The detailed roles and responsibilities are mentioned below:

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the process of smooth roll out of Breakthrough’s Gender Transformative School Systems programme – “Chanan Rishman” programme in Punjab and “Barnali” programme in Odisha,
• Creating roll out plans to ensure the overall programme on track
• Keep track of progress of Monthly, Quarterly and Annual planning and reporting.
• Provide inputs in creating gender curriculum, testing for Breakthrough and partner organisation
• Ensure training and capacity building of partners, Teachers and Master Trainers
• Provide strategic support to the State Leads in coordinating with SCERT team and the internal team for training of master trainers.
• Regular coordination with the Punjab and Odisha Govt officials, partners and Other CSOs along with state leads.
• Keeping inter-center coordination smooth for greater programme implementation efficiency
• Monitoring towards quality implementation of the overall programme, ensuring monitoring of roll out in schools, partners.
• Coordinating with Research and Evaluation (R&E) team for ensuring timely data collection and analysis.
• Ensuring regular documentation, process documentation and donor Compliance of the overall programme with multiple stakeholders and donors.
• Support in generating and contributing to donor reports, preparation of regular updates as and when required
• Contribute in proposal development and managing donor relations includes managing donor visits to field and represent Breakthrough in donor meetings as and when required
• Managing the state leads and through them the teams in the states, regular guidance and mentoring of state teams along with State Leads
• Keeping the channel of communication open and working between co-leads and the state teams
• Coordination, networking, programme strengthening including present Breakthrough’s work with external stakeholder as and when needed: government, other NGO forums
• Representing Breakthrough in various national and international forums.

Specific Knowledge, Skill & Experience Required:

• Masters in Gender studies/Development studies/Sociology/Social work or equivalent
• Minimum 16 to 20 years of relevant experience in the field
• Expertise in Gender, norm or culture change and system change.
• Experience in managing large scale program management
• Ability to manage partnerships with Govt/ CSO’s with quick turn around
• Strong organizational skills with ability to work in teams, result oriented and culturally diverse environment.
• Team player with ability to work in collaboration at various level internally and externally.
• Knowledge of MS Office, E-Mail, ERP and basic computer skills
• Good command over written and spoken of English, Hindi.

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 900,000 adolescents and their communities to prevent violence against women and promote a culture of human rights, Breakthrough plans to reach 4 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 for this position may apply through the following link: https://www.btconnect.org.in/Applicant/CreateJobApplicant

Or you can also submit your resume accompanied by a cover letter, mentioning the current/expected salary by email to jobs@inbreakthrough.org by or before 10 Aug 2023.