Manager/Sr. Manager – District

Breakthrough is looking for a Manager – District who will be a part of the Breakthrough’s Program team at Lucknow, UP. The person will report to the State Program Manager. The role includes overall management and implementation of the program in the districts. The person must have prior knowledge of working at grassroots, team-handling, and enjoy working within an environment that is mission-driven, results-driven, and community-oriented. They will contribute to a strong and respectful team culture grounded in feminist principles of co-creation and co-leadership.

The detailed job description is as follows:

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall management and implementation of the Adolescent rights and empowerment program in the assigned district in tune with Breakthrough’s goals.
• Working in districts and identifying partnerships with institutions, school and community based organizations, where intensive work can be done with adolescents, young adults and larger community to build constituencies.
• Organizing and facilitating orientations and leading community mobilization with different target groups to engage them on adolescent rights and empowerment issues including youth group formation.
• Help the field staff to create community connect at Gram Panchayat level, village level as well as at the school level.
• Organizing and facilitating issue and skill based workshops to engage them as leaders in promoting awareness about adolescent rightand empowerment issues.
• Partnership development with Government Departments who can support in the areas covered by Breakthrough to build constituencies in the district.
• Documentation of the whole program as well as change stories and report back to state on a monthly/ quarterly /yearly basis or as on when required.
• Create engagement tools (campaigns/events etc.) for community, youth leaders and implement at the ground level in the district.
• Manage allocated budget & account processes.
• Update real time MIS and database.
• Regular field visits and update the work of your team members.
• Connect & share on ground level activities with online platforms.
• Lead the HR and operations realted work of the team and ensure timely delivery
• Support and closely work with the other centers in the organization.

Specific Knowledge, Skill & Experience Required:

• Atleast 7.5 years of experience in the social sector and 2 years’ experience in equivalent role;
• Proven team management and project implementation experience;
• Ability to absorb pressure and uncertainty arising out of project and the organization;
• Excellent writing skills in Hindi and/or English;
• Strong Computer skill (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) are required;
• On field strong planning and execution skills;
• Documentation skill is a must;
• Working experience with adolescents and youth will be preferred;
• Experience in group formation, community organization methods will be preferred.

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 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 a 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 years 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 partnerships with governments is key – currently partnering with the Department of Education, Government of Punjab to apply a gender lens to middle school curriculum across government schools. Currently, reaching 5,73,000 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

DEI Statement: 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. For this position, we encourage applications from people with diverse gender identities, sexual orientation, sexual behaviour, and sex characteristics/people with intersex variations. 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 supporting the suitability for the position and mentioning the current/expected salary, send it by email to jobs@inbreakthrough.org by or before 30th Dec 2023.