Job Opportunity for Consultant – Sr. Manager – Capacity Building at Child Rights and You in Delhi, Kolkata

Division: Development Support

Location: Delhi or Kolkata

Tenure: Position is contractual subject to renewal based on performance and continuation of the project.

About CRY:

CRY is a premier Indian NGO working in the area of Child Rights for the past 43 years. We benefit half a million children every year. We bring innovation to the Development Sector. CRY has many firsts to her credit over the years in Resource Generation, Development Support, Brand Communications, People practices and Finance. CRY’s reach is Pan India with a presence in 15 states. It is the only Indian Funding Organization and works for the upliftment of underprivileged Indian children.

Your Challenge:

At CRY – Child Rights and You, you’ll be using your professional skills and experience to help restore to underprivileged Indian children their basic rights to – survival, development, protection and participation. CRY has a holistic approach to development based on the child rights framework with community empowerment as a key ingredient. CRY also places strong emphasis on networking with other NGOs and advocacy efforts to influence macro policies for children.

The role and responsibilities of this position:

Stakeholder

• Identify and develop sustainable partnerships relationship with resource agencies and subject experts as per the emerging needs.
• Confidently engage with subject experts to co-ordinate on assignments and arrive at jointly agreed outcomes.
• Ensure capacity building inputs to partners/community by working with regional and national programme teams and partners
  • In Assessing capacity building needs of partner/community
  • In designing the capacity building inputs
• Assessing areas for capacity enhancement for DS regional/state team
• Designing capacity building interventions and training modules around the requirements based on the training needs.
• Conduct a sample of validation on different projects to ensure that CRY’s objectives are being met in the partnership

Process

• Coordination with Resource organisations having financial partnerships with CRY:
• Ensuring implementation of planned activities
• Coordination with CRY teams and other stakeholders for implementation of programmes
• Study the external environment and provide regular feedback to strengthen and improve quality of planned interventions
• Support annual reviews and planning interventions
• Assist in facilitating the advanced trainings for CRY teams and develop reports
• Design new tools for gathering and dissemination of programme information
• Analyze implementation processes to validate the impact of development support projects and further develop the validation framework collectively for different CRY supported project – where validation involves assessing different interventions in relation to contextual reality, state/national strategy and structural change
• To provide quality documentation of programmes and capacity building processes so as to ensure cross learning across different regions

People, Learning and Development

• To personally embody the CRY culture in thoughts words & deed

Financial

• Ensuring timely disbursal of funds to the resource organizations having a financial partnership with CRY
• Working within specified budget and optimizing cost efficiencies within team

You:

You must be a Post Graduate in Social Work/Development Studies/Social Sciences from a reputed institute. You must have 6 – 9 years’ experience in capacity building and Partner Relationship. The person should have a thematic expertise in Child Rights, Health & Nutrition or Education & Protection preferred.

Write in:

Please email your application mentioning the post applied for, or write in for more details to careers@crymail.org