Job Opportunity for Senior Manager – Development Support at Child Rights and You in Mumbai

Function /Division: Development Support

Location: Mumbai

About CRY:

CRY is India’s most trusted NGO working on the issue of child rights for the last 44 years. Over the years CRY has impacted the lives of over 3 million children in India. 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 19 states. CRY works to ensure happier childhoods for India’s children.

Your Challenge:

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. CRY’s assistance to the child development initiatives isn’t just financial. Our Development support team enables our partners’ work through capacity building, infrastructure support, sharing of ideas and information, networking and joint planning, monitoring and evaluation impact, research, documentation and government interface.

Your Role:

You would be responsible to manage various partnerships of CRY and also be responsible to manage and ensure that direct intervention initiatives of CRY achieve their desired outcomes. A crucial part of your role would be to develop proposals and associated budgets while working with other colleagues on this and also you would be responsible to write high quality reports of various interventions. You would also be playing role in developing strategy along with Regional Program Head. You have to enable and motivate team members, be able to communicate internally and externally with various stakeholders including government functionaries and share the organizational stance on various issues, program directions of CRY and program effectiveness. You should at all times adhere to CRY values CRY’s CSP.

You:

You must be a Post – Graduate in Social Work, Sociology or Rural Development from a reputed institute. You must have 7 – 9 years’ experience of leading a region/zone in the area of urban or rural development in the rights based approach. You should have experience in planning, monitoring and evaluating projects, interfacing with the government and other stakeholders and develop and write proposals and reports. Strong written and oral communication skills in English are essential. Knowledge of the local language would be an advantage.

Write in:

Please email your application to careers@crymail.org mentioning preferred location & the post applied for.