Job Opportunity for Senior Manager (Media Advocacy) at Child Rights and You in Bengaluru

Division: Volunteer Action

Location: Bangalore

About CRY:

CRY is a premier Indian NGO working in the area of Child Rights for over 44 years. We bring innovation to the Development Sector. CRY has many firsts to its credit 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 which works for the upliftment of underprivileged Indian children.

Your Challenges:

At CRY – Child Rights and You, every single person works towards creating a happier, more ‘just’ world for children. We have opportunities in our Media Advocacy team, tailor-made for people with the passion, drive and intelligence, and the urge to face new challenges.

Your Role:

As a person in this position, you will be managing the media advocacy of one of India’s leading non-profit working on Child Rights. You will be responsible in ensuring that CRY’s advocacy agenda on child rights in the media is aligned to CRY’s vision, mission and values at all times.

Your responsibility will entail ensuring formulation and implementation of CRY’s media advocacy strategy in order to create awareness, media campaigns to influence the relevant stakeholder to join CRY in its efforts to ensure rights of children.

In addition, you will aid in optimising CRY brand’s reach by using all the media available, especially the mainstream media platforms including Print, Online / Digital, TV, and radio – to highlight and advocate issues affecting rights of children in India. Formulating the budgets and monitoring the same is a critical factor of this responsibility.

You::

You must have a Post Graduate Degree / Diploma in Mass Communication or Social Sciences or Journalism or Public Relations. You must have 7-9 years’ experience as a working journalist in any prominent media publication / portal / channel with a demonstrated ability to ideate and develop stories and articles for the media. Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, and reading and writing proficiency in any one language among Kannada, Tamil and Telugu is preferred.

Also, a thorough understanding of the media landscape and dynamics both in mainline and vernacular segments, especially across the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will be essential.

Write in:

Please email your application to careers@crymail.org mentioning the post applied for on the subject line.