Project Manager – Sakshi Equality Is Inclusiveness

Apply by 27th Jun 22

Sākshi’s work over the last 29 years has focused on strengthening systemic mechanisms and enabling preventive interventions for the practice of Everyday Equality.

A pioneer in working for Gender Equality & Responsible Sexuality in India, Sakshi was founded as a rights based, capacity-building NGO in 1992, and was the force behind two landmark PILs – ‘Vishaka Vs. State of Rajasthan’ & ‘Sakshi Vs. Union of India,’ which became the backbone for several gender-based laws including POCSO 2012 and POSH 2013.

Sakshi spearheaded the Asia Pacific Advisory Forum for Judicial Education on Gender Equality for the Judiciary of 5 countries of the Region; India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri-Lanka. The 10 Year programme was crucial in mainstreaming Gender Equality Education in the Judiciary and came to be recognized as a ‘Best Practice’ Model by UN Women.

Over the last decade, Sakshi has led several campaigns and award-winning initiatives for Social Arts and Communication for Development. Sakshi aims to empower women, children, youth and marginalized groups by focusing on: Life skills, Equality Education, Diversity & Inclusion, Gender Mainstreaming, Dialogue, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Transformational Leadership.

The Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) is a bold new program to address gender-based violence (GBV) and promote women’s safety in the Indian tea sector. Starting with tea producers in Assam, the fund will implement the Global Women’s Safety Framework for Rural Spaces by UN Women and Unilever (GWSF) across geographies and commodity supply chains.

About the Project

This is a year-long intervention with an estimate of covering 23 estates, consisting of an average of 700 workers per estate. These estates will be in the districts of Darjeeling, West Bengal.

In order to build stakes and increase awareness for prevention of Gender-Based Violence, the programme through meetings, trainings and workshops, seeks to:

• Build stakes with Local Ecosystems at the District Level and Tea Estate Management, (Managers and Staff)
• Train the change agents (Women Leaders, Tea Estate Managers/Staff, Adolescent Groups) on issues of women safety and Gender-Based Violence
• Carry out sustained engagement within the community through social arts based interventions. These include focussed sessions with the tea estate workers, (women and men), as well as the community (families living on the tea estate) using theatre based pedagogy and immersive learning design.

Note: A detailed programme activity plan is ready and will be shared with the finalized candidates.

Job Description

The Project Manager will be responsible for the overall deliverables of the program initiatives for gender sensitisation in the tea estates. The intervention is a mix of policy/ advocacy/ governance and on-ground implementation. These are broadly in the areas of creating awareness on Violence Against Women and Girls, accessing redressal mechanism in place, and building leadership capabilities of women and girls in tea estates.

The incumbent will work closely with the Central Team at Sakshi HQ and designated

Tea-estate teams to deliver the following outputs:

• Integrating gender concerns across management and tea-estate workers.
• Guiding/supporting the team in implementing gender-based training.
• Strengthening women’s agency in decision-making.
• Implementing, monitoring, and reporting on all trainings, meetings, and awareness campaigns.
• Coordinating with various stakeholders to seek support for the programme.
  Activities and Tasks

Responsibilities would include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Responsible for the overall management of the project
• Regular reporting to the Central Team.
• Liaise with district and block administration and other line departments, local government and NGOs, to enhance their participation and collaboration.
• Lead all meetings scheduled with the external ecosystem.
• Responsible for delivering the Trainings/Workshops with the Management of the Tea Estate.
• Lead all the meetings with the Management of the Tea Estate.
• Responsible for ensuring a seamless on-ground implementation of the project within the timeline, output, and financial parameters as per the MNE framework.
• Responsible to de-escalate the risks and if not resolvable at the local level redflag them in time for any impending challenges.
• Responsible to harness the data for the indicators identified for the outcome of the project.
• Responsible to lead and manage the team at the Darjeeling Office

Qualifications

The applicant is required to possess:

• A professional degree in gender, development studies, social science, political science, or any other relevant field;
• 3 or more years of work experience in Project Management;
• 2 or more years of experience in an Implementation role at community level;
• Proven experience of leading programmes/operations that lead to impact at scale and transformational change;
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative partnerships and alliances for programme delivery;
• Demonstrated expertise of leading, managing, and motivating others, and building high performing teams;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate in both English and Hindi. Fluency in either Bengali/Nepali/Sadri.

It is desirable for the applicant to have:

1 or more years of experience as a theatre practitioner and or experiential educator.

To Apply : Interested candidates with relevant experience  may apply by sending a copy of recent CV with Subject line Highlighting the position applied for to    hr@sakshi.org.in