Assistant Manager - CRY (Apply by: 27 Apr 2014)

Assistant Manager - Development Support (Odisha)

Job Title: Assistant Manager

Function / Division: Development Support

Location: Kolkata 

Apply by: 27 April 2014

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.

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:

As a person in this position, you will be the link between CRY and CRY-supported projects in the project areas of Odisha. Your responsibilities will include partnership management, program management, grant making, assessing and providing inputs for partner’s capacity building needs in thematic and systemic areas through quality monitoring and evaluation. You will also have role in environment scanning, identifying areas/projects for CRY's intervention and planning and supporting networking efforts.

You:

You must be a Post - Graduate in Social Work, Sociology or Rural Development from a reputed institute. You must have 4 - 6 years experience in the field of urban or rural development, having experience in planning, monitoring and evaluating projects, interfacing with the government and other stakeholders. Initiative, ability to analyze and focus on outcome will be required to fulfill the role.

You should have experience and skills in grant making role, financial management aspects like financial statement analysis, knowledge & experience in financial system monitoring. Strong documentation & reporting skills are required. Strong written and oral communication skills in English & a working knowledge of the local language are essential. Experience of having worked with communities within the sate of preference would be an added advantage. You should be willing to travel extensively.

Write in: Please send in your CV to careers@crymail.org, mentioning the Reference Code & preferred location on the subject line.