Job Description

Are you passionate about working on issues related to gender and women?

Does research, documentation, developing communication material around this excite you?

Does working as part of a collective committed to feminist principles and processes of justice and transformation inspire you?

If yes then read further!

First- a little about ourselves

Society for Informal Education and Development Studies (SIEDS) based in Bangalore is a 40+ year old Collective that has created space for and supported diverse initiatives on social justice including gender based violence and discrimination. As part of the autonomous women’s movement many of us from the

Collective over the decades have helped build organisations and collectives that have addressed this violence at different levels. Catch up with what we believe in and do at www.siedsindia.org.

We are looking for fellow dreamers and activists who will:

conceive and coordinate innovative programmes that would enable youth and women to question and resist different forms of gender based violence as connected with other forms of violence and discrimination.

anchor and guide action based research to broaden the knowledge base on issues related to gender in public, private, community and online spaces.

build a creative and data rich resource base and pedagogy for training programmes on gender and feminist activism

help in content creation, publications and social media outreach

be proficient both in English and Kannada at the minimum

If all this echoes with what you are looking for come and meet us. Let’s chat, have some chai….and maybe some charcha too on what your remuneration could be if we click!

Write to Secretary, SIEDS at siedscollective@gmail.com about yourself – your capacities, experience and interests. Do mention which of the above areas you are specifically interested in Women, transpersons or members of dalit and religious minority communities are specially invited to

apply. Final selection would depend on mutual agreement for the task on hand.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka

Eligibility Criteria

Not Specified

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - Graduate-Other

Organization Details

• Organization Name:Society for Informal Education and Development Studies (SIEDS)
• About Organization:Formally registered in 1976, over the past four decades of its existence SIEDS (Society for Informal Education and Development Studies) has been a unique experiment in collective politics and functioning. Over the decades the core concerns of SIEDS have evolved around human dignity and rights; social harmony and peace; transformative and constitutional justice, decentralised democracies and inclusive development. While responding to multiple issues related to gender, class, caste, religion, environment, local self-governance and basic entitlements for the rural and urban poor, the attempt has been to weave together responsive activism with reflective analysis and a critical aesthetics. The search has been for processes of change that while rooting themselves in specific cultures and communities draw from more universal notions of justice, peace and human creativity.
  
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